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What is a "Best Practice"? A method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means; these can often serve as a benchmark to evaluate one's current practices.
Searching for a Best Practice: There are two methods to search for a best practice:
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- Use the Table of Contents: Pick the category from the Table of Contents on this page
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
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
Management
Resources
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
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!
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
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
American Economic Reforms
- Fixing Social Security
- Peace Park
- President George Bush's Social Security Reform Failure
- Nation Building Failures"
- China vs. USA
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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