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Do You Know What Your Employees Are Saying About Your Technology?
Some business owners are eager to learn what customers have to say about their company, but many may overlook an important audience for feedback: their employees. Do you know how your employees feel...
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Summer Is Almost Here—Is It Time to Hire a Student or New Grad?
The economy may be improving, but its effects aren’t yet trickling down to younger workers. Thirty-two percent of 18- to 29-year-olds in the U.S. workforce were underemployed last month, according to a...
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Multitasking Could Be Slowing You Down
I’ll be the first to highlight the many ways technology helps us accomplish more things quickly. But have you ever found yourself juggling an IM chat with one colleague and a phone conversation with...
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Are You Really Listening to Your Customers?
Do you ask your customers what they think about your business, whether in person, by email or online? Great! Next question: Do you listen to their answers? Customers don’t think so, according to a new...
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Are You Ready for Retirement?
Did the title of this blog post make you do a double-take? Retirement isn’t something many small business owners think about. Most of us, no matter what our ages, are too passionate about our...
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Give These Gifts to Your Team – All Year Long
This time of year we’re all thinking about gifts—shopping for them, wrapping them, enjoying them. So it’s an apropos time to think about the gifts you can give your staff in the coming year. I’m not...
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Choosing Work-Life Balance As An Entrepreneur
My business partner used to tell his grandchildren that owning a business meant you could choose whatever eighty hours a week you wanted to work. It’s too easy to let that be true. Entrepreneurship is...
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5 Ways to Convince Your Family to Respect Your Business
When you have your family behind you, cheering you on, starting a business can be exciting, fulfilling, and a dream come true. When your family resents your business, your new business venture can be a...
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Learning to Say “No”
It’s January – that month when we all experience both the letdown of the holidays being behind us and the elation of the new year ahead with all its possibilities for how we will fix our business and...
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How to Keep Your Projects From Going Haywire
Are you running your small business using independent contractors? More and more of us small business owners are doing so these days. Independent contractor relationships provide many benefits for...
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Basics of Hiring For a Start-up
Hiring at a a start-up is probably the hardest task of anything we’ve talked about. It may be harder than deciding how much equity to give up to investors, or deciding on product features. There are...
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Employee Handbooks – More Than Just a “Book of Rules”
Many people look at an employee handbook as simply a “book of rules,” but it can be so much more. Employee handbooks can provide a means of communicating company policies and other key information to...
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How to Effectively Hire Out / Outsource Your Company Blog
Blogging is useful but also time consuming. Many owners do not have the time (or the writing skills) to consistently publish new content on a weekly basis. Outsourcing or hiring out this marketing task...
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Start-up Hiring 101
Hiring employees at a start-up is probably the most important step of any business’s growth. The people you hire are the eyes, ears, hands, and mouth of the company. They will create the products and...
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7 Tips for Leading and Growing Your Business as a Team
To what do you credit your business success? The financing you got during your start-up or growth phase? Your visionary business plan? Or perhaps your steadfast and determined leadership? The truth is,...
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Building a Cohesive Leadership Team #2 – Mastering Conflict
Fear of conflict is almost always a sign of problems within an organization. Productive ideological conflict = willingness to disagree, even passionately but only when there is TRUST. When trust is...
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Utilizing Your Business Processes for Effective Recruiting and Selection
In my last post, I provided a process-based approach one can take to set the conditions required to ensure your business environment includes processes which facilitate desired employee behaviors. So,...
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Avoiding the Pitfall of Employee Misclassification
Of all the decisions business owners face, classifying workers is often one that can be overlooked and/or undervalued. The issue of misclassification generally falls into two categories: determining...
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How to Assemble A “Crack” Startup Team With Family, Contractors and Interns
I can already hear you groaning – “Working with relatives? I’d rather save the familial drama and handle everything by myself.” Unfortunately you may not be able to juggle all the responsibilities of a...
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Top 5 Safety Tips Every Business Owner Should Know
Workplace safety is a hot topic, indeed. But what does workplace safety actually encompass? Of course, employers want to keep their employees safe and injury free while at work, but many are not...
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