Steps for Increasing Company Profits or Performing Business Turnarounds 1. Eliminate waste Eliminate reports, habits, products, duplicate input, and processes that waste time and money. These drain labor, money and energy from the business. Two-thirds of products or services sold incur more costs to produce than they are sold for. These are a drain on …
Questions to Ask About Your Next Meeting Every meeting provides an opportunity to learn important things about the people who attend. Here’s what to watch for: Is it planned? Effective leaders always begin with clearly defined goals and then prepare plans for achieving them. They have the courage to set a direction and then …
Promotion Secrets to Get the Job You Want You Mean I Need to Promote Myself to Get a Promotion? Time and time again I hear the following from students in my career advancement workshops: “My work speaks for itself…I shouldn’t have to tell anyone about my skills.” “Why did they hire from the outside, …
Pieces To The Puzzle Of Organizational Change Kurt Lewin, the consummate applied social scientist, is responsible for giving us three of the ten concepts that support effective OC practice: Forcefield Analysis, The Three-Stage Model of Change, and the Action Research Model. I will cover the first two concepts in this article. Lewin’s first concept, …
Overlooked Ways To Hire Winners Here is a true story. My dentist did a “clinical” evaluation of my teeth. That is his fancy way to say he looked in my mouth and starred at my teeth with his own two eyes. He found no cavities in his “clinical” evaluation. I felt happy and relieved! …
