Posts Tagged ‘Team’
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 surely fail, which is not a sign of a good leader. Here are just some of the reasons why communication…
Read MoreSelf-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 the other—they reflect different purposes. A natural garden has beauty, freedom of expression, and individuality that cannot be reproduced in…
Read MoreHave You Been Celebrating Each Victory?
Here comes another story. Of course. This one may be like one or more you have experienced in your company. It is a story about focus upon the customer, first. And about reinforcing the culture of the company in support of that important focus by senior management, and by all employees who see that leadership…
Read More4 Ways to Boost Communication with Your Team
Communication is the #1 most important factor for creating a strong office environment. You can have an excellent product, the best team, and the newest tech, but if you’re not open to genuine communication, your business won’t succeed. The benefits to having a strong culture of communication in your office are clear. The Aveta Business…
Read MoreEarn Trust from Your Workers and Get Rewarded with More Customers
In today’s world, everything is visible in a digital way. An all-tech, always-on culture and lifestyle means that privacy is perishing quickly. That means that being earnest and building and maintaining a culture of trust is of the utmost importance in today’s world. A company can build and maintain trust from two angles in order…
Read MoreHow to Empower Your Team to Build a Culture You’re Proud Of
By 2020, millennials will comprise of roughly 50 percent of the global workforce. Just like the emergence of any other generation, companies will have to deal with a new set of challenges and create a different working environment and culture for their talents. Today, millennials are inevitably becoming a larger influence on the future of our…
Read MoreThese 3 Practices Might Seem Obvious, But Are You Doing Them Right?
The business world has never been more competitive than it is right. With the advance of technology, this has allowed everyone, not matter education or income, to start a business and be successful. Business owners and operations managers know the struggle it can be to juggle all of the tasks that need to be done,…
Read MoreHow to Harness the Simple—and Free—Secret to Increased Productivity: Gratitude
Could your business benefit from: Increased loyalty? Higher productivity? Fewer sick days? A positive attitude? An important key to gaining these advantages is simple…and in many ways free: Gratitude. A Harvard Mental Health Letter summarizes the findings of several academic studies on the impact of gratitude in our personal lives and in the workplace, and overall, the…
Read More6 Reasons Why Office Gossip is Bad for Your Business
As an entrepreneur, you should treat gossip among the members of your team as a reduction in productivity at best, and at worst, an indication of unhappy, un-empowered, or non-collaborative employees. As a leader, you should be asking yourself if you are the problem, and working hard to improve the situation before it gets out…
Read More6 Ways to Incent Breakthrough Innovation in Your Team
Breakthrough innovation is the dream of every entrepreneur, but it’s still a scarce commodity. Selecting and nurturing people who are likely to help you in this regard is an even more elusive capability, and one that every angel investor, like myself, wishes he could get a lock on. In fact, every manager and business owner…
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