If you want the best for your business, surround yourself with like-minded individuals. As a business owner, get support from a small business consulting team that has expertise in specific areas. Your CPA plays a critical role for you, but don’t forget about others. Cue your business banker. Your CPA can make sure that you have the right systems in … Read More
Managing Millennial Employees
An expected 75,000,000 millennials are preparing to join or joining the workforce. These can be very good employees. Managing your millennial employees in a fun, yet structured setting will let you build the foundation for the superior workforce you desire. Here are some tips on how to best manage millennial employees: Provide structure. Reports have monthly due dates. Jobs have … Read More
34 Ways To Increase Small Business Earnings
Small business owners want to know how to increase their small business earnings. The good news is there are many ways to make more money. This includes managing every aspect of your practice and striving for productivity growth. Here is a checklist with 34 ways you can make more money for your small business: More sales Better referrals from … Read More
Why Your Office Layout Matters
With the new emphasis on ‘startup culture’ and the different business philosophies it implies, plus millennials placing a strong emphasis on workplace enjoyment, many companies are looking more closely at their own office culture. While there are many factors that comprise a company culture, an undeniably large part of it is office layout and design. How you design and create your … Read More
3 Best Ways to Work with Millennials
The next-generation worker, aka the Millennial, is a big part of the business landscape and a huge part of the future. In fact, by 2020, Millennials will represent 50% of the workforce and an astounding 75% of the workforce by 2025. It’s important that your company caters to this next generation of worker in order to have long-lasting success, but … Read More
How Workplace Conflict Can Improve a Business
Managed correctly, workplace conflict can be a positive source of innovation and creativity. Here are five myths about workplace conflict (plus tips on how to harness its power): 1. Conflict is always negative and should be avoided at work. Quite the contrary. When problems are hidden or masked, they aren’t solved. They fester and grow into bigger problems. Conflict has … Read More
5 Tips for Motivating Team Members
Great managers are made by how well they motivate their team members. Here are five proven ways for motivating people on your staff. 1. They take responsibility for the store’s success and failure. Exceptional managers always have a “the buck starts and stops here” mentality. They never blame weather, competitors, unaligned stars, or anything else if they fall short of … Read More
A Recipe for a Successful Small Business
Since its inception, the United States has always been considered “the land of opportunity” – a place where any individual with motivation and drive can have a successful small business. This notion still holds true today as 99 percent of all American companies are small businesses, according to Small Business Administration. But this doesn’t mean being an entrepreneur or running … Read More
The Art of Positive Feedback
Knowing how to effectively give positive feedback is a powerful tool to develop employee skills and talent. However, many leaders on the front lines, middle management, and upper tiers of organizations often overlook positive feedback and reinforcement, or are unsure or uncomfortable about giving it. Why Positive Feedback Is Important Managers spend a lot of time and focus correcting gaps … Read More
A Simple Trick For Keeping Good Team Members
Finding good staff members is consistently in the top three priorities for small business owners. It seems that business owners will tell you that this problem is worse in their country than any other. Clearly that can’t be true, but it gives an indication of how serious the problem is. Having hired, fired, been amazed by, and let down by … Read More