As the owner of a cleaning service, you should be able to maintain a good working relationship with your staff members. You need to think of yourselves as a team. A team works together towards a certain goal. In order to do this, they employ certain techniques in order to be very efficient in the [...]
Many companies have undertaken Lean, also called Muda, to reduce wastage of material and to develop processes that give maximum output.
Along with Six Sigma, Lean Office has also been of great interest and benefit to service sector companies throughout the world. It is beneficial to customers, employees and the company as a whole, with great [...]
The ultimate aim of any business is to generate profit, regardless of what the owner or entrepreneur said it. Without profit, no business will survive for long, let along growing. Ask any one with a basic accounting knowledge, he or she will tell you that the profit equation is very simple.
Profit = Income – Expenses
The [...]
What if you discovered simple to follow business management tricks that will make you long term profits quickly and easily?
Here are 3 simple steps to get you started…
Step 1 – Tracking and testing is the key to massive internet business success.
Step 2 – Setup a goal, plan and a daily action plan.
Step 3 – Avoid [...]
The management concept of employee empowerment can be defined as the creation of an environment in which people at all levels feel they have real influence over standards of quality, service, and business effectiveness within their areas of responsibility. It is a strategy and philosophy that enables employees to make decisions about their jobs. In [...]
Housekeeping is often one of the last departments that is consulted during the evaluation and purchase of a hotel property management system and sometimes not at all. Since the housekeeping department is typically one of the larger departments in a hotel or resort, providing them with the tools they need to be more efficient not [...]
I founded one of the first spas in the world for men.
I did that because I had a mission to help men look and feel their best through personal care services, and felt that men were more likely to enjoy these services in a facility designed with their specific needs and tastes in mind.
I believed [...]
Is it Worth Installing a DVD Rental Kiosk in your Store?
Small family businesses and big box stores alike are asking themselves if it is worth their while to install a DVD rental kiosk in their stores, with the answer being a resounding yes in many cases. The numbers bear this out too, since according to [...]
You have received a call that you have to release 3 associates to meet the new company staffing goals. This can be extremely tough depending on your staffing situation overall.
There are several possibilities you should consider, do you have anyone that has told you they will be leaving in the near future, is anyone going [...]
Employee selection is one of the most important decisions you make as a manager. Recruiting employees can be a very expensive process. There are a number of direct and indirect cost associated with hiring – advertising open positions, costs associated with interviewing, the productivity loss of having an open position, as well as the cost [...]