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Jeans Successful Quoting and Tendering for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Nonprofit Organisations

This e-book offers Jean’s 14-step procedure for successful quoting and tendering.

Email jean@jeanroberts.com.au if you would like a free pdf of this publication.

1. The Corporate or Organisational aim of quoting and tendering is to be and remain supplier of

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Jean’s Checklist: Making Ethics Work – a working definition

Addressing ethics in any workplace requires a working definition that has credibility, clarity and certainty.  

The Making Ethics Work Checklist provides a starting point for entrepreneurial Managers and Leaders to explore ethics in the reality of their own work environment

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Jean’s Checklist: Exposing the traps in tendering and outsourcing

What’s the relationship between tendering and outsourcing?

 This relationship begins when an entity (eg business, organisation, government department) makes a calculated decision to invite tenders to create and/or supply specific goods or services:

  • successfully inviting tenders begins with a careful

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Nonprofit Sector Risk Scenarios

Nonprofit Sector Risk Scenarios to assist Boards and CEOs to assess their risk management – and continuous quality improvement – activities

My website article Management and Leadership:  Risk and Quality – two sides of the one coin has proved popular …

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A Management Group Activity to address role clarity and job satisfaction

Role clarity and individual/team job satisfaction are key factors in achieving and maintaining consistency in operational performance.

Role clarity is a requirement and right for any person employed, contracted, sub-contracted or invited by the Management Group to perform tasks and …

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A Management Group Activity to assess the effectiveness of internal policy and procedure manuals

Management is responsible for consistency in operational performance: consistency is dependent upon adherence to approved policies and procedures for repetitive functions

The purpose of this group activity is to determine whether policy and procedure manuals exist, and if so, the …

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Management and Leadership: Risk and Quality are two sides of the one coin

Without a quality system, quality assurance is at best a guess, with no basis for continuous quality improvement.

The first requirement in quality assurance and improvement is the presence of a quality system.  With a quality system in place, quality …

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Jean’s on-the-job coaching – Customer/Client/Consumer Service Quality

For small and medium commercial and nonprofit workplaces, creating a learning environment is both an opportunity and a challenge.  As with on-the-job training and on-the-job mentoring, on-the-job coaching can support such opportunities and challenges.

Three desired outcomes from on-the-job coaching

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Major Signs of Business Failure – early 1990s and today

These are my brief notes from the very early 1990s – and they are even more relevant today:

Major signs of business failure:

  • financial ratios
  • lack of cashflow forecasting
  • lack of financial information
  • creative accounting
  • trading irregularities
  • non-financial signs:
    • low

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Jean’s definition of Quality System

What’s the relationship between a quality system, quality assurance, quality control and continuous quality improvement?

 Quality is the degree or standard of excellence, especially a high standard:   the totality of the attributes of a product, component, program or service that …

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