The world of business startups is rife with option. You can purchase a franchise or build a company from scratch. Different approaches suit different people.

There are many franchises available to buy.Franchises are everywhere. Franchises are typically founded on a tried and tested business model. A franchise basically gives you everything you need with a well recognized name to draw in customers. There are many different franchises available. Some will give you the business name, equipment and everything you need for start up, others only give you the basics and you still have to buy or lease a location, purchase equipment and the inventory you will need.

The two main downsides of buying a franchise however are that you are not free to change much of your business model, and of course the initial outlay. Visit the Key Mergers website for more information or if you would like to f you would like to buy a business or even to sell one.

Starting from zero and building a you very own company however means that you can grow the business organically over time, you can limit your initial outlay and you can be as creative with the direction of your business as you like. Depending on how novel your new enterprise is, it is possible that your will have a steep testing curve and will have to make all of your own connections.

the reality is, the decision whether to buy a franchise or go it alone are multi-dimensional There is no one size fits all advise.

I am looking for a new cleaning service for the private school that I work for. We have had the same company clean our school for the past or 7 years, but as of last week they are no longer in business. It’s a real sad thing, but we can’t waste any time without a facility cleaner. I recently was turned on to orange county janitorial cleaning service. These guys seem to have the best shot at the job. they are professional, and have been cleaning businesses around the area for a while now. I will definitely be giving them a call.

I often have been told that I have a knack for finding people what they need, and getting it to them when they needed it. I recently received a phone call from a friend who needed a new cleaning service. The last person that they had ended up being a big thief. They said they wanted somebody that they could trust, and I told them about Orange county janitorial cleaning service. They quickly gave them a call and have been happy ever since. I am hoping that they are very happy with the service they get from there, and they wont need a new one for a while.

The Best Workplaces report (Financial Times, April 28, 2005) notes many factors in common with Managing Creativity and Innovation.

Material reward is not the sole factor in determining satisfaction. Microsoft UK offers acupuncture and deep tissue massages. OC&C Strategy consultants offer skiing trips and Computer Future Solutions have BMWs and Porsches as company cars. Yet people rarely mentioned these perks when they rated their company.

This is because satisfaction is also related to i) the gap between the real and ideal self, ii) projects that can be classified as fun or amusing, iii) tasks are competency expanding or challenging, iv) goals are perceived as feasible, v) there is a degree of self-determination and vi) there is recognition.

These are the exact same conditions that enhance motivation and creative output.

What people noted was the degree to which people felt valued, productive and listened to. Further, they felt their superiors had a high degree of trust for them, allowed them to engage in projects in a self-determined way, there was a general lack of suspicion and an almost non-existent blame culture.

This is in accordance with the philosophy that people require psychological safety and freedom - the feeling that they are accepted as unconditioned worth, that it is recognised that they are capable of producing but that their value is not based on producing; that there is empathetic understanding of them.

Again, these are the exact same conditions that remove blocks and are the foundations of an optimum organisational culture. These conditions enhance creative output.

These topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com. You can also receive a regular, free newsletter by entering your email address at this site.

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Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached on http://www.managing-creativity.com.

From the personal and professional experiences of other colleagues and myself, one of the more critical success factors for management is implementation. Through my observations, I have discovered that people and organization spend a great deal of resources including time, dollars and the cumulative total of the energy generated from these efforts to create business or strategic plans. Yet, these very same costly plans languish in a manager’s desk drawer or on an executive’s shelf. The incredible inspiration power within these plans lay untouched because few individuals understand how to implement the plan.

Implementation is multi-faceted. This action requires a combination of consistently applying knowledge and skills including communication, decision-making, delegation, goal setting and goal achievement, prioritization, time management and working with the psychology change. However without steady and demonstrated values by all involved, especially those initiating the plan, implementation will falter and succumb to the inertia of indecision and procrastination.

By respecting everyone’s needs, the management begins to build What’s In It For Me (WIIFM) leading to What’s In It For Us (WiIFU). When working on plans whether strategic or departmental, I have learned to validate current behaviors by asking the following question: What do you need from me so that you can successfully implement this plan? This question builds a bridge between management and the team where all now are the catalysts for change.

Successful implementation of change happens when we embrace a clear purpose, attitudes of partnership and steadfast demonstration of core values. Then, everyone can be a “Catalyst Champion” to change.

Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. President of ADVANCED SYSTEMS, is the Process Specialist. With over 25 years of business and education experience, she builds peace and abundance by connecting the 3P’s of Passion, Purpose and Performance through process improvement. Her ROI driven process solutions affect sustainable change in 4 key areas: financials, leadership, relationships and growth & innovation with a variety of industries. She aligns the strategies, systems and people to develop loyal internal customers that lead to external customers. As co-author of M.A.G.I.C.A.L. Potential:Living an Amazing Life Beyond Purpose to Achievement due for June 2005 release, Leanne speaks nationally to a variety of audiences. Please call Leanne a call at 219.759.5601 or leanne@processspecialist.com if you are seeking amazing results.

Copyright 2005(c) Leanne Hoagland-Smith, http://www.processspecialist.com

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Internal business structures have been radically transformed over the past few decades. Changes in areas such as communication and transportation technology and shifts towards global interdependency have resulted in companies becoming increasingly international and therefore intercultural.

In addition, the need to ‘go global’ and to cut outgoings is demanding that companies combine protecting international interests whilst keeping down staff numbers. The solution in most cases has been the forming of intercultural teams.

As with all businesses, success depends upon effective cooperation and communication within teams. The intercultural dimension of today’s teams however brings with it new challenges. Successful team building not only involves the traditional needs to harmonise personalities but also languages, cultures, ways of thinking, behaviours and motivations.

Intercultural teams have an inherent disadvantage. Cultural differences can lead to communication problems, unpredictability, low team cohesion, mistrust, stress and eventually poor results. However, intercultural teams can in fact be very positive entities. The combination of different perspectives, views and opinions can lead to an enhanced quality of analysis and decision making while team members develop new skills in global awareness and intercultural communication.

In reality this best case scenario is seldom witnessed. More often than not, intercultural teams do not fulfil their potential. The root cause for this is that when intercultural teams are formed, people with different frameworks of understanding are brought together and expected to naturally gel. Without a common framework of understanding, for example in matters such as status, decision making, communication etiquette, this is very difficult and thus necessitates outside help to commix the team.

Intercultural or cross cultural training is one method of helping to blend a team together. Through analysis of the cultures involved in a team, their particular approaches to communication and business and how the team interacts, intercultural team builders are able to find, suggest and use common ground to assist team members in building harmonious relationships.

Intercultural training sessions look at helping a team to realise their differences and similarities in areas such as status, hierarchy, decision making, conflict resolution, showing emotion and relationship building. These are then used to create mutually agreed upon structures of communication and interaction. From this basis, teams are then tutored how to recognise future communication difficulties and their cultural roots, empowering the team to become more self reliant. The end result is a more cohesive and productive team.

In conclusion, for intercultural teams to succeed, managers and HR personnel need to be attuned to the need for intercultural training to help cultivate harmonious relationships. Companies must be supportive, proactive and innovative if they wish to reap the potential benefits intercultural teams can offer. This goes beyond financing and creating technological links to bring together intercultural teams at surface level and going back to basics by fostering better interpersonal communication. If international businesses are to grow and prosper in this ever contracting world, intercultural synergy must be a priority.

Neil Payne is Managing Director of Kwintessential Ltd.
For more information please visit http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/cross-cultural/training.html

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Negotiation is about creating that extra bit of space.

You probably know the example of someone who is unfamiliar to you and who is getting too close. There seems to be a private zone that surrounds us. we feel uncomfortable if people get near us. We all need our (private) space.

And negotiating is about enlarging that space. This could mean, time for example:
You are asked to finish an activity; a deadline for a news story by six o’clock. You ask to finish it at eight. Giving very good reasons, negotiating well and you come to agree to hand over the article at seven. You can still finish it at six but you win some time to check it before submitting.

If you plan a project and you have asked the individual planning of all team members. You have added all up. Agreed to the critical path, etc. You end up with a planning of a certain amount of money and days of work. All’s set. The only thing you need to do is to communicate to the sponsor and negotiate the plan for agreement.
Before you do so, you add another fifteen percent to the plan, knowing that the acceptance will always be somewhere in between.

And then your are in the middle of a negotiation for that house. There is already a first bid and the counter-bid. You’re next. The negotiation step you have to make consist of two kind of spaces; the time before you repeat a next bid and the height of the next bid.

