Leading people in strictness and gentleness

Leading and managing people can be a difficult task for any aspiring leader. It doesn’t only involve techniques or systems, but importantly include a strict yet gentle human touch towards other people. It is also somehow intriguing to reckon the fact that most of the important and useful ingredients of effectively leading people are not learned in the post-graduate schools or in the seemingly thick management and leadership textbooks. They are even not often learned from listening to the so-called leadership gurus and management experts. Amazingly, they are learned from within our selves’ realization towards our personal (not Read more

Business management tip: Directing people in an organization

Directing is considered as the most humane function of management. It is also called as the heart of management. This function involves influencing human behavior through motivation, communication, coaching, leadership, discipline, development of interpersonal skills and assistance for the achievement of individual’s personal goals. In this function, managers are transforming into good leaders – that is, they are considering not only the organizational goals but also the personal objectives of their people. Directing tries to align the future of the organization and its people. The philosophy behind this is that, the organization cannot be considered as successful if its members are failing. Read more

Management tips: Dealing with employees turnover

What if your employee resigns tomorrow? And another good employee resigns the day after tomorrow? These questions form fears inside the minds of many employers – perhaps these employers include you.  The fear is considerable since a high employee turnover rate insinuates ineffectiveness of a company’s management (particularly human resource management). Moreover, it hurts an employer and his company whenever an employee resigns. It may involve emotional pain on the human side of managers and employers. It may also involve financial and operational pain on the business side of companies and organizations. But many companies, especially large companies that maintain effective “Human Resources” departments, can manage this kind of emotional and business pains.

In small businesses, high employee turnover is very common since these companies usually don’t have HR departments or HR officers who oversees and preserves harmonization between companies and employees. Maintaining HR departments or hiring HR personnel may be costly for small business owners. But what we can do to eradicate a high employee turnover rate in our small firms? Do we really need to invest a lot of money for that? Read more

Don’t grab too much profit: It may wear-out your resources and employees

Some enterprise owners hardly encounter income opportunities specially this time of economic recession. However, some faces a lot of opportunities to grab marginal profits. Perhaps these opportunities are brought by nice marketing schemes and continuous development efforts. An ordinary business owner will not waste any time to seize an income opportunity and pull it to the fullest. This maybe the common rule for common business people out there – make a profit. But why I am telling you guys to not grab so much profit is a thing that you should keep in mind. As I stated it may worn-out your resources and even your precious employees. Read more