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• What Happens When the Top Dog Leaves?
  Published 1 May 2009
  Departing employees can have a tremendous impact on an organization if it is not properly prepared and equipped to handle it – especially if the employee is one of the “Top Dogs.” How the departure affects your productivity Ready or...
• Four Tips for “Beefing Up” Your Problem-Solving Tool Box – Part Two
  Published 27 April 2009
  This is part two of a four-part guest post contributed by Fred Nickols , Managing Partner of Distance Consulting LLC. All four parts focus on improving your problem solving efforts. Tip #2: Be clear about all of your goals and objectives Ultimately, the...
• The Four Most Common Marketing Mistakes Every Manager Makes
  Published 9 April 2009
  Mistakes result in lost business, time, and resources. Nobody is perfect, but it is everyone’s responsibility to minimize errors and make the best decisions possible. Below are examples of routinely made poor decisions and big picture blunders that...
• Three Ways to Empower Your Employees
  Published 30 March 2009
  How many times have you handed a project off to your team, only to have many of the tasks delegated back to you? You know how it goes – you hold a meeting to introduce the project, you delegate responsibilities to the team, and before you know it...
• Why Bother with ROI?
  Published 12 March 2009
  (Please note the tongue in cheek tone!) It amazes me how so many companies put plans and initiatives in motion without performing perhaps the most important task of the project – calculating return on investment (ROI). Put simply, ROI (Return on...
• What Do You Do When There Are Not Enough People to Get the Work Done?
  Published 13 November 2008
  In our previous article, we discussed the unpleasant business of playing “what if?” with your organization and determining how to rearrange your workforce as a result of downsizing. In this entry, we explore how to attempt to maintain a consistent...
• The D-O-C-E Method of Productivity Improvement
  Published 6 November 2008
  If there’s one way to improve your organization’s productivity, it’s by streamlining your organization’s operations using processes . Processes help businesses eliminate key HR issues and boost productivity by introducing standard...
• Getting Started with Working Smarter
  Published 9 August 2008
  Regularly, I receive inquiries from both users and non-users of SmartDraw asking: “What’s the deal with Working Smarter ? Is it a product blog, a corporate blog, or what?” Actually, Working Smarter is neither of those things –...

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