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Motivate Change to Get Desired Performance

by Lea Strickland | Aug 31, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Management, Change Management, Execution, Human Resources, Operations, Resources

How to Motivate Change One of the most basic things we need to understand about change is that it is personal. People must choose to change. People can be influenced to change by external sources (e.g., other people, events); however, for true change to occur and be...

Five Critical Steps to Maximize Resource Flexibility

by Lea Strickland | May 26, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Management, Execution, Human Resources, Leadership, Main Street, Operations, Resources, Results

Companies of all sizes have historically relied upon their workforce to provide the flexibility necessary to compete.  Unfortunately, compensation and benefit costs have created a dilemma – business can’t afford to commit to full-time, permanent employees. While...

The Coffee Pot Syndrome

by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Management, Human Resources, Leadership, Non-Profit, Perspectives, Small Business, Start-up

You may not recognize the phenomena by name, but many have experienced it. The coffee pot syndrome (CPS) is the first signal that a business has performance issues. CPS occurs when a business isn’t achieving profitability objectives and starts looking for ways...

Payroll Systems – It Pays To Get It Right!

by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Growth, Human Resources, Non-Profit, Small Business, Start-up

Payroll is one of the “simple” business tasks that we often think that anyone can handle. After all it is just math, right? For those of us who aren’t either experienced in payroll issues or payroll professionals trained in the complexity of complying with local,...

RETURN ON INVESTMENT – Structure and People

by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Management, Human Resources, Leadership

Previous articles have discussed the importance of having the right people who are doing the right things and being accountable for achieving specific results in your organization. To achieve the maximum return on investment in your people, the organization’s...

Management Styles: Drive-by, Seagulls and Other Pains

by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Management, Human Resources, Non-Profit, Strategy

Tough, fair, frank, straight-forward, reliable: All words that would, in my opinion, be descriptions of the type of manager you would be glad to have as a boss or working for you. Drive-by, seagull, and pain in the anatomy are not descriptions that readily come to...
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