Let’s Talk Business Strategy: 4 Tips for Developing a Business GrowthPlan
A shocking 90 percent of businesses fail to execute their business plans. Many put a good deal of time and effort into creating those plans. So why do so many …
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What Is Your Leadership Style: 4 Leadership Styles Explained
Statistics show that up to 70 percent of workers are disengaged in the workplace. Disengaged worker are not productive workers. This means most people are doing just enough not to …
What to Include in Your Independent Contractor Agreement
It’s the dreaded situation no business owner wants to find themselves in. Hiring an independent contractor to save yourself time just to end up chasing them around for weeks for what you …
Tools that Winning Teams Are Embracing
Virtual teams wouldn’t exist if not for advances in technology. It’d be pretty difficult to work remotely by communicating with carrier pigeons. But while technology empowers remote teams, it also creates new challenges.
The Trick to Getting Workplace Flexibility Right
The benefits of allowing associates to tailor when, where and how they work are clear. However, you may never realize those benefits if your policies and best practices are not properly implemented. Getting Workplace Flexibility right depends on how well you execute three key aspects.
The Key to Unlocking Your Organization’s Potential
With a menu of flexible work options employees are no longer locked into traditional routines — like clocking in and clocking out. Rather, success is measured by results (e.g. the fulfillment of certain duties and responsibilities) and workers are afforded more freedom in deciding how to effectively perform their job functions.
What it Means to be Flexible
Flexibility can be a game-changer in the business world. Workplace flexibility, along with its inherent benefits, is something to be admired and perhaps even doggedly pursued. But, what does flexibility look like from a practical or logistical standpoint? How do you know if your company truly is flexible?
If I Fall Will You Catch Me?
Remember the trust fall scene in the 2004 comedy classic, “Mean Girls” where Miss Norbury (Tina Fey) holds a rally for the students to apologize for their wrong doings? After each girl apologizes, she falls backwards into a crowd of students as a symbol of trust. Wouldn’t it be cool if your team could trust YOU when they fall?
Why We Love Project Managers for Small Business
Big businesses have long embraced the value of Project Managers. It’s time we caught up. PMs are specialists in the art of working smarter (also known as productivity). And who better to benefit from the magic of project management than a time-crunched, boot-strapping entrepreneur?
To Change the Culture, Change Your Habits
Managing change requires us to say goodbye to long held beliefs, learn new ways of “doing” or sometimes even risk embarrassment when we don’t know the answer. But, managing change isn’t enough. We have to lead it.