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What is a "Best Practice"?

A method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved by other means; these can serve as a benchmark to evaluate one's business practices.

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All Best Practices

#Executive   #Management   #Operations

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Executive

Leadership

• Lessons to Build Effective Leaders
• Cognitive Biases are Bad for Business (and all organizations)
• Action plan to build a winning team
• Best Leadership Books
• Building an Effective Management Team
• Building a High Performance Team
• Building a Team
• Building Trust in an Organization
• Building Trust with a Virtual Team
• Business Advisory Board
• Changing Your Organization
• Making Change an Opportunity not a Threat
• Communications Best Practices
• Effective CEO
• Effective Leaders Listen
• Executive Evaluation - Nonprofit Organizations
• Focus for Success
• Follow Through is Important
• How Leaders Set Priorities
• How to be a Mentor
• Leadership techniques
• Management by Walking Around
• Management Styles
• Making Good Decisions
• Nonprofit Board and Leader Relationship
• Organizational Learning
• Right person for the right job
• Lessons for Startups
• Startup CEO Best Practices
• Seven Stages of Every Business
• Strength Finder -Assessing Strengths of Leaders and Managers
• Sharing the Glory and Getting Things Done
• The Living Company - Learning Organizations
• Time Management - Important and Urgent

Planning

• Building a Business Plan – New SBA Online Tool
• Business Model Canvass Tool
• Business Plan Burnout
• 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 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
• Organizations are more a team not a family
• Organizational Learning
• Retaining Knowledge in the Organization
• The Role of Lawyers in Startups

Governance

• Building an Effective Management Team
• Nonprofit Board Communications
• Nonprofit Board Best Practices

Decision Making/Delegation

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

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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
• Negotiating Prices
• 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
• EEOC Best Practices Preventing Discrimination
• Avoiding Workplace Discrimination
• Effective Job Descriptions
• Employee Retention
• Employee Training
• Executive Evaluation - Nonprofit Organizations
• Giving Effective Feedback
• Hire and Retain the Best People
• 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
• Six Best Practices for Unhappy Employees
• Strength Finder -Assessing Strengths of Leaders and Managers
• Time Management - Important and Urgent
• Time Management Tools
• Workplace wellness

Sustainable Health Care Systems

• Prize Fund to Invent Medicines
• Patent Pool for Low Cost Medicines
• Healthcare Vouchers

Products & Services

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

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Operations

General Operations

• KISS principle (Keep it simple stupid)
• Manager 101
• Pareto Principle - 80/20 Rule
• Seafood processing best practices
• Time Management Tools
• Time Management - Important and Urgent
• 100 Things...1% Better

Nonprofit Organizations

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

Government & 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
• Starting and Growing a Small Business
• Wiki Ontology 1.0
• Workplace wellness

Sustainable Fisheries

• Collapse and Alaska Fisheries
• Fisheries Rationalization
• Tragedy of the Commons
• Bristol Bay Permits
• Alaska Ocean

Enduring Business, Leadership and Management Books

• The Living Company - Learning Organizations
• Effective CEO
• Follies of History

American Economic Reforms

• Fixing Social Security
• Peace Park
• President George Bush's Social Security Reform Failure
• Nation Building Failures"
• China vs. USA

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Other Resources

• List of specialized best practices websites
• List of resources for small businesses, including finance
• List of resources for business startups
• 20 best resources to get a startup off the ground
• List of resources for nonprofits
• List of websites & resources on human resources best practices, issues and laws
• Terry's Biography

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