People Skills
4 Simple Ways to Develop Leadership in Your Team
As a small business owner, you have made your dream a reality. Part of that dream is finding the right team to help run your business. There’s a lot of value in being a mentor…
Do You Make Any of These 5 Common Management Mistakes?
Nobody’s perfect. Especially where small businesses are concerned, even the best managers make mistakes. Today, we’re going to talk about the blunders that are made more often than any other—and how you can avoid making…
Tips for Working with or Managing Remote Teams
Here at Seer, we are no strangers to working with people around the country. Many of our clients aren’t based in Philly or San Diego, and as we grow our team, many of our employees…
Best Practices for Delegation
Successful delegation becomes possible when operations are consistent, proactive, and, most importantly, when decisions do not only rely on one person’s perspective. The CEO may have started their business, but it takes a team to…
Does Team-Building Really Work? Here Are 4 Ways to Know
When it comes to your workforce, productivity, engagement and morale go hand in hand. How do you motivate your team to perform to the best of their abilities? What makes a high performing team? How…
3 Solid Ways to Create Lasting Employee Loyalty
Would you be surprised to discover that more than half of the workforce is unhappy about their work environment? For decades we believed that the monetary rewards for the jobs they do is enough incentive…
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…
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….
How Can You Let a Talented Employee Go to Pursue a New Career?
It is tough to lose your best employees wanting to advance their careers. Sometimes you can be the coach, helping them even if it means losing them. And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can…
Business Ethics: When It’s OK to Burn Bridges
If you’re like me, you’ve heard this saying fairly consistently while growing up, through your first jobs, University, and into the business world: “Don’t burn bridges.” If you haven’t heard this saying before, then let…