6 Performance Measure Facilitator Attributes

Just like a business or organisation has a management accountant and a strategic planner, it also needs a performance measurement facilitator, someone to be the expert that helps everyone in the organisation measure what really matters in achieving the organisation's direction. It's a new career emerging in today's information and knowledge economy. And here are the 6 attributes they need to have.

5 Tips for Naming Measures

The magic of language applies very well to the way we craft our performance measures. The topic of this article is 5 tips for naming your measures so they get more recognition, ownership and trust.

Do You Hold Too Much Inventory - Check Your Stock Turn Ratio

It is essential to measure the availability of stock, after all that is why the investment is made in the first place. However, measuring stock outs can be a limiting way to measure inventory as it only measures one dimension of inventory, that is, availability.

How to Design Great Performance Measures

Recently I was doing some weird kind of performance measurement when I was mulching my garden, like how could I reduce the number of shovels needed to fill the wheelbarrow, or how many wheelbarrow loads could I move in 30 minutes? Easy stuff to measure, I suppose. But I know there are lots of things you've come across that aren't that easy to measure. This article has some tips for making the hard stuff more easily measurable.

A Lesson of Survival in the Always-in-Touch World

Simon sauntered. It was rare that he had the chance to take a lunchtime walk beside the city's river. He wasn't going to waste this one. And in any case, he desperately needed some space. Oblivious of the grey skies, the grey path and the rush of other grey suits weaving their way around him, he wrapped himself in his thoughts.

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.

In Business, How Do You Encourage Employee Retention?

Many businesses fail to realise the amount of time it takes to get a new employee fully trained. It can take anywhere between 1 and 6 months to train a new member of staff. It can also take the same amount of time to find out if they are suitable for the job in the first place!

Managing People - Setting Boundaries

Boundary setting is something one expects to find in a parenting book or a psychologist's journal. However, it applies to adult to adult relationships at work as much as it does to adult to child relationships. In almost any workplace, for any given behaviour required to deliver an organsation's goal, people can be split into three groups. One group is those that are both willing and able to perform and behave in a manner which contributes positively to the desired goal of the organisation.

Understanding Generational Differences

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution there are four different generations with four different approaches to the world of work. These differences can be of value to the organization OR it can create great conflict within the workforce.

ABCs Of Construction Project Management

Project management is the art of organizing and managing resources in an efficient method which completes the project at hand in the way it was meant to be. A project is a temporary task which creates either a product or service, so managing each individual one is a unique process. It's important to recognize all the dimensions needed to complete a project and act on them in an orderly fashion.

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.

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.

7 Step Process For Staff Remuneration

In Australia, a new process for employee reward and recognition was developed through a company's quality committee. It consists of 7 steps which can be used generically for any firm wishing to implement a system for staff recognition and reward.

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