As a business leader, you will benefit from these tips to create Human Energy in your business. Move from the traditional HR to Human Energy Management easily, by considering the pointers in this article.
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Future HR: Human Energy Drives Business Success
Human Energy is the most important factor that drives business success in the future of work. Successfully moving into the future of work and business, will be dependent on our ability to manage the people we choose to join us on the journey. Read this article to learn 4 steps to ensure that Human Energy drives success in your business.
Future HR: People Energy in Business
A business can have everything – tables, chairs, computer equipment, impressive buildings (or top-notch work-from-home platforms these days!), boardrooms and customers. However, if you don’t have motivated and energized people running the business, you don’t have a strong business.
Read more about the importance of people energy in business.
The Latest Change Management Trends
All organizations go through change, now more than ever, and change is especially present in a growing business. The field of change management continues to evolve rapidly. Therefore it is essential for business leaders to keep up with the latest change management trends.
Cash Flow Best Practices for Business Leaders
As a business leader, it is essential to stay on top of cash flow best practices, to enable you to run your business/es efficiently and decrease debts. Read this article for best tips on cash flow management.
Investing Cash Flow for Growth or Funding Waste?
Are you investing your cash flow for growth, or are you funding waste? In this article, you will learn how to measure if you are investing cash to grow your business, or merely funding wasteful activities. In fact, tolerating poor business practices is a decision that is funded by your cash flow.
Growing a Business Broke
Growing a business broke is not an uncommon phenomenon. Yet, it can be avoided or overcome with discipline and measuring the right metrics. Let’s look at business growth and how to balance it with profitability.
Business leaders don’t understand cash flow
Business owners and leaders often don’t understand cash flow, let alone manage it. The numbers can be so complicated that they almost serve no value to the business owner to run the business. Read this article to understand why it’s important to understand cash flow.
Ways to Improve Cash Flow
Every business will benefit from practical ways to improve cash flow. More money in the bank means more opportunities to grow your business. Read this article for practical tips to improve cash flow.
The Cash Conversion Cycle
The cash conversion cycle (CCC) is a metric that expresses the number of days it takes for a company to convert its investments in inventory and other resources, into cash flow, from sales. Read this article to understand more of the basics of the cash conversion cycle.
PRODUCT LAUNCH: Refresh your People Structure
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Employee Engagement Increases Profitability
When organizations have strong employee engagement, the profitability of the business increases, Read more for tips and to understand how employee engagement increases profitability.
Checklists in Business
Not only are checklists useful in daily life, but checklists are also extremely helpful in business. Once you’ve identified and mapped the processes in your organization, you can bring them to life through checklists. Checklists are valuable for key parts of the 4 to 9 processes that drive the business, and help ensure that the right things happen.
Function Accountability
Have you ever had a key person leave, and no one really knew all the work they do and how they will survive without them? Or are you experiencing “floating leaders” or “floating work”? The good news is, what feels like a major issue, is really just misaligned expectations that can be cleared up pretty quickly.
Lean Methodology – The Basics
Simply stated, a Lean business is a business that maximizes value while minimizing waste. A Lean business model focuses on improving processes across the value stream to eliminate waste and deliver optimized value to the customer. Read this article to understand the basics of the Lean methodology.
Optimize Business Processes
Growing organizations have a common goal: they want to optimize business processes and operations. The Process Accountability Chart is a #bestpractical tool to help business leaders reach this goal.
Matrix Organizational Structure – Yes or No?
When a business gets above 50 employees, the organizational structure should be designed to align teams around projects, product groups, industry segments, and geographical regions. This is the start of what is commonly called a matrix organizational structure.
The right people in the right seats
Do you have the right people in the right seats in your growing organization? Moreover, do you have the “right people, doing the right things, right” in your company? And importantly, do you have the right people in the right seats in the leadership team?
The difference between accountability, responsibility, and authority
These 3 business terms are often used interchangeably. It is important to understand the difference between accountability, responsibility, and authority to be able to implement it correctly in your organization.
The growing organization
One of the biggest challenges business leaders face, is how to deal with a growing organization – how to divide up teams and set clear accountabilities.