1. How & Why Managers Must Deal With a Depressed Employee by Dr. Jim Sellner Ph.D.
   
   What's a manager to do with a depressed employee? First, a not-to-do! Do not abdicate your managerial responsibilities and say nothing to him or her hoping it will pass. A manager must call attention (in private) to the employee's behaviours. S.E.T. - S.upport, E.mpathy, T.ruth - is a three-step system of move-to-action communication. During interactions with a depressed employee you should invoke all three of these elements
   
   
2. Ten Management Reasons Why Businesses Fail by Steve P Thatcher
   
   Bad management is often a reason for business failure. I set out here some of the pitfalls to avoid.
   
   
3. Six Sigma Specializations - Tailoring a Six Sigma Program to Your Industry by Tony Jacowski
   
   Few companies are unfamiliar with Six Sigma training these days. Thousands of corporations have implemented Six Sigma strategies for increasing efficiency and improving customer service, ultimately growing their bottom line. However, when it comes to Six Sigma certification programs, does one size really fit all?
   
   
4. Manage With Creativity! by Graeme Nichol
   
   Management is more than flying by the seat of your pants. Learn what it takes to manage your business and make sure you can quantify those items, measure them and compare! Improved results. Viola!
   
   
5. When You Just Don't Get it - Fractured Thinking by Graeme Nichol
   
   When you are unable to see the wood for the trees. In business this is crucial and fractured thinking will lead you to spend more on wasted projects than creating sustainable results. It's part of Holistic Management or Systems Thinking.
   
   
6. How to Manage Highly Motivated, Stupid Employees by Dr. Jim Sellner Ph.D.
   
   "Stupid is as stupid does" - Forrest Gump. The meaning: a person is judged to be stupid by the stupid behaviours s/he exhibits. Human principle: Occasionally doing a stupid thing does not make one stupid, simply human.
   
   
7. Project Management and Its Important Steps by M Mohsin Khan
   
   Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. It is often closely related to and sometimes conflated with program management.
   
   
8. Prince in Name Only (PINO), Prince2 Lite Or PrinceLite For Running Your Project? by P. Aligap
   
   PRINCE is a hugely powerful and adaptable method and you can fit it closely to the exact needs of your project. It even fits projects where the manual itself hints that you can't - you just have to know how to use it. For this you can tailor Pince 2: Prince2 Lite or PrinceLite.
   
   
9. Grow Your Profit Centers and Cut Your Profit Losers by H. R. Smith
   
   How do you know which portion of your business you should concentrate on growing? Relying on gut instincts or past history is not a good solution. To really know, you have to do some in depth analysis of your business.
   
   
10. Business Advice For Women - How to Keep Your Staff Happy Without Compromising Yourself by Sarah Short
    
    Business advice specifically for women can be very hard to find. Women in business face different challenges to their male counterparts as we women approach business in a totally different way from men, and often for different reasons. One of the biggest headaches that business women can have is that of staffing issues.
    
    
11. Business and Industry in Edinburgh by Susan J Ashby
    
    As the capital of Scotland, it should come as little surprise that Edinburgh is also the centre of financial business. The strength of finances in Edinburgh means that it has the second strongest economy in the whole of the UK, outside of London.
    
    
12. Business Management and Network Marketing by Chris Kennelly
    
    Included within the business management framework is that of the marketing aspect, and one should seek to optimize the efforts being made to gain additional market share within their respective sector. Marketing, as any savvy business owner will know, encompasses a wide range of activities and options that may be considered for practically any business under the sun.
    
    
13. Five Survival Skills Every Manager Needs in Today's Economy by Susan Cullen
    
    Let's face it: Our current economy has put more pressure than ever on our managers. Not only do they need to do more with less, they have to keep everyone motivated and engaged at the same time. Managers can feel caught in the middle between what the organization needs, and what their employees need. If you are a manager, struggling with these challenges, your role is critical now. The following 5 key skills, when mastered effectively, can help you succeed even in today's tough economy.
    
    
14. Benefits of Behavioral Interviewing by Susan Cullen
    
    Have you ever wished you had a crystal ball that would tell you BEFORE you hired a candidate if they were actually going to be a good fit? Have you ever scratched your head AFTER you made a bad hiring decision, and wished you never even hired an employee in the first place?
    
    
15. 3 Elements of Effective Performance Discussions by Susan Cullen
    
    One of the most difficult conversations most managers ever have is when they need to meet with an employee to discuss a performance problem. Most managers either put this discussion off altogether (just hoping against hope it will go away), or so clearly mismanage the discussion that the employee leaves feeling demoralized and unmotivated. However, the following three strategies can help you the next time you find yourself needing to coach an employee to improve.
    
