HOW CAN I BE MORE PRODUCTIVE EVERY DAY?
Ever wish you could be in two places at one time? We’ve all felt the stress of having too much to do all at once. While we can’t help you clone yourself, we can provide some ideas on how to make the time you do have go further. Give your productivity a boost with...
CREATING A BUSINESS PLAN: WHY YOU SHOULDN’T WING IT
A business plan is more than a document that sits on a shelf or in a folder somewhere collecting dust. It's a living, breathing document that should be consulted regularly to decide with roads to take. Which of these groups would win a race from Los Angeles to New...
WHY YOUR PERSONAL BRANDING IS YOUR BUSINESS
Your business already has a brand. It may not have a logo or a website yet, but it has YOU, and you bring something unique to the marketplace. Maybe you just need to figure out how to capture and communicate it in a way that customers understand. Maybe you need to...
FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR A PROFITABLE BUSINESS
What makes the difference between a healthy, profitable business and one that just scrapes by? One major factor is the financial literacy level of decision makers. The more you know about the flow of money through your business, the more likely that your enterprise...
ORGANIZE YOUR WORKFLOW… AND DON’T FORGET WHAT YOUR TIME IS WORTH!
What is your time worth? Are you using your time to its fullest advantage? As you organize your workflow, factor your own time value in to help you meet your business goals sooner. When Henry Ford's small army of electrical engineers at a Dearborn, Michigan plant...
FIVE REASONS CUSTOMER SERVICE IS EVERYONE’S JOB
Customer Service has escaped the call center and landed squarely on your desk. Actually, customer service is everyone’s job, really. Let’s test out that theory… Manufacturing a product? Yup, it’s meeting a customer’s need with a well-designed solution. Training and...
STOP MICROMANAGING YOUR BUSINESS!
First of all, let’s get a clear understanding of what micromanaging is and what it might do to your people. Also- be aware that it’s mostly a bad thing and worse, I meet a lot of business owners who don’t even know they’re doing it. Stop micromanaging and you won't...
TAKE OWNERSHIP OF YOUR CAREER
Imagine a hockey game without goals. Yep, if they take away the little nets at each end the game turns into the players skate around just flicking the puck to each other. The final score would always be 0 - 0. Let's try football without end zones? How about basketball...
SWOT – UNDERSTANDING YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
The Meaning of SWOT: Analyzing your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunites, and Threats Who came up with SWOT? Like coffee and taking naps, it’s one of the best ideas we humans have cooked up. The person who came up with the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and...
HOW TO RUN A NONPROFIT LIKE A BUSINESS
Many non-profit organizations don't see themselves as a business. It's time they stop seeing themselves that way and run the non-profit the same way that a business would run. The foundations for both are similar so we'll help you understand how to run a nonprofit...
BUSINESS NETWORKING THE RIGHT WAY
Like most things in life, our success rests on our relationships. Commerce in particular is so tightly tied to the ability to make and maintain business relationships that it's hard to imagine anyone ignoring it! Refuse to reach out and your business will not succeed....
HOW DO I CHANGE MY COMPANY’S CULTURE?
Culture shock is the feeling of disorientation that arises when a person is immersed in a society with very different ways of interpreting reality and acting on those assumptions. When people ask, "How do I change my company's culture?" we don't offer simplistic...