Become a Data-Driven Organization
As business owners, we’re always pursuing the holy grail of growth. Building a better, more profitable business drives each of us to work hard at what we went into business to do. Unfortunately for many of us, while we work really hard pursuing our growth goals, we don’t always work smart. For example, there’s a…
Read MoreUse a Collaboration Tool to Better Manage Your Team and Boost Productivity
In a peer coaching session that I was facilitating for ten entrepreneurs, Esri, the owner of a small management consulting firm that works with power utilities, expressed a sentiment shared by everyone there. “I have so much work to do and so little time to do it! I constantly feel like my hair is on…
Read MoreGive Your Employees the Feedback They Crave
Your employees crave feedback. They want to know when they do something well. They also want to know how they can improve. In fact, according to a recent survey, 75% of employees believe feedback on their work is valuable. More than 62% would like feedback weekly or even daily. Despite this, only 33% of small…
Read MoreBe Slow to Hire and Fast to Fire
I had a great feeling about Jenna. I met her when she came to my company to meet with us about exploring a potential partnership. She was intelligent, polished, and very professional. A few months later, I needed to fill a critical job within a very tight timeframe. I heard she was in the job…
Read MoreStrengthen Your Relationship with Your Banker
A recent survey of economists concluded that there is a better than 60% chance that the U.S. economy will fall into a recession in 2023. If your response to this is, “sure, that’s what they’ve been saying since last summer,” I’m right there with you. In the past year, we’ve heard all kinds of predictions…
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