Productivity Archives - Page 7 of 8

Five Steps to turn your Strategic Initiative into Execution Success

June 10, 2012 at Business, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, Performance, Productivity

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results – this famous quote by Sir Winston Churchill often comes to my mind when I participate in strategy presentations. ...

Business Operations Performance Metrics: Employee Satisfaction – Five Leadership Tips to Lead Remote Teams with Ease

May 28, 2012 at Business, Business Operations, Career, Leadership, Management, Performance, Productivity

Employee turnover or attrition is one of the biggest factors that limit an organization’s growth trajectories. With the pressure on margins and the competition for talent, it makes a lot ...

Five Life Skills that can Give Wings to your Career

May 12, 2012 at Career, Life, Managing Yourself, Performance, Productivity, World of Work

"Life skills" are defined as psychosocial abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. They are loosely grouped ...

Business Operations Performance Metrics: Gross Margin – Five Steps to Improve your Margin

May 6, 2012 at Business, Business Operations, Management, Performance, Productivity

~~The success combination in business is: Do what you do better and do more of what you do. David Joseph Schwartz ~~ Margin improvement – this phrase usually conjures up images of ...

Business Operations Performance Metrics: Cash Flow – Five Steps to Improve your DSO

April 21, 2012 at Business, Business Operations, Management, Performance, Productivity

Happiness is a positive cash flow ~ (Fred Adler - Venture capitalist) ~ Most of us in business or in sales have heard this – Revenue is vanity, Margin is sanity and ...

Five Considerations that can Make or Break your Business Budget – Business Operations Performance Management

April 8, 2012 at Business, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, Performance, Productivity

An annual budget is like a map for the business. Miss the directions on the map and you may land up in places best left uncharted. But how do we ensure ...

Five Strategies to be Happy in the Face of All Odds

March 12, 2012 at Career, Life, Performance, Productivity

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging ~ Joseph Campbell Have you ever wondered how some people seem to sail through their lives with a ...

Five Lessons in Customer Management from Hospital Operations

March 4, 2012 at Business, Leadership, Life, Management, Performance, Productivity

I have spent the last week living in one of the best hospitals in the country and there has been a lot to observe, watch and learn, especially in the ...

Five Practices to Get People to Work Together – Entering the Collaboration Zone

February 18, 2012 at Business, Business Operations, Career, Communication, Leadership, Management, Managing Yourself, Mentoring, Performance, Productivity, World of Work

It is tough times for businesses today. Never has it been as important as now to do more with less, share resources and leverage each other’s strengths and get people ...

Five MUST- NOTs when Managing your People

February 12, 2012 at Business, Career, Leadership, Office Etiquette, Performance, Productivity

Why is it so difficult to be happy at work? Gallup surveys show that more than two-thirds of the workforce globally are emotionally disconnected from their work and are less ...