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Author :: Steve Kaye  |
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| Article Title :: How to Hold Effective Staff Meetings |
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Many people believe that they conduct effective meetings, when
all they really do is host a party. Or worse, they deliver a
monologue. In either case, their meetings produce little.
Here’s how to hold an effective staff meeting.
1) In general. Keep them short. Most staff meetings should last
less than an hour. You want your staff to spend their time
working on things that earn money for your business, not sitting
in meetings. Keep them positive. Negative meetings contain
insults, ridicule, and attacks. These activities create caution
and resentment, which always costs your company money. Keep them
interactive. Your staff consists of intelligent people. Put them
to work in your meetings (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Steve Kaye |
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| Article Title :: Why Would Anyone Hold a Bad Meeting? |
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Pssst, want a stock tip that will make you rich? Okay, here it
is: phone a public corporation and ask to speak with the CEO.
If a secretary tells you that the CEO expects to be busy in
meetings for the next six hundred years, call your broker and
sell the stock short. Any company unable to manage an activity
that should last an hour is on its way down the financial tubes.
Although it’s true that senior executives spend much of their
time in meetings, you can bet that a business is in trouble if
their meetings are out of control.
Surveys show companies waste an average of 20% of their payroll
on bad meetings. And that’s just the beginning of the problem.
Meetings keep people away from (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Steve Kaye |
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| Article Title :: Why Training Fails |
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Sometimes when I conduct my workshop on Effective Meetings, one
of the participants will ask, "Where's my boss?"
And I say, "Your boss claimed to be an expert on holding
effective meetings."
Then the person laughs. "My boss needs to attend your workshop
more than anyone in our company. And without our manager's
support, no one will use this."
This is bad because if no one uses the ideas presented in a
workshop, the client will conclude that training doesn't work.
And then the company might abandon all training.
Here are three important issues that determine the effectiveness
of training.
1) People follow the leader. Any training program will be more
successful if management supports it (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Charlon Bobo |
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| Article Title :: Dynamic Interviewing Practices |
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Dynamic Interviewing Practices
by Charlon Bobo, Red Frog, Inc. © 2005
The pre-hiring process can be a challenge. If you’re reading
this article, you are finished with the pre-hiring process and
are looking for tips that will guide you through the interview.
Much time and energy can be invested and in the end, wasted, if
your approach is not focused, deliberate, and specific. The
following approaches have resulted in engaging, content-rich
interviews providing us with a clear approach appropriate for
each candidate.
The Interview 1. Arrange interviews with a least three
applicants. Three gives you a well-rounded base from which you
can choose the best one. Sometimes three isn’t eno (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Charlon Bobo |
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| Article Title :: Dynamic Pre-Hiring Practices |
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Dynamic Pre-Hiring Practices
by Charlon Bobo, Red Frog, Inc. © 2005
The pre-hiring process can be a challenge. Much time and energy
can be invested and in the end, wasted, if your approach is not
focused, deliberate, and specific. The following approaches have
resulted in meeting candidates that not only meet our
specifications, but also regularly exceed our expectations!
5 Steps to Writing An Ad that Gets Results
The following ad formula has yielded qualified, fitting job
candidates:
1. Begin with a compelling headline 2. Provide a brief
description of who's hiring to fill what position 3. First,
describe what's in it for THEM, to really pull them in 4.
Second, describe what you ex (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Chuck Yorke |
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| Article Title :: Involving People Gave Us the Improvements We Needed |
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We had a problem with handling materials in a production
department. Our process required raw materials to enter the
department, be processed, and leave the department. The raw
material was placed on pods, delivered for production, removed
from the pods, placed on a staging fixture, removed from the
fixture and process materials were then placed on another pod
and delivered to an internal customer. Internal customer had to
place on still another pod.
Someone suggested placing the material from the fixture onto the
customer’s internal pod to reduce handling, errors, etc. Room
was tight (because two different style pods were used, one for
raw material and one for processing) and someone l (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Brent Filson |
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| Article Title :: The Defining Moment: The Straw That Stirs The Drink Of
Motivational Leadership (Part Two) |
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PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in
newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to
the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource
box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is
appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.com
Word count: 1000
Summary: Motivation is a critical aspect of leadership. But most
leaders fail to realize practical processes to motivate people
consistently. Here is a motivational-leadership tool to greatly
increase your leadership effectiveness.
The Defining Moment: The Straw That Stirs The Drink Of
Motivational Leadership (Part Two) by Brent Filson
In Part One, I des (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Brent Filson |
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| Article Title :: The Defining Moment: The Straw That Stirs The Drink Of
Motivational Leadership (Part One) |
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PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in
newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to
the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource
box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is
appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.com
Word count: 770
Summary: Motivation is a critical aspect of leadership. But most
leaders fail to realize practical processes to motivate people
consistently. Here is a motivational-leadership tool to greatly
increase your leadership effectiveness.
The Defining Moment: The Straw That Stirs The Drink Of
Motivational Leadership (Part One) by Brent Filson
Decades ago, as a r (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Heidi Richards, MS |
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| Article Title :: Evaluating Your Event |
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Evaluate Immediately! It is important to do your
evaluation/assessment of the event while the details are fresh
in your mind. Include anyone in the evaluation process that had
a stake in the event. Stakeholders would include vendors, hired
staff, volunteers and employers. You could host a debriefing
session or a wrap up meeting to accomplish this task. Make this
a pleasant experience. Include refreshments and lots of kudos
(thank you’s for a job well done). Prior to, or when the meeting
begins, enlist a “scribe” to record the comments and answers
from the group. Ask yourself and them the following questions:
· Did the event fulfill the goals and objectives set forth?
· What work (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Heidi Richards, MS |
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| Article Title :: Planning Special Events - Part Two - The Master Plan |
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"The master plan is the plan you create to ensure you have
covered your bases when planning your event. Doing so will
increase your chances of having a wildly successful outcome,
leading to more referrals, happy clients and more sales." Heidi
Richards
1. Create your checklist. A checklist provides an organized
roadmap to executing your event. What resources will you need,
donations, people, money? - A sample checklist is included below.
2. Create a Timeline! This should be a part of the checklist and
is perhaps the most important component of the document that
will insure the success of your event. The timeline should
include items such as, when programs are printed, when
invitat (read full article) |
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