What Americans Would Give Up for a Stress-Free Job If you’ve ever confided in a friend about how stressful your job can be, you’ve likely been told, “You just need to find a new job.” What if I told you it isn’t always about what your job...
Employee Communication and the Bottom Line Motivating employees is a real art. But it’s easier said than done. Employee communication and engagement are techniques that are cultivated over the lifetime of a career, and one strategy that I’ve found works almost universally is to show staff how their work affects the company’s bottom line. ...
The Real Reason Your Résumé is Being Ignored Job hunting can be an incredibly frustrating process. You’ve brushed up your résumé, written a solid cover letter, and have been applying to roles that seem darn near tailor-made for you… But when your phone is silent, and your inbox remains empty… It...
How Leaders of Color Can Support C-Suite Diversity Through Mentoring The benefits of having a mentor have been widely studied and discussed. Professionals who have been mentored enjoy higher salaries, more opportunity for promotions, and greater career satisfaction, as a result of their mentor’s...
See Something, Say Something – Speak Up to Improve Your Business “It can feel like a rigged game. Executives set impossible goals, so managers drive their teams to burn out trying to deliver. Employees demand connection and support, so managers...
Avoiding The 5 Worst Workplace Conversations Business owners and managers have enough on their plates without having to mediate employee disagreements. Simple differences in personality and approach to getting work done can cause friction between co-workers, but many workplace disagreements...
Keep Your Business Booming: Five Keys to Small Business Success Being a small business owner in the United States is hard work. No matter what comes your way, you and your employees are all you have. Some factors are beyond...
5 Things You Can Do Today to Work Toward Becoming Your Own Boss Many of us aspire to become our own boss, but few know what skills are necessary to this. I reached out to serial entrepreneur, Jessica Higgins JD...
5 Improvement Areas for More Effective Sales and Customer Service Hiring It is well known in the retail community that hiring effective customer service and sales representatives leads to better customer interactions. But did you know that making a great...
2018: The Year of the Team While the Chinese zodiac named 2018 as the Year of the Dog, we’ve named it the Year of the Team. We all know how important teamwork is to the success of any business. Business...
I had no idea there are so many great resources available to make a small business – even micro businesses – look BIG to the rest of the world. Thirty years with Fortune 500s and one start-up that grew bigger...
Like any other employees, executives have their share of workplace challenges. However, it may come as a surprise that the big worries keeping them up at night don’t have to do with the economy or shareholders, but rather something much...
Nine Keys to Success for Your Management Career Congratulations! You’re a new manager! You studied economics, medicine, manufacturing, politics, sales, etc. You worked your way up in your respective field. And then you became a manager and on top of...
How can you be more creative to compete and succeed in today’s modern world? Ironically, the answer is not to work more hours, but actually fewer. I discussed this surprising concept with Aaron Edelheit, noted entrepreneur and author of The...
The workplace is transforming at an unprecedented rate. We’ve now entered the cognitive era, where machines have the capacity to learn, reason, and interact with humans. This has resulted in blurred boundaries between humans and technology. But there’s nothing to...
5 Tricks to Get Better, Faster Replies to Business Emails Inboxes are crowded places. With the constant flow of email marketing vying for our attention, it’s more important than ever to get strategic about business email. Emailing eats up a...
Stressed or Not? Your Business Chemistry Might Be the Key In today’s corporate environment, workplace stress seems inevitable – but people can react to pressure differently. Faced with the same trigger, one person may remain cool as a cucumber while...
