Flexible working hours have been found to lead to a happier workforce, and to far better customer service and share valuations. However, there is a fear that implementing flexible working hours is complicated and that it could lead to a flood of impossible demands from employees.

Meetings also provide opportunities to learn a lot about the people who attend them. Here's what to look for.

Managing a small business is rewarding, both personally and financially. However, it is also stressful and time consuming. By keeping in mind the following five tips, small business owners can better manage their business and feel less stressed.

The average person spends more time in meetings than they�d like to. The average manager spends the majority of their workday in meetings. Given these facts, shouldn�t meetings be more fun?

A project or challenge comes up and many people, without thinking, immediately form a team to research, solve the problem and implement the solution. Teams can be a very powerful way to solve problems and implement massive improvements. But teams aren�t the right answer to every situation.

A cost analysis of how much a business would save if they hired a secretary on a part time basis & outsourced their message management / inbound call management needs to an answering service.

In recent times, initiatives such as the Sarbannes Oxley Act in the US have dramatically raised the profile of compliance within the corporate world. As a key element of any corporate compliance policy, expense management has shared some of the limelight. As a result, an Expense Management Solution (EMS) is now critical to any business concerned with corporate compliance. But what is an Expense Management Solution (EMS)? Does your company need one? And where do you find a goo...

Factoring may be one of the least well known and yet most used financing tools for business around. How does it work? Simply, you are given a loan backed by unpaid invoices. This allows you, as a small business, to cover payroll and other expenses while you wait for outstanding invoices to be paid. The overall process includes applying for the factoring and then you must keep track of all unpaid invoices that are from companies with established credit. So with that in mind...

Before we get started, some of you may be asking what is document management? Document Management is the ability to manage all of your paper documents in an electronic format. Let's define "paper documents in electronic format". Basically, there are two types of document management systems, either an in-house solution, or an outsourced hosted solution. So,which one will best suit your needs? Good question. Most companies base their decision on available staff to main...

Finding and keeping the right team is one of the toughest and most important tasks you take on as a business owner or entrepreneur. Yet it doesn�t always get all the attention it warrants. Business owners focus on the work. In contrast, when investors (Venture Capital groups or Angels) look at a business they are likely to focus more on the team than the business. Why? As Jim Collins substantiated with his Fortune 500 research for his bestseller From Good to Great, it�s the t...