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Creativity and Innovation Management - Core Competencies and Competitive Advantage

Following is a brief definition of core competencies and competitive advantage and their fit with creativity and innovation management.

DIVERSITY is a BIG word -- With A HUGE Business IMPACT

First thought! YOU are probably way ahead of us. Your business is diversified. Your portfolio (stocks) have been carefully and deliberately diversified too. Other pitfalls are lurking in the background for easy plucking.

How Bad Communication Can Hold You Back and How to Break Free of It

Addresses how poor communication and ineffective human relations can cause high turnover along with poor productivity.

How Businesses Can Stop Wallowing in Bad Debt and Prevent It in the Future

Did you know that bad debt has reached alarming rates with US business owners and that most creditors don't know how to avoid or prevent it?

How To Jump Start Your Profits and Keep Your Profits Rolling

There are so many ways to jump start your prifits and keep your profit rolling. These top 20 ways are the essential if you want to run a successful business.

Using Employee Opinions Effectively When Designing HR Programs

Employee opinion is one of the most powerful resources available to human resource professionals. But what are the best methods for harnessing those opinions?

Using Outlook to Count Responses

Here's a productivity tip that will save you a lot of time and trouble if you need to collate responses from staff for any reason, especially if you work for an organisation with a lot of staff.

Vampire Meetings and How To Slay Them

Meetings can be like mythical vampires sucking the life out of intelligent and creative people. And sucking the funds out of businesses. Unfortunately, there are too many of these meetings in business today.

Virtual Assistance: A Money Saving Opportunity For Employers

What is a Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant is a highly skilled, independent entrepreneur who provides business services in a remote or virtual environment. Some have used terms like telecommute...

Warning! Meeting In Progress; May Be Hazardous To Your Career

Most meetings burn up resources that could be spent on useful purposes. These sessions are either not necessary, or they are so poorly organized and conducted that they achieve only a fraction of their purpose...

Weaknesses of Wishing

When you're starting a business, you might wish for a lot of things, like having more than enough customers or not having to do marketing. Wishes are future oriented. To run a business, you need to be intentional, focused and highly aware of the present for it is only from the present that you can make things happen. Action is key to getting what you want for your business. What are some of the weaknesses around wishing?

Well-Defined Processes How to Create

Interested in learning how to reduce development time, save money and stay in control? Business professionals can learn how to create well-defined processes with the easy-to-manage Process Approach of Plan-Do-Check-Act.

What Consultants Want You to Know (But You Never Ask)

I've been both a CEO and a consultant, so I've seen from both perspectives what goes right and what goes wrong when a consultant comes in to a company. Generally the CEO or the manager who hires the ...

What Every HR Manager Should Know About Hiring Productive Employees

The characteristics of job applicants have a strong influence on whether or not they get hired. Their characteristics also indicate the level of their productivity. If you are about to hire employees, consider the characteristics listed below in checklist form. The candidates who possess them are probably the ones who will be readily accepted by your staff. This acceptance plays an important role in the team-building process and the productivity of the staff.

What Every Manager Should Know About How to Conduct Successful Meetings

Do you announce a meeting and find either no one shows up on time, they come with their own agenda, or the meeting goes on and on? If this is true in your case, then worry no more.

A Leadership Screw Driver: The 90 Day Improvement Plan

All leaders must eventually deal with poor performers. The author describes a method to help poor performers become good performers. It is based on developing and executing a 90-Day Improvement Plan.

A Management Strategy

When managers get their management so wrong, do they think it is wrong, or do they think they are doing a good job?

A Renewed View of the Modern Business Culture

Life can sometimes be unexciting if not refreshed by the will to create according to one's own conscience and freedom. Often, the power of passion fuses into unexciting or appealing activities. One s...

Across The Interview Table!

Job interviews are easier for the interviewer or the interviewee if you plan and prepare and use proper interviewing techniques. On this page are job interview questions and purpose of each interview question, because there is a purpose behind each and everything that we do and similarly there should be a purpose behind each and every question that we ask in interview. Good job interviews processes and methods increase the quality of people in an organization. Poor job interviews methods result in poor selection, which undermines organizational capabilities, wastes management time, and increases staff turnover.

Characteristics/Attributes of a Lean Operation

Just what does a lean operation look like? How do we determine how far we have come in our lean journey? The following list is intended to address these fundamental questions.

Diversity in the Workplace

As you look around your office, is everyone just like you? Probably not. The demographics of the American workforce have changed dramatically over the last 50 years. In the 1950s, more than 60% of th...

Examining the Relationship Between Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction

This article investigates the correlation between happy employees and happy customers. Exploring the link between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction can help your organization fully understand the front line role your employees play in servicing your customers and effecting profitability.

Get Meeting off To a Great Start

When asked what part of their job they find a major time waster, many will answer loud and clear... MEETINGS. In a recent survey of business leaders, ninety percent of the respondents attributed the failure of meetings to a lack of advanced planning and organization. Learn four meeting strategies that will lead to better business decisions, greater teamwork, and quicker problem-solving. Make sure you are making your meetings work.

How Can A Communications Audit Help You?

Faulty internal communications can lead to mistakes, discouraged and unhappy staff, employees leaving the company. Poor external communications can jeopardize image and sales.