To keep hiring from stealing too much time from your boss's day, offer to interview promising candidates by phone before you set up an appointment.
Meeting Management
Successful meeting management is a cornerstone of good office management – and that’s where Business Management Daily can help.
From thorough meeting event planning to taking minutes that accurately reflect the content of the meeting, our checklists and articles help improve your meeting management.
Note this: Latinos’ buying power reached $653 billion in 2003 and is expected to hit $1 trillion by 2008.
When you're working with a virtual team scattered across locations, foster unity with these steps: 1. Make messages "location-neutral." 2. Share success. 3. Don't waste meeting time during rare face-to-face gatherings.
The motivational tools you use with most workers, such as handing out
baseball caps with the company’s logo, won’t work with most info
technology (IT) people.
Rigid attendance policies can backfire.
Many supervisors take worker bees for granted—until they quit in
bunches and the race is on to hire and train new people. If this
pattern sounds familiar, break it.
The people who work on computers the most are usually secretaries and
other support staff. Yet these “end users” are typically the least
trained.
Before you assign menial work to secretaries, temps and other aides,
see if technology can free up your staff’s time for more pressing or
productive tasks.
Senior executives at large companies often attend intensive advanced
management programs through local universities. Aside from the actual
knowledge that they pick up in these courses, the participants usually
find that the real value comes from getting to know other business
people in entirely different industries.
Here’s a smart way to get ahead: Champion the cause of a hardworking, unheralded support staffer.
