 | A winning play: Score big in the workplace by coaching upSome people would rather hang by their fingernails on the edge of a cliff than provide feedback about their manager's performance. However, this type of two-way communication between employees and their managers -- known as "coaching up" -- is quickly catching on as a valuable tool to help companies improve retention and strengthen morale. |
Build your management skills
Ineffective management impacts worker productivity and organizational success. Nobody said managing people would be easy. Indeed, management is one of the most challenging endeavors in business -- and one of the most crucial to organizational success. Managers must find ways to share knowledge and to act quickly when faced with new challenges. Learn how to assess your strengths and weaknesses as a manager, get the training you need and take your skills to a whole new level.
It's almost 2007: Are you ready for year-end?
While some individuals are winding down at the end of the year with parties, vacations
and other activities, the year-end is an important -- and often hectic -- time for payroll departments making the transition to the approaching year. Now is the time to iron out
the administrative details left over from 2006 to put your company on track for a banner
year in 2007.
Working productively: Dealing with information overload
Although technology helps us work better and faster, it can also have some drawbacks, including causing information overload, also known as TechnoStress. Information overload -- the state of having too much information at our fingertips at once -- has become a way of life for many people. We're bombarded with emails, voice mails, pages, Web sites and cell phone calls, all of which are vying for our attention at the same time.
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