What Is A Project Manager?

Project managers write project plans, maintain scope and change forms. The project manager must be a good team leader. Diplomacy mixed with well timed assertiveness serves a project manager well. Study Project Management Institute's PMBOK.

It May Be Awhile Before The Meek Inherit The Earth

What often happens to people who move into positions of authority? Must one be a jerk and a bully to succeed as a leader? Does arrogance make a top manager?

The Right Staff - Finding Staff Who Complement Your Practice

The medical practice of today is facing great changes and significant challenges. A critical component in meeting these challenges is finding and keeping good practice staff.

Coaching Employees To Higher Performance

A big part of leading people is helping them understand when they are doing well and not doing so well. It is especially important to recognize someone at once when they are doing a good job. When they need to improve, your job is to coach them to better performance.Learn some simple but effective methods to bring out the best in all of your employees.

More Bad News About Effective Meetings

It gets worse. Here are three more reasons why people don't like effective meetings.

Principles That Lead to Successful Meetings

Results are determined by principles. Here's the foundation for an effective meeting.

Who's More Important The CEO or Your Boss?

The CEO gets all the press, but the most important boss to you is probably the one who supervises you directly. That boss is important to your company, too.

Starting A Retail Business

When starting a retail business, there are two ways you can choose to do your business. You can choose to do all of your business online with a virtual store where people can look at what they want and buy it without ever having to go into a store. You can also choose to have a display (whether it be of a small portion of your products or the whole line). You can be sure that there is a great number of people who wish to see, taste or feel the products that they buy.

Be A Failure At Managing Meetings - Read This And Make Sure You Do The Opposite

When you are a manager - leader you will spend a lot of your time in meetings and managing meetings. Your credibility is at stake in both situations. Here are some tips on how to fail!! Just make sure you do the opposite and succeed.

Training and Development - Employee Retooling is Critical to Long-Term Success

We all know the importance of training and developing our staff. It keeps team members motivated, generating increased productivity. They eagerly use their skills to the benefit of the business. So why is it that we continue to take short-cuts with training?

Delegating to Gain Employee Engagement

The ability to delegate effectively is a crucial management skill that results in employee engagement and retention. There are six factors that must be in place for employees to feel engaged.

Delegating - Ten Questions to Assess Your Skills

Delegating....we all know we should do it, yet many of us find myriad reasons to avoid it. I even heard someone recently state that delegating is just a traditional management tool that doesn't apply in his fast-paced world. He told me that he just wants everyone to roll up their sleeves and pitch in where they are needed....without prompting.

Electronic Document Management (EDM) - Steps Towards Better Workflow

With the electronic mail revolution and with computerisation in general, business communications have undergone massive changes in recent years. Traditional corporate communication methods have been downgraded in terms of importance for day-to-day business communications. But with the changes have come some fresh challenges. Here Jimi St. Pierre highlights two of these, and the solutions provided by EDM.

Australian Business Coach

When it comes to choosing the right Australian Business Coach for your business, you cannot afford to leave things to chance. Choose the right coach and you could quickly take your business to the next level but choose a novice or someone whose only claim to being a coach is that they have shelled out for a franchise and you could end up regretting your decision every time you think about it. In short you want a business coach that will show you how to grow your business and increase sales as well as managing the growth in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of stress and interruption. With that in mind, here are 5 things to keep in mind when choosing the right business coach for your Australian business