"organizational management" Posts
CBS Reviews: No Longer Flying By The Seat Of Our Pants
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Situation
Although the company had supplied fencing materials and installation services for over 60 years, the client shared that when Corporate Business Solutions first appeared on the scene, “It was an understatement to say that the business was chaotic.
It reminded me of a feeding frenzy for a pond full of Koi. Every morning, the crews would arrive and circle around our salesmen, trying to find out what they were supposed to do for the day. No one ever knew when a job was going to be scheduled (including the man scheduling them). We were at least six weeks behind …
CBS Reviews: We Are A Better Company
Situation
An air-conditioning company hired Corporate Business Solutions in order to run more efficiently.
Process
“Your consultant has brought us new management ideas, procedures, and processes, as well as customized tools. He dug deeply into our financial and operational problems within the company and found some that were eight years old, of which we were not even aware, then, fixed them!
For our first time, in many years, we have a valid set of full financial statements. He showed us that we cannot know how to get where we want to go, because we had no idea where we were …
The Benefits of Engaged Employees
A relatively new school of management thought, since the 1990’s, is that engaged employees are better employees. There has been some amount of confusion about this softer metric ever since, which this handy infographic by Ceridian helps to clarify—what exactly does engagement mean, anyway?
Nope, It’s Not Employee Happiness
Engagement does not mean employee happiness or satisfaction, although this can be a side-effect of employees feeling engaged (and, therefore, the reason for that common misunderstanding), but rather an employee who is committed to their organization’s goals and objectives.
A better term may be ownership. Engaged employees actually take personal …