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13th October 2009
Award, reward and recognition schemes are designed to recognize an employee's loyalty and service to an organization. A changing job market has meant the retention of good employees can be a concern for many employers. Rewarding employees throughout the... Read >
Author: John Morley08th October 2009
Making a budget for a home business start-up is more of an art than it is a science. No matter how exactly you think you’ve pinned down all your expenses, it’s guaranteed that more will appear that you either didn’t think of or just couldn’t have ... Read >
Author: wbdoyle01st October 2009
In a competitive world with the need for businesses to be more streamlined and productive a company can often find itself with a workforce working under pressure resulting in low moral and high staff turnover. The benefits of a company having a highly mot... Read >
Author: atul kumar kushwaha16th September 2009
If there is one area of advertising that consistently flies in the face of conventional marketing wisdom, it is that of recruitment advertising. Here are 8 simple rules that will help you get it right every time.
The advert should be more about the r... Read >
Author: Mitch Sullivan11th September 2009
Staff turnover costs American companies millions of dollars every year. The cost of lost work days, interviewing candidates, reviewing resumes, checking references, filing paperwork and training the new staff member is much more expensive, in most cases,... Read >
Author: wbdoyle02nd September 2009
Health and Safety-It Makes Good Cents
Data shows that small businesses that have health and safety procedures in place reduce their injury and illness costs by 20 percent and even up to 40 percent. Nearly 95 percent of business owners report that healt... Read >
Author: wbdoyle11th August 2009
As an audio visual supplier we often get asked by hotel venues what equipment to buy; my answer is none! In this article I discuss the pitfalls and propose an alternative solution.
It’s blue sky thinking: a multimedia audio visual system that is fut... Read >
Author: sam lowe08th August 2009
Award, reward and recognition schemes are designed to recognize an employee's loyalty and service to an organization. A changing job market has meant the retention of good employees can be a concern for many employers. Rewarding employees throughout thei... Read >
Author: John Morley31st July 2009
As an audio visual supplier we often get asked by hotel venues what equipment to buy; my answer is none! In this article I discuss the pitfalls and propose an alternative solution.
It’s blue sky thinking: a multimedia audio visual system that is fut... Read >
Author: sam lowe18th June 2009
When it comes to selecting an enterprise content management (ECM) solution, community colleges often face obstacles that differ from those experienced by other colleges and universities. These might involve geographical distribution of campuses, or a high... Read >
Author: Ian Llado12th June 2009
Accessible technology helps businesses in a number of ways including staff retention and recruitment, as well as enhancing team collaboration and improving communication among all employees.
Enhancing productivity is one of the ways in which technology... Read >
Author: Adam Singleton12th June 2009
Improving productivity and reducing costs are now a priority for all companies to remain competitive. This priority should not mean an indiscriminate cutting of resources within a company, but approach it from a strategy to improve competitiveness and pro... Read >
Author: AaRGeE06th June 2009
Medical offices require a lot of efficiency to ensure that all patients are properly taken care of. Every such facility is a busy area where employing multiple people to do one job is a waste of time, money and resources. It will eat away at the revenues ... Read >
Author: Gen Wright13th May 2009
Considering Restaurants for Sale?
Some things to think about
If you are in the market to buy a business, there are some compelling reasons to consider restaurants for sale. On the flip side, there are also some compelling reasons not to. This arti... Read >
Author: Anne Brown04th April 2009
When you land that all important first offshore Rope Access job, you'll be thinking what most people think; what will it be like working in a strange, unusual and difficult environment?
From your first offshore trip, your life will change substantially... Read >
Author: rigg-access16th March 2009
Improving employee retention through training is a strategic management tactic that is often overlooked. All too often a business assumes giving people a salary raise or more vacation time will create job satisfaction. Instead what happens is the staff ad... Read >
Author: Michael Wolf16th February 2009
Training courses can be highly effective tools when it comes to optimizing the efficiency of any business establishment, whether it's a hospital, a sales operation, a restaurant, or any other type of facility. Businesses that make the choice to invest in ... Read >
Author: Christopher16th January 2009
Sales programs and sales courses for your sales staff and sales managers can revive a stagnant sales staff and fuel the fire to sell. Low sales and high staff turnover can be the result of a stifling climate that discourages your sales staff from reaching... Read >
Author: Jacqui Q16th January 2009
Sales programs and sales courses for your sales staff and sales managers can revive a stagnant sales staff and fuel the fire to sell. Low sales and high staff turnover can be the result of a stifling climate that discourages your sales staff from reachin... Read >
Author: Avi Solutions16th January 2009
Sales course evaluation and analysis requires evaluating your sales development team and the sales training courses you are considering. Every investment must be researched – and that includes an investment in training and development for your sales st... Read >
Author: Avi Solutions03rd November 2008
The Hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) market has been propelled into the future of communication due to the inception of the Virtual Call Centre solution into the range of products available from telephony service providers. Designed to revolutionise the way ca... Read >
Author: Rosemary Grace Brooks30th October 2008
The internet has opened up doors to many new and existing businesses, enabling them to ‘go global’ by simply setting up a web site that outlines the services and products they have on offer. Moreover, many 21st century businesses exist entirely in t... Read >
Author: Isla Campbell01st September 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Shona Garner
There's much emphasis these days on leadership kills. Almost every organisation talks of the need to develop these; and almost every manager or aspiring manager is encouraged to develop them. But in the race to invest of... Read >
Author: Shona Garner20th July 2008
12 Self Evident Propositions
Yes, there are minor exceptions to each Proposition
Yes, each could be expressed more tactfully and qualified with more words (as we have in my books and media articles)
But words just remove the spotlight from the si... Read >
Author: Toby Marshall18th June 2008
Recruit to Retain!
