176: Run the Business / Change the Business - Dual Perspective Proves Key to Success
Change Management is a lot like heart surgery - the surgeon must keep the patient alive while the surgery is under way. Likewise, change managers must maintain the business at the very time they are engaged in changing that business. Many initiatives fail to appreciate the need for this dual perspective - at their peril!...

177: 21st Century Leadership Empowers Leaders at Every Level
Historically a new-hire moved from learning the required tasks of their particular job to eventually understanding the goals, strengths, and weaknesses of the business in an orderly way - often having as much to do with their getting older as with their getting better, smarter, or more capable....

178: Personal Charisma - Developing Four Components for Business
The value of charisma as a business asset has to do with how well you influence others by connecting with them. These four components of charisma can be developed by anyone....

179: Lean Change: Applying Process Improvement to Change Management
For companies to thrive in today's world of continuous change they must be continuously changing. If so, then change becomes a process constantly at work - just like any other business process they practice. And process improvement techniques - like Lean Manufacture - can be used to get really good at it....

180: Excuse Me, Have We Met?
This article describes a plan to increase your self-awareness....

181: What Is Your Business Personality?
One might link home business opportunities with personality, but fact is you have to have a specific character to go it solo. Not everyone can be a home business owner....

182: Team Building - A Common Goal
Learn how to build and strengthen your team....

183: Why Create an Annual Business Plan?
Plan for success; it is about setting a direction and working towards it. Getting your thoughts down on paper helps you to articulate your success....

184: The Most Important Leadership Trait
There is one important leadership quality, above all, that motivates and inspires men and women into action. One KEY trait carries the day and ensures your success in business. Do you have it? Can you recognize it in others? All great leaders have this quality. Read about it here....

185: The Elephant in the Room
This article highlights the functional silos management lives in and the problems it can cause. Every manager comes to the table with many years of experience and study behind them. They come with a thorough understanding of their role in the company but a limited understanding of the other Cs roles....

186: How To Motivate And Inspire Your Employees To Be The Best They Can Be
It would be misleading to make managers and supervisors think that there's a secret to motivating and inspiring their fellow employees....

187: Success Leaves Clues
In my study of people who have a knack for success, who seem to make the accurate choice at the best time, and who appear to constantly be in the right place at the right time, I noticed some essential success principles that they all use. I outline them here for you....

188: Leading Into the Future
The subject of leadership goes to the root of organized human behavior. Leadership is so integral to who we are that it's difficult to imagine human history without it. Would great cities have ever been built without it? Would nations have been forged? Indeed, could any great endeavor have been accomplished without leadership? Very likely, no....

189: Employee Motivation - The 8 Basics
To motivate your employees, it is vital that you start off with understanding that there are some things that need to be fixed first, before you can get on with the above the line actions which develop a strong and engaged culture......

190: Coaching and Mentoring (using one)
This article looks at finding and developing a useful relationship with a Coach or Mentor....

191: Classic Leadership Styles
Much has been said over the years about leadership styles. Yet research into the best and most practical overview leads to the easiest conclusion (there will always be variables on these, as well as mixes of them), are that there are four distinct leadership styles (plus an extra!)......

192: Use This Simple Time Tested Process And Move Your Business Forward In 2006!
Believe it or not, most businesses or careers never move forward because there is a failure to plan and execute. Shouting out orders to others does not insure a business will succeed nor does it mean a manager will progress. Setting goals that are well thought out, getting others involved that need to make them happen, measuring and adjusting them frequently through the process is the surest bet of making 2006 one of the best years your company or your career will have....

193: 7 Creative Problem Solving Techniques
Have you ever encountered a problem only to become stumped trying to come up with a solution? How often have you found yourself saying that there is just no possible answer and you think that you have reached a dead end?...

194: Top 10 Strategic Thinking Skills
Here are Ten great skills EVERY business manager and leader must know, if they want to move from short-termism to a broader, sustainable future...

195: The Pros And Cons Of Rewarding Your Employees
A management tool that is so often missed is the ad hoc motivation of employees by reward. A great opportunity. Yet there are some reasons to be cautious......

196: Leadership Development - Leadership Styles and Training
What makes a good leader? Can you define specific leadership qualities? Or perhaps leaders are born, and not made? Our latest document takes a look at this minefield and asks 'How do you become a good leader?'...

197: Professional Personal Development - What is it?
If employees are motivated, confident, communicating well and resolving differences; if they are being acknowledged and appreciated, then stress is reduced; people are more efficient and effective. This article outlines the argument for encouraging and developing these skills within organisations, the profound affect on employees' performance and overall well-being, and a corresponding increase in the bottom line....

198: Training Black Belts or Hiring Them -- Which Is Better?
Recently the Six Sigma academy estimated that on an average, Black Belts save companies around $230,000 per project. That's a huge amount! The business world is riding high on the Six Sigma wave and the best sailors are considered to be the Black Belts. So who are Black Belts and why are they so popular?...

199: Breakthroughs Are Available If You Hold the Right Contest to Get Help from Outside Your Organization
Productivity breakthroughs that can save lives, make large gains in performance, and cut costs with the same time, effort, and resources in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Many people find it hard to locate such breakthroughs, but a new method of holding global contests seems to be solving that limitation. This article provides examples of such contests....

200: Why Coaching Is The Way To Go In Team Management
When you hear the word “coach”, what comes first into your mind Do you picture a basketball team with a man/woman shouting out directions...