Creating Healthy Environments
Employees need a healthy environment in order to create a more successful business. Pay attention and develop your culture.
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The Power of Community
There is nothing more powerful than getting together with your community. The connection with other people can and will give you strength and support.
5 steps to dealing with loneliness as a leader
Loneliness is one of the most demoralizing states that at some point in our life we will have to come face to face with. Loneliness comes upon us like a giant there to steal our soul, robbing from us our happiness and contentment. This giant comes at the moments in our life when we are
Resilience: The Key to Bouncing Back
After several weeks of “stay at home” orders and now that some of the states are starting to open up, the focus we are seeing from business owners has adjusted from “how do I survive?” to “how do I get ready to open?” The key is resilience. Webster defines resilience as “the capacity to recover
How to Lead in Survival Mode:
Gallup Poll recently sent out a post that sited the top four things that individuals are looking for at this moment. The global study of What Followers Want found that what 7 billion citizens’ demand of those that are leading, is the need to lead, “with (1) compassion, (2) stability, (3) trust, and (4) hope
The key to more sales is connecting emotions: 5 emotions customers need.
We all seek to understand exactly why our customers purchase from us. What makes them tick? Why do they purchase from us or from any for that matter? 100’s of books are written on buyer’s psychology, or making the perfect pitch in order to get the customer to purchase. It is actually not all that
Mastering the Negative
Why is it that we often look at life and are surprised by the fact that there are negative things that happen to everyone? It is almost like they jump out from behind the corner and we are startled by the fact that there is uncertainty within our world. Yet we can see that throughout
Understanding and Managing Risk Tolerance
I recently had a great discussion with a few business owners on the ability to take on risk. Each of the companies mentioned that they have been considering different opportunities that were available and each was looking through their own lens of “Risk Tolerance”. Risk, as defined by Webster Dictionary, is “a situation involving exposure
Breaking out of Your Comfort Zone
This may come as a shock to you but then again it really shouldn’t. We are either taught how to live in COURAGE or how to live in FEAR! I talk with several small business owners weekly, and then part of a group of several hundred small business owners. The main difference that I am
Partnership: 4 steps to see if they good for your business?
Throughout my career in business and as an entrepreneur I have had the experience of some really great partnerships and then some really bad partnerships. Everyone loves to talk about the bad partnerships, the horror stories of how they have lost thousands, or even possibly tens of thousands of dollars. Some have even stated that