Want to Make Tremendous Gains at Your Healthcare Site? Use Process Mapping!

A short discussion of the process mapping tool used by many manufacturers and service providers to make dramatic improvements in quality, in improving the bottom line, and in finding time to get things done.

How to Help Someone Else Get Organized - Without the Headaches

Organizing others is not an obvious task, even if you are organized yourself. This article will give you: tips on how to identify if the person you are thinking of it truly disorganized or if it is an appearance issue, and how to address this; what to do and not to do if the person is truly disorganized; resources to help you proceeed.

Change Management And Participation

Related to the topic of problem-or-solution-oriented change is the topic of participation. But this issue of participation is more delicate than the previous one. This is about the amount of space for negotiation around the proposition. The proposition however is something that also needs time to ripe; or has there already been prepared one? Is the path to which the developments will lead already entered or is your organization gathered at a square and considering a next move: in any of the directions that are accessible from the square?

How Can You Create a Healthy Healthcare Organization? Treat It Like a Patient!

Many healthcare organizations primarily focus on the clinical side and often ignore the quality of the rest of the organization. Your site is like a human body. Maintaining and improving the health of an organization is much like maintaining the health of a human body--focus on the whole and its parts.

Change: It Doesn't Have To Be So Difficult

Why does change appear to be so difficult? Because our status quo seems set in concrete and we don’t know how to go about making changes unless we have some assurance that a new comfort will result.

Franchise Outlet Training and New Hires

Often in franchising, franchise outlets will have turnover of key personnel. They may seek the services of the franchisor to train the new employee. In some cases franchise or training of managers may actually be required to be done by the franchise himself.

DOD Contractor Dumping Practices and Tactics

There are anti-dumping laws in the United States but still it occurs, as one company enters a new market they will lower prices in a price war prone position and take it in the sorts just to get their butts in the door. Where is the most common market for this to occur?

Organisational Change That Lasts

Attempts at improvement in most organisations do not lead to lasting change. Here's a change management process to alter all that.

When the Trip Has Finished Starts the Hard Work

Do you recognize this; you have come back from a holiday, you get back to work and the same day at five o'clock (or the next day at four) you seem to have forgotten about your holiday. The energy and fine ideas that you brought back with you are fading away once you are behind your desk.

How To Change The Unconscious Organizational Culture

Do you know what impact your organizational culture is having on the performance of your company? Did you know that the culture is based in deeply entrenched and often hidden beliefs that individuals bring in the door with them? If you want to change this read on.

The (Missing) Link Between Thoughts And Action

Not only during the disturbing periods of change, but in day-to-day management situations too: action is always essential. There are situations however where your team slows down to stop.

Adapting to Change is Equally Important as Adopting Change

Change isn’t just a matter of doing things differently. It has to do with the trust the employees have in the management to know that the alteration will be an improvement.

The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 Set New Standards in Trucking Industry

The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 set new standards in trucking industry. Before the legislation, licenses had only 18,000 truckers and by 1990, this number increased to 45,500. First only a half of carriers had a right to move freight freely within 48 states and in 1990 – 20,000.