Leadership
5 Crucial Ways to Grow Your Small Business
Are you a small business owner? If so, you’re probably doing your level best to keep your customers happy and find ways of earning new ones, right? Well, there are a number of ways you…
Are You One of These Kinds of Procrastinators? Get Moving!
Staring at you is a blank, virtual sheet of paper with a blinking line, waiting for your words to fill the entire page. Writing your proposal, which is the very first thing on your To-do…
How to Become a Leader if You Struggle with Perfectionism
I had a conversation with a friend recently about her career. She’s in a situation where she knows she has a ton of qualities that would make her a great leader at her company. The…
Strong Cultures Welcome Dissent
In Adam Grant’s fantastic (like, “beyond-words fantastic”) new book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World, Chapter 7 includes the story of Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of the venerable investment firm, Bridgewater Associates. I was excited to see that. In one of…
Why Creating Change Requires an Emotional Connection
Why change? Should you change? Is it time to make a change? If not now, when? These are all questions organizations struggle with all the time. If things are going well, do you really want…
Losing Out? How to Keep Your Millennial Employees Invested
As a manager, one of your greatest challenges is finding ways to keep your Millennial employees invested in your company. According to a recent survey of 7,700 Millennials conducted by Deloitte, approximately two-thirds of Millennial…
On Miscommunicating
We know what we want to communicate: it may be something we need to say to our customers to teach, engage, or convince them. it may be to our people, to coach and improve their…
7 Rules for Female Entrepreneurs to Live By
It wasn’t so long ago when the Spice Girls exploded onto the top of the charts, chanting their slogans for world peace and guuuurl power. These days, women are increasingly entering the world of business…
I Never Make a Mistake
Sometimes, to make a point, I like to make a bold statement that on its surface seems controversial, foolish or nonsensical. The intent is to cause people to pause and think. I often say “I…
Adding Team Building Value to Your Next Staff Conference
More and more organizations are looking at ways to incorporate fun and social team building activities into their staff conference programs. A great recent example and showcase of how this can be done effectively was…
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