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Quick Tip - Effective Meetings Earn a Profit By : Steve Kaye Most people hold meetings that lose money for their company. Here's how to find out if your next meeting will earn a profit. Quick Tip - Do Your Meetings Have a Complete Agenda? By : Steve Kaye Most agendas mean nothing. That guarantees that the meeting will take longer and accomplish less. Here's how to prepare a complete agenda. How to Protect Your Boss From Bad Meetings By : Steve Kaye If you are an administrative assistant, you can help your boss by making sure attending a meeting makes sense. Here's what to do. Why Training Fails By : Steve Kaye Training programs have earned a bad reputation. Here's why and what to do about it. How to Save Money on Training By : Steve Kaye Companies spend a fortune on training programs that accomplish little. Here's how to get your money's worth. How to Deal With Salespeople By : Steve Kaye Persistent sales people can tear your day apart. Here's how to protect your time and sanity. How Leaders Create Trust By : Steve Kaye Trust drives every decision that matters. Here's how to earn trust. Unexpected Wisdom from a Teenager By : Steve Kaye Leaders ask questions because they know that everyone can provide useful ideas. Here's an example. The Lie About Leads By : Larry Klein - I get a dozen e-mails a week offering me “free leads.” Most of these advertisements are bait to get agents to sign on with a particular insurance wholesaler or product provider as they grovel to add value by providing agents tools that will help make sales. But let’s take a closer look at what the industry calls a “lead” as this word is used inconsistently. The agent needs to know what’s being offered. Cold lead—this is worthless—it’s a name form a mailing list broker. The... ‘Greed Is Good’ – Remuneration, Motivation And Organisation By : Jonathan Palmer - The 1980's business culture in the USA and internationally put a considerable emphasis on personal reward on the basis that highly motivated individuals could transform organisations and societies. The extreme example in film was Gordon Gekko in Wall Street stating that greed was good. The 90's, however, have seen companies traumatised and bankrupted by the inappropriate use of remuneration as a motivator. Yet major corporate successes have been built on reward based remunera... Change Management In Practice: Why Does Change Fail? By : Jonathan Palmer - “Resistance to change may be active or passive, overt or covert, individual or organised, aggressive or timid……… and on occasions totally justified.” Sadly most significant change fails to meet the expectations and targets of the proposers. The failure is given the catchall name “resistance”, yet resistance can be principled and creative as well as from vested interest. Top management is frequently unreasonable in its expectations and time scale, forgetting the process it... The Ten Tools of Profitable Revenue Growth By : Ram Charan Ten tools for finding ways to increase profit. How to Hold Effective Staff Meetings By : Steve Kaye Bad staff meetings keep people from making money for your company. Here is how to hold an effective staff meeting. Quick Quiz - Measure Your Meeting Mastery By : Steve Kaye How effective are your meetings. Take this quiz to find out. Climb out of the Box of Bad Meetings - How to Hold Effective Meetings By : Steve Kaye Are you stuck in a box of bad meetings that waste your time? Here's how to escape. 10 Characteristics of Effective Meetings By : Steve Kaye How do your meetings compare to this list? Quotes About Bad Meetings By : Steve Kaye Want a quote about bad meetings? Here's what Steve Kaye has to say. Lessons From the Bad Meeting Contest By : Steve Kaye Here are the winning entries from a bad meeting contest and comments on what to do so that you can avoid these problems. Non-Profit Strategic Planning By : Jennifer Bailey It is important to mention that it is the size of the organization matters more than for-profit or non-profit status in determining the objectives, steps and activities in the Strategic Planning process. Small non-profit and for-profit organizations have a similar manner of conducting business and planning activities that are different from larger non-profit and for-profit organizations. Seven Must Have Features of Contract Management Software By : MSReview Contract Management Software allows you to manage contracts, automate contract management and much more. However, the details involved within the varying contract management software solutions can become confusing. This article is dedicated to providing seven solid features you can and should expect before you spend any dime. Solid Time Management For Net Marketers By : Tim Whiston - There are an endless number of ways an individual can get organized and make the most of their time. Here is the very simple method I use to keep my day to day efforts on track. I have created a daily checklist that covers all my basic tasks. Here is my list, and a brief description of each component. 