by Linda Fayerweather | May 14, 2012 | Business Management, Employee Management
Spring has truly sprung in the Midwest and with that comes two perennial activities associated with May and June. Spring cleaning and Weddings. And what do those both have to do with the business of employees? Employees are the leverage that take a business from just...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | May 14, 2012 | Employee Management
Why do staff member become disengaged? Is it just the type of personality they have or can you transform the grumpy lack of enthusiasm staff member back into a contributing member of your workforce. First let’s take a look at why staff members may become...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | May 12, 2012 | Business Culture, Business Improvement, Employee Management
Not too long ago I consulted for a company on a web project. It was contract work for a six month period. I had to work with the company’s marketing manager, we will call him Mr. M. Before I had even met Mr. M I was warned about him by several employees. They...
by Linda Fayerweather | May 7, 2012 | Security
In this fast moving world copyright is a popular subject. Before we get to some particulars, the U.S. law was updated in 1977 and if you create it, the copyright is yours for your life plus 50 years. If the copyright is owned by your employer, it is 75 years from the...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | May 5, 2012 | Financial, Image & Marketing
Google Images is not your private stock image collection nor are other websites. I will say that one more time, Google Images is not your private stock image collection nor are other websites. In the past year I acquired two new clients because of copyright...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Apr 28, 2012 | Financial, Image & Marketing
As a consumer sites like Groupon and Sweet Jack are awesome. About once a month I find a great deal. But as a business owner those sort of sites terrify me. I’ve read far too many stories about businesses putting out a deal then losing their business because the...
by Linda Fayerweather | Apr 23, 2012 | Business Improvement, Business Management
Sometimes a company like the non-profit Jeff described will come to Changing Lanes to help a company become a Lean company with Continuous Improvement. One of the first things addressed is the way problems and errors are handled. Getting to the root cause of a problem...
by Jeff Mendelsohn | Apr 21, 2012 | Business Culture, Personal Improvement
A few years ago I was part of a web service project, it was volunteer weeknight work. The project was a web service that would help a lot of people. Which is what I love to do. At the start of one of the development meetings the head developer brought to our attention...
by Linda Fayerweather | Apr 16, 2012 | Business Culture, Business Management
The old picture of a donkey with a carrot held in front of him so he will keep moving forward on a never ending walk to reach the carrot doesn’t really work well with employees. Instead we want to blend management with encouragement. Management empowers us to...
by Tiffiny Fayerweather | Apr 16, 2012 | Business Improvement, Personal Improvement
I cannot count how many times I have sat behind my desk thinking “If I owned this place I would do things differently”. Whether or not I could run the business better if I did own it is not the point, it is the mere fact that I cared and wanted to make a...
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