If you'd like to offer floor care services for resilient tile in your cleaning business, you need to know some of the terminology in order to understand how the chemicals work. Following are some of the characteristics for floor strippers and finishes, as well as definitions of some of the terminology you need to know.Characteristics of Floor Strippers:* The purpose of floor stripping chemicals is to dissolve the existing floor finish, so it can...more
When a prospective new client calls us up and expresses an interest in team building, we ask a simple question - what do you want to achieve out of it? You might be surprised at how many people don't have an answer. After a short pause, we might get a reply along the lines of "well, we want it to be fun..." and then it tails off again.If you don't know what you want from a team building event, you shouldn't be surprised if you don't get it. Of...more
Managing your website development need not cause you sleepless nights providing you learn the secrets of successful project management. Perform the best practices in project management and give your project the best chance of success.Define objectivesObjectives guide everyone on the project to your final goals. Are your objectives to sell your product online, to provide customer support, to promote investor relations? Carefully decide and clearly document your objectives. Decide the critical success factors - the things at the end of the project which tell you if you've been successful. Make them measurable so you know if you've achieved them. For example, the website development should result in an increase in online sales of 25% by year end.Stakeholder analysisA stakeholder is someone with an interest in your project's success (or failure). Decide who they are and whether they support your project. Perform stakeholder analysis by classifying them (high or low) according to how motivated they are in helping (or blocking) your project and how influential (high or low) they are.Highly influential and supportive people are your allies. Gain their support whenever you can. Aim to...more
Less than 7% of applicants are successful in landing that ideal job. Competition is fierce, so to avoid disappointment it's useful to know what not to do in order to increase your chances of interview success. In a recent research study undertaken by Extra Sensory Perception Limited, commissioned by on-line recruitment company Ifoundwork, over 50...more
One of the hardest things that young couples report during their first year of marriage is getting to grips with joint finances. While most are willing to share what they have with their partner, they are not sure on the best way to bring this sharing into effect so that they can share with their new partner, but at the same time maintain financial...more
As Mark Twain once remarked about the weather, there's a lot of talk about vision, but very few managers really do anything about it. Visioning is sometimes an innate natural skill just like leadership sometimes is. And the moon sometimes blocks out the sun - but none occur very often. Most people have had to consciously and with great effort continually work to strengthen their visioning. Visionary leaders are seldom born that way (how many of those birth announcements have you seen lately?). Nor are they necessarily charismatic. They have had to work at making visioning habitual. Here are a few pathways and pitfalls to organizational visioning:- You and your team need to picture and describe your preferred future as vividly as possible. One approach is to imagine it's five years from today and you're being interviewed by Fortune magazine, a leading newspaper, or an industry journalist on the phenomenal success your company or team have had. Describe the results you've achieved and perhaps the approach you've used. Speak in the present tense as if it's all happening around you right now. - Too many managers try to delegate "the vision thing" to a committee. It doesn't work. If...more
Over the last two decades I have consulted to, provided workshops for, and delivered keynote presentations on leadership to a variety of restaurant chains and individual restaurant managers. I continue to be surprised by the general confusion between...more
Becoming an internet marketing pro is not as easy as you may think. Although you can learn a lot on your own, there are some things that you need to get help with. Of course, before you can do this, you need to know where and how you can learn the...more
"Above all, we know that an entrepreneurial strategy has more chance of success the more it starts with the users their utilities, their values, their realities ... the test of an innovation is always what it does for the user...it is by no means...more
If you own or are interested in starting a credit repair business in Florida, one thing you will definitely need is credit repair leads.There are quite a few ways to obtain credit repair leads for your credit repair business in Florida. Such as...more
Undoubtedly, you've heard the radio commercial claiming you can get a mortgage despite having bad credit. Bad credit mortgages are better known as subprime mortgages. Subprime"Subprime" is a euphemism for a borrower who simply doesn't qualify for a...more
A strategic position statement is kind of like a statementfor your company. You want to explain this statement howyou view your company and how you view it within the restof your marketplace.Circuit City is a good example. It's an...more