My View - Leading by Team Management Approach

As I am writing a course module on project management leadership for the project management online courses recently, I retrieved one of the viewgraphs I used to present in a seminar back in 2003 and as I read along I found how these points are still relevant to leaders who wish to lead by Team Management Approach and hence this article.

10 Annoying Employee Work Behaviors and What to Do About Them

Regardless of the time of year, annoying co-worker behavior can become a problem for any business. Here we outline 10 common annoying behaviors and what you can do about them.

PayPal Solutions - 5 Steps to Manage Your PayPal Account

Are you looking for online funding support and capabilities? I've got a solution that brings online funding to your business, and more...

Accounts Receivable Collection Tips

The accounting gurus will tell you that you recognize your sales at the time your product or service changes hands. We all know it doesn't really happen until the cash changes hands and sometimes that can be a problem for many businesses. Here's how to change that.

Effective Staff Appraisal

How can you make appraisals effective and powerful sources of staff motivation?

Dealing With Poor Performance

If you are a manager or aspiring manager, sooner or later you will be faced with a member of staff who is not performing. Here my 10 tips for dealing with this situation effectively and compassionately.

Adjust Your Expectations

What do you do when your staff wants part time work but you have full time needs and seasonal needs. Sometimes the wisdom of your staff can help you plan the best situation. Read this short story about a rural CPA firm and how they grew a business with a variety of staffing opportunities.

Role Of Metrics In Decision Making And Management

Information is power. In most cases, information is made up of building blocks of numbers. These numbers, when arranged in a meaningful way, tell a story and that is the information that is useful to businesses as well as individuals. The numbers and the ratios that are used to construct meaningful information is commonly referred to as Metrics. This note is a brief introduction to the role numbers and metrics have come to play in every day life.

The Multiple Lessons of the Hawthorne Experiments

The experiments conducted at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works between 1924 and 1932 established the importance of human and social factors in productivity. Three quarters of a century later, we're still following lines of inquiry these studies opened up.

Trickery Used in Consulting to Puff up Resumes - Beware

So often consultants will claim to have worked with 20, 50, 100 or even more Fortune 1000 companies and you will see this listed as a fact on their websites or they will tell you this when trying to sell you as a client. Of course if you ask them to name the companies, instead they send you a list of 5 contacts or references? Really, five now, personal friends or actual clients?

Documentation and Audit - How to Do It in TQM Implementation Project Part 8a CONTROL Phase

This TQM article is Part 8a issue, it is a continuation of Part 7b published on [May 17, 2007 09:47:30 am]. This issue will deal with Documentation and Audit in the CONTROL Phase of the D.I.A.C. Improvement Methodology. This two tools are essential to sustain the improvement effort and the targeted results.

Don't Let The Process Get In The Way Of The Progress

Procrastination comes in many forms. One of those forms involves simply doing too much preparation before putting something into action

Document Management, What's in it For You

Understand why organizations buy document management systems, a straightforward needs and benefits overview.

Getting Fired - Facing the Facts - and a Possible Solution

Your boss called you in and said you are difficult to get along with and are causing problems not only for him but for other people in the office. He says you resist direction and don't take criticism well. And he says you're too critical of everybody else. But you really think he's exaggerating. You think the people around you are more of a problem than you are, but on the other hand, your wife or girlfriend says the same thing about you that your boss does. What do you do?