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Biltmore Who's Who Inc. Biltmore Who's Who A SCAM? (Popularity:  )
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Biltmore Who's Who Selects Traci Hrudka as this week's Honored Member of the Executive and Professional Registry for 2009.
Traci Hrudka, President of Ellakit, LLC, has been selected as an Honored Member of the Biltmore Who's Who Executive and Professional Registry. The selection recognizes Traci Hrudka's commitment to excellence in marketing and sales.
Mrs. Hrudka began her passion in the drag racing industry back in 1982 by working for her father and ...
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Are There Real Business Benefits of ISO 14001? (Popularity: )
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Let's start by asking what an environmental management system is? And I find that many people consider the answer to this to be very vague and varied. However, put very simply, the name is Environmental Management System. This is interesting because what is actually being done as an EMS does not always include the environment, the way the business is managed, or a system.
* This year the South Australian ...
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Synchronized Work Lists- The Key to increased Efficiency & reduced Risks (Popularity: )
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One of the highest risks in modern workplaces is the poor synchronization of work. When work is not synchronized, risks are increased by: slowed workflows, wasted time and effort, lost continuity, increased stress and frustration, and under achieving people. Yet many managers believe that changing current work management methods will lead to increased risk. However the opposite is true.
Current work management practices are incredibly high risk, because managers rely on ...
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Evaluate Your Meetings (Popularity: )
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People familiar with continuous improvement principles know that the last step in any activity should be an evaluation of performance. Meetings are no different.
Use the last couple minutes during a meeting to evaluate the group's meeting performance. Then apply the lessons learned to future meetings.
What are you trying to learn during an evaluation? Here the some of the basic questions the evaluation should address:
* Was the meeting well planned?
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Reduce Management Risks (Popularity: )
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Current management methods are high risk. The strong reliance on people doing the right thing at the right time is at the core of workplace risks. Yet few managers understand the high levels of risk in doing what they always have done.
If you think about what happens now, you will see what I mean. Usually some form of centralized list of agreed tasks that need to be done to achieve ...
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Business Process Management - Fundamental to success (Popularity: )
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When people work together, they usually follow a number of related actions or a process. Processes reduce uncertainty by making it clear who needs to do what, when, and with whom, and ensure that important actions are not forgotten.
Some of the great benefits of processes are:
• People involved don't have to think what to do next
• Output(s) are known in advance
• Process templates reduce planning time and effort
• Repeatability can ...
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Cutting Costs while increasing Productivity (Popularity: )
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The current economic crisis is causing managers to revisit how they do business. In most cases, minimizing costs is high on the agenda.
When costs are cut, there is usually a negative effect on productivity. If resources are cut, people may not have all the resources they need to work productively. If people are cut and there are insufficient people left to do the work, reductions in output usually follow.
Solutions where ...
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Manual Coordination - Can you afford it any longer? (Popularity: )
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Managers spend a lot of their time doing simple coordination of people and work. Most of this coordination is manual in that it has to be done by a manager or their delegate.
Coordination is required so people can work together productively. In most cases, the person doing the coordination is not actually doing the work - they are simply making sure that the work flows, the work is done, and ...
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Organizational Change Management - Basic Prerequisites (Popularity: )
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This article identifies basic prerequisites for stakeholders to understand and fully engage with any organizational change. Without engagement and acceptance by stakeholders, it is unlikely that a change will deliver the potential benefits promised.
Definition of Organizational Change Management
The following practical definition of organizational change management is provided in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
"Organizational change management includes processes and tools for managing the people side of the change at an organizational level. ...
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GET SPECIAL TASKS DONE (Popularity: )
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Special tasks are important tasks that must be done on time, and where normal business processes are unlikely to work. They are often high priority tasks where failure or delays have severe negative consequences.
Special tasks include; strategies, governance, compliance, initiatives, changes, reforms, operations, and projects. They are usually large tasks that involve many people in several locations, working together, to achieve a required outcome.
Some of the key challenges in managing ...
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