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01/15/04 - Golf As A Team Building Exercise
A golf-based team building exercise can work for your people, even non-golfers. It provides positive reinforcement of teamwork and lets them build inter-personal relationships that can help on the job. Here's how to make it work.

12/18/03 - A Business Letter to Santa Claus
Every year, I write a note to Santa Claus for my business. Here is this year's Letter to Santa Claus with all the things I'm wishing for.

12/11/03 - Business Gifts
This Gift Guide for Bosses suggests gifts depending on how good a boss you have. From Good to Great and including So-So, no matter what kind of boss you have you can find something appropriate here.

12/08/03 - Managing the Holiday Season - Safety and Liability
Last week we looked at Managing the Holdiday Season from a personal standpoint - taking care of yourself during this stressful time. This article, Holiday Season Safety and Liability, addresses ways you can protect your company as well.

12/03/03 - Managing the Holiday Season
Does it seem like everyone around you is getting into the Holidays, but you are too busy to join in? Do you feel like you are the only one doing any work anymore. Would you like some help getting through the Holiday season?

12/01/03 - Compensation Planning for your Employees
Compensation planning for your employees can be difficult and time-consuming. Here are some thoughts on the subject, and links to wage and salary information sources on the Internet, sources to help you set and maintain salary ranges for your employees.

11/17/03 - Building Your Annual Budget
Every year managers go through the same dance. We prepare the budget for our organization for next year, give it to the boss to roll up with the rest of his/her areas of responsibility, and wait for the inevitable instructions to cut the budget request back. Here's what you need to know to preserve your sanity this time.

11/11/03 - Cost Benefit Analysis
Cost Benefit Analysis is a technique used to determine whether a planned action will turn out good or bad. Here is how a cost benefit analysis is done.

10/27/03 - Halloween At The Office
Halloween At The Office outlines how businesses can use the event to build morale and teamwork and at the same time find creative and participation talents among their employees.

10/20/03 - Cross Training Employees
Cross training employees is good for the manager and the company, but done right cross training is good for the employees too.

10/06/03 - How To Be A Better Manager
Management is as much trainable skill as it is inherent ability; as much science as art. Here are some key skills and abilities that help anyone be a better manager.

09/29/03 - Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
Key Performance Indicators, also known as KPI or Key Success Indicators (KSI), help an organization define and measure progress toward organizational goals.

09/19/03 - Top Ten Mistakes New Managers Make
Managing can be a little daunting at first. A recent poll found almost 50% of managers received NO training before starting the job. Here is a list of the most common mistakes new managers make so you can avoid making them too.

09/07/03 - Beep! Beep!
An Interview with Management Guru Oren Harari on his leadership book "Beep! Beep! Competing in the Age of the Roadrunner"

08/31/03 - Company Culture
Company culture: what it is, how to assess it, and how to change it to align with your strategic goals.

08/18/03 - Vision, Strategy, and Tactics
Vision, Strategy, and Tactics. What they are, how they differ, and how to use them to make your organization successful.

08/07/03 - Benchmarking Who's the Best, How and Why
Benchmarking is an essential element of any management strategy. Here's what you need to know.

08/04/03 - How To Read An Income Statement
Whether you call it an Income Statement, an Earnings Statement, or a P&L, every manager should understand these basics of what a Profit and Loss Statement is and how to read it.

07/20/03 - Restricted Stock Is Better Than Stock Options
Giving restricted stock is better than giving stock options, even for high-tech start up companies. It is easier for employees to understand, more motivating for employee ownership behavior, and preferred by the regulators. What could be better.

07/11/03 - Worker Depression Costs You Money
Everybody gets sad once in a while, but ten to twenty percent of the US workforce gets clinically depressed each year. That depression costs you money in terms of absenteeism, lost productivity, reduced quality, employee turnover and on-the-job accidents.

07/08/03 - Preventing Workplace Violence
There has been another incident of a disgruntled employee shooting up the workplace. It is far too easy in the US for emotionally stressed people to get hold of weapons. Here's what you need to know to keep your workplace safe.

06/14/03 - Team Building
It is not enough to get your group together off site and have a few icebreaker games. If you want team building to work, you have to show the members of the team that it benefits them personally.

05/27/03 - Giving Positive Feedback
Don't ever underestimate the power of positive feedback. We are quick to point out to someone when they make a mistake. Sometimes we forget to acknowledge them when they do something right.

04/17/03 - Giving Negative Feedback Properly
"Jane, you ignorant slut.” No one who heard Dan Ackroyd say that on Saturday Night Live had any doubt that he was about to strongly disagree with whatever Jane Curtin had just said. That’s not the way to give negative feedback. Try this instead.

03/27/03 - The Annual Performance Review
Three key things to remember if you want to get the maximum benefit out of this annual exercise in wasting a manager's time.

03/19/03 - US Congress Fails As Board of Directors
The start of a US-led war against Iraqi indicates a failure of diplomacy. It also indicates a failure of the US Congress to effectively guide President Bush in his capacity as CEO of the US. It's a case of corporate governance failure within the same government that is trying to fix corporate governance failures within American business.

03/11/03 - Getting A First Management Job
No one wants to give you that first management job unless you have experience and you can't get experience if no one will give you a first job. Here's what you need to know and, more importantly, what you need to do to get that first management job.

03/03/03 - Project Management 101
A successful Project Manager must manage resources, time, and money all at the same time, while keeping the project scope under control. Here's what you need to know about each of these elements.

02/23/03 - Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
Patrick Lencioni has written this superior management book as a "leadership fable". Short at 180 pages, it is full of useful ideas for right now and is an easy read - a must read for any manager.

02/04/03 - Is Management For Me?
Considering taking a management path in your career? Examine the pros and cons and decide if it's right for you. See where to go next.

01/27/03 - Business Management And War
This three part feature looks at the impact on businesses of their employees leaving for military service. How to prepare before war starts, how to manage the losses, and reemployment of returning employees are covered.

01/06/03 - Planning and Organizing, an About Management Special
Planning and organizing are essential to the success of any manager. In this special we look at how to plan and organize more effectively.

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