People Skills
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…
Are You Coping Well with an Ever-Changing Workforce?
In the past, employees would often commit to one company for many years and work their way up the career ladder. However, the working world has changed and has welcomed the rise of millennial workers,…
Soaring to Success: How to Build a Winning Small Business Team
When Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane assembled a contending Major League Baseball team, he gained lots of notoriety for signing players using a strategic analysis of their statistics that had never been done before….
Focus on Your People’s Strengths?
There are a number of thoughtful articles suggesting we get better results in developing our people by focusing on their developing their strengths, not “fixing” them, or criticizing their weaknesses. A recent HBR article, Developing Employees’…
Tell-Tale Signs You Aren’t Ready to Manage Yet
Small businesses don’t grow by themselves. Of course, that’s why you’re expanding. But stepping up to a management role requires a new and unique set of abilities. Sheer determination will only take you so far….
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