Efficient, Effective Meetings

Most professionals report spending between 15% and 30% of their time in meetings. How about yourself - do you know the inside of the conference rooms better than you know your office? And of the time that you spend in the meetings, how much of it is really valuable to you, and how much does it cost?

Where Do You Begin? Begin With the End in Mind!

This article guides you towards developing a vision of what your healthcare site could be like. It also points out that you need to master a few tools that fit you and those at your site so you can know what is possible and create a vision that is achievable.

What Exactly Is Project Management?

Projects comprise a considerable percentage of typical business acitivity. Completing projects in a timely and cost efficient manner makes good business sense. The project manager is the key facilitator of project success.

Change Management Issues in the Car Wash Business

We hear a lot about the new buzzword; change management all throughout the trade journals in almost every industry and every industry sector in corporate America. Seldom do we realize that change management issues do also affect smaller businesses.

Change Management Issues in the Truck Wash Business

In a truck wash business it appears that many managers come and go and this means there is always a turnover problem with employees when a new manager comes into play. These issues are serious because many of the truckers who stop at the truck wash

Betwixt and Between - Staying Put or Movin' On

Is your work uninspiring? To consider whether to stay in your current role, reposition at your company, or move on to a new job, these are the main points to consider.

Change Management Disruptions of Your Competitors

We have all heard a lot about change management and it seems to be a buzzword that is being kicked around in management schools at top universities. Change management interruptions can cause chaos in a Corporation and it is this reason that Change Management is discussed in case studies at MBA schools.

Change is Predictable

In business and in life change is desirable and in many ways predictable. Each decade offers a combination of opportunity & challenge. As you make wise choices, you will develop new stregths, unearth new talents and really enjoy your life.

Who Designed That?

Ask the people in your company in sales, service, and support to tell you what really bothers them the most about the way new products are launched at your company. You may be wasting huge amounts of money in poor sales performance, larger than expected service and support costs, and out of control operations or information technology infrastructure. Get sales, service, operations, and support involved up front in the product planning process and get your business back on track.

Think Big, Start Small

Some of today's flourishing companies started in garages, bedrooms or living rooms. If you think that your small home-based business will stay that way, draw inspiration from some of these entrepreneurs and start thinking big!

Organizational Change: How to Foster and Manage Change

The only constant in this world is change, even then the basic instinct of a human being is to avoid change and to continue with status quo. So the prime question is how to motivate people to change and how efficiently to manage change.

Change Management: Clear, Strong Goals

If your team is lacking in productivity and performance then as a leader, check your organisation's goals. Are they clear, singular, numeric, time based and audacious, with supporting short-term goals? Have you communicated the goals persistently and consistently? Are you using performance management to ensure that you have a team with the right behaviour, skills and knowledge to achieve the goals? If not, the problem may not be your team, it may be you.

Managing Change: Unintended Consequences

Leading a change programme is a risky business, for the leader and the lead. The law of unintended consequences applies in full as change involves people. People see the the starting and finishing points and the intention of change from their point of view and act accordingly.