All managers and organizations have their philosophies about how to motivate employees and manage their teams. Some seek to create cooperation and loyalty. Others rely more on the competitive spirit to get things done. And the truth is different approaches can work, but it’s important to understand what kind of work environment you’re creating with …

Here are three common dysfunction types I've seen in the meeting room. (Haven't we all?) Let's look at these specific dysfunctions and simple actions you can take to address them.

Here are a few habits for growing your business during the early years: Be Consistent With Side Tasks (create checklists, follow up on them) Clean and Tidy Up (literally and figuratively) Keep Books (too often overlooked or underemphasized in startups) Prepare for Tax Season Schedule Interviews (forSstaff) Before You’re Desperate Create and Follow A Business …

How do you handle change? Changes are not predictable. What happens when changes occur on a project and you have just been notified at the last minute that documents have to be revised, revamped, and need to be transformed to have a different format? Panic sets in. What happened to the change request process? Why …

Victor is a director on a medium sized listed company board. The Chairman has been ill for several months and is not going to get better. He has announced that he wishes to retire. The Managing Director is keen that one of the directors, who had a strong track record as an executive within the …

Was listening to the radio and heard an uplifting speaker share four things you can do to lift up others. I encourage you to do this with everyone in your life. To get started, I would take advantage of Mothers Day coming up to see how you can uplift the mothers in your life. 1. …

(Guest post from Brittany Evans) It’s amazing how much small purchases can add up when they are being done by an office. That’s because of the volumes involved. For example, a house may have five or 10 lamps inside, but an office can easily have 50-100 bulbs running during operating hours. Therefore, it’s important to …

Most business plans appear on paper or on a pdf, but a growing number are on video, or include a video component. Often that’s done in the form of a YouTube video, which you can use to promote your new business in ways that are not possible via paper or email. And even if your …

Developing strategy takes time and resources. It requires the time and commitment of some of the most highly paid and highly experienced people in your organization. So if your team is not willing to invest the necessary time, I recommend that you don’t do it. Poor planning is often worse than not planning at all. So why do you need a strategy? Why take time for planning? There are many reasons. But Leadership Strategies' Drivers Model focuses on five in particular.

There are many answers to the question on how and where to place text for images, figures, snapshots, etc. Should text be embedded or placed below, beside, above, or to the left or right of the image. It depends. For simplicity, let’s use the word ‘diagram’ to represent images, figures, snapshots, pictures, charts, etc., in …