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...
TIPS ON GAINING YOUR AUDIENCE’S TRUST
Gaining your Audience’s Trust. How do you earn the confidence of a buyer when the marketplace offers so many choices? What makes one brand trusted and another suspect? There are a lot of answers to those questions. Scammers use a set of techniques to build...
