by Linda Fayerweather | Mar 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Haven’t we all learned about time management? I know my book shelves are filled with books looking for the next best thing for managing the time we are given. One of my favorites is Dave Allen’s Getting Things Done. Too often, Time Management is making...
by Linda Fayerweather | Mar 11, 2013 | Business Improvement, Selling, Selling a Business, Uncategorized
Last week, I had a discussion with a business owner about the pros and cons of putting all business revenue received on the tax return – this is the error that many business owners make when they don’t record and report all cash payments thinking they are...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Mar 4, 2013 | Business Management, Employee Management, Image & Marketing, Personal Improvement, Uncategorized
Many staff members would describe their work as stressful. Stressful staff members cause employers billions of dollars every year in absenteeism, high turn-overs, insurance costs, and lower production levels. If you have noticed your staff feeling gloomy lately, don’t...
by Linda Fayerweather | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Pivot; piv-ot, noun: a shaft or pin on which something turns. The basketball player’s pivot surprised her opponent ; verb: turn, revolve, roll rotate. To change direction. The door hinge pivots around the pin. In Eric Ries’ book “The Lean Start...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Feb 25, 2013 | Employee Management, Uncategorized
Have you ever met a person that only talks about what they have achieved? It was their ideas and their motivation that made the sale, saved the money or made the company a better place. Everything is an over bloated story about themselves; I refer to this behavior as...
by Linda Fayerweather | Feb 18, 2013 | Benchmarking, Business Planning, Organization, Uncategorized
Batching or grouping like tasks together in Lean processes is discouraged. Why? Because often when we group tasks or batch them, we end up not finishing anything. I’ve seen this on more than one occasion in offices where someone started cleaning the supply closet....
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