As a business owner, it’s essential to take steps to protect your customers and employees from the novel coronavirus. Not only can this help you keep people safe, but it can also protect you from a costly lawsuit. So, you’re probably wondering what the best procedures are to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the […]
Leadership
3 Easy Tips to Support Employees When the Economy Reopens
A majority of states plan to begin to reopen as the rate of new COVID-19 infections across the country decline. As restrictions lift, businesses may be presented with the opportunity to open their doors again. Businesses may feel relief for an opportunity to enter a new normal. Others may face yet another challenge to overcome. […]
6 Must-Have Skills for Effective Employee Management
Empowering your employees to perform at their best is a key aspect of your role as a manager. It ensures that the company, with the collective effort of its employees, achieves its short-term and long-term goals. However, employee management is not as straightforward as it sounds. To be an effective leader, you’ll need to develop the […]
6 Necessary Leadership Skills During Covid-19
Back in March, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to hit the United States in full force and businesses told employees to work from home, many workers thought they’d be back to business as usual fairly quickly. All that changed when cases of the disease began to climb and companies were required to adapt to a […]
9 Strategies To Promote Your Image As A Communicator
Every business professional and entrepreneur believes they are good communicators, but how do they know? It’s really the perception of the recipients that counts, and poor communicators are almost always poor listeners, so they don’t hear the shortcomings. Warren Buffet once told a class of business students that better communication could boost their value by fifty percent. […]
These 4 Tips Will Improve Your Social Intelligence
The pandemic might make you feel like you’re losing your people skills, but social intelligence is more important than ever. Here are a few of the things you can start working on to improve your relationships and communication skills. Don’t Anticipate When You Should Be Listening If you are spending conversations trying to formulate responses […]
Companies Neglect These 4 Things During the Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the world to a standstill, with most countries in some form of lockdown for the past three months. For businesses, it has been a devastating time. Forced to close their doors or switch to remote working, the pandemic has drastically changed the business environment. As companies struggle to adjust, there […]
This is What Happens When You Don’t Own Your Experience
As an entrepreneur, coach, consultant, speaker, or business owner, you know how important it is to forge your own path. Unfortunately, sometimes that work gets in the way of your confidence in your own abilities. This leads to you undervaluing your work, overextending yourself, and charging less than you should for your hard work. You […]
These States Have the Most Essential Businesses
A swath of the U.S. from the south Atlantic into the heartland has the greatest number of businesses deemed essential during a stay-at-home order. Nonessential businesses are now joining critical industries, opening their doors to the public for the first time in weeks as most state governors loosen COVID-19 restrictions. Although essential businesses vary by […]
Freight Companies Find Ingenious Ways to Survive Covid-19 Crisis
There’s no denying that the growing threat of COVID-19 has had an adverse effect on a number of industries. Although freighting is among the industries to feel the sting, it’s managed to fare better than many other enterprises. Since grocery chains, gas stations, healthcare facilities and other essential institutions depend on the freighting industry to […]