The risk is in the fact that you have created too much space. In that case you do not have to worry that people get too close anymore; They have already abandoned you…That is too bad if you really wanted that house. Space has its limits…

© 2006 Hans Bool

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Even in January, more and more people forget about the well-meaning resolutions they made on New Year’s to improve their lives.

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Do you think Jullius Caesar worried Marcus Brutus kept a task list? Perhaps he should have!

So how do you manage your task list? WHAT … you don’t have one? Better start one today! One of the biggest challenges we have in our fast paced world is we are bombarded with information. So much so, it makes it increasingly difficult to remember everything we need to. How much could a missed commitment to a valued client cost you?

A task list will make you much more productive! Guaranteed.

To do lists, or task lists are not only for your business tasks but personal tasks as well. It doesn’t matter what system you use, be it paper or one of many excellent software programs on the market today, as long as you use it. I find Microsoft Outlook works well for me; I print a hard copy of my day’s appointments and tasks. With this list at my ready reference I can add and update my list with ease. It only takes me a few minutes at the end of the day to update my electronic version.

Task lists work like this. If your brain knows that you are recording tasks that need to be done, subconsciously it relaxes. It doesn’t attempt to keep looping the task around which adds to your stress as you tend to react is some way each time you “remember”.

Task lists make you productive in another way as well. Pick your favourite colour … go out and buy that colour highlighter. When you complete a task, stroke it out with the highlighter. Your brain will begin to associate the colour with success. Within 30 days you will look forward to completing the tasks and the colour reward you see. You’ll become more organized and actually look forward to adding more tasks to your list with the extra time you have freed up. As productivity increases so will your personal success - guaranteed!

As I said to Brutus the other day, et tu Brutus? He replied, “You bet, I wouldn’t be caught dead without my task list!”

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Have you ever felt that you needed to breathe new life into your motivation and desire for success?

It’s quite normal to hit stumbling blocks and sometimes to feel completely unmotivated.

Recently, I came across a simple, three-word approach to achieving the results you want in life. We can call it the CPR approach. In this case, CPR does not stand for cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. It stands for consistent, persistent and resistant.

Let’s take a closer look at the importance of these three words to our motivation and achievement.

Consistent

You’re stuck when you do the same things over and over again yet expect different results.

On the other hand, you’re consistent when you do a few small things on a daily basis that contribute to success.

Remember the children’s story of the tortoise and the hare? It was the steady plodding of the tortoise that won the race.

Persistent

It’s been said that a champion is simply someone who, when knocked down, gets up one more time than everyone else.
In a book about the Ebola virus, “The Hot Zone,” you’ll find a story that has much to say about the power of persistence. One theory is that the ebola virus began in a cave in the side of a mountain in Africa. This cave is so huge that elephants can walk deep inside the cave and sharpen their tusks against the walls of the cave. It is thought that perhaps this huge cave was created by elephants sharpening their tusks on the side of the mountain and that over thousands of years this enormous cave was formed.

While we don’t have thousands of years, we each have 24 hours a day, 168 hours a week and 52 weeks a year in which to practice the power of persistence.

Resistant

On the journey to success, there are many things to which we need to be resistant. We need to be resistant to those who say we cannot accomplish what we want.

Col. Harlan Sanders was turned down more than 1,100 times before someone was interested in his recipe for chicken. A penniless Sylvester Stallone was offered over $300,000 for the screenplay for “Rocky.” He turned it down because his goal was to star in it himself.

They all pursued their dreams in spite of the obstacles. Pay more attention to the burning desire in your heart than to those who say you just have heartburn.

Not only do we sometimes need to be resistant to others, we sometimes need to be resistant to ourselves as well. Sometimes we need to be resistant to our own laziness and inertia.
The next time you’re tempted to hit the snooze button just one more time, ask yourself what good 10 more minutes of sleep will do anyway.

At other times, we need to be resistant to our own “self-talk.” Self-talk is simply what we consistently think about our abilities. Whether we tell ourselves positive things or negative things about ourselves, our brains will believe either. An example would be the difference between saying “I’ve got too much to do” vs. “I can handle this.”

Consistent. Persistent. Resistant. Three simple words to breathe life into our motivation and keep us on the path to success.

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