"If 10 PCs costing a total of £20,000 are stolen from your company, an investigation would take place and measures put in place to stop this happening again. However, many companies do not conduct any investigation when staff who c... Read >
Author: Acumen Resources11th May 2008
Finding qualified personnel to staff call center help desks is increasingly challenging for companies selling and servicing high-technology products or offering professional services such as credit counseling. Call center personnel must be highly traine... Read >
Author: Chris Carter29th March 2008
Competitive Surveys
This is an excellent exercise that all stores should conduct at least on a monthly basis. Assign staff to shop and evaluate your competition. If you understand your competition's strengths and weaknesses, you can develop your competi... Read >
Author: Ron Pawlowski24th January 2008
ISO Makes a Strong Business Case
Whether you manufacture a product or are in the service sector - a private organization or a government agency - “ISO” is a fundamental business model. It is the foundation from which to build an enterprise. It fo... Read >
Author: Stan10th September 2007
The importance of a good phone system for a business is more than obvious, considering that the telephone and the email address are the first points of contact between your customers and your business. Aside from saving time and money and improving your c... Read >
Author: groshan fabiola03rd May 2007
Staff turnover maybe a more expensive cost than you realize, it can be costly in terms staff morale, training costs and recruitment related expenses. If your company experiences 20 percent or greater staff turnover per year this may already a threat to yo... Read >
Author: Salieri20th December 2006
Copyright (c) 2006 Mr Sital Ruparelia
Many businesses suffer from high levels of staff turnover simply because they have hired the wrong people in the first place. Similarly, many business owners go through the whole recruitment process and make an off... Read >
Author: Sital Rarelia17th November 2006
Copyright 2006 Progress-U Ltd.
THE PROBLEM SITUATION
Imagine you are the chief operating officer (COO) of a mid-sized corporation, say with 2,000 employees. Your company manufactures commodities like cables for cars. It's headquartered in Hong Kong,... Read >
Author: Charlie Lang17th November 2006
An inspired and motivated workforce is essential for any business that hopes to stay ahead of the competition. But just how do you motivate people? What kind of leadership do people respond to? And how can you improve the quality of leadership in your bus... Read >
Author: Jonathan Farrington28th May 2006
Copyright 2006 The National Learning Institute
I well remember the first time I was "corrected" by a manager. I was a young bank clerk and had received a transaction that was incorrect, from a much more senior person (a manager) in another branch of t... Read >
Author: Bob Selden06th March 2006
It happens more often than you'd ever guess in fact, it might be happening at the booth right next to yours. Recent surveys of trade show attendees show that the most dissatisfied attendees are those who purchase something that they really didn't want. ... Read >
Author: Susan Friedmann20th February 2006
In todays global economy, it is not only trade that is international. It's the companies and their employees too. Therefore it's increasingly common to have companies with a variety of languages spoken in the divisions. So perhaps we should expect that tr... Read >
Author: Nigel Massey01st November 2005
Research indicates that the four main pipeline challenges facing consulting firms today
are their desire to grow, volatility in the market, staff turnover and the increasing demand
for specialist expertise. In June 2005 a survey was conducted using 21 c... Read >
Author: Richard Stewart18th September 2005
When it comes to increasing the return on your investment in your company, most business owners think of getting increased value through investments in new computer systems, or more sophisticated warehousing equipment, or a larger facility. Yet, in today... Read >
Author: William von Achen01st August 2005
In a competitive world with the need for businesses to be more streamlined and productive a company can often find itself with a workforce working under pressure resulting in low moral and high staff turnover. The benefits of a company having a highly mot... Read >
Author: Martin Day
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