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Tips to follow when selecting the right employee assessment for your organization.

Intellectual property law is a daunting challenge to even the most seasoned business person. How does one choose the right way to protect your most coveted assets; your intellectual property? Here are a few pointers that can help.

In Steven Covey's excellent book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" he tells a well-worn story about the use of time...

You've been there and done it. You've got the tee-shirt and your experiences mean that you can cut so many corners. So you do. It's easier. You respond to all the requests, questions, challenges and mistakes of your people...

Motivation is different things to different people. It is not need to be a 'thing' that you need to actively do. It's about a culture in the workplace - and here are ten ways you can do it without expensive pseudo team-building activities...

Whether you're an executive, a business owner with employees or an organisation with a team of board members, you have a common ground. Your biggest asset is people and the number one key to ensuring that your business runs like a clockwork is to secure the loyalty and trust of the people on your payroll. The days of people working for altruistic reasons have long passed. People want to feel appreciated and emotionally connected and without loyal people at your side, your business will go nowhere and die.

Scheduling software and personal information management (or PIM) tools can help anyone become more organized and lead a much more productive business and personal life...

This is a helpful document for those of you Dealing With Change issues at home or in your work life. It tries to help you think about Change Management as something you can work with rather than be the victim of

The success of a company or business is often determined by the business and performance skills of the employees and managers within the company. The more qualified and knowledgeable the team is the more efficiently the business will run...

Maybe its time to take advantage of the fabulous opportunities in today's job market. The first step is to get a focus.

This article defines open and closed communications systems. It outlines an approach to keeping systems open, functional and healthy within a business and corporate environment.

How to improve your employees performance in the workplace.

You start off alone. Be it as a solo business owner or a manager looking after a part of a larger business. It gets busier, you get distracted from what you want to do, because there's only one of you and you've only got one pair of hands. So you need to find help. Sometimes you need to find help fast, but there are things you can do to prepare.

We’ve all heard that leaders should lead by example that people pay more attention to our deeds than our words. What is implied by this truth, but not always articulated, is that people will follow whatever example we set.

Traditional management techniques are based on the model 'Plan Execute Control'. This approach has certain difficulties in the implementation of all the three stages. The question of reliability of basic facts and forecasts for needed planning, effect of external influences on its execution and influence of time factor in control measures are problems faced by many. These problems emanate from the assumption that business criteria are static. I real life situations everything in business is dyanimc and ever changing. It is important to adapt all our management techniques to the changing circumstances. By radically changing our approach to devising of management techniques we can evolve a 'dynamic management.'

"Perfect balance in a business exists only in the organizational chart. A living business is always in a state of imbalance, growing here and shrinking there, overdoing one thing and neglecting another" (Peter F. Druker). So what should you do to make change easy?

Have you ever wondered what your job candidates see when you interview them? If so, now's your chance to find out. This article describes the 9 types of interviewer, from Stickler to Avoider. And, be warned, you're in here somewhere!

I think that a great manager spends his time trying to do himself out of a job...

Dr. Mike Beitler explains what the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the DiSC Profiler reveal about your personality and preferences. He compares the two instruments and explains how each can be useful in building your effectiveness.