By Emma Sturgis When morale is up, employees perform better. It’s the simple reality of life that cannot be ignored. As a business owner, it’s in your best interest to keep your workforce’s morale at consistently high levels. This leads to higher employee satisfaction and, consequently, retention rates. Here are four ways you can help […]
Sooner or later – and usually both! – small business owners suffer an attack by the most sly and underhanded enemy of them all: Discouragement. If I were writing a job description for a small business owner, one of the qualities I’d list would be something like this: Must be proficient at handling extreme discouragement. […]
Oct. 17 is Bosses Day and we’re in the middle of fall, but I want to skip ahead a season to talk about leadership: What can you learn about small business leadership from an old Christmas movie? Quite a lot, if you stop and think about it. See if you agree. For many families, watching […]
The experts speak in this week’s collection of curated content. The topics are many and varied: Travel tips, Instagram marketing tips, the importance of women entrepreneurs, and many more. Don’t put off reading through this…and if you tend to procrastinate, skip down to the advice from Jayson DeMers. Leadership, management, and productivity Small business owners […]
You’ve launched your start-up. Things are going well, and you’re building your team. Suddenly, you find yourself in the position of being the leader, the captain of the ship, and you may be wondering what it means to be a really good leader, and do you have what it takes? John Quincy Adams said, “If […]