Layoffs

The value of business goodwill is in the throws of a major revival under the tent of mutual interest and partnership. This new business climate is focused on collaboration and reciprocation. To survive in today's worldwide growth and innovation game your company must seek alliances based on compatible differences.

The team charter is a document that serves as both guidance and a roadmap for any team’s success. When used most effectively, this tool clarifies the purpose for the team's existence and documents the agreements amongst the team members.

Following some simple suggestions can eliminate a lot of the awkwardness in performance appraisal meetings.

Discussion of the need for international companies to translate internal documents into the languages of their team.

We can learn important lessons everywhere. Here are 3 lessons about effective meetings that came from a visit to Sequoia National Forest.

The most effective tool in a manager's toolkit for dealing with poor performance is coaching. Not screaming at them from the stands and withholding rewards but working with them down on the pitch to find out what's causing the problem and building their fitness and stamina like the corporate athletes they should be. The study of how we interact with one another in society is called Transactional Analysis. This research has broken down the complexities of the hundreds of in...

Invoice discounting is basically the same as invoice factoring: it involves selling your invoices that are not yet due to be paid to a company at a discount. The discount provides the company purchasing your invoices with their profit; but by receiving cash now for your invoices, invoice discounting enables you to: * Meet emergency expenses * Pay suppliers early to take advantage of early-payment discounts * Take on time-sensitive new projects * Expand your business mor...

In difficult situations, when companies are in crisis and can only be saved by major effort, group morale often rises to far higher levels than before. Individual objections and objectives are bypassed in the collective drive to do what must be done. This is where recognition awards take its importance. High group morale can enrich individual motivation and performance remarkably! I. Planned Awards: 1. Recognition Awards On its basic concept, recognition awards are...

Have you ever considered adopting a child from Thailand?

Some people who are too busy with work may sometimes be absent minded about certain things and tend to forget doing some of their important chores. If this happens more frequently, it is best to get a handyman of some sort to help out rather than making one's performance suffer. A personal organizer can be hired to do just about anything, whether it is something that has to do with work in the office or activities that need to be done at home with the family. Hiring a per...