Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’
Disaster Recovery and Other Happy Subjects
Have you been open in sharing your knowledge and talent with a backup, or even a potential successor? It is prudent and certainly a sign that you take this responsibility personally as a leader among your peers and subordinates.
Read More How Inventory Management Software Can Ensure You Don’t Overstock for Ecommerce
When clients demand services through multiple channels, order promising, monitoring and fulfillment can be complex and intensive. Multiple channels can often mean clients ordering over the web, phone, fax or email and in some cases differing people deal with these calls within an organization.
Read More In Marketing the Constant Is Change
There are lots of ways to stay current but it all starts with the attitude of recognizing that it’s a part of your job and it’s one of the ways you keep your company relevant and profitable.
Read More How an Entrepreneur Can Be Open But Stay in Control
The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back.
Read More Why Your Business Blog Should Be a Group Effort
A certain amount of care must be invested into making the blog a success, or it will stagnate and eventually die off. Oftentimes the blogging effort becomes halfhearted, especially if the position responsible for blogging has a high turnover rate—for example, social media interns typically only stay on board for a semester at a time—or if the person in charge of blogging burns out.
Read More Manage Your Bottlenecks!
The definition of a bottleneck in your business is one that constricts the flow of work from one area to another in the flow of product or service through your organization. A bottleneck in your organization’s flow can happen, shift, or disappear quickly.
Read More 8 Ways to Inspire Employee Behavior That You Can Implement Today
Leaders create the vision, set company goals, and develop strategies—but it is front line employees who execute the plan. They are the ones who carry out the daily tasks and initiatives that help make a leader’s vision become a reality. They are the ones who interact daily with the customers who are the life blood of any successful organization.
Read More 7 Ways Your Small Business Can Improve Its Social Media Marketing
If your small business is conducting social media marketing, it is among the 80 percent of U.S. small businesses that do. But did you know that more than half of small businesses (54 percent) say their greatest need for help is with social media marketing?
Read More 5 Tips for Young Entrepreneurs Who Want to be Taken Seriously
I was a 21 year-old entrepreneur when the dot-com bubble burst in 2001. Given the unprecedented volume of dying startups, investors and other business partners became less and less inclined to partner with new companies—especially those led by young founders.
Read More How to Build Your Organizational Structure Based on Trust and Collaboration
Building an organization culture that is based on trust and collaboration starts with leadership. You need to follow through with what you say and be accountable for your actions—or your team will lose faith in your word and ability to be an effective leader.
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