Tag - Yellow Belt

You will be familiar with the martial arts concept of “belts” to show what level of proficiency a person has reached.

We use the same idea with and owner’s management proficiency.

All managers started with a “white belt”.  Over time, they built up proficiency in various management skills and would likely be ranked at a higher belt now.

12Faces ranks a lot of its information by ‘belt’ colour so you have an idea of its degree of difficulty.  Most of our material is White and Yellow belt as that is where we feel we can be of the most help. By the time you are Blue belt and better, you are probably seeking specific advice far to specific and detailed for us to be able to cover all your requirements.

Using Weighted Scores Prioritising Technique

When you are faced with many alternatives, it can often be very hard to choose between them. They will be strong on some things and weak on others; but hardly ever the same things. The sort of problem you face when choosing a car or a new staff member for...

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How to do a Tuneup and Improve Website Speed

Increasingly, your website is becoming an essential marketing tool and can often be a major sales tool as well.  Learn how to tuneup your website. When you designed your website, it probably represented the "state of the art" in your mind.  Over time, you will have fresh insights into what...

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SM5.0 Theory of Constraint (TOC) Find Remove Bottleneck

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is an important optimising technique that focuses on improving the throughput of work at the (usually) single bottleneck or constraint in the workflow.   This Skills Module draws together a number of the 12Faces articles on the subject.  One research project demonstrated that 89% of improvement...

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Business Tutoring For Better Profit

Want to Grow your Profit? Like some advice along the way? The 12Faces Business Tutoring for Better Profit pairs you up with your personal small and medium business specialist business tutor to get you focused on what really counts in your business. Just like an academic or music tutor, we can't do your job...

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How to Use 5 Whys Problem Solving Technique

Five Whys and its sister Five Hows is a brainstorming tool that drives you to the reasons behind something happening when it is not obvious (5 Whys problem solving) or a desired outcome (5 Hows strategy).  Yellow Belt article

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Introducing Business Diagnostics (NID46)

The following is a Transcript of the Video and Podcast on these buttons Introducing Business Diagnostics Video Business Diagnostics Intro Podcast NID46 Business DiagnosticsTry your own Business Diagnostic - Click this LinkEvery business has niggling issues that the managers would like to fix, but we're not sure how. 12Faces has a business diagnostic...

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Cost of Over and Under Stocking

In a manufacturing or retail environment, having too much inventory of products your customers don't want and/or too little inventory on hand of what products your customers do want will cost you money and, consequently, profit.  Many service businesses also have inventory even if it is items like stationary incidental...

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How to use the Search Engine Marketing Channel

If you have a website, it can act as a passive marketing tool for you by drawing people to your site via search engines like Google.  Once there, you can encourage them to engage with you further. The process of getting eyeballs to your website via search engines is known as...

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