Productivity Hacks: Simple And Effective Ways To Improve Your Focus
Staying productive is both extremely important and very difficult. The lure of time-wasting distractions is hard to resist, and that doesn’t include urgent but unimportant tasks that seem to draw attention away from those critical projects. Here are some simple and...
5 Helpful Strategies To Promote Teamwork
Teamwork, the ability for all members of the team to not only work well together but to enhance and support the work of the rest of the team, is critical to the success of any business. Interestingly, as critical as this is, it’s also quite simple, boiling down to...
How To Equip Your Employees For Exceptional Customer Service Experiences
“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” –Stephen R. Covey To have a list of loyal, satisfied customers is every business owner's dream. To make that dream come true, your employees must feel capable of making decisions and...
A First-Time Manager’s Guide To Letting Someone Go
Very few people find terminating an employee to be an enjoyable moment. So, imagine how stressful it is for a new manager. There are several steps to help in making this process as smooth as possible. Communicate Beforehand The first question I always ask when someone...
Clarity And Focus: Why You Need Both to Become A Successful Entrepreneur
To become a successful entrepreneur there are many personal requirements. Two critical requirements are clarity and focus. Clarity Many people think clarity is simple, that it’s an overall understanding of the goals they want to reach. They make a list of all the...
5 Steps to Build Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is widely desired and rarely achieved. Engaged employees come to work ready to do a great job and have a passion for their work. They feel connected with their co-workers, management, customers, and the company’s goals and vision. Most employees...
How To Forge Your Own Leadership Path And Get Unstuck From Behind Your Desk
One of the most gratifying things about being an entrepreneur is that you get to choose your own path. Each of us has the ability and the capacity to lead a life by our own design, not by what someone else thinks is best for us and our business. The problem is that so...
7 Hiring Mistakes Business Owners Should Avoid
Do you believe that good help is hard to find? Hiring a new team member can be a daunting and overwhelming task for business owners. Finding the right candidate takes an investment of time, effort, energy, and resources. Bad hires are costly to your business. Not only...
7 Ways to Get Unstuck So You Can Live the Life You Were Meant to Live
Wanna get unstuck? According to Lisa T. Schlesinger, there are two ways that your life can derail. The first is due to a change in your master plan, such as a divorce or experiencing the loss of a loved one. The second occurs when we feel stuck. Although the first...
Discover Your Loyal Customers for Successful Connections and Increased Profits
Every business owner’s goal is to build a solid customer base with loyal customers for increased profits and financial growth. One strategic way to do this is to uncover who your loyal clients are, what keeps them happy to work with you, and of course, getting more...
3 Tips For Building An Exceptional Team
Employees are the heart and soul of your business. After all, a business is only as strong and experienced as its team. The success of your business is in the hands of your people. They take hundreds – possibly thousands – of actions on your behalf every day, and if...
How to Have More Time in Just 5 Easy Steps
Have you ever planned for a productive day, but when the day is over your to-do list seems no different than when you got started or worse yet... it’s grown? This doesn’t mean you’re lazy or incompetent; what it means is that you may want to work on your productivity...
7 Things I Learned as a Child and How They Can Make You More Successful Today
You learned a lot as a child, and my guess is that you have also spent the last few years, or even decades, unlearning it all. If you don’t use it, you lose it. All those math equations, science facts, and English terms that you learned when you were a kid have...
Case Study: How Cory Grew His Business through Referrals…
Case Study: How Cory Grew His Business through Referrals, Learned to Trust His Authentic Self, and Found Inner Peace Cory, a prominent wealth manager, had no idea he could benefit from working with an intuitive business coach. He met Kathy a few years ago through a...
Why You Should Ignore Memes and Forge Your Own Path
When you hear the word “meme”, you probably think about the colorful and entertaining pictures you see on social media. Memes usually feature a joke, a message, or a thought-provoking statistic or question. These images get shared over and over because people find...