Identifying High Potential Leaders

Attracting and retaining high quality leaders is a challenge for many organisations. Many people who take on leadership roles fail to flourish in their new positions. Competitive organisations achieve leadership density through identifying and developing staff who show true high potential to thrive in a leadership role. This is more challenging that it initially may seem, as assessing potential is quite different to assessing performance.

The Most Important Role Of The Manager

Many people have different ideas of the key role of managers and how they should lead. But being able to do just two things well with your team could transform your it from a mediocre one to a high performing force.

Trust - It's A Yes Or No Thing

There seems to be no gray area when it comes to trusting and being trusted. Are you fostering a culture of trust in your organization? According to many studies, organizations with a high trust factor are far more likely to have superior financial performance.

Embezzlement 101

This is not a course in how to get rich by embezzling funds from the company your work for but a group of suggestions on how to protect your company from this heinous crime.

Elimination of Waste in Office

Lean thinking has gone far beyond traditional manufacturing. It has reached many service industries like healthcare and even government organizations like military. Lean office is the application of lean concepts in office context.

Management by Deer-Caught-in-Headlights

Have you ever been in a position or situation when you had the opportunity to shine or lead really well, and then (for some reason) you just froze? Kind of like a deer caught in headlights? Read on to find out how you can take steps to ensure you are never caught doing that again!

Crash Testing New Products - Performance Testing Guide

When it comes to new products, there is always that one final task that needs to be done before the said product can actually be approved or not for by the target market...

The Right Staff - Inoculating Your Practice Against Staff Infections

This is the final in the staffing series, and examines approaches to keeping good staff in the medical practice.

What Is Leadership Anyway?

Business leaders need to chart an effective course into the future even though they don't have a clue what their organizations will look like tomorrow let alone next year. Many business leaders are mired down in philosophies, strategies and approaches that were the standards held years ago when the rules and the world was more predicable.

Hire The Best - Assessments As Selection Tools

Assessments are powerful selection tools that have helped organizations in making countless hiring, transfer, promotion, team membership and development decisions. Assessments represent an opportunity to do all these things while returning the highest ROI of any single people directed investment you can make.

Listening Builds Trust

Here is one effective way to remember to be a good listener. Create an imaginary new tool for your communication toolbox. It is a piece of cloth about six-inches long and one-inch wide, a zipper goes down the middle, but it doesn't open. On the back is an adhesive that allows you to stick it on other surfaces. Where do you think you should put it?

Opening A Dollar Store - Inventory Replenishment in a Low-Inventory Situation

Situation may arise when you are opening a dollar store in which inventory levels have fallen way below acceptable levels. It does not matter what the reason, it is important to address the situation as quickly as possible. The obvious way to address the problem is to order additional merchandise to place on the sale floor.

Wholesale Directory Benefits Over Drop Shippers

If you are starting you own business, you will most likely want to look into a wholesale directory. A wholesale directory will give you the most updated and comprehensive list of products and wholesale suppliers from around the world. This will allow you to get the most bang for your buck as wholesalers can give you more product for your money rather then drop shipping. With this type of list, you will have all the needed info right at your fingertips. These types of directories are there for you when you need it, right on the internet.

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.