Leadership
Not Google? You Can Still Give Your Employees Perks With Little Or No Cost
Perks in the workplace are becoming more and more important to attract and retain good talent, especially from the newer generation, the Millennials, who are coming to expect it. But even older employees can enjoy some of the simple, cheap or cost-free things you can provide for them. As a Manager, it is your responsibility […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
How I lost Respect for an Executive Because of their Red Pen
I often say that spelling and grammar are not the most important thing to focus on when writing. It gets a very strong reaction from some people who connect spelling or grammar mistakes with poor or questionable content. After all, if someone can’t get the spelling of a word right, how can you trust the […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
Dealing with 4 Types of Colleagues Who Don’t Work Well Together
You’ve all met one form or another of ‘the project troublemaker. Whether it was in your early days at school, or current days in the workplace, you’ve had to deal with that one colleague who seems to want to make a project fail–or perhaps worse, doesn’t seem to care either way about the success or […]
About Liam Barrett
Liam Barrett is an expert in management, leadership and online marketing. He currently practices residential real estate in Boise, Idaho, and writes leadership and business content for multiple online sources. Liam focuses on open minded leadership and understanding in the workplace.
Admit You Don’t Know Everything and Get Credibility
As an entrepreneur, manager or business person trying to look like you’re at the top of your game, the worst thing you can do is think you know everything. Regardless of your background and experience, it’s simply not possible to know everything there is about your business, or even your specialty. And by thinking you […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
Management
Why You Don’t Need An Office To Be A Successful Manager
When we think of ‘a business’, we tend to think of an office full of people sitting at their desks on computers. But increasingly, there are companies realizing that not every business needs an office, after all. Some of them are among the most successful companies in the world. So how exactly does that work? […]
About Victoria Greene
Victoria is a Brand Marketing Consultant & Freelance Writer who works with ecommerce businesses and marketing teams to create valuable content and targeted marketing strategies. She is a very self-driven person with a lot of experience working as her own manager. She enjoys sharing her knowledge through guest posting.
Deciding to Fire Someone? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions
The decision to fire one of your employees for performance is a hard one. It may even keep you up at night. You may even be looking hard for ways to keep them or support them so you don’t have to ruin their lives by firing them. But you have a responsibility to your organization, […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
4 Ways To Increase Employee Happiness
Being a manager comes with a lot of duties and responsibilities. So many managers are tasked with an extremely busy schedule and are still held accountable for the productivity of their employees. That also means employee happiness. Although many leaders think they’re doing a great job at managing their employees, the majority of the population […]
About Liam Barrett
Liam Barrett is an expert in management, leadership and online marketing. He currently practices residential real estate in Boise, Idaho, and writes leadership and business content for multiple online sources. Liam focuses on open minded leadership and understanding in the workplace.
Are You an Entrepreneur? Don’t Hire Yourself!
As an entrepreneur, you have some very specific skills and attributes that drive you and make you successful as an entrepreneur, but you shouldn’t hire yourself again when you expand. As your company grows, those same attributes and skills are not always suited to building a solid, stable company. For that, you need complementary skills, […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
Career
Do You Have These Top 5 Traits?
Preparing your resume and for potential interview questions is an essential part of your job search. To help you along the way, I have compiled the top 5 attributes that I find employers look for the most. About Jennifer WeilerAs the Principal & Co-Founder of ProperSearch, Jennifer is a 15-year veteran of the recruitment industry, […]
About Jennifer Weiler
As the Principal & Co-Founder of ProperSearch, Jennifer is a 15-year veteran of the recruitment industry, specializing in property and facilities recruitment for the past 11 years. Jennifer is active in the industry and has a proven track record of placing candidates.
How to Manage Yourself When No One Else Will
Often, it is hardest to manage yourself. After all, it’s difficult to treat yourself in the same way you’d treat another person. It’s easy to make excuses for yourself. But don’t worry, because as you adopt the role of your own boss, you are in a unique position to become exactly the kind of boss […]
About Victoria Greene
Victoria is a Brand Marketing Consultant & Freelance Writer who works with ecommerce businesses and marketing teams to create valuable content and targeted marketing strategies. She is a very self-driven person with a lot of experience working as her own manager. She enjoys sharing her knowledge through guest posting.
The 30 Second Resume – 5 Tips to get Noticed
In a competitive labor market, your resume must get you on the interview pile in 30 seconds or less. Otherwise, you will end up in the reject pile and never get a chance to sell yourself in person. The best format and structure for resumes is a never-ending debate. Yet instead of worrying about how […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
3 Ways to Stand Out During Your Probation Period
You landed your dream job, now what? As you start your new position, navigating your way through the orientation and probation period can be difficult. Learning new skills and processes, while wanting to standout is a tough balance to strike. Bonding with coworkers to promote team-building, defining what success means for both you and your […]
About Jennifer Weiler
As the Principal & Co-Founder of ProperSearch, Jennifer is a 15-year veteran of the recruitment industry, specializing in property and facilities recruitment for the past 11 years. Jennifer is active in the industry and has a proven track record of placing candidates.
