Are you looking to take on a new role managing a team? Or are you looking to hone your leadership skills? Either way, this article provides you with helpful information on how you can be a leader and not just a manager to your team. Have Clear Values Make your values clear from the start […]
3 Decision Making Models of Human Decision Making Process
How do people make decisions? Do they always follow a rational linear process to come to a conclusion? Studies have suggested that the traditional Decision Making model—commonly known as the Rational Decision Making Model—does not explain the whole ambit of Decision Making. People, including managers of organizations, arrive at decisions using a variety of routes. […]
Advantages and Disadvantages of a Peer-to-Peer Network
You may have seen one of the articles comparing the price of Bitcoin to gold and wondered what P2P stands for. You may have heard about Skype being the first peer-to-peer network and had no clue why it is important. Whichever is your case, you are in the right place! In a nutshell, a peer-to-peer […]
Choosing the Right Ear Protectors for Your Business
Sadly, accidents at work are an inevitability. As we interact with others, move around, eat, drink and use tools, machinery and equipment, it’s only natural to assume that sometimes things will go wrong. Data from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Labour Force Survey reveals there were almost 700,000 injuries sustained at work […]
Retail Strategy: Directing IT Investments in the Right Areas
Staying ahead of the curve in the retail sector is nothing short of an ordeal. A fundamental element in beating competition entails developing capabilities critical for the future. To this end, it is critical for organizations to reinvest the savings achieved through IT Cost Management into building those critical capabilities. Before finalizing the areas to […]
How Employee Time Tracking Software Could Help Your Business Save Money
Time-tracking can add multiple benefits for your business. Still, companies are often against utilizing time-tracking software for fear that it will slow down creativity or make employees feel they’re being micromanaged. When done right, time-tracking will be anything but. In fact, there’s evidence that suggests time-tracking software can improve your company in multiple ways. Limiting […]
11 Key Skills of Engineering Managers
When it comes to engineering, there is no one clear pathway. Instead, there are multiple fields you could go into, including civil engineering, computer engineering, and environmental engineering. While they are each vastly different careers, they still require many of the same skills for a thriving career – here are eleven of them. 1: Communication […]
Encouraging Professional Development in the Workplace: A 2021 Guide
As businesses grow, they become increasingly complicated. Without a firm finger on the pulse of your growth you could end up with a spiraling management system that is inefficient and causing dissent in your workforce. You need a loyal, dedicated workforce in order to outpace your competition, and the best way to do that is […]
3 Things to Consider When Looking to Enhance Your Online Sales
For obvious reasons, the events of the last year or so have provided a business environment that is more conducive to online sales than perhaps any other time in history. While some of this growth in online sales can be expected to tail off a bit as things progress, many consumers have found that they […]
4 Best Practices for Implementing DevOps in Your Organization
Deploying DevOps can streamline workflows, improve inter-disciplinary and departmental communication and generally catalyze the process of developing and launching software solutions. This all sounds appealing, but unless you go about implementing DevOps in the right way, then you could find this an insurmountably frustrating task. To that end, here are a few of the best […]
How Do We Combat Deceptive Corporate Communication?
Inaccurate or deceptive messages are detrimental for an organization. Business leaders often grumble about these cognitive perversions that kill the essence of harmony and cohesion, where everybody seems to be deceiving one another. Such organizational communication is frequent across organizations, involving a constant barrage of false but compelling stories that propagate disappointment, negatively influence the […]
Process Communication Model (PCM): Personality Types
Understanding others has a lot to do with collaboration, performance management, and building effective teams. Developed by Taibi Kahler in the 1970s, Process Communication Model (PCM) is a prominent psychometric tool for individual and team development. The main utility of the PCM model is in understanding others’ personality types, discovering one’s own personality, and personifying […]