    
16. Transitioning to Management - Making the Mindset Shift by Duncan Brodie
    
    Pick up any of the many textbooks out there on the subject of management and you will find plenty of advice about how to do certain things, how to develop the rights behaviours and get the best from others. In my experience, less is written about the importance of making the mindset shift when transitioning to management. So why does this matter anyway?
    
    
17. How to Keep Your Chiropractic Staff Motivated by Frank Gordon
    
    Motivating your chiropractic staff can provide you with many benefits including: · Reducing employee turnover; · Making your employees more productive; and · Making your practice a more pleasant place for your patients. Here are some specific tips for keeping your chiropractic staff motivated: 1. Recognize staff members.
    
    
18. Fire Protection For Your Chiropractic Practice by Frank Gordon
    
    One area most chiropractors don't think about is safety for their employees, their patients, and protection of their office against any emergencies. By thinking about this now, serious problems can be avoided in the future. When it comes to planning for contingencies in your practice, one area you should spend some time thinking about is fire protection. A fire can have a severe impact on your practice.
    
    
19. Employee Theft - How to Prevent it in a Chiropractic Practice by Frank Gordon
    
    Employee theft is a problem many chiropractors never think about before it's too late and valuable property is missing. Patient records could also be compromised which is another risk since confidentially of patient records is the law. Here are some specific tips to prevent employee theft.
    
    
20. Patient and Employee Safety For Your Chiropractic Practice by Frank Gordon
    
    It is a good idea to perform an assessment of the safety of your practice and to take actions which can make your office a safe and secure place. By doing this, you'll be protecting the safety of office staff and patients and also reduce the possibility of legal action should a patient be injured because of safety negligence. Following are several safety tips to consider.
    
    
21. How to Handle Employee Performance Problems by Frank Gordon
    
    Properly handling employee performance problems can have a direct impact on employee morale and productivity. Here are some tips for handling performance problems: 1. First, appraising performance is difficult and highly ineffective if goals have not been previously set for an employee.
    
    
22. How to Help Your Chiropractic Staff Manage Their Time Better by Frank Gordon
    
    Besides managing your own time effectively, by helping your chiropractic staff manage their time more effectively, you can improve practice profits and create an environment where everyone is more productive. Here are some tips to help your staff: 1. Introduce the concept of time management to your staff.
    
    
23. Questioning the Billable Hour Part 3 - Seven Industries by Glenn Harrington
    
    Questioning the Billable Hour is a three-part series leading many to conclude that price paid should reflect value provided, rather than time spent. The alternative proposed is value-based pricing, fixed up front (as part of the selling/buying process) backed by a satisfaction guarantee.
    
    
24. Frontline Manage Or Frontline Team Leader? by James Brava
    
    Is the frontline supervisor in your organisation a manager or a leader? The answer to this question could make the difference between keeping your company afloat during a recessionary economy and closing its doors due to performance issues.
    
    
25. To Have Great Employees, You Need to Be a Great Leader by Tim Dollmeyer
    
    The age-old problem of dealing with employees can be solved. The first place to look for the problem is in the mirror. You need to become a great leader if you want your staff to become a great team.
    
    
26. Frontline Managers Need to Apply Leadership Skills by James Brava
    
    In the current economic situation, it is essential that all members of an organisation work smarter, not harder to boost the bottom line. This leaning of processes and duties is nowhere as important as on the frontline. The supervisor of these employees is directly tasked with not only managing the team, but providing leadership to take them to the next level of performance.
    
    
27. The Need of Job Management Software! by Chris J Anderson
    
    It is not easy to have a lucrative business, profit is certainly most significant reason but customer satisfaction remains a key factor. To achieve these reports of current and complex data is needed. There is also need for the regulatory compliance for this a check list is always there for reminders to keep the routine reports.
    
    
28. Is Your Business Prepared For the End of the Recession? by Christine Harrell
    
    Although financial analysts can't agree on when the economic downturn will end, there is no doubt that it will. When the economy turns around and your business picks up, will your company be ready for prosperity? Using Chapter 11 bankruptcy New York businesses are setting the stage for future growth.
    
    
29. Why Your Catering Business Won't Survive Without a Dishwasher by Robin Harrison-Millan
    
    To have any sort of success in any sort of catering business, you're going to need a commercial dishwasher. Not only will you have a hugely efficient system - much faster than the plongeur and his dirty rag - but the all-over clean in a totally sanitary machine will rid your fine china of any dubious looking dirt on the plates, as well as ensuring that the grime and bacteria have been totally eradicated.
    
    
30. Managerial Wisdom by Fernando Kevin Vince
    
    Having the opportunity to work for a WISE manager is a truly rewarding experience for anyone. There is so much literature on effective leadership and management, but it often appears that "Wise Managers" are a rare breed. Having wisdom is possibly the greatest gift or skill one can have.
    
    

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