The Importance and Awesome Power of Project Management in Today's Business Environment

Why is project management important and what awesome power exists with project management in today's business environment? The first reasons that come to my mind about why project management is important (based upon more than 35 years of my personal project management experience), are tighter budgets, diminishing resources, more and more time constraints, and competition to improve the ways we do business. The awesome power of project management makes it possible to focus on priorities, track and measure performance, overcome challenges and problems, become flexible enough to adapt to change and achieve higher performance and a higher probability of success in each project.

Why Do We Measure Performance, Anyway?

Trees (like all living things) have a clever feedback loop that helps them translate what their environment is doing so they can respond in ways that keep them living and growing and reproducing. Simpler but not dissimilar from organisations that know the real meaning of performance measurement, don't you think? This article discusses the real purpose of performance measurement: feedback.

The 12 Cardinal Sins of ERP Implementation

Industry statistics show that >60% of ERP implementation starts historically fail. Does this mean that you are doomed from the start? Of course not, if you learn from the mistakes of others. So the pertinent question is what are the main causes of ERP failure and what can be done to prevent this from happening to you?

How Emotional Intelligence Creates Effective Leaders

Important research indicates the connection between Emotional Intelligence and effective leadership styles. The key to being effective lies in learning to handle yourself and your relationships in a positive manner. This includes Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Coaching supports and enriches the process.

Time Clock - Employee Punch Clocks

Punch Clocks are small manual timekeeping devices that have been in use with most companies for decades. The concept behind a punch clock is pretty simple. Employees have punch cards which they enter to log in their time, registering it into the punch clock as they report for work and punching out when they leave.

Getting Buy-In - Zen And The Art Of Performance Measurement

Wondering about how to generate buy-in to performance measurement so you can reduce your fussing and forcing of people to get involved? Here are some tips to help you out.

The Myths About Coaching

People from all walks of life are jumping onto the coaching bandwagon, lured by stories of ?100,000 salaries, many with little or zero experience are fighting for their piece of the pie. Let's get down to facts and demolish a few myths, mostly generated by the coaching industry itself.

Relationship Leadership

Relationship Leadership is the use of interpersonal skills beginning long before a disaster looms to create an environment of mutual trust and respect to influence others to work towards common organizational goals. This means permanently abandoning healthcare's current dependence on the power and control (demand and threat) method of leadership.

Leadership With Vision - The Spark That Counts

All leaders need to have vision because it is vision that leads leaders. Being a leader is not an appointed position! Being a leader means that there are people who are following you - they may be people on your team, other people in your organization, even clients and customers. As you lead and as people look to you for leadership, a vision gives you the spark that others want to catch.

Help, I've Been Promoted To A Manager's Role

Supervising people is the toughest of all leadership roles. Good supervisors should make good managers without much help. The skills they have stand them in good stead for management. Right? Wrong.

Do Benefits Provide Advantage To Organisational Producitivity?

Based on the Taiwan high-tech sector, there were some surveys carried out in different time periods. Examinations were done on the impact of employee benefits on firm productivity. The examinations reveal that employee benefits have a significant moderating effect on firm productivity whether samples were analysed by industry or by firm size and that moderating effect of employee benefits on labor productivity in small enterprises was greater than that of large ones.

Outward Show – Going For Interview?

Your personal appearance is the finished product of how you look when you walk out the door - to a job interview, social function, business luncheon, a golf outing or a weekend get-away. The rule of appearance also applies to the corporate world. Most of the organizations pay lot of attention towards the appearance of their employees. Even there is a dress code in various organizations

Reap The Benefits Of Logistics Management

It is important to know the processes that a company is involved in and master them for a more efficient production output. Logistics management, on the other hand, is a critical component to achieve business goals...

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.