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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. We’re moving past salary freezes with just 3% of employers say they’re planning across-the-board salary freezes this year, compared to 43% in 2009.

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When Planning Goes Bad!

Mike Cardus

Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine. Planning is toted as one of the most important things that Teams and Managers do and I still see many people who really suck at it! Usually something like this is what constitutes for a plan. Because NO-ONE Planned! Planning A change.

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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. And while it is important to include the workforce in the formulation of these plans, it is equally important to maintain the confidentiality of information providing competitive advantage or that may unnecessarily alarm workers. All rights reserved.

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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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The Nuts and Bolts of the 1-Page Strategic Plan | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The Nuts and Bolts of the 1-Page Strategic Plan. by John • July 17, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. I am delighted that so many readers of the CEO Afterlife blog have asked for details of the content that goes into the 1-Page Strategic Plan. The strategic plan is not the annual budget.

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Budget Management Warning Flag 1 – Across the Board Cuts

Strategy Driven

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