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January 28, 2012 by admin

Career Direction – Who Decides What’s Next?

You’ve decided you’d like a new career direction, be it because you’re currently unemployed; finding your current role unfulfilling; failing to make any career progression; lacking motivation; or thinking about setting up your own business. The array of career directions you could choose to pursue are numberless; even if you know you’d like to be an entrepreneur, there are still decisions to be made about what type of business you’d like to run.

So who decides ‘what next’? Who decides which direction you’re going to go in? Your old university careers advisor? A recruitment consultant? A fortune teller? Here at Position Ignition, we believe that only you can make the decision if you truly want to take control of your life. Whether it’s a slight shift in career direction or a total about-face, it’s up to you to decide ‘what next’? It is you who must ultimately decide the one career direction you’re going to try next. Read the rest of this entry »

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January 20, 2012 by admin

The Decision Dynamic

Have you ever stepped back and watched team members respond to a decision? It’s really an interesting dynamic to watch.

I just watched a group of mid-level managers react to a decision that their management team made – three months ago. There clearly is not commitment amongst this group (once again, these are mid-level managers).

The background – The management team made a strategic decision that impacted everyone within this 75 person company. Somewhere along the decision-making-process-timeline, they thought it would be a good idea to gather input from their employees (novel idea, ha?). So, as a result, they conducted a series of focus groups, gathered employee input, and conducted a follow-up town hall meeting to respond to input gathered during the focus group sessions. Read the rest of this entry »

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January 13, 2012 by admin

Combine All Your Data in One Place – 5 Benefits to Using a Dashboard Solution

The best business decisions are made when you can look at the problem from every angle. You need all the data in one place, in a simple, intuitive format. That’s why dashboard solutions make perfect business sense. Dashboard solutions pull essential information together about your business’s performance in daily reports. Executive dashboards are highly visual reports that provide a snapshot of your company’s key performance indicators (KPIs) in a user-friendly way. Dashboards combine charts, tables, gauges, and maps in a single, at-a-glance view to provide the crucial details you need to react quickly in any situation and make the best-informed business decision.

Dashboard software that uses Excel automation to generate high-impact executive dashboards is key to your company’s business intelligence solution. Non-technical business professionals can quickly and easily create and manage executive dashboards using the same Excel technology they already know and love. These dashboard reports automatically extract data from databases and accounting and ERP systems and then format this information into graphically rich, succinct Excel reports with dashboard charts. These daily reports provide the same data in the same format across your enterprise, so that decision-makers throughout your company are on the same page. Read the rest of this entry »

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