EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION

Everyone is a leader in his own ability and capacity. The success behind any kind of organization is effective leadership and administration. However, there are people who are born as leaders but it's important to note that leadership and administration is an art and every art can be learnt. I have met many people who never thought of being leaders but have effectively learnt the art of leadership and emerged as leaders to be admired.


In any kind of leadership, the first area of effective administration is the administration of funds. Be it in business, government departments, church or any other kind of organization, you will have the most effective leadership if you learn to use the funds properly. If any of your employees wants to paralysis your operations and bring down decades your leadership, the first place to target is your finance or/and accounting department. Your employees in this area should therefore be people of integrity and who have internalized the vision of your organization.


The second area that determines how effective you will be in your leadership is managing people. The human resource directly affects the operations of your organization. You must begin by placing every employee in the department where he/she will work best. You therefore begin by identifying where to place your staff. This means that an effective leader is close his or her staff and spends time them. After placing them in their rightful places, you need to monitor their performance. Performance of your staff is closely tied to motivation. Every employee needs to be motivated. This entails different strategies. Know which kind of motivation to use. It is not necessary to promise your staff a reward for good performance. This may bring in unhealthy competition, hatred and lack of cooperation between staff who want to out-do each other. Therefore reward unexpectedly.


Motivation may be as cheap to the organization as recognition, but make sure you recognize a staff in the midst of others. Do not do it in a closed office. It may not serve the purpose. Other strategies may include promotions, gifts, added responsibilities and increase in salary. You must also ensure that your staffs are working as a team. Working together ensures the staffs are focused towards the goals of the organization.


Effective leaders give an ear to every stakeholder of the organization. Know that the whole organization is looking on you to give direction. Begin by listening to every stakeholder then give a direction. Sometimes it's necessary to give directions basing on what you believe is best for the organization regardless of other peoples views. But this should not be always because it does not mean that you are always right. Conflict resolution strategies are important. Know that there will always arise conflicts. The win/win strategy works best for most organizations. Therefore make sure that each of the conflicting parties does not feel offended.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Qualities of a successful small business manager

A successful business manager has the responsibility of identifying business opportunities, organizing and co-coordinating the factors of production and ensuring profitability. The following qualities are basic for every manager

Clear objectives
A manager must have clear objectives. This is a prerequisite for success because it makes sure that you are focused towards a particular goal.

Mental ability
This simply means intelligence and creative thinking. A manager’s analytical ability helps him in engaging in problems and situations in order to deal with them.

Business secrecy
A good business manager must be able to guard business secrets. Leakage of business secrets to trade competitors is a serious which should be guided against. Your staff should be able to keep your secrets and therefore do a proper staff selection.

Human relations
Some managers are known to have bad relationships with their staff and customers. This is just the beginning of failure. Maintenance of public relations most of the time makes the difference between the successful and poor managers

Effective communication
Good communication means that the manager has the ability to put his/her points across effectively and with clarity.

Technical knowledge
The managers are dealing with situations where sophisticated technology is involved. You must have a reasonable amount of technical knowledge.

Decision making
Running a business requires taking a number of decisions. Here a manager should have the capacity to analyze the various aspects of the business so that he/she arrives at the right decision.

Risk bearing
There is an element of risk in every business, hence, a manager should be prepared to accept failure in its proper perspective and view failure as challenge and opportunity.
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Important steps in planning for your small business

Failing to plan means that you are simply planning to fail. Many businesses have failed, not for lack of ideas by because proper plans were not put in place. This means that a very good idea may end up unsuccessful because there were no structures in place to effect it. The following simply framework will give you an edge over your competitors.

Identifying an opportunity
Before you engage yourself in any venture, you need a preliminary search on the opportunities available. Carry out a strength and weakness analysis for each opportunity. This will help you ascertain the viability. Go for the opportunities that show some positive signs.

Establish objectives/goals
You need to know how much you want to earn and after what time. Ensure that you are not over-ambitious because every business needs a grace period to grow. Goals ensure that you are working towards a specific interest.

Planning premises
This means the working environment. Many people have noble ideas but in the wrong operating environment. You must determine what product to produce, its quantity and the price to be charged.

Study the alternative courses of action
For every plan A, establish a plan B. This is an important step in avoiding frustration and discouragement. A discouraged investors never succeeds.

Establish derivative plans
These are supportive plans that must be established. For example, plan for capital expenditure, marketing and advertisement. This act as pillars for

Establish budgets
Each of the derivative plans must be turned into budgets. Budgets are tools for measuring performance.
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IDENTIFYING BUSINESS FAILURES

What makes your business go down? There are many reasons why that business may not be performing to the expectations. The following article tries to open your eyes towards particular factors that may be hindering you business. Carefully, study the reasons below and see which identify with you business.

Loss of customers
Is you customer base the same as when you were making high profits? If you have lost any single client then establish why he/she was not happy. Remember that your business exists to satisfy customers.

Dissatisfied workers
Your staff will determine whether you will be successful or not. Dissatisfied employees will do their best to frustrate you efforts. Employees who are not close to you are fear your presence may be unwilling to air their grievances. Encourage employee unions and cooperatives.

Extravagant spending
Are you spending the incomes in the right projects? Your failures may be actually because of unwise spending. Cut down cost as possible but not at the expense of quality services. Remember, that quality should not be compromised.

Declining public image
Sometimes people buy your products because of the good name that your business holds. If they perceive that you are loosing customers, then be sure that you will loose more. Ensure that you guard against a bad name. A good name is business goodwill.

Dissatisfied suppliers
How have you been treating your suppliers as they deserve? Well treated supplies will ensure that you get quality raw materials that will in turn give quality products.
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effective revison

EFFECTIVE REVISION
This may be the last thing you may ever think of now that you are done with your studies. But in one way or another you may find yourself sitting for an exam you never expected. This means that you should be armed with important tips not only on how to revise but also the effective ways of taking exams. Every good students knows that exams are not set to be failed but are just a way to show your instructor that you are doing something in that field.

One of the most important things that I want you to know is that success in examinations not only depends on how extensive you revise but also how intensive you do it. You need to have a strategic revision. Most of the times, it does not require you to read everything but only have a strategic revision.

One of the most important strategies is to know that there is no new thing that will ever be examined in any exam. In fact over 80 percent in any paper will come from past papers thou may be examined in a different language. This means that you must spend quality time going through past revision papers. I assure you that they will save you a great deal.

Every students needs to know that your personal study time matters a lot. Scientifically, it has been proved that study to time faster in the mornings when you mind is fresh than in the evenings. I suggest to you that you need to sleep early and wake up early. However those who find it difficult to wake up early in the morning should ensure that they sleep late; just make sure that you have read.
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