Archive for September, 2009

Recognizing Employee Ideas

Only 41 percent of employees surveyed believe that hears the average company employee ideas. The average American worker makes only one or two proposals per year, the average Japanese worker claims, however, hundreds of proposals, his or her employees every year. Most companies have some type of employee suggestion program, here is rewarding as [...]

5 Ways To Treat Your Website Like An Employee And Reap The Rewards

There are often people come to me in a state of crisis and say that their site does not work. Generally, they are in a cold sweat from:
"Michael, give me some practical things I can do to get more sales from my site!"
You want practical advice? Stop treating your website [...]

Dealing with Employee Procrastination

We all have them, intelligent, talented and well trained staff who have been delegated certain tasks to which they never take the initiative, or never finish – but are always one step away from the big breakthrough that all this talk about without Results do pay off.
Procrastination is simply further set back [...]

Management Training Tip – Preparing For an Appraisal

The components of employee appraisals is a daunting task. I do not think you will find a manager anywhere who do not agree. Often, however, we worry so much about our end of the audit process, that we forget how difficult and anxious, it makes our employees. One of the best things we do [...]

What Makes Employee Incentives Work

Incentives are given to employees for 2 common reasons: to motivate employees and to ensure that Salesforce's commitment to a new project of the product. Either way, the work incentives for employee performance and in turn would increase the company's profit increase.
Incentives, however, does not automatically equate to higher profits for the [...]

The Three P’s of Reward and Recognition

Reward and recognition programs are important in a business environment? Studies have shown that rewards and recognition motivate a better job because they know that they are valued and increasingly aware of their importance for the company. Motivated employees offer great potential for success in business projects, team performance and work performance. A reward [...]

Energize Your Organization With Motivating Rewards

If you would like most managers, you are confronted with challenges that each day that you have into the wall. Despite the best efforts to increase the productivity part of your everyday culture, you do not see any improvements. You ask in frustration, "What it takes to motivate my employees?" The answer lies not [...]

Improving Employee Retention in Small Businesses

Many small businesses find it difficult to get the best quality talent they hire and retain. There are a number of areas where they feel at a disadvantage compared to large enterprises. These include: 1) Small area for professional development, 2) compensation, 3) benefits and 4) a less structured environment. I will eliminate all [...]

The Seven Key Steps to Align Employees Behind Strategic Goals

If you as CEO, your company is headed by a thorough process of drafting a strategic plan, the most important step in the implementation of the plan to ensure that your employees may be transported in tandem with the intention of the plan and will present its strategic objectives. There are seven key steps [...]

What Makes a Good Employer – Qualities of a Good Boss

Always a good boss does not take place overnight. It is a continuous learning process with the struggles on the road. But if you are even able to achieve a perfect balance between the needs of your company, your employees and yourself, you know that you are on your way to an effective and [...]