Fostering Teamwork Mis-Understood By Most Small Business Owners
While having lunch with the CEO of a small not-for-profit organization looking for my help to improve their operation I was told improvement was needed in the area of “teamwork.”
She told me, “we need to get people working together more like a team. Right now everyone just works in their own silos.”
I was …
How to Successfully Work with and Manage Millenials
Is the younger, tech-crazed generation giving you a run for your money in the workplace?
An interesting benefit of my work as a professional speaker is interacting with sometimes thousands of people every week, across generations. Few topics illustrate generational differences in the workplace as technology, my particular topic. In fact, it’s impossible to discuss …
How to Manage Your Emails Effectively
Email is one of the most used communication tools in business. It allows us to connect with each other whenever we want and gives us the ability to work together sharing our files or notes from wherever we are. Also, it is fast and easy to use making it very popular. Therefore, everyone prefers to …
How to Get the Sale
How do you get the sale while leaving the client feeling like they won the lottery?
Whether you’re a business owner or employee, in a sales function or not in a revenue-generating position, you are a sales person. We may “sell” our personal brand for a new position or our company’s products and services to …
Championship Results In Small Business Easy To Achieve
April is time when there is a lot of focus on championships in the athletic world in the United States.
When the Major League Baseball season began a couple of weeks ago every team was in first place with equal visions of winning the World Series Championship.
That same week the NCAA Men’s and Women’s …
Controlling Bad Habits for a Successful Career
Habits run our lives. Our behavior has a direct and profound effect on our attitude.
Anyone can manage the good times and can cultivate the habits that promote well-being and success. However, every now and again, we gain bad habits that cause fatigue, depression, and create a significant barrier to success.
When we act like …
Big Challenges for Small Business Owners
Small business owners wear many hats and make many decisions each day. Most of these decisions are small and they have minor impacts. Some, however, are common to most small businesses and can have major impacts. That’s what this post is all about.
The first big challenge facing most small business owners is finances. As …
How to Get Through a Boring Meeting
All of us have been in meetings that we don’t even know why we are there. In these types of meetings, we generally try not to fall asleep while daydreaming and make eye contact with the speaker every few minutes to be seen as paying attention to the meeting. If you feel that you don’t …
How the Workplace Has Changed Over the Years
LinkedIn has put together a great infographic a few weeks ago showing how the workplaces has changed over the years. Everyone is aware that as the technology evolves, our lives evolve with it. Especially, after the mid-90s, the way we communicate and work started to change dramatically.
Do you remember the days where you buy …
What is the Value of Your Personal Brand?
Have you ever wondered exactly how much you’re worth, in tangible currency?
On some level, most of us have questioned our value in our professional lives. Valuation becomes particularly tricky if you don’t occupy a revenue-generating position. T o assign a dollar value to your work, consider the following factors:
How much money are you…