Best Practices List by Category

Executive

Leadership

• Lessons to Build Effective Leaders - 100 Lessons to equip your people to create winning organizations
• Action plan to build a winning team
• Building an Effective Management Team
• Building a High Performance Team
• Building a Team
• Building Trust in an Organization
• Business Advisory Board
• Changing Your Organization
• Communications Best Practices
• Effective CEO
• Effective Leaders Listen
• Executive Evaluation - Nonprofit Organizations
• Focus for Success
• How to be a Mentor
• Nonprofit Board and Leader Relationship
• Right person for the right job
• Startup CEO Best Practices
• Strength Finder -Assessing Strengths of Leaders and Managers
• Sharing the Glory and Getting Things Done
• The Living Company - Learning Organizations

Planning

• Building a Business Plan – New SBA Online Tool
• Business Model Canvass Tool
• Business Plan for a Startup
• Business Plan for an Ongoing Business
• Business Plan Presentation
• Key Elements of Business Success
• Lean
• Project Management Execution
• Startup and Entrepreneur Resources
• Startup Funding Sources
• Strategy Map
• Successful Entrepreneur Best Practices
• SWOT Analysis
• Why Companies Fail

Organizational Structure

• Finding and Researching a Franchise Opportunity
• Nonprofit Board and Leader Relationship
• Nonprofit Board Structure Options
• The Role of Lawyers in Startups

Governance

• Building an Effective Management Team
• Nonprofit Board Communications

Decision Making/Delegation

• After Action Review
• Assigning Responsibility
• Delegation
• 12 Rules of Delegation
• Effective Meetings - Agendas
• Ideal Group, Committee or Board Size
• Manager 101
• Organizational Chart

Management

Resources

• Managing Vendors

Finance & Administration

• Accounting System
• After Action Review
• Cash flow problem
• Cost Controls
• How to Determine the Fundability of Your Business
• Ideal Group, Committee or Board Size
• Delegation
• 12 Rules of Delegation
• Public Affairs and Government Relations
• SBA 7(a) Loan Closing for Lenders
• SBA Summary of Federal Laws and Regulations for Aerospace & Defense Industries
• Startup Funding Sources

Human Resources

• Building a High Performance Team
• Building a Team
• Career Changes: Steps Along the Way
• Career Changes: Becoming Your Own Career Manager
• Career Changes: Getting Unstuck
• Career Changes: Career Evolution
• Career Changes: Be Proactive
• Career Changes: Personal Inventory
• Communications Best Practices
• Communications: Rule of Three
• Tell Them Three Times
• Effective Job Descriptions
• Employee Retention
• Employee Training
• Executive Evaluation - Nonprofit Organizations
• Hire a Contractor or an Employee
• Hire your first employee
• Hiring for Startups
• Hiring and Interviewing
• How to be a Mentor
• Nonprofit Board and Leader Relationship
• Pre-Employment Background Checks
• Right person for the right job
• Safety
• Strength Finder -Assessing Strengths of Leaders and Managers
• Time Management Tools

Products & Services

• Can't Change it if you Don't Measure it-Quality Control
• Customer Best Practices
• Customer Retention
• Dealing With Criticism of Your Business on Social Media
• Keeping your Business Blog Current, Relevant and Fresh
• Pareto Principle - 80/20 Rule
• Sales Manager Best Practices
• Selling Best Practices
• Tips to Help You Start, Maintain & Grow a Small Business Blog!

Operations

General Operations

• KISS principle (Keep it simple stupid)
• Manager 101
• Pareto Principle - 80/20 Rule
• Time Management Tools

Nonprofit Organizations

• Grant Writing Basics
• Nonprofit Board and Leader Relationship
• Nonprofit Board Communications
• Nonprofit Board Structure Options
• Nonprofit Donor Strategies
• Nonprofit Resources
• Principles for Community Places

Government and Quasi-Government Organizations

• Principles for Community Places

Businesses

• How to Set and Negotiate your Freelance Business Rates
• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
• Safety
• Small Business Resources
• Wiki Ontology 1.0

General Resources

• Best Practices Websites - list of specialized best practices websites
• Small Business Resources - list of resources for small businesses, including finance
• Startup Funding Sources - list of resources for business startups
• Nonprofit Resources - list of resources for nonprofits