22nd November 2009
In this tough economic climate, it can be difficult to motivate your employees. They are anxious about losing their jobs, and this anxiety drains the focus and drive that you need for your company's success.
You must help your employees discover the be...
05th November 2009
Since our current recession officially started in December, 2007, more than 40,000 employees have been laid off by US organizations as part of their overall strategy to improve shareholder value through cost cutting and profit increasing measures. Unfortu...
21st October 2009
Senior level support of an initiative is always a key goal of any group manager or project director, in order to ensure success of a project. Therefore, I am not surprised that in my work over the past decade with change managers, gaining executive suppor...
14th October 2009
Have you had the dreadful experience of presenting a team project proposal to executive management, only to feel at the end that the importance of the proposal fell on deaf ears?
As a team leader and director of a function or a team, you are probably p...
06th October 2009
Nearly every business team leader has experienced it at one time or another. You have just 15 minutes to make a presentation to upper management about an initiative your feel deeply about. You work hard to prepare the perfect presentation, only to met by ...
28th September 2009
Communication with employees is often the first thing to drop off when a company is struggling to survive in a bad economy. This avoidance can affect overall company performance for a number of reasons. Employee stress must be recognized and dealt with, o...
17th September 2009
Our countrys economic decline is having a much more sizeable impact on young workers than on those from the Baby Boomer or Traditionalist generations, according to a study by MetLife Mature Market Institute study, administered in affiliation with Boston C...
