Management

Go Ahead and Fire Your Customer
By Mark Hunter · 13 years ago
We all have at least one - a customer with whom we just don't like working. Before you get too excited thinking I'm going to say it's okay to fire any customer - regardless of ...
Your Customer Profile Part 2 – How to Create a Customer Profile
By Barry Siskind · 13 years ago
In a previous article titled: Your customer Profile – Part 1 – "The value of creating a customer profile", I spelled out five reasons why your exhibit program will benefit from the time you take ...
Some tips on avoiding the pitfalls for new managers
By Jennifer Mears · 13 years ago
If you have just gained promotion to your first management position then you will almost certainly have to examine things in a new light. If you are tasked with managing a team you used to ...
Time Management - Be Most Effective at Work by Managing Your Time
By Mark Marhon Jr · 13 years ago
Management and staff must remember that they alone cannot perform all of the practice's duties on their own, and such duties cannot be performed at once. Therefore management must use efficient time management skills and ...
Staff Motivation: Getting the Most from Your Employees
By Mark Marhon Jr. · 13 years ago
Over time, and regardless of pay, hard working employees can become discouraged and/or unmotivated within their roles. Like any well operating machine, hard working employees require attention to ensure that they continue to operate at ...
Should You Be a Big Fish in Two Ponds?
By Jeff Beals · 13 years ago
On a dark and stormy night... Yeah, I know what you're thinking. No serious writer would start his article with such a tired old cliché. You probably think I'm some boorish amateur. But seriously, it ...
Aligning Investment Banking Fees with Client Interests
By Sean Kingston · 13 years ago
As a boutique investment bank, we expend a lot of effort providing high quality advice and service to our middle-market investment bank clients. We understand the need to align our investment banking services and fees ...
Hiring Heaters for Construction & Building Applications
By Steve Reeve · 13 years ago
Site heaters for hire can not only be a godsend for project managers on construction sites who are under pressure to complete by a deadline (to avoid financial penalties); rentable site heaters that provide temporary ...
When to Use a Debt Collection Agency
By Gabriel Skemp · 13 years ago
Are you wondering when the best time to hire a collection company is? If you have an account that is more than 90 days past due, or 120 days past invoice date, it is time ...
Running Your Business When You Become Ill
By Russell Wallace · 13 years ago
Your personal business is very important to you and you don’t want anything to jeopardize its stability. Getting sick can definitely put a damper on your functionality, but it shouldn’t affect your companies’ well-being. There ...
CRM And Call Centers - The Hottest New Investments For The Insurance Sector
By Kiril Tesla · 13 years ago
In the past few years, many companies dealing with insurances, health insurances and pension services have started adopting CRM systems into their work. This kind of organizations deals with a large number of clients each ...
Payment Posting – Key to revenue cycle management
By Wasim Maniyar · 13 years ago
Payment posting is one of the most important steps that can assist in improving a physician’s revenue if done efficiently. Although payment posting is becoming electronic and automated there is still the need for checking ...
Rethink Traditional Staffing Strategies
By John Renouf · 13 years ago
Have you ever been in a situation where you said to yourself "I really wish I would have known about this sooner". Well I have, but thankfully I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity ...
Effects-Based Thinking Part III
By James D. Murphy · 13 years ago
In Part I of this series, I introduced the concept that, from the perspective of complexity, everything exists within a system. In Part II, I outlined a three-tiered framework of effects-based thinking (EBT) and planning ...
Effects-Based Thinking: Part II
By James D. Murphy · 13 years ago
In 'Effects-Based Thinking - Part I', the definition of effects-based thinking, or EBT, was established as an approach to strategic planning which contributes to long-lasting organizational impacts. Expanding on this concept, let's look at what ...
Strategic Planning and Effects-Based Thinking: Part 1
By James D. Murphy · 13 years ago
As the name implies, effects-based thinking (EBT) is an approach to strategic planning and decision making where the effects of specific actions are assessed, not in a narrowly defined and time-limited way, but through a ...
Creating a Culture and Brand That Makes and Actually Keeps Brand Promises
By Tony Kubica · 13 years ago
It's one thing to make a promise. It's quite another to keep it. Yet, businesses make promises every day. Some keep them. Some companies like AT&T, Bank of America and US Airways have good intentions, ...
Important lesson offered by management consulting companies to the customers
By Tawny Corporal · 13 years ago
When management consultants are involved, it is usually because something is going wrong at the company or because there are challenges that are too large for the current leadership to tackle successfully. Nowadays, there is ...
Contractor Management -Managing Mob with Care
By Mark Pakshie · 13 years ago
This system of contractor management put lights on the necessity regarding management of safety along with health of the contractors working at company workplaces. The actual purpose of the process is to ensure a methodical ...
Transitions
By Judith Richardson · 13 years ago
Transitions Virtually any type of organizational change involves role transitions of some type. In light of role transitions, it is almost natural for employees to resist major changes in the workplace environment. Some contend that ...