Leadership
Small Business Survey Reveals Areas to Gain a Competitive Advantage
A recent survey of 1,794 small business owners revealed expected—and unexpected—results, some of which can help you find ways to better competitively position your business in the coming months and years. The first finding that…
How Important is Communication in the Workplace?
Workplace communication is vital for any business to run successfully. It doesn’t matter if you’re offering a trade, you sell stock online or you’re a logistics company. Without an effective communication strategy, your business will…
Self-Leadership: A Prerequisite for Teamwork
Building effective teams requires building self-leaders. Let’s start with teams first. Is it better for organizations to be more like a natural (wild) garden or an orchestra? One of these models is not better than…
Learn to Never Handle a Paper or Email Twice
We all do it… to our own detriment. So, let’s make a pact that we will try, if not succeed, to handle our incoming messages more efficiently. Personal time management helps immensely to make a…
Be a Leader Who Makes Employees Love Their Jobs
Well, okay, you can’t really force everyone to love their job, but you can certainly create a culture and environment that nurtures and supports your employees and gives them every reason to enjoy their work….
3 Ways to Ease into Industrialized Construction (It Pays to Be Diligent)
“Industrialized” construction may not exactly sound fun to longtime contractors and builders who relish the craft aspects of their trade. But the adoption of industrial, prefabricated, and manufacturing techniques by construction firms is an emerging…
5 Helpful Tips to Optimize Your Employee Schedule
An essential part of running any business is taking the time to schedule employees effectively. However, for many employers, the process is often disorganized, time consuming and in some cases, downright frustrating. Shift scheduling is…
The Secrets to Resilience
“There’s only one thing that’s worse than having an unhappy childhood, and that’s having a too-happy childhood.” – Dylan Thomas Research shows that the majority of successful people had a tough start to their lives. But…
3 Easy Ways to Educate Your Employees While They Work
Training is one of the most critical areas to funnel resources into for your business. Giving people the training, skills, and information they need to be successful in their jobs is crucial to the long-term…
The Business World Needs Women and Their Leadership
There are many examples of forward-thinking and successful women in business, but popular media portrays this world as male-driven, which has to change. Getting a degree in business may seem risky, especially since success is…
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