A Key Competitive Advantage
For profit or not-for-profit, many organizations do not properly utilize meetings as a tool for communication. Many times meetings are not effective because the three simple rules of meetings are forgotten.
Category: Company Culture
The culture of your company is perhaps your most important competitive advantage. For the most successful companies they build their culture as often as they breathe.
HOW TO UNITE YOUR TEAM – Scheduling
For most of my career, I was tasked with creating schedules for whichever organization I was a part of. From that, I learned many lessons … usually the hard way. A schedule is a compromise between the needs of the organization and the needs of the associate. If done fairly, consistently, and with a degree of accommodation, schedules can be made to work for almost everyone. What follows is a compilation of some lessons and tips for scheduling that work.
A Merchant’s Day
Being a successful merchant means doing many small things better than everyone else. If success were the result of doing one or two things well, everyone would be successful. Success though comes from everyone pulling and working together.
Risk, Innovation, and Failure
How does your organization approach failure?
Silly question?
Okay, let’s ask another … How does your organization approach innovation?
It is rare for any new idea or concept to be fully formed and perfect the day it is suggested. Most fresh ideas and products go through much trial and error before they reach their final form. This leads us back to the initial question …
STARTING A NEW JOB
A new job and new co-workers represent a clean slate and a fresh start. It is chance to build or re-establish reputations and a professional network.
For some, it can also be a period of anxiety and discomfort as they attempt to carve out a comfort zone from the new and unknown.
The following are some helpful hints that can help you or someone you know navigate the first few days with a new organization.
The Twenty
“The Twenty” is a guide for excellence.
Originally designed for sales excellence, to limit these 20 Competitive Advantages to only sales associates would be an injustice. These powerful, but very simple and easy to apply lessons can be used in virtually any career and by any organization.
Defining & Creating Job Descriptions
Many small and medium-sized organizations do not have a human resources person or department. This very important function can be just one more very important function that one of the organization’s senior people does along with their other important functions.
It starts with one …
Many people will say that small and medium-sized businesses and organizations are the economic engine for our country; in many ways, they are also the socio-economic conscience.
For a Good Leader, everything is about people.
Being a good leader doesn’t have anything to do with titles.
Being a good leader is about respect.
Respect is earned.
I HAVE TO WORK 70 HOURS A WEEK!
Retail, manufacturing, non-profit, charity: it doesn’t matter the field of endeavour, we’ve said this or know people who have said it. These people are super-dedicated, high-achievers, passionate about what they do and stubbornly refuse to admit that they are completely wrong. Anyone who consistently works these kinds of hours, either does so because they want to or because they can’t (or won’t) delegate.