1. Administrative Duties - First thing out of bed, I check all admin email accounts and respond to every message. This includes member/downline support, answering question... How To Get Your Staff To Bend Over Backwards For You No Matter What By : Joy Gendusa - The constant struggle to get people to want to work for you is an enigma most business owners wrestle with. I have isolated successful methods through growing my multi-million dollar company from the ground up. In my experience it all comes down to how you want to be treated. I was raised in a lovey-dovey family where my parents wanted me to feel great about myself. Maybe it is because I was raised Jewish and all Jewish mothers think their children are superior – who knows...... 5 Reasons Why Recordkeeping Is So Important By : Kimberly Bagley - When you decided to start your business, was your first priority concerned with setting up your filing system for recording your expenses? I seriously doubt it. This simple task (yes it is simple) is usually the item that is the last thing on the new business owner’s mind. The more “important” issues of what product to sell, how am I going to advertise, how much money is it going to cost me, and how much money can I make are the first questions we consider when going into bus... Quickbooks Tips By : Kimberly Bagley - QuickBooks is a great accounting program for home-based businesses to track their income and expenses. It is easy to learn and simple to use. It has a great Help file. You do not need an accounting background to be able to generate reports such as a Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet needed for tax preparation and managing your business. I have listed a few key points to consider when using QuickBooks. Cash or Accrual Basis of Accounting? The first step in setting up your c... Kennel floors can be bacteria resistant & skid proof. By : Harvey Chichester The trend towards upscale kennels is making flooring paramount for good looks and healthful environments. Kennel epoxy flooring is not only seamless but can be Class III Laboratory qualified. Now used not only in veterinary operating rooms but also on kennel runways, divider walls and cages these mold and mildew resistant surfaces are easy to clean with hoses and squeegees. Bleach resistant epoxy flooring can take strong cleaners and heavy abrasion. How To Get Things Done: A Guide To Strategic Planning By : Paul Lemberg - A step-by-step program for creating a strategic plan and tactical plan guaranteed to help you get more of what you want done. You are pursuing a strategy en route to your vision. Whether it is revolutionary or evolutionary, it does not matter. You are on the road, committedly driving your business in a direction of your own choosing. The important thing is that you have, in fact, chosen this course. And, once you have made this choice, how are you going to realize this ... How To Make Mistakes By : Paul Lemberg - Promoting risk taking and eliminating fear of failure. It would be a mistake to try to avoid all mistakes. Indeed, it would be a colossal blunder to attempt doing things right the first time, every time. In todays light speed economy, ("new" economy and "old" economy) if you don't fall on your face both regularly and painfully, you are likely to end up dead instead. The only people not making mistakes are ones playing their game without risk and without novelty - and I mig... Next Years Planning By : Paul Lemberg - I'm amazed at how each year slips by just a little more quickly. Only a few weeks ago I was running the San Juan River in Utah - blazing sunshine and ninety degrees in the shade. Now it's Fall already. And hey, I live in Southern California - in some places it's almost winter. Friends of mine back East are talking about 30 degree temperatures - or colder. Even snow flurries. Blink - and it will be November, then Thanksgiving, and right its heels - New Year's. All of whi... Strategy As Invention By : Paul Lemberg - Rather than view strategy as a selection of options, here is another approach: creation or invention. Strategic planning is not strategy Strategic Planning, often synonymous with Annual Planning, details how you are going to get where you have decided to go. It is a description of how you will achieve your goals -- those milestones you established in structuring your business plan. Strategic Planning is operational in nature, it examines the particular actions you inte... The Vital Few By : Paul Lemberg - Back in the 19th century, an Italian economist quantified the general relationship between a minority of producers and a majority of output. Sound familiar? The simplified version of Vilfredo Pareto's ratio, known as the 80/20 rule or the Pareto Principle, says that in most cases, 80% of production comes from 20% of producers. Quality guru J.M. Juran referred to Pareto's principle as "The Vital Few and the Trivial Many". If you are running a company, the 80/20 rule has po...
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