Alice Bumgarner

Alice Bumgarner's Posts

• Balancing business and personal relationships in a family-owned company

  by Alice Bumgarner

  Tips on balancing business and personal relationships in a family-owned company.

• Tuning in to body language

  by Alice Bumgarner

  You're talking to the client sitting before you when you notice his head is down and he has angled his chest away from you. The client's body language is saying he's “closed.” He can no longer hear what you're saying, so you may as well stop talking.

• The Road to Good Meetings

  by Alice Bumgarner

  Who wants to sit in a room and hear someone drone on while their own pressing work is put on hold? No one. Yet week in and week out, this is what happens in many production meetings. Follow these simple rules for more effective production meetings. Not only will your company run more smoothly, your employees may even enjoy themselves.

• Turn meetings from time-wasters into productive sessions

  by Alice Bumgarner

  Since long before PDAs and PowerPoint presentations became conference room staples, meetings have had a reputation for dragging on, wasting time, and allowing attendees to get away with bad behavior.

• Keeping schedules on track

  by Alice Bumgarner

  Here's a look at the scheduling strategies that three remodelers use to keep their projects on track.