For a business owner, one of the most important aspects to focus on is on looking for the right manager. A manager has the responsibility of handling your business in your absence and makes sure that day to day operations as well as business goals are being met. It is not always easy to hire and find the right manager. Here are some tips that may be able to help you find the ideal manager for your business. If you are the type of business owner who just do not have all the time in the world to c…
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February 6th, 2008
Motivating Employees to Lose Weight
Almost everybody wants to drop a few pounds or so, but losing weight is a tedious task. However, if your employees lose weight and become fit, slim and healthy people, your company would benefit from lower insurance costs and improved productivity.Doing so in your workplace would require employee goodwill and teamwork. By helping your employees achieve what has been an unattainable goal, you become part of a larger solution for your workers. The “hero status” that you would gain and the positive…
January 28th, 2008
Pitfalls to Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is a process being done by an organization to define its strategy or direction, and at the same time make decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. The techniques that are used to accomplish this include SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) and PEST analysis (Political, Economical, Social, and Technological).In order to determine where the company is going, it needs to know exactly where it stands, then determine where it wants to go an…
January 16th, 2008
How to Motivate Employees
As a manager, you really can’t motivate anybody to do anything. However, you can create the right conditions for motivations so that your employees would propel themselves intrinsically.Unlike popular belief, money does not motivate workers despite being an incentive. Instead, it normally activates employees to perform minimally. Creating competitions and recognitions among members, meanwhile, do not help as well because the desire to engage in such activities are not activated right.If you are …
January 11th, 2008
Temporary to Hire: What is It Worth?
Hiring temporary help has been on the rise since it was introduced in 1946. Nowadays, working as a temp does not only confine you as a secretary or a file clerk, as one can be employed on a variety of job positions on a temporary basis including assembly-line workers, financial officers, even on professional occupations like doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants.Deciding whether or not employ people on temporary contract takes a lot of decision-making. You may want to check out the pros and cons…
January 8th, 2008
Myths About Young Employees
In order to manage younger employees more effectively, it is very important for senior managers to understand them in terms of their general personalities and actions. Certain beliefs that turn out to be myths may have scattered all around different business circles regarding how younger employees should be managed and handled. These myths would have been considered by most managers as true and therefore may have believed them as fact. Although there might be some hints of truth in them, they ge…
January 8th, 2008
The Unwritten Rules of Civility
Civility is an important part of daily business. In a world where businesses have to deal with different people, a certain level of civility is required in order to deal with different types of people in the best way possible. Getting along with people is important to have a successful business. That is why business people should learn even the unwritten rules of civility. There may have been a lot of book now written about how people should try to get along with others, especially in the busine…
January 8th, 2008
Characteristics of a Good Manager
Every company should have a good leader. That is why the job of a manager is an important part of a successful business. Every business owner should hire a good manager who may be able to lead the company to success as well as make it more productive and more efficient given the available resources. Getting the right manager to do the job can be difficult, but it is not impossible. Savvy business owners know the right person to hire and lead the company by knowing the characteristics that they l…
January 8th, 2008
Managing Younger Employees
It might be a difficult task for most senior managers to handle a staff of young employees. The age gap may affect how a manager may be able to relate to a generation born decades later. This might further affect how a manager can effectively lead a young staff to deliver and work more efficiently. In order to handle a younger staff better, a senior manager may need to understand his employees since they might behave differently as might be believed to be the norm of the past. Their personalitie…
January 7th, 2008
Understanding Employee Turnover
One of the most important aspects of better management practice is the effective handling of workers in the company. Employee turnover is a perennial problem for most companies that may not be able to handle their staff more effectively. Employee turnover is the term used to refer to a characteristic rate of a given company to gain or lose workers. A company with a high employee turnover, it simply means that employees on average have shorter working tenures as compared to other companies in the…