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Negotiate Properly to Secure a Beneficial Agreement
When your company or startup doesn’t make a good profit and you barely have any negotiating leverage, conventional negotiation rules don’t apply.
How to Delegate to Boost Your Small Business Growth
Absent of delegating many of the jobs within your business, the only way to grow the top line is to raise your prices. You could increase sales, but to achieve that in any great measure, you would have convert more prospects, which will take more people.
Problem Employees or Problem Managers?
When I ask managers what their biggest challenge is, it seems like they always say the same thing: problem employees. This is something every business and organization struggles with.
Cancelling One on Ones
As a company grows one on ones are critical. Show me a manager who doesn’t schedule regular one on one’s with her direct reports and I’ll show you a bad manager.
Let Your Expectations Be Known
Managing people requires a broad array of skills, but basic management skills are sometimes overlooked. Simply put, staff will not know what to do unless they are told what results are expected.
People Quit Their Managers, Not Their Jobs
Manager (noun): The person with the arcane power of either making a perceived “boring” job fun and fulfilling, or making a great job seem miserable and hollow.
Building Emotional Capital: How to Maintain Enthusiastic, Engaged Employees
In our current economic climate, many companies are wondering how to maintain an enthusiastic, engaged employees. A recognition program that appreciates, thanks and rewards employees can lift staff out of the recessionary downer that many are falling into.
Power is Sometimes Assumed When Not Granted
How many times have you heard someone say, “Let’s do it now and ask permission later?” It’s a common practice in companies where there is a barrier between levels in the chain of command, or lack of communication.
No “I” in Team: Are You Sure?
I’ve never quite agreed with the saying, “there is no ‘I’ in ‘team.'” Well, I agree with it literally since, indeed there is no letter “i” in that word.
It’s Not What You Do, But How You Do It
CEOs make a lot of decisions, announce them, and then expect everyone to be on board and execute flawlessly. If only it were that simple