Finding The Right Expense Management Solution For Your Company
In recent times, initiatives such as the Sarbannes Oxley Act in the US have dramatically raised the profile of compliance within the corporate world. As a key element of any corporate compliance policy, expense management has shared some of the limelight.
Effective Meeting Management: 12 Tips to Improve Meeting Productivity
Facilitation is improved with practice. The facilitator must learn to tactfully cut off the ramblers and remain on task. “That’s a very good point John. Can we take that up later or schedule another meeting to discuss it? We really need to get through a c
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The perennial problem is what to do with your hands. These must not wave aimlessly through the air, or fiddle constantly with a pen, or (worst of all visually) juggle change in your trouser pockets. The key is to keep your hands still, except when used in
How to Build Quality into your Team
A simple innovation might be for a member of your team to actually talk to someone from each of these internal customer groups and to ask about problems. The interfaces are usually the best place to look for simply solved problems. The immediate benefit m
WHAT MAKES A GREAT MANAGER
By practising this philosophy yourself, you also stimulate fresh ideas from your team because they see that it is a normal part of the team practice to adopt and experiment with innovation. Thus not only are you relieved of the task of generating the new
The Human Factor
Stage 2 will sometimes be sufficient. If Alex had not realised there was a problem, he might act quickly to solve it. If he had thought his behaviour would pass unnoticed, he now knows differently. By giving Alex the responsibility for solving his own pro
Quality Improvement: A Front Line View
Departmental managers then take the information and quality initiatives back to their individual departments. Front line staff may be involved at this point, but often their role is in implementation of new strategies that they have had very little involv
How Total is Your Quality Management?
Notre Dame football coach, Lou Holtz, once observed "When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done". Despite all the talk -- passionate speeches, glossy brochures, clever ads, high tech videos, convincing sales pitches, snappy slogans, strategic
Workplace Gap
The first thing you need to know, as a leader, is that all you have to do is ask the right questions. The right questions are the ones that cause inspiration and excitement in your staff. This means you no longer have to think up the answers of how to sol
9 Tips for Management Success: Skills Necessary to be an Effective Boss
Working with people requires interpersonal skills that can come more easily to some people than others. Especially if you have been promoted because you have great technical skills and experience, you will want to avoid becoming a victim to the “Peter Pri
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