Work Place Education

You Can’t Manage Others Until You Can Manage Yourself

You Can’t Manage Others Until You Can Manage Yourself By Robert Boroff Before you try to improve the way you manage others you need to look inward to see how well you manage yourself. If you can’t manage to complete your own tasks on time you’re not going to be…

Mental Effects of Exercising

Mental Effects of Exercising By Robert Boroff Working eight hours a day at in office can be tiring, even for those of us who enjoy our jobs. It’s a strange feeling to drive home, exhausted, when the only physical exercise you received all day was a few strolls to the…

Minimize Wasted Time

Minimize Wasted Time By Robert Boroff Every manager knows that employees are going to spend a little bit of the work day dealing with a personal issue. But a recent study found that workers spend an average of 3 hours each week handling personal business. Employees average about 36 minutes…

How to Manage A Project

How to Manage a Project  By Robert Boroff With Project Managers heading up our own executive search processes, we know the essential role the Project Manager plays in determining the outcome of a project. The Project Manager is ultimately responsible for the project and held accountable for the outcome. A…

How to Make Effective Decisions

How to Make Effective Decisions By Robert Boroff As the hiring manager of your company, have you ever been on the edge about whether or not to hire a potential new employee? How do you make the right decision? When making crucial decisions it is important to look at the…

Strategic Planning Requires Planning

Strategic Planning Requires Planning By Robert Boroff Strategic planning is a popular catch phrase for developing long-term strategies to deal with a corporation’s growth and development – particularly for increasing profit margins. However, a recent survey found that many executives are unsatisfied with their own company’s so-called strategic plans. If…

Making Informed Decisions

Making Informed Decisions By Robert Boroff As the manager for a company, at any level and of any size, you are forced to make decisions on a daily basis. For every manager, your ability to make appropriate decisions is what landed you in your current management role, so it is…

How to Maximize Your Company Visibility

Maximize Company Visibility By Robert Boroff Location, location, location. Marketing Executives know, like any successful real estate developer, “location” is the key to success – TV, radio, metro newspapers, national magazines, Internet. Along with branding and sending press releases and marketing kits to media outlets, Marketing Executives know that getting…

Who’s The Better Candidate for your Company?

Who's The Better Candidate For Your Company? By Robert Boroff If you're like most companies, when it comes to the interview and hiring process, it can be an exhausting experience that you would just as soon not repeat. Whether you use a search firm like Reaction Search International, or are…

Essential Personal Skills

Essential Personal Skills By Robert Boroff Employers are looking for 15 essential personal skills when evaluating candidates, according to the non-profit research organization ACT. 1. Carefulness: Do you have a tendency to think and plan carefully before acting? This helps with reducing the chance for costly errors, as well as keeping…