Category Archives: business strategy

Managing People Effectively

The Most Important Things to Remember to Manage Your People Effectively

Assuming you already have employees on board, how well do you manage them?  Do you manage them or are they managing you?

Today, small  businesses have to make the most of limited resources, and that includes people.

My definition of managing people is easy; it’s simply to help the people who report directly to you to be the best they can be.

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Systems in business and why people ignore them

In this post I want to address the thorny issue of systems, and why people don’t follow them and what you can do about it.

Here are 7 Reasons Why Systems Aren’t Followed and What You Can Do About It.

Okay – everyone knows a business needs systems.  But what do you do when you have systems and they aren’t being followed?  Or when they are being blatantly ignored?

You go and find out why.  You ask.  It may be one or several of these reasons.

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