21 Tips To Cap Staff Temptation – Part 4

14. Balance cash in the middle of the day.  Occasionally balance every till and cash holder in the place in the middle of the day, rather than at the end of it.  The break in routine demonstrates [...]

21 Tips To Cap Staff Temptation – Part 3

7. Don’t make it easy.  Ensure that you have simple rules in place about how stock and other valuables (including stationery, equipment and consumables) are to be handled, and where they are not [...]

21 Tips To Cap Staff Temptation – Part 2

3. Create water-tight security systems.  It is the employer’s responsibility to create systems that isolate and assign accountability so that the weak are not tempted and the guilty can be [...]

Never Underestimate a Secretary

I think you can guess which member of our team insisted on the not-so-subtle lesson in this joke. Who am I to argue! A large corporation recently hired several cannibals. “You are all part [...]

21 Tips To Cap Staff Temptation – Part 1

Basic Premise   Many of us drive within the legal speed limit (or just slightly above it) only because we fear being caught and punished.  Without that downside risk many would establish a [...]

Business Management And People Leadership For Technicians

Michael Gerber is famous for remarking that many small business owners are “technicians who have suffered an entrepreneurial seizure”, but I am becoming more and more aware of a parallel class of [...]

Goal Setting Template For Personal And Business Planning

Goal Setting…..Why Bother? Goal Setting (and Getting) is capable of making you more effective in every important aspect of your life. In this template, we provide you with a system for [...]

Cash, Security And Fraud Prevention

As a former accountancy teacher I have always prided myself of having sound money management and security systems, but I have had one known instance of fraud in my 40-plus years as an [...]

15 Factors Distinguishing Excellent Workplaces

What sets excellent workplaces apart from “other” workplaces?  Here’s some research against which you might like to score your own workplace. There are 15 significant factors [...]

Why People Work for You – Essential Knowledge for People Management

If you employ people then give thanks to Abraham Maslow for a simple and useful insight into why they might work for you.  Maslow postulated a “hierarchy of human needs” which when interpreted [...]