Layoffs

The strongest contributors in your meetings can also prevent others from participating. Here's how to moderate their contributions. (This is the fifth of a seven part article on Managing Monsters in Meetings.)

A lack of accountability is frustrating. Tremendous productivity and efficiencies can be gained when more people are accountable for completing their tasks, commitments and expectations.

Corporate event managers enable you to showcase your products and services and add tremendous value to corporate events.

When you are considering taking advantage of working at home you will want to be aware of the many schemes that exist in the work-at-home industry. Many people begin working at home because they want to have the opportunity to make money on their own terms, without having to deal with a boss to pay them or to set their hours. Well while that is the best decision for some people who have a specific talent, this may be a very scary time for those who have not yet decided which ...

CEOs may do more than communicate, but almost everything they do will be driven or influenced by communication processes inside and outside the organization.

In business, it does not matter whether you work in a typical office a shop or a factory. You are built up of a group individuals with specific goals towards producing the goods that the company sells. This is what defines a team. From the most mundane task like answering a phone call, to the most complicated job like designing products, every individual making up the team plays an important role. As a whole, every employee is working towards a common goal which is to earn pr...

Is there a lull in your office? Are your employees not satisfied anymore with the way that you are manning the place? Good managers know from their own observations that employee attitude affects their work and eventually the company’s output. When your employees have a happy and healthy attitude the company will be able to reap the many benefits of this through the constant flow of good business as well as higher profits. But what if the employees are actually not happy ...

The strategy cycle is a simple tool that will help you to achieve the goals of your organisation. Consisting of four main phases, the cycle is an iterative process that you can use to build and improve your business year after year.

In business, do we maximize profit or our business market value? Well, it turns out both are the same. What we mean by maximizing our profit is that we maximize the amount of profit the business will generate in the future discounted by the interest rate. And guess what, that's the value of our business. The catch is we don’t know how much profit the business will generate in the future. So the value of our business depends on the expectation of such profit. The i...

Accounts receivable factoring is the sale of part or all of a debt that someone owes to your company. When companies purchase a debt through accounts receivable factoring, they pay for your invoice at a discount. They then collect the debt directly from the company who owes you money. Accounts receivable factoring is distinct from using your accounts receivable as loan collateral because you are outright selling some or all of your receivable to a factor, such as a bank o...