People Skills
3 Ways to Keep Your Best Talent for the Long Haul
When trying to get a startup off the ground, so much time and effort goes into developing the product and reaching the customer that founders often forget about the most important part of the company…
How Employee Engagement Impacts You
Wasting money is one of the quickest ways to drop a small business to its knees. As a small business owner, you know it’s critical to avoid unnecessary expenditures and to look for the best…
3 Key Elements of a Strong Change Management Framework
Realizing a need for change and having a plan to stimulate change are very different. Making any type of change to the status quo is never easy—it’s even more difficult without a clear change management…
How to Start Your Employees’ Day on the Right Note
The way you start a day can set a precedent for the several hours to follow. That’s why nutritionists say it’s so important to begin a day with a balanced meal. The same goes for…
How to Create a Core Team You Can Trust
How many times have you heard this line in a movie: “I don’t know if I can trust you…”? The line always comes at a pivotal moment. If there isn’t any trust, then the love…
5 Reasons Small Business Owners Need to Delegate
Being co-founder and CEO of a startup company for the past 18 months has taught me the importance of delegating. As your company grows, you’ll find that doing everything yourself is simply impossible and relying…
How Do You Focus Your Team for Action?
How do you get your team to focus and move forward effectively? A fellow CEO recently told me of her method of assuring positive movement within her team. She holds a weekly meeting of her…
How Small Businesses Can Harness Millennial Power
Millennials; they’re a huge group, constantly dialed into their phones, and constantly lamenting about their student loans. They’re also extremely talented, and notorious for job hopping. As a working millennial, I’ve personally hopped through eleven…
5 Proven Ways to Build and Manage Great Teams
A team is a group of people who come together towards a common goal. In any given organization, there must be a functional team to work to run effectively. In as much as people are…
How to Mentor Your Employees
No business owner wants to look around the office and see a bunch of bored, lazy employees who are all but falling asleep at their desks. Aside from making good hiring decisions, what else can…