Open Culture
How to Boost Morale and Build Company Culture
What kind of emotional environment are you creating in your office? You might not think about this question daily, but you need to be thinking about it if you want your business to succeed. If…
Are Leaders Responsible for Employee Burnout?
Think you are setting the right example by working all hours and rewarding your employees when they do the same? Perhaps this isn’t you at all, but you can’t understand why your employees seem burnt…
The Small Business Road Map to a Collaborative Culture
For small businesses, making the most out of every team member’s strengths is a must. It’s the only way to compete in the global economy, which often pits upstart businesses against far-larger and more established…
5 Proven Ways to Keep Employee Morale High
We’ve all heard the phrase “happy wife, happy life.” There should be another similar phrase when it comes to running a business, “happy employees, more successful company.” While it doesn’t have the same rhyme (unless…
4 Tips for Creating 2-Way Dialogue with All-Hands Meetings
From eye-rolls visible in an open-plan office to sizeable groans behind closed doors, the announcement of an all-hands meeting doesn’t always receive the response you want. In reality, they might be the opposite of what…
Change Your Management Style to Meet Today’s Culture
Change is hard. But these days it’s required and inevitable. Yet, in my daily role as an advisor to entrepreneurs and small business owners, struggling to boost revenues, profits, and earnings, I still see too…
How Do You Recognize Transparency?
Transparency seems to be everywhere in the media lately so it has been only fitting that we have been discussing it. We’ve been studying “mea culpa” ad campaigns and how the marketplace’s expectations around transparency…
4 Unusual Ways to Re-Energize Your Team
Often, managers are required to get their employees motivated and full of energy. Periodically, employees experience doldrums or feel they are stuck in a rut. Therefore, it is the manager’s job to find ways to…
3 Tips for Changing Corporate Culture with the Cloud
Moving to the cloud is among the smartest moves modern small businesses can make. The technology can provide SMEs with cost savings and better security. But it’s also likely to have an impact on corporate…
The Flipside of Hustle Culture
Platitudes like “Thank God It’s Monday” have been stressing the younger generation’s emphasis on so-called hustle culture. While some upstart tech companies like WeWork have implored their staffers to do what they love, in reality…
