Improve Your Office Productivity By Making 6 Changes
Too often we conflate being productive with quirky new apps designed to help us do a million things at once. Now don’t get me wrong…I love gadgets and apps as much as the next guy, but I have found...
View ArticleYou First
The premise of my newest book, Profit First, is to take your profit prior to expense. Ahem – take your profit first. I am eternally grateful for the emails that stream in every day sharing how this...
View ArticleHow To Get Things Better And Cheaper
In a few rare moments of downtime, I was flipping through TV channels when I happened on Suze Orman. I paused to watch a bit, and her words were profound. She said that financial freedom today achieved...
View ArticleHow To Handle Having Too Much To Do
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Maybe you’re having a panic attack, or a sudden desire to curl up under your desk in a fetal position and cry. Now what? First, recognize it is ok… overwhelm happens. There...
View ArticleStart Your New Employees Off The Right Way
Hiring and training new employees is not only time-consuming, but is also costly. That’s why, when you bring someone aboard, you should be doing all you can to make it a great start. First impressions...
View ArticleThe Element of Job Ads That Is Most Important (And Often Forgotten)
We’ve all seen (and maybe even written) those job ads that make it sound as though the staff is a sunny, smiling crew and the environment is full of high-fives and atta-boys. You know – those job...
View Article5 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...
View ArticleWhat Are Your Office Traditions?
As I am writing this, I just got back from doing push ups. In fact the entire office just did push ups. Why, you ask? Because it is our office tradition. If any one of us here asks a question that...
View ArticleGet Happy About Your Work Again! Here’s 8 Ways To Do It
Hate your work? Do you know why? It’s because you’ve lost your purpose. I mean you could happily carry a load of rocks on your back for 100 miles if you knew it would save the people you loved. The...
View ArticleWhat Makes Great Marketing, Great?
Great marketing generates educated, filtered prospects who are convinced you have the right solution for them. Your sales team gets inquiries from qualified, knowledgeable prospects. Their job is...
View ArticleHow Do I Know That My Employees Trust Me?
The fundamental underpinning for life itself is trust. If people didn’t have trust, they wouldn’t even get-up in the morning. Think about it. Your employee trusts the floor is going to hold them up...
View Article4 Phrases of Amazing Customer Service
I’ve grown my companies by focusing on great customer service. We didn’t always have the biggest names in business working at the firm, and we sure couldn’t always afford the flashiest equipment. What...
View ArticleA Bad Economy Can Be A Good Thing; Here’s 7 Reasons Why
You read the headline correctly! You know all too well that the economy issues have taken its toll on the country. But there is always a silver lining, and the economy is not immune. While the media...
View ArticleThe Right Way To Ask For Help
At one point or another, we all need some form of help, but very few of us really know how to ask for it in the right way. And if you don’t ask in the right way, you risk coming off as selfish or as if...
View ArticleWhat Is Being In Control?
This is likely the most misunderstood concept circulating in modern day society. Being in control means that all the elements of your life are easily managed by you. Effectively you have all the dials...
View Article7 Apps That Should Be Banned From Your Office
We are all – whether we’re the employee or the employer – infinitely distractible. Studies have proven that multitasking is a myth – that while we can switch between and among tasks – we can’t actually...
View ArticleHow To Turn An Argument Into A Productive Discussion
If you think about how many hours you spend with colleagues per week, it is easy to see why you may sometimes find yourself smack dab in the middle of an argument. As much as we would like to think...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Employees Happy (When More Money Isn’t An Option)
In case you’ve been living under a rock — in Antarctica — the economy is still sputtering back to health. The “new” economy is uncomfortable (still) to everyone, including your employees. You may be...
View ArticleThe Best Way To Save A Bad Business Partnership
A confluence of events put me in front of two business partners who hated each other. To make matters worse, they were sisters. 50/50 owners who planned to do everything they could to make a go of...
View ArticleGet Your Slow Employees Working Faster
Productivity, as any entrepreneur can attest to, is one of the, if not the most, important issues that a company has to deal with. Productivity gets things done, and when things get done, the company...
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