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Boosting the productivity and efficiency of an in-house team is demanding enough, but try to do it from across the country (much less across the globe) and you have a real challenge. Get a better handle on your resources, your workforce, and your workflow with these BNET articles.
Management Strategies for Better Business Operations
Improve Your Remote Team's Performance
In order to get the best out of your far-flung employees, you need to establish a clear communication routine, take extra steps to build trust, and review processes often to make sure they're working for everyone. Regardless of where your employees are, these tips will help keep your team running smoothly.
Tech Tools for Better Communication
Are you using the right tools for the right job? Communicating well with remote workers depends on many variables -- including the strengths and weaknesses of the tools you use. We've assessed ten popular workplace technologies to tell you what they do best and how to work around their challenges.
Is Forced Ranking the Key to a More Effective Workforce?
General Electric, Ford, and Yahoo have all used the controversial management tool to identify their company's best and worst performing employees. Should you? Here's a look at how the strategy works, what it's good for, and what you're getting into if you want to give it a try.
Leila's House of Corrections: Managing Strengths
Managing you team's weaknesses isn't a good use of your time or your employees' time. Instead of trying to perfect what will never be perfect, focus on your team's innate talents. CNET's corporate training guru Leila Bulling shows you how.
Business Hacks
Bring Google Calendar to Firefox
If you love Google Calendar but hate having to load it in a new tab or window every time you want to check your schedule or add an event, follow this process to add it to your Firefox sidebar so it's always visible.
Record MP3 Files by Phone
Remember Drop.io, the online dropbox for files? The service just added a nifty new option: audio recording. Now, when you create a drop, you get a phone number and extension you can dial into to record meetings, podcasts, reminders, or whatever.
Create Contact Groups in Gmail
Follow this easy four-step process to quickly compile Gmail contact groups.
BNET Business Dictionary
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The Corner Office
Clawing Back CEO Compensation
Okay, let's get real. We've had a series of colossal failures -- Chuck Prince at Citicorp, Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch and Angelo Mozilo at Countrywide Financial. All three are losing their jobs or their companies...
Business Hacks
Deflect Insults to Win the Day
There's an old maxim: acting is reacting. I'd argue that the same philosophy applies to business: Your success hinges on how you react to various situations, like impending deadlines, make-or-break sales pitches...
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Young Women Now 7% More Likely to Have a Bachelor's Degree
Despite the fact that average earnings for women remain below the average earnings for men, women ages 25 to 29 are 7 percent more likely to have a Bachelor's degree than men. The percentage of women who have obtained...
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