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Author :: Specialty  |
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| Article Title :: Fire Your Secretary |
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| Peer out of your office door, whatÂ’s your secretary doing right now? If you answered surfing the internet, taking a nap, or reading a magazine, itÂ’s time to rethink where your money is going. In an ideal situation, a secretary would be paid for the work they accomplish and not for watching the clock. If is my theory that small businesses can save money by hiring a secretary part time to manage office business and utilizing an answering service to manage the phones.
LetÂ’s analyze this theory from purely a mathematical point of view using 6 variables A, B, C, D, E, & F.
1. Variable A: Secretary gets paid $12.00 per hour.
2. Variable B: Secretary wo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Juan José |
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| Article Title :: Labels |
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| In this age, there is a lot of focus on the importance of “getting organized.” There are even professional organizers for hire! Labels are a huge presence in the field of organization, because they enable everything to be tagged and put in its place. From birthday party invitations to mass market mailings to identifying file folders, consumers frequently employ labels in their everyday lives. Labels are a convenient and simple way to increase organization in business and home settings.
By using the templates provided on word processing programs, making personal labels has become fairly easy and much less time consuming than writing them by hand. There are several name b (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Ryan Leibowitz |
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| Article Title :: The Project Management Mindset |
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| Though there is no panacea to these inevitable outcomes, it's important to take a look back on the cornerstones that define effective and success-prone project management.
Ultimately project management like most disciplines, requires just that-discipline. This discipline of mindset far outweighs any single tool, or management fad with a catchy name. The PMBOK or The Project Management Body of Knowledge is a good reference guide to begin, refocus, or sharpen your project management mindset.
Here are some key attributes of the Project Manager mentality:
1. A solid understanding and vigilant re-education in the discipline, the science, and the are of proje (read full article) |
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Author :: Alesia Benedict, CPRW, JCTC |
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| Article Title :: Enticing New Employees With Corporate Stability |
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| Employment is on the rise and with it, the return to attractive compensation packages and salary levels. After several down years in the employment market that was the result of the normalization of an inflated stock market and the beginning of the War on Terror, employers are constructing compensation packages with an eye to drawing dedicated employees.
During the economic bubble of the late nineties, employers were in head-to-head competition with each other to offer benefits and salaries that would draw the best employees. For job seekers, that environment was almost a pick and choose situation in which they could nearly name their salary and benefits package. Many of the do (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Eric Garner |
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| Article Title :: Developmental Delegation: How To Kindle The Inner Spirit |
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| If you manage others, one of your most important roles will be to develop the resources that you have under you and that includes the people themselves. Here is a 6-step guide to how to develop people through delegation.
1. Kindle The Inner Spirit. The first step in developing others is the belief that everyone in the team is capable of growth and development. We demonstrate that belief by being genuinely interested in what they are doing and helping them discover ways in which they can build on their strengths. In this way, developmental opportunities open up almost by themselves. “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into f (read full article) |
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Author :: Specialty |
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| Article Title :: How To Choose an Answering Service: Part II |
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| In my last article, we covered four basics: 1. take advantage of any free trial periods, 2. watch out for long contracts, 3. get references, and 4. don’t be too concerned with high prices. For this article, we will assume that you have diligently followed the 4 steps in the first article and are ready for the next evolution – how to your answering service running smoothly. We will explore a few industry tips & tricks on how to keep your service professional and reliable.
First & foremost, donÂ’t ask too much of your call center. This is not meant as donÂ’t expect your answering service to do their job, but instead, keep their responsibilities short & sweet. As with (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Peter Granger |
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| Article Title :: Finding The Right Expense Management Solution For Your Company |
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| 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. As a result, an Expense Management Solution (EMS) is now critical to any business concerned with corporate compliance. But what is an Expense Management Solution (EMS)? Does your company need one? And where do you find a good one? Just as importantly, how do you successfully implement and integrate an Expense Management Solution (EMS) into your corporate environment. This article sheds some light on these issues.
What is an Ex (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Peter Granger |
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| Article Title :: Extracting Real Benefits From Travel & Expense Management |
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| For your company to truly reap the rewards of a structured corporate travel policy, it must focus on one thing above all else: compliance. Unfortunately, while the explosion in convenient Self Booking Tools gives you a lot more freedom of choice, it also makes compliance a great deal more challenging. Any technology that supports an increase in compliance to policy has merit; it will save your company money and bring back the benefits of corporate travel.
Today's diversity of choice in self booking tools makes compliance through denial of access a very difficult protocol to enforce. What you really need is a funnel through which 100% of your company's travel activity must pass. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Lokesh Bhagwat |
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| Article Title :: Enterprise Application Modernization - Unlocking Latent value |
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| INTRODUCTION
Corporations have over the years, deployed a diverse mix of software and hardware applications to gain competitive advantage. Rapid advancements in IT, combined with evolving business needs, have resulted in contrasting IT environments across enterprises.
At one end of the spectrum are open architecture applications that leverage on the potential of the of Internet, while the other end comprises traditional, close-ended, legacy software. corporate data still resides on legacy Some market research estimates indicate that more than 70% of systems. Hence the successful management and re-deployment of legacy systems to meet tomorrowÂ’s business n (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Jason Deiter |
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| Article Title :: Rack Up the Value |
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| The way you set things up can pay off greatly
As an inside sales representative for a major material handling company, half of the phone calls I receive start the same way: “I’m looking for racking.” It’s a promising start, but it’s usually followed by, “I’m not sure how much I need,” “I don’t know what kind I need” or “I am new to this.”
I could be hundreds or even thousands of miles away from these potential customers and their problems, but with the help of faxes, email, the Internet and digital cameras, we are usually able to share enough information to develop a proposed layout and a request for quotati (read full article) |
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