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What is a Great Teammate, and WHY Should You Be One at Your Workplace?

Great Results Team Building

In my book, The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates , the main character has lost his job and is traveling to take on a new position in a nother town – and during the journey, he asks each of the people he talks with one very interesting question: “Who is the best teammate you ever had?

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Smart Ways To Enhance the Efficiency of Your Business

Strategy Driven

While prioritizing the quality of your products or services is quite okay, checking on every small detail rather than delegating can lead to wastage of everyone’s valuable time. It also allows you to focus your attention exactly where it belongs and see a quick boost in the productivity and efficiency of your business.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.” This journey isn’t an easy one.

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4 Ways to a Better Bottom Line

Lead Change Blog

One needs to know how to negotiate with vendors, sell to customers, and lead productive teamwork across regions – often in multiple countries at the same time. Personnel in human resources, public relations, and corporate communications support those executive leaders. In new sales or vendor meetings, you’ll be seen as credible.

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10 Companies Offering Work from Home

HR Digest

More evolved thinking, a changing social environment, a sheer need to retain talent, has forced the human resource departments to come up with this solution. It offers health care products and insurance services. It has remote jobs listed in sales compensation analyst, product specialist, and senior systems engineer.

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Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace

Leading Blog

According to a recent study, employees suffering from depression cost employers more than $44 billion per year in lost productivity, with over 81 percent of that decreased productivity coming in the form of presenteeism, or the practice of going to work despite illness or anxiety and commonly resulting in reduced productivity.

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The Genius behind Toblerone | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the late 80′s, a merger with Tobler-Suchard brought this wonderful brand into my product portfolio when I led Jacobs Suchard Canada (Nabob Foods). As the tale goes, the inventor of Toblerone travelled to Switzerland’s Bern patent office in 1906 to apply for a patent of the manufacturing process. Human Resources.

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