Effective Communication Rockets Business Results!
Leaders and business owners often look at communication as a ‘soft skill’ that they don’t have time to develop. They simply don’t recognize the bottom line cost of poor communication. In a survey of 400 corporations, an estimated $37 billion is lost due to poor...
Does Your Office Space Inspire Productivity?
The modern office space has come a long way from the standard cubicle farm. Now more than ever, businesses are creating offices that cater to all types of workers — whether they are millennials, Gen Xers, collaborators, introverts or extroverts. With companies such as...
The Accountability v. Blame Game
Accountability or the blame game, what happens most frequently at your business? When things don’t go as planned in your business, or in your life; schedules missed, customer’s expectations not met, quality of work not up to standards; what do you hear? Blame,...
What’s Your Brand Purpose?
What's A Brand Purpose & Why Do I Need One? Last time I talked about engaging your employees, through developing the Why, How and What of your company. This week we delve into step one of engaging your employees by creating your Brand Purpose or...
Are Your Employees Engaged?
Are your employees engaged? If the answer is “no”, don’t worry you’re not alone. According to a well-known Gallup study, only 32% of employees in the U.S. are engaged at work, 52% are apathetic and 16% are actively disengaged. One study also...
Will you reach your goals this year?
Will you meet your goals this year, or next? With the current economic instability, running a business is getting more challenging. I often hear flustered business leaders say things like, “I don’t have enough time to get everything done,” and “How do I find time to...
Why is Creating Workplace Diversity So Challenging?
Diversity, inclusion and gender parity are overwhelmingly proven to be fundamental to producing our best results, yet it remains a significant challenge for us to achieve sustainable change. Companies have spent millions of dollars on workplace diversity training yet...
Drive Innovation Through a Culture of Trust
Drive Innovation through a Culture of Trust Countless management books, seminars and programs offer insights into how leaders can develop trust within their organizations. Their consistent theme—“It begins with you”—is certainly valid, as leaders must model trust and...
Personal Responsibility – Everything is Your Choice
Personal Responsibility - Your Choice A sense of personal responsibility seems to be a thing of the past, here and in many other places in the world. We want a label for every behavior and every sniffle. If it’s a ‘thing’ then we don’t have to take responsibility...
Ready to Retire & Sell Your Business?
Ready to Retire & Sell Your Business? Between 1946 and 1964 Americans created 78 million new people, whom we now call Baby Boomers, or Boomers for short. Those 78 million people believed that the ticket to the American dream was to get a college education and...
Does Communication Impact Your Business Results?
How Does Communication Impact Your Business Results? Leaders and business owners often look at communication as a ‘soft skill’ that they don’t have time to develop. They simply don't recognize the bottom line cost of poor communication. In a survey of 400...
Set Goals to Crush The Competition
Why Set Goals? I spent the day yesterday with some of Orange County’s smartest small business owners. Why are they the smartest? Because they took nearly an entire day to step out of their business to work ON their business. They set goals and created their action...