3 Steps for Business Leads from Employees
Summary: Your employees are good at helping your find more employees – why not have them help you get more business? Here are three steps to get your started. When it comes to finding more employees for our business, going to our current employees is a common source of referrals. When it comes to finding […]
What is the revolving door costing you?
Summary: Do you have a revolving door with your employees? People joining and leaving your team. What is it costing you? We are all familiar with revolving doors – by design they allow many people to enter and exit seamlessly into a building. This is a great idea for restaurants, shopping centers, hotels, etc. Do […]
Avoid the Warm Body
Summary: Are you hiring warm bodies? Are they helping or hurting you? What is the true effect on your business? It can be easy to find someone to fill a job if your only criteria is required skill. However if you don’t take other things into account, you may end up with a warm body. […]
Don’t Settle for Average
Summary: You don’t consider yourself average so don’t accept average. Where does it start? Be demanding. Do you consider yourself average? Probably not, so why would you settle for average. No, I’m not talking about dating – it’s about your people. The people working around you every day and who you rely on for your […]
What if People came with Nutrition Labels?
Summary: Finding and hiring people is a process many people dislike. What if candidates came with a nutrition label just like our food? It’s the necessary, laborious process that many people dislike. Finding, interviewing and hiring a new employee. After all it would be so much easier if every person came with a nutrition label, […]
It’s Up To You
Summary: Culture is you internal brand. It is up to you to create and maintain it – no one else. Sometimes when to speak of culture or your internal brand, we place the onus on someone else. Maybe it’s the person in marketing, human resources, a manager or the administrator. I’m sorry to tell you […]
What does it mean to you?
Summary: What does culture mean to a business? Define it, work it, use it and celebrate it. It’s all good. A lot is said about culture – how to define it, do you need one and what does it mean to your business. To many businesses this sound like a “big business” idea and may […]
Is a Bad Apple spoiling your Bunch?
Summary: We have all experienced or have that one person who started out well and over time has become mediocre to awful. Worse yet, it has become contagious and spread to others. What do you do? We have all seen it, we have experienced it…and uh, oh…you have one. Now they didn’t start out this […]
Reach them at their level
Summary: Get your point across without losing the other person or talking down to them. Notice these three things to get you communicating better. When you own your own business or have been doing a job for a while or worked in a certain industry for many years – we can forget that not everyone […]
Your Cast of Characters
Summary: Each person you work with has their own character. To be able to work with them you need to understand them. If you work with people around you, you have noticed that each one has it’s own personality. Some are easier to get along with than others. If you didn’t have to work with […]