What is a Balanced Scorecard?

Balanced Scoredcard

The Balanced Scorecard is a management system that allows managers to focus on important success factors of their particular business. It combines financial, customer, internal process and learning and growth perspectives. The origins of the Balanced Scorecard can be traced back to 1992 when Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton introduced a method for measuring a … Read more

Management Meetings

Management meeting

The purpose of meetings in any business is to inform, update, or instruct. Learn more in our management meeting guide.

Leadership Test – Rate Yourself as a Leader

Test your leadership

Here are some questions to ask yourself about how you are performing as a leader. There’s a big difference between just being a leader and leading so that people will willingly want to follow you. The test is influence. What if you were employed with a volunteer organization and your employees’ livelihoods, perks and benefits … Read more

Hiring People & Recruitment

Customer engagement

One of the most critical decision you can make as a Customer Service Manager is hiring people who bring to the business their expertise in areas which are important to the success of your company..

Delegation: A Spectrum Of Choices

Delagation

If you want to master the whole range of delegation options, then you need to know the differences between the different kinds of delegating on the Delegation Spectrum. Here are the five types that make up the delegation spectrum: 1. Ambassadorial Delegation. The word “delegation” is derived from “legate”, another word for ambassador. At this … Read more

Decision Making Business Management

Management decision making

Traditionally, decisions are made at the “top” of an organization and communicated to those “lower down” while feedback on the effectiveness of the resulting actions is sent back to the “top”. We can see this pattern in all aspects of life, from our relationship with our parents, through our education, and on into our working … Read more

Appraisals – Learn How To Love Them

Performance appraisal

Appraisals have a pretty bad reputation in many organizations. In this article you will learn how to how to love them. Managers dread having to give them and employees hate having to take them. But by simply focusing on 7 high-value components of appraisals, you can turn them into one of the most important activities … Read more

6 Steps to Effective Management During Change

Change management meeting

Take the pain out of gain and decrease the upheaval surrounding change by following six commonsense steps to effective management. Step 1: Establish Objectives The process must begin with a clear and detailed statement of objectives and move from there to goal design. Goals must be directly accountable to the vision while remaining in alignment … Read more

5 Tips for Successful Time Management

Clock graphic

Could you do with another hour added to your day? How about 10? Well, unless you are magical, this isn’t going to happen (unless you hire a Virtual Assistant), so you need to learn how to squeeze every second out of your day. This doesn’t mean packing your schedule so full you are exhausted. It … Read more