How to Swing Back After a Business Venture Goes Awry
Even many of the most successful entrepreneurs have the experience of a business venture going wrong. The intricacies of business can cause a venture to falter, even if you’re not directly responsible for the downfall. Unfortunately, the many moving cogs of a new venture can cause you to overlook essential factors, resulting in a regretful …
Small Hacks to Make Your Employees Happier and Improve Employee Retention Rate
Sometimes employees don’t feel engaged at work, leading to a less-than-positive work ethic and environment. That doesn’t mean employers should stream cat videos on a loop to keep workers alert, but engaged employees mean engaged customers.
According to a 2015 Gallup Poll, 32 percent of American employees feel engaged at work, while 50.8 percent of …
Brand Your Business Through Volunteering and Community Service
You may spend a significant amount of time branding your business with taglines, logos and a distinctive voice used throughout offline and online content, but have you thought about how having a service-oriented attitude could help your business stand out in the marketplace, too? If not, you’re overlooking a potentially valuable factor that could help …
6 Tips for Doing International Business Branding
Technology has connected our world more than ever before. Now we can enjoy easier international travel and exchange of goods and services overseas.
If you run a company in the United States, it may be time to start thinking about expanding your global reach beyond the US and into international territory. That step may seem …
Why Hard Workers Need Quality Sleep
Many consider sleep as another obligation to fulfill in the everyday routine. If that mindset continues, you may influence your quality of sleep at night. If you dread sleep, the experience won’t be a pleasant one.
Gaining quality sleep is vital for hard workers to do their best every day, and clocking in seven to …
How Being a Lifelong Learner Will Boost Your Career
Technology and industrial practices are continually evolving, so why should your education end the moment you walk across the stage and grab your diploma? Continuing to learn in the years following college can accelerate your career and separate you as an industry leader. Here’s why it’s important to keep your natural curiosity alive even outside …
Ask Yourself These 10 Questions Before Jumping On a Job Offer
When you’ve sent out dozens of resumes and interviewed almost as many times, finally receiving a job offer feels like the ultimate reward. But just because someone offers you a job doesn’t necessarily mean that you should take it.
An interview not only helps your potential employer get to know you, it’s also an opportunity …
Tips for Protecting Your Small Business
Whereas big businesses tend to have a variety of well-staffed departments devoted to the legal, physical and digital protection of their business, small business owners often must take a more hands-on approach to protecting their operations. Small businesses face unique challenges and risks that their larger counterparts do not, making encompassing protection an extreme priority.…
How to Attract Only the Best Job Candidates
Need workers but not looking forward to combing through resumes from applicants who clearly didn’t read the job description? In a best-case scenario, an employer will recruit a talent pool of the most qualified candidates with a high aptitude and passion for the work.
Traditionally, that involves reviewing endless data and choosing, at best, 10 …
How to Reset a Bad Work Day
Most people don’t wake up ready to start the day like Snow White singing to her helpful little birds. Most days you get caught up in the hustle and bustle and have to push through, and then, there are the bad days when you’re just not feeling it.
The alarm goes off late. Your forehead …