There are very few regular activities that continued as they were before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and social activities were even more scarce. In the business world, a somewhat-required social activity is networking, especially for small businesses and individuals looking for new employment. Luckily, just as many jobs have went digital amidst the stay-at-home orders […]
Leadership
What Would Happen to the Business if You Die, Leave or Are Disabled?
Yes, we’re invincible when young When we are young and early in our business lives, we feel infallible to the degree that we do not think of what might happen if we die while in office or decide to leave the company for any reason. Such thoughts just do not occur to most of us […]
Small Business Agility: What Corporations Can Learn from SMEs
SMEs stand for small and medium sized enterprises and are said to make up over 99% of the business sector, according to Simply Business. A company employing 250 people or less, SMEs are categorized as small, medium sized or micro businesses depending on the actual number of staff employed and amount of business turnover created. […]
Ensure Your Small Business Always Meets Targets
Pexels – CCO Licence All businesses rely on meeting their targets to achieve commercial success. For smaller firms, in particular, limited resources and a bigger reliance on cash flow means it’s essential to hit your targets. Whether you’re falling short of your sales targets, your productivity is dropping or you’re missing your customer acquisition goals, […]
4 Excellent Ways to Effectively Manage Remote Teams
Nowadays, we are often part of teams that are based all over the U.S., Europe and beyond. Just because you all work for the same company does not always mean that you end up working within the same office. As a result, it is important that those in charge are able to effectively manage those […]
How to Make Your Small Business More Green
You care about the environment, and you’d love to make your small business green. You may worry about the costs of sustainability for a smaller company, though. How do you go about reducing your brand’s carbon footprint while remaining profitable? In a survey by Nielsen, 81% of consumers stated companies should improve the environment. People […]
Leaders: Why Going Easy on Everyone Benefits No One
During a meeting with a group of executives, one CEO shared her frustration about an employee who repeatedly failed to get his work done on time. We did some role playing, where the CEO said she would ask the employee what she could do to help him complete a specific task. This, of course, was […]
Why a Peer Leadership Group Might be Right for You…Right Now
The expression used to be that it is “lonely at the top” but today with the global pandemic, it’s not only about being lonely but feeling alone as well. While you are keeping up with the day to day tasks of running your business, you are probably trying to think about how your business strategy […]
What Are the Basic Essentials of Strategic Management?
Strategic management is referred to the process of specifying the objectives of the brand, developing policies and modelling ways to achieve the objectives, to ultimately allocate the resources to apply the plan. It is considered to be an elite level of managerial operations that is solely restricted for the top management of the organisation to […]
Why Employee Experience Needs More C-Suite Attention
Business leaders recognize the importance of customer experience and how it affects the success of their company, but what about employee experience? Over 80 percent of executives agree that employee experience is important, but only 22 percent of them believe their organizations offer excellent employee experience. In fact, 59 percent of business leaders report that […]
