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11 Ways to Pump Up Productivity

by Chris Hunter | Nov 17, 2015 | Business Development, General - Entrepreneurship, Performance Management

Small business owners know that when times get tough, tougher business strategies are necessary. And most of the time, that means boosting a company’s productivity level by eliminating inefficiencies. Here are 11 propellants for productivity that will help your...

7 Ways to Get Your Desk Clean & Keep it That Way

by Chris Hunter | Feb 6, 2018 | General - Personal Growth & Leadership, Project Management

7 Ways to Get Your Desk Clean

Big Gap Between Workers’ Commitment and Organizational Goals

by Chris Hunter | Nov 25, 2015 | Communications & Performance Reviews, Leadership, Management & Motivation, Sales Management, Strategy

Fewer than half of workers are committed to the goals of their organization. That’s the key finding in a survey by FranklinCovey of 12,182 U.S. workers conducted in late 2003 and released in March, 2004. The survey also showed that only 48% of workers believe their...

Bureaucracy Has No Room in Small Business

by Chris Hunter | Mar 23, 2016 | Business Development

There’s something funny about the organizations we humans create. Almost inevitably a bureaucracy develops in every enterprise, and it grows stronger as time goes by. By definition a bureaucracy can be just a system of rules or a way of doing things, but the kind...

Easy Time Management

by Chris Hunter | Mar 29, 2016 | General - Personal Growth & Leadership

Every person in every organization is well aware that by adopting even the most basic time management techniques they can become more effective, and hence more productive. Even if they don’t actually do it. For professional service firms it is especially important....

Empower Your Team Members

by Chris Hunter | Mar 28, 2016 | Delegation, Leadership

“Empower” is one of those words we see a lot of these days, but what does it really mean to a business owner? It doesn’t mean giving up your authority. It doesn’t mean shuffling off all the responsibilities of ownership onto the shoulders of your team. What it can...

How Many Hours in Your Day?

by Chris Hunter | Mar 27, 2016 | Business Plans, Cash Flow Management & Modeling, Performance Management, Start-Ups

A professional services day is theoretically the same as any other – 24 hours long. But when it comes to how many of those hours can be dedicated by managers to earning fees you’d probably be surprised just how small the number actually is. If the working week were...

Implement an E-Mail Policy and Improve Productivity

by Chris Hunter | Feb 15, 2016 | Computer Software, Performance Management

If you’re worried your employees are spending too much time sending personal emails at work, or worse, that they are using your company’s email and Internet facilities to distribute obscene or defamatory material, there’s something you can do about it. Implement an...

Manage E-Mails Better with an Empty Inbox

by Chris Hunter | Mar 27, 2016 | Computer Software, Performance Management

Businesses rely on e-mail as a means of rapid and inexpensive communication. E-mail is an essential tool for both internal and internal messaging, but it can become a serious problem if it isn’t managed well. What’s often called “e-mail overload” afflicts most...

Organize Your Office and Keep it That Way

by Chris Hunter | Mar 26, 2016 | General - Operations

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