Effective performance management is essential to ensure that a business is operating efficiently and is on track in achieving strategic goals. Performance appraisals are a review...
The perils of micromanaging can not only impede on workplace productivity, they can slowly destroy employee morale and company drive. You respect your job and you...
Process defines the approach to work execution in a business. A streamlined process provides speed, quality, and solid results. A convoluted process chews up resources and...
It is hard meeting new people, particularly if you are an adult. However, in the business world, people have to come together to put their efforts...
Does it drive you crazy when your employees can't follow instructions? You ask them to do one thing and they do something else - what you...
Last night I watched Senator Orrin Hatch grill the Acting Director of the IRS, Steven Miller. During the testimony Senator Hatch claimed that Miller had “lied...
Achieving financial security is an aim that most people aspire to. Worrying about money causes stress, loss of enjoyment of life, and is often linked to...
Your manufacturing business is poised for growth. You’ve just won that large client your sales team have been working on for years. You’re about to enter...
It wasn’t so long ago that most people had an expectation of retiring completely from the work force the day they became eligible for NZ Superannuation.
The X-Factor behind every great business is a combination of great leadership and great people, and neither can exist in isolation to the other.
Nothing is more potentially devastating to a business than poor communication. As a team leader, it's important to make sure that your entire team knows what...
Gone are the times when it didn’t matter so much if a few customers got upset or had issues.
For many business owners time is as precious, and sometimes seems as scarce, as money. Striking a balance between work and personal time can be a...
Below is a New Zealand small business owners experience with an overseas business. He opted for the cheapest available discounting the local business because they were...
I had been invited to attend a staff meeting of one of my clients last week...So...while I was sitting back in silence...which for those who know...
Other than mastering the complexities and tricks of the trade of your own trade or profession, there are really only two key business skills you need...
