New business leaders and managers have to develop at least basic skills in financial management. Expecting others in the organization to manage finances is clearly asking for trouble.

Management Development Planning

A critical skill for anyone is the ability to manage their own learning. The highly motivated, self-directed reader can gain a great deal of learning and other results from using the guidelines and materials in this library topic.

Overview of Training and Development

This is a step-by-step, all-in-one resource for consultants and leaders.

Program Planning and Management

There are a wide variety of uses of the term 'program' in organizations. In it's most general use, a program is a collection of organizational resources that is geared to accomplish a certain major goal or set of goals.

Organizational Performance Management

Performance management can focus on performance of the organization, a department, processes to build a product or service, employees

Problem Solving

There are many approaches to problem solving, depending on the nature of the problem and the people involved in the problem. The more traditional, rational approach is typically used and involves, eg, clarifying description of the problem, analyzing causes, identifying alternatives, assessing each alternative, choosing one, implementing it, and evaluating whether the problem was solved or not.

Career Development

Businesses used to partner with employees to carry out employees' career planning and development.

Customer Satisfaction

Increasing competition (whether for-profit or nonprofit) is forcing businesses to pay much more attention to satisfying customers.

Management Function of Coordinating / Controlling:

Basically, organizational coordination and control is taking a systematic approach to figuring out if you're doing what you wanted to be doing or not. It's the part of planning after you've decided what you wanted to be doing. Below are some of the major approaches to organizational control and coordination.

Risk Management

Risk management often focuses on matters of insurance. However, there are several other major considerations when assessing areas of risk in your business. Read the following sections in this overall topic, too.