Hiring Staff: When and Who
Learn about hiring staff, the decision about when to hire your next member of staff and what positions to consider first. This article is aimed, primarily, at owners hiring their first few staff members. But additionally, it suggests a thought process and habits that will be useful even when your small business becomes larger. Yellow Belt […]
The Time Saving, Mistake Preventing Benefits of SOPs
✍️ Stop Guessing, Start Growing: Why Your Small Business Needs SOPs Now Running a small business means you wear every hat—the CEO, the janitor, the accountant, and the chief sandwich maker. You’re busy, and the idea of adding “document creator” to your list probably makes you groan. But what if I told you that a […]
Secrets to Staff Bonus Plans
Paying staff a bonus or other incentive is a well tested method of improving their commitment to the business’ management goals. The secrets of the Staff Bonus Plans are revealed below. Read this if: you want to know more about how bonuses should be constructed to drive the goals of the business. Many bonus systems are […]
How to do Change Management for Profit
Most people don’t like change! As a business owner/manager, you probably have a much higher tolerance for the uncertainty of change than other staff. On the other hand, you can’t change much just by yourself. And changes you do implement have a disconcerting tendency to revert back to the old method as soon as you focus on […]
Business Success With Sprints
Speeding Up Success Business success is about innovating and reducing problems as quickly as possible. Traditionally, this has just been a journey with no clear end and no intermediate points where you check progress and reconfirm the direction is still correct. The software industry found this approach led to frequent delays and over-budget problems. They […]
Meeting Cycles
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Secrets to Streamlining Organisation Charts
In an organisation of any size that has been around for a while, your management organisation chart will most likely have a bad case of bloat. This 12Faces Menu article looks at how you can trim your management tree down to its former trim glory. Yellow Belt
Hiring Staff
People are probably the most important contributor to your business, getting the right ones on board will be a critical determinant of your business’ success. Hiring staff is a skill every business needs to perfect. Yellow Belt
Hiring First Managers
This article discusses hiring your business’s first managers and supervisors.This typically starts to happen in what we have called the Small Business (5-19 Staff) phase of your business growth journey. We begin with refreshing your mind on some of our other discussions on the affordability, timing and budgeting for staff. Then we look at some […]
How to Do Staff Bonus Plans
Paying staff a bonus or other incentive is a well tested method of improving their commitment to the business’s management goals. How to Do Staff Bonus Plans examines ways of doing this that have worked in practice. Yellow Belt