Advice on Business

Making meetings effective and efficient: 20 things to try
Making meetings effective and efficient: 20 things to try If you always manage meetings like you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got- or could your meetings be more effective. Here are one team’s brainstorms of 50 ideas for improving the effectiveness of the meetings in their company.
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Delayed decisions cost your company (Part 1)
When times are on the up managers often find it quite easy to make decisions about growth and positive changes, but when times are challenging even usually competent managers can find taking decisions difficult. They exhibit indecision (can’t quite make up his/her mind) and procrastination (delaying decisions, putting off taking a decision).
All You Need To Know About HR!

Human Resources and Payroll Software
Many companies, especially small companies find the administration of their staff – a complex morass of legislation and record keeping- a difficult challenge and one which seriously detracts from getting on with their core business.
One popular option nowadays is to outsource this function and get HR services – especially payroll services undertaken by another company. Others will choose to have a HR Management system used by their own in-house staff. [Read More...]

Ten Steps to Conflict Resolution
If you can only see two alternatives – your viewpoint and the wrong one you are not going to be able to be in the right frame of mind to resolved conflict. A good manager will seek to find many different solutions so that the choice to resolve a problem becomes a real one. [Read More...]

Conflict Resolution: The 6 C’s
When there is a disagreement or open conflict in a team or workgroup then resolving the conflict involves using one of a toolkit of the Six C’s. [Read More...]