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Career Management Tips: Climbing the Ladder to Reach the Top

Christina Archer asked: It’s no surprise to learn the CEO’s, CFO’s and the highest level executives in any company, did not reach this level by mere chance. The strategic planning, coupled with sheer ambition, as well as purposeful timing of upward movement within a company, result in the grooming of an ideal and superior business […]

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Life Time Fitness Selects Sumtotal Learning Management Software

Sumtotal Systems asked: SumTotal® Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMT), a global provider of talent and learning management solutions, has signed a contract to provide Life Time Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: LTM) with TotalLMSâ„¢, a learning management system (LMS) that delivers, tracks and analyzes employee education over the Internet. Life Time Fitness will incorporate TotalLMS into its comprehensive […]

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What New Managers Should Know About Managing Their Time

Andrew Rondeau asked:   For some people it doesn’t seem to matter how long their day is. They just never seem to have enough time. The clock is ticking and it’s ticking too fast for comfort. It feels like they have a million things to do, a couple thousand of which were actually due last […]

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How Management Training Can Help Your Business

Shaun Parker asked: Management training is a very useful way of improving the levels of management skills in a business. Training can have a massive affect on the motivation of staff and ultimately the success of a business. Many businesses that grow rapidly find that staff become responsible for different types of jobs in the […]

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VISIBILITY.net Provide Flexibility to Key Performance Indicators

Thomas Cutler asked: Visibility developed data mart templates in the areas of sales, accounts receivable and accounts payable to assist clients in the measurement of KPIs important for their business; specifically, analyzing cash flow and margin analysis for orders and volume sales. Using the data marts to analyze the data in the ERP system revealed […]

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Some Common Skills and Abilities of Successful Project Manager

Jyoti Bhusal asked: Every Successful manager needs some skills. Project Managers are those who should have some specific skills to be successful in any projects. They should have ‘know-how’ ideas about the projects. Some of the essential skills are listed as: General Skills & Abilities: • Effective planning for project. • Control on scope, schedule […]

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The Illusion of "pay for Performance" Telemarketing

Brian Augustus Parnell asked: Copyright (c) 2008 Grindstone Inc. Throughout my tenure in the Sales Outsourcing arena I have been approached regularly with my thoughts regarding pay for performance marketing for Lead Generation and Appointment Setting campaigns. Particularly in Outbound telemarketing Business to Business. Sure it seems very appealing. No risk, have the vendor pay […]

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Effective Project Management

Amer Naveed Raja asked: Effective Project Management (Lahore, Oct 16, 2006) The dictionary meaning of project is: Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted. In it there is no difference between a task and a project. However, in any project necessarily different tasks are undertaken. Therefore, project can be defined as: “an activity […]

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Total Quality Management (tqm)

Bob Pearce asked: I.History The roots of Total Quality Management can be traced to the early 1920’s production quality control ideas, leading from mere inspection to the development of essential processes ideas and tools for business development and performance improvement. II. What is Quality? A frequent definition is “The ability to delight the Customer by […]

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How-To Define the Scope of a Project Management

S.maurer asked: How-To Define the Scope of a Project Management Publishing Guidelines: You may publish my article in your newsletter, on your website or in your print publication provided you include the resource box at the end. Notification would be appreciated but is not required. By S. Maurer Defining Needs and Wants is an excellent […]