Leadership
How to Cultivate Your Team’s Creativity by Thinking Outside the Box
Creativity: Is it something innate? Something that can be learned? As a marketer, creativity is needed as much as the air we breathe. But how do you teach creativity? How do you foster it? During…
10 Clues That It May Be Time to Seek Outside Help
If an entrepreneur doesn’t find themselves in over their head at least 20% of the time, they are probably not pushing the limits, not taking enough risk, and probably not working on an idea that’s…
7 Essential Steps to Develop the Art of Leadership
The ability to be a leader is an art, which can be mastered and can be learned and sharpened. Leadership has nothing to do with a title like CEO, Vice President, Manager, General Manager, etc….
How Can Businesses Get Behind the Paris Agreement?
Scientists are predicting a rise in global CO2 levels this year for the first time since 2013 posing the question of whether or not actions are being taken to combat climate change. Despite the Paris…
Continuing the Cycle: How to Develop the Skills of Future Leaders
In our last article, we discussed building your change management plan. Now let’s discuss how to continue the cycle and develop the skills of future leaders. Maintaining Strong Leadership – Building from Within In my experience as…
6 Management Mistakes That Will Kill Employee Motivation
I was talking to an elementary school teacher the other day who works for a major school district. While there are many things she likes about her job, her list of complaints was pretty long….
How to Make a Small Problem into a Big One
Allowing small problems to escalate into big ones is simple. Just ignore the signs for long enough and the job is done. It takes far more energy to review regularly the key performance indicators you’ve…
Even a Taste of Ownership Motivates Employees
How about employees all the way down the line and through the corporation? How do we align them to the goals and strategies of the enterprise? Obviously for the appropriate individuals, a bonus program aligned…
8 Steps to Build Winning Self-Confidence in Business
In my years of mentoring entrepreneurs, a problem I have seen too often is low self-esteem, and over-compensating through arrogance and ego. These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their…
Small Businesses Run the US Economy
Small Business Saturday took place on this past Saturday, November 25, and similar to previous years, it was a banner day for the 29.6 million small businesses operating in the U.S. Originated in 2010 by American Express,…
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