Driving Employee Engagement Through Coaching

By Beth Armknecht Miller, president and executive coach at Executive Velocity, Inc. Employee engagement is important for retaining good employees, increasing customer satisfaction and ultimately increasing profits. In First Break all the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham describes the factors which lead to an effective workplace and concludes that an employee’s manager,

March 20, 2012

8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees

Hey, Overdrive readers! I just came across this awesome article on what makes employees remarkable. Check it out below! By Jeff Haden, columnist at Inc.com. Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers... they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities. A few hit the next level. j-hokkaido.com purchase

March 14, 2012

How to Avoid Embezzlement

By Michael Schneider, president of Fluidesign, Inc. It should have been a warning sign when, over lunch at a swanky Los Angeles restaurant, my new partner gave me the stupendously unsavvy advice, “Never put anything in writing.” It should have been a warn­ing sign when that same advice maven’s flashy car disappeared. But, I ignored

February 5, 2012

14 Fascinating Studies Done on Procrastination

By Onlinecolleges.net At one time or another, we’ve all been guilty of putting off some task we know we need to take care of but can’t seem to summon up the motivation to take on. While we might all be familiar with procrastination (some more than others, with college students being some of the worst

January 23, 2012

Raising Entrepreneurial Kids

The following is an amalgamation of “family economy” stories from EO families who have implemented the family financial system laid out in Richard and Linda Eyre’s new book, The Entitlement Trap: How to rescue your child with a new family system of choosing, earning, and ownership. The Eyres can be reached at www.TheEyres.com. My spouse and

October 18, 2011

A Next Generation QR Code Will Revolutionize m-commerce

By Robert H. Bloom, author of The New Experts A next generation QR Code will revolutionize m-commerceThe QR code is now enjoying remarkable success in Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea. Although, the rest of the world – including the Euro Zone and North America - has been slow to adopt it, during the last

October 4, 2011