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Sorry, You've Used Up All of Your Meeting Budget

Next Level Blog

» January 12, 2011 Sorry, You’ve Used Up All of Your Meeting Budget Recently, I spoke about leadership to a group of newly promoted senior managers.   Every manager gets an annual meeting budget.  For instance, let’s say that your budget for meetings this year is $50,000.  What do you think? 

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More People are Getting Raises in 2011—Are You?

Women on Business

Here are some key points on the 2011 salaries and raises: • Salary budgets increased by 2.8% In 2011, 88% of employees got a raise to their base pay. The “highest performers” have received a 4% raise in 2011. And it’s tough to be a small business writer and an optimist at the same time these days.)

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Budget Development Best Practice 1 – Maintain Confidentiality During Budget Development

Strategy Driven

Budgets are the financial representation of an organization’s business plan. Therefore, managers should ensure an appropriate degree of budget confidentiality is maintained throughout the development process. You just finished reading Budget Development Best Practice 1 - Maintain Confidentiality During Budget Development !

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Budget Development Warning Flag 1 – Division by Twelve Budgeting

Strategy Driven

Annual budget development is often time consuming and tedious, one of the evil necessities of managing a business. Subsequently, managers frequently seek shortcuts to reduce this burden; one such burden reducing action being the equal distribution of budget revenues and expenditures during each of the fiscal year’s twelve months.

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Small Business Resolutions for 2011

Coaching Tip

The key to improved results is innovative actions that, while they stick within the limits of your budget, also take you in exciting new directions. Here are some resolutions to help small or mid-sized businesses innovate in 2011. . Be proactive in 2011. . Resolve to take the proverbial bull by the horns in 2011.

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Budget Cuts Don't Effect Everything

Tim Milburn

Home About SPEAKING RESOURCES Archives CONTACT Budget Cuts Don’t Effect Everything 0 Comments The most overused phrase of the last two years: “In these economic tough times…&# It’s become the preamble to almost every statement that carries bad news. If the economy ain’t good, ain’t nothing else good.

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Budget Management Best Practice 1 – Line Item Awareness

Strategy Driven

This oversight is clearly expressed through the effective management of an executive or manager’s assigned budget. In many cases, this budget includes revenue generation as well as expenditures. Other organizations are simply cost centers and the budget is a reflection of expenditures only. Consider leaving a comment!