Human Resources

How the 4-Week Vacation Improves Your Business – and Employee Retention

 As a small business owner, I know that you sometimes feel caught in a delicate balancing act - juggling the demands of running a profitable business venture while ensuring...

Get Out of Your Own Way – Lead Less

 I cannot drive this home enough: The biggest linchpin in your business is you. Ouch! It’s true. Many times, your great leadership means great removal of, well, you.  It...

Why Employee Ownership is So Important

 Our businesses are continuously changing. It’s the way of the world now. And I want to share something really wonderful that has enhanced our company’s performance. It’s the concept...

Better Business Leadership – Improving Connection and Employee Confidence

   Regardless of the size of your business, your success depends on your leadership. How we’re defining leadership has changed here in my office, and after seeing the significant...

Establish an Authentic Workplace and Give Your Business – and Morale, a Boost

Recently, I was asked in an interview what my favorite business quote is. Immediately, this popped into my head: “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde.  Hands...

How To Destroy Employee Loyalty

I had dinner a few nights ago with a friend who works for a Fortune 500 company.  He’s been looking for another job for nearly two years now, and he...

Surrounded With Naysayers? Here’s 12 Ways To Deal With Them

You have a great idea. Yet, the naysayers tell you it will never work. If you let them, naysayers can crush your dreams. If you don’t confront them they’ll continue...

How To "Un-Gruntle" Disgruntled Employees

So you have an employee or two and they are disgruntled. That is a problem for lots of reasons but especially the function of your business. So how do you...

5 Ways To Help Manage Someone You Hate

Hate your co-worker or employee? Congratulations!  You have completed the first step in making things work.  Acknowledging you have a problem, after all, is the first step. Ironically, teams where...

The Criticism Challenge

If you have ever had an employee need harsh criticism, you know just how difficult a task it can be. Most people don’t like to dish out criticism, which is...

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