management

Joel Garfinkle on Dealing with the Pressures of Management - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Joel Garfinkle is an executive coach and author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level. Recently, I  asked him some questions about some common problems faced by managers, and how best to deal with them. AB: Let’s say I’m a manager and my staff just isn’t meeting its goals. [...] Related posts:

1. Remove the Barriers to Real Work
2. Team and Management Communication is a Two-Way Street
3. Influencing Someone Who’s Blocking Your Progress

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3 Ways to Manage Employee Bonuses This Year - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

It’s the question on all of your team members’ minds.  Now that the holidays are upon us, will bonuses be handed out despite the still-poor economy? Over at the Intuit Small Business blog, Suzanne Kearns discusses performance bonuses.  Her source, Art Jacoby, a business growth adviser at JACOBY, remarks: “A Christmas bonus during these difficult [...] Related posts:

1. How to Motivate Your Team Members over the Holidays
2. The Google Social Media Ultimatum
3. Is Your Staff Mailing It In? How to Raise the Bar:

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Do You Talk About Yourself Too Much at Work? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Some people start out just wanting to share quality information, and so others listen to them in order to learn and reap the benefit of the experience and knowledge. Unfortunately, many of these same people become addicted to the attention paid to them, and they gradually become narcissistic.  Their advice becomes less about situations that [...] Related posts:

1. How Work Effectively Across Cultures
2. How to Be Diplomatic
3. Be More Generous at Work, It’ll Feel Good

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How to Succeed as a Young Manager - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Before the age of 28, Aaron McDaniel had been appointed regional vice president at a Fortune 10 company.  He has managed over 100 people and has been responsible for a variety of job functions from business development to network operations.  I asked Aaron, who now writes the Young Professional’s Edge blog, for his top tips [...] Related posts:

1. Is Your Staff Mailing It In? How to Raise the Bar:
2. Making Your Mark: Taking Over for a Superstar Manager
3. How to Orient a New Team Member

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Disconnected from Your Millennial Employees? - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Earlier this year, I joined the Career Advisory Board, a panel of academic, corporate, and career experts sponsored by DeVry University.  Our goal as a group is to provide insight, advice and counsel on trends, economic forces and cultural shifts that impact career opportunities.  In my role as a founding member, I helped to devise [...] Related posts:

1. Leadership Lessons from Egypt
2. How to Communicate Across Generations
3. How to Lead in 2025

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“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” does not apply to your customer relationship management application programs

Much of today’s small business for profit and not-for-profit application software was written over a decade ago. The million dollar question is: Are these applications still worth running ? Considering all of the technology innovation that has occurred since then, can we expect an application designed and built with yesterday’s technology for yesterday’s business world [...]

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Manage Those Leads! - Story From: Commence CRM Blog

Small to mid-size businesses are looking toward CRM solutions to help them implement a structured process within their sales organization.  Many CRM solutions do this rather well and provide the flexibility for businesses to implement a standard sales process from companies such as Sandler Systems or Dale Carnegie or create a completely customized one. This [...]

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