When I began my working career, drug testing was not even a word combination. I had never been exposed to drugs beyond the point of alcoholic beverages, and then only on special occasions and holidays. To contemplate daily usage of some foreign substance was beyond my realm of possibilities. I was not alone. That was twenty-five years and many drug issues ago. Today, if you apply for a job, of any kind, you will be drug tested. Why? Because a lot has changed in twenty-five...

An effective agenda goes beyond start time, location, topics, and durations. Effective agendas do the following: support the meeting purpose, set the expectations of attendees as to what will be discussed, inform attendees of any preparation that will be required prior to the meeting, give the meeting leader a roadmap for driving the agenda, permit adequate time to cover each item, and allow the meeting leader to adjust the agenda easily if the meeting gets behind schedule. The meeting owner drives the agenda, not the other way around. There are times where you may have a concise meeting purpose and specific agenda items to address the meeting purpose, but the actual meeting deviates from the agenda.

What do you do if you catch someone at work daydreaming? If your answer is to take them to task, stop and think. That person could be the saviour of your business. Find out why in this article.

"The True Function of Any Successful Business is to Sell People Precisely What They Want To Buy" - Bob Serling I suppose the above seems rather obvious. After all, no customers, no business, right? But if the failure rate of businesses today is any indication, then perhaps it's not so obvious after all. What do I mean by that last statement? Have you noticed the ads that most business place, if they place any at all? Don't most of them focus on the business, and not ...

Surveys show that businesses waste 20% of their professional payroll on bad meetings. Gain huge savings by managing these seven myths about meetings.

Your time is too valuable to waste in pointless meetings. Here's how to protect yourself from being robbed.

Business Process Management (BPM) is a set of activities performed by organizations to improve or streamline their business processes. Since software tools are usually used to aid these activities, these software tools are referred to as Business Process Management Systems. - Business Process Management Systems Business Process Management has been in place for some time now. Due to the introduction of software tools, however, there has been renewed interest in the body...

Are your employees wearing flip flops or low rise jeans to work? Maybe it�s time for you to define a dress code.

Of the 4,158 colleges and universities in the United States, only 35 offer sales curricula. Nevertheless, more than 50% of the 1.3 million college graduates in 2007 will become professional sellers on the first day of their employment. Yet, turnover rates, attrition and failure in-the-field for these young salespeople are astounding.

Document security and document shredding have never been more important before and are bound to impact our lives in a way that we just can�t imagine. If you see a proliferation of caro document shredding or Davison document shredding, or even curtis document shredding, you are witnessing the new wave of privacy protection. Document shredding, document security and what they mean to us is symptomatic of the world we occupy. The times that we live in today are new, wonderfu...