Communication
How I lost Respect for an Executive Because of their Red Pen
I often say that spelling and grammar are not the most important thing to focus on when writing. It gets a very strong reaction from some people who connect spelling or grammar mistakes with poor or questionable content. After all, if someone can’t get the spelling of a word right, how can you trust the […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
Can’t Write? You Can Fix That
According to James Michener, who has sold over 75 million copies of his novels worldwide, it’s not all about the initial draft, it is about re-writing. The same applies to the business writing you do every day, whether it’s a simple email, memo, proposal, policy, procedure or business case. You don’t have to be […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
Create Your PowerPoint Slides With Impact
Delivering effective and powerful presentations is critical to business success. It’s about making an impact that influences your audience, whether you are an entrepreneur pitching investors, a small business owner pitching a product to a retailer or potential customer, a startup presenting a new initiative or a manager asking for budget or staffing resources. Here […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
9 Tips To Deliver Powerful Business Presentations
When delivering presentations to a general audience, senior management in your company or even a venture capitalist, a successful presentation isn’t about the PowerPoint or Keynote slides you create – it’s about much more than that. These nine points will help you deliver a much more powerful presentation, whether you are working your way up […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
Strategy
5 Barriers To Getting Brilliant Ideas From Staff
Getting brilliant ideas from staff contributes to everyone’s success. Often, there are barriers to getting ideas, basically filters that everyone has, including you and your staff. Recognizing them and then dealing with them is the key to unlocking ideas that are hidden in the corners. No need to think outside the box, there are lots […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
5 Tips to Get your Business Case Approved
Lets face it, you can’ get things done without getting someone’s approval, whether it is simply to go ahead with your idea or more importantly, to get the resources you need, whether people or budgets. So if you want to get things done, implement new ideas, expand your department, develop a product, launch a campaign, […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
Don’t Make The Mistake of Thinking Outside The Box
You’ve probably been told to ‘Think Outside The Box” as if that’s where all the solutions to your problems are. But if you thought finding a needle in a haystack was hard, try making the haystack infinitely large. That’s what it’s like when you “Think Outside The Box”. No matter how long you stare at […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
Adopt these 7 Best Practices from Outsourcing Companies
Outsourcing is a huge industry, with outsourcing being used by small and large corporations with local and even international portfolios. There is a reason they are successful in getting the attention and the business from large sophisticated corporations. While their success is based on some very specific advantages that are hard to reproduce in smaller […]
Performance
Why You Don’t Need An Office To Be A Successful Manager
When we think of ‘a business’, we tend to think of an office full of people sitting at their desks on computers. But increasingly, there are companies realizing that not every business needs an office, after all. Some of them are among the most successful companies in the world. So how exactly does that work? […]
About Victoria Greene
Victoria is a Brand Marketing Consultant & Freelance Writer who works with ecommerce businesses and marketing teams to create valuable content and targeted marketing strategies. She is a very self-driven person with a lot of experience working as her own manager. She enjoys sharing her knowledge through guest posting.
Stop Procrastinating With This Simple Method
There’s something you know you need to do, but you can’t get yourself to actually do it. Despite how important the task is, you just don’t feel compelled to take action. We’ve all been there. Here are three things that I often procrastinate: Writing or finishing other tedious work tasks Paying bills or completing paperwork […]
About Mike Fishbein
Mike Fishbein studies psychology and philosophy and writes about how you can apply what he learns to your personal and professional development. He’s been featured on The Observer, Lifehacker, and Tiny Buddha.
Writing Procedures is Easy With These 7 Tips
Many people don’t generally like structure, but as a manager, it’s your job to introduce structure to drive results by implementing formal written procedures. They are easier to write than you think and will help you maintain control, ensure consistency, enable training of your staff, improve interaction between functions and departments, avoid issues with legislative […]
About Michel Theriault
Michel is the founder of Success Fuel for Managers. He is an author, speaker and consultant focusing on topics relevant to Managers and aspiring Managers in businesses of all sizes who want to get results, get attention, and get ahead. He is also a contributor to Forbes and AllBusiness Experts . Michel is available for speaking engagements, training and consulting. Connect with him or send an email.
How to Stay Productive When You’re the Boss
Our society is obsessed with being busy, but being busy and being productive are not one in the same. Often, when we’re too busy, we’re far from productive. This is why even on our busiest days it can feel like we have accomplished nothing. As the head of your company, you may understand this feeling […]
About Daniel MacDonald
As CEO of filterbutler.com , one of Canada’s Hot Top 50 Startups by Profit Magazine, Daniel is an expert on the topics of management, business operations, marketing and entrepreneurship.
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