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Increase Profits By Engaging the Next Generation of Top Talent
As a young CEO, employee retention is surely on your mind and the single largest factor affecting your business. This will further be compounded with the rate at which baby boomers (born between 1946...
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Permission To Make Mistakes Usually Means Fewer Of Them
If you have ever had to assign an employee a new project or task, you are no doubt familiar with the look of discomfort and anxiety such assignments often provoke. While some people may be eager to...
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How to Build A Winning Team to Grow Your Company
Getting the right people and putting them in the right seat dictates your success and ability to scale growth. Filling staffing gaps by hiring average performers during accelerated growth is a...
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Intrapreneurs: The In-House Form of Entrepreneurship Every Small Business Needs
Who Else Wants a little-known, hands-on successful, profit-growing Strategy? THE SECRET? It’s all about Intrapreneurs. The tale of how your employees may be greater assets than even your best selling...
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Quick Guide: 10 Steps to Employee Retention
Retaining employees might seem like a