Is Telecommuting Right For You?

Could you be doing you job from the comfort of your own home? Find out now.

Practice Makes Perfect: Changing Your Communication Habits One Step At a Time

The concept of practice applies to any skill that you want to cultivate. If you take up a new musical instrument, you will need to practice a while before you're ready to give your first concert. In Aikido, the martial art I study and teach, we get on the mat many times each week to practice and perfect our technique.

Is Appreciation in the Workplace Contagious?

Is appreciation contagious? It should be. How important is it? Do we show or receive appropriate amounts of appreciation? Day after day we go to work, put forth our best effort and don't expect much for an honest day's work. But how does the day totally change when you get that unexpected thank you?

Those Difficult Conversations at Work: How to Psyche Yourself Up

What do you do when a colleague is making false accusations, talking about you behind your back, micromanaging, and/or making you look bad? If you really want to talk with her/him about it and salvage the relationship at the same time, consider these key points in preparing for the conversation.

Performance Appraisals

Appraising the performance of individuals, groups and organizations is a common practice of all societies. While in some instances the appraisal processes are structured and formally sanctioned, in other instances they are an informal and integral part of daily activities. Thus teachers evaluate the performance of students, bankers evaluate the problem of creditors, and all of us, consciously or unconsciously, evaluate our own actions from time to time.

Attending a Conference or Seminar? Be Prepared

Going to a day-long seminar or even a week-long conference?

Employee Performance Management

Fixation of compensation or wage rates for different categories of employees in a company is an important task of management. The employees are not only concerned with the wages received but also concerned with the level wages received by same level of employees in similar organizations. Hence wage structure may be considered very important. The relative wage-rules must be fixed carefully, because they have implications for promotion, transfer, seniority and other important personnel matters.

Why Good Advice is Hurting Your Productivity and What To Do About It

Although usually given with the best intentions, advice always reflects the needs, experiences, and now science tells us, the thought process, of the giver. More often than not, the needs of giver and receiver don’t match, creating frustration all around. Instead, some well-chosen questions can inspire creative insights that the logical analysis of a problem can’t.

Type Of Performance Appraisals

Managers have for many years been evaluated against standards of personal traits and work characteristic. Typical trait-rating evaluation systems may list ten to fifteen personal characteristics, such as ability to get along with people, leadership, analytical competence and initiative. The list may also include such work-related characteristics as job knowledge; ability to follow through on assignments, production or cost results; or success in seeing that plans are carried out.

Manufacturing Performance Management

Pricing is undoubtedly one of the most important decision areas of manufacturing performance management. Price and sales volume together decide the revenue of any business. As the sales volume in itself is dependent on price, pricing really becomes the key to the revenue of the business. Pricing is crucial to profits as well.

Corporate Performance Management Solutions

The appraisal should measure performance in accomplishing goals, plans and performance, in regards to corporate performance management. No one wants a person in a managerial role who appears to do everything right as a manager but who cannot turn in a good record of profit making, marketing, controllership or whatever the area of responsibility may be. Nor should anyone be satisfied to have a performer in a managerial position who cannot operate effectively as a manager.

Business Gifts

The increased competition in the market has made corporate gifts more commonplace. Businesses use gifts to appease, motivate and retain employees, and also cement relationships with clients and encourage new ones.

A 'Four Square' Statement

A quick and simple way to develop a strategic plan for any written document. And while it doesn't require much actual writing, it will help you focus your attention and get a better response to your message.

Donald Trump Apprentice TV Series Teaches a Bad Lesson in Office Communication

Donald Trump Apprentice TV Series is in fact a view of what is wrong with corporate America and it functions much like a dysfunctional family. This sends the wrong message to up-and-coming business professionals.