Invoice financing and factoring both provide great solutions for cash flow problems, but they do differ slightly in terms of structure and how payment is collected. So what are the differences and what’s the best option for your business? What’s invoice financing? Invoice financing allows businesses to access funding to help manage cash flow. Simply […]
About Shane Avron
Shane Avron is a freelance writer, specializing in business, general management, enterprise software, and digital technologies. In addition to Flevy, Shane's articles have appeared in Huffington Post, Forbes Magazine, among other business journals.Author Archive | Shane Avron
How to Be a Leader, Not Just a Manager
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Anxiety in the Workplace: 4 Ways to Alleviate Stress for Your Employees
Work anxiety is not rare. 40 percent of people have to deal with its symptoms on a day-to-day basis. Anxiety affects employee wellbeing and prevents them from reaching their full potential at work. Let’s discuss what anxiety is and how to choose the best strategies to help your employees cope with it. An Overview of […]
5 Outdated Management Standards Employers Should Abandon
It is not uncommon for managers to follow the path of their predecessors and implement the same practices and approaches. However, such a strategy is no longer viable in the evolving business landscape. The structure of the workforce has changed dramatically in the past few years. Today, it encompasses a team of: employers; freelancers; consultants; […]
Results vs. Effort. How to Calculate Your Employee’s Salary?
It is no secret that each of your employees, whether past, current, or future, is getting paid for the work they’ve done. It’s true, any kind of work should pay, and this is something all employers are well aware of for decades. It may be clear to you that you are responsible for setting and […]