Best Practices List by Category
Executive
Leadership
- Lessons to Build Effective Leaders - 100 Lessons to equip your people to create winning organizations
- Action plan to build a winning team
- Building an Effective Management Team
- Building a High Performance Team
- Building a Team
- Building Trust in an Organization
- Business Advisory Board
- Changing Your Organization
- Effective CEO
- Executive Evaluation - Nonprofit Organizations
- Focus for Success
- How to be a Mentor
- Nonprofit Board and Leader Relationship
- Right person for the right job
- Startup CEO Best Practices
- Strength Finder -Assessing Strengths of Leaders and Managers
- Sharing the Glory and Getting Things Done
- The Living Company - Learning Organizations
Planning
- Building a Business Plan – New SBA Online Tool
- Business Model Canvass Tool
- 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 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
- The Role of Lawyers in Startups
Governance
Decision Making/Delegation
- After Action Review
- Assigning Responsibility
- Delegation
- 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
- 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
- Effective Job Descriptions
- Employee Retention
- Employee Training
- Executive Evaluation - Nonprofit Organizations
- 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
- Strength Finder -Assessing Strengths of Leaders and Managers
- Time Management Tools
Products & Services
- Can't Change it if you Don't Measure it-Quality Control
- Customer Best Practices
- Customer Retention
- Dealing With Criticism of Your Business on Social Media
- Keeping your Business Blog Current, Relevant and Fresh
- Pareto Principle - 80/20 Rule
- 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
- Time Management Tools
Nonprofit Organizations
- Grant Writing Basics
- Nonprofit Board and Leader Relationship
- Nonprofit Board Communications
- Nonprofit Board Structure Options
- Nonprofit Donor Strategies
- Nonprofit Resources
- Principles for Community Places
Government and Quasi-Government Organizations
Businesses
- How to Set and Negotiate your Freelance Business Rates
- Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
- Safety
- Small Business Resources
- Wiki Ontology 1.0
General Resources
- Best Practices Websites - list of specialized best practices websites
- Small Business Resources - list of resources for small businesses, including finance
- Startup Funding Sources - list of resources for business startups
- Nonprofit Resources - list of resources for nonprofits