Layoffs

When you work from home, one of the hardest things to get right is knowing where to do your work. In your bedroom? In a special home office? Well, here are a few pointers. A Dedicated Space is Best. I really believe that you won't get far unless you set aside a space and use it for work only. Why? Well, if you use your work space for things other than work, then you'll get distracted by anything you leave there. Other people in the family might become frustrated by not ...

Don't become a victim of a work-at-home scam. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true…it probably is.

Everyone complains about bad meetings and how they waste everyone's time. Here are five general strategies to make sure that you hold an effective meeting, even when unproductive behavior threatens to ruin it. (This is the first of a seven part article on Managing Monsters in Meetings.)

The key to the success of any corporate event includes effective planning and organization and setting an appropriate budget. In addition, you must include personalized promotional items, effective banners, and unique giveaways while effectively marketing to prospective customers and clients.

What has your business been set up to do, and how do you intend to pursue it? Is the rank and file in same focus? Are your clients happy? Are your major stakeholders on the same page of the business plan? The only way to ensure this is to maintain consistent and meaningful communication between management and staff, within project teams and with clients.

The director of telemarketing operations at a financial services company looks out across his 3600 square foot call center on a typical Monday morning. “Look at all those empty chairs”, he laments. “It is sickly Monday and my partiers are taking their usual unscheduled day long break”. The problem of the “three day weekend” or absenteeism in general doesn’t just affect the manager in this setting. What about the other 80% of the work force who showed up? They are now burdened...

Last week I talked about how to take a vacation when you're the leader of the band. This week I want to talk about summer sales. Many sales people and just as many business owners bemoan their annual summer sales slump. Their numbers are down and they just can't understand it. It's as if their whole business is paralyzed because sales dry up or customers are on vacation. In my experience, that's hogwash. When you take that attitude, you are selling yourself a bill of good...

Especially when they are new to the business, people see their position in the company as fragile. They often need signs other than formal appraisals and skills inventories to help them to feel accepted and appreciated. Providing your staff with a diverse range of opportunities to represent the company is a great way of collecting information and rewarding performance in the workplace at the same time. Training Managers sometimes look on training as a necessary evil....

In the past, the management of an organization's brand has usually been the sole domain of the organization's marketing team. However, with the evolution of the Internet and people's need for instant information, there is a greater call for public relations professionals to become more directly involved with an organization's brand management.

Dry ice blasting, which is fast replacing traditional cleaning methods particularly in automotive, aviation, power, plastics and other such industries, offer some unique benefits. For instance, it consumes much less time, is a more thorough cleaning process, cuts down possibilities of damaging the equipment to almost nil and so on. Read on to find out why dry ice blasting is becoming the choice of a cross-section of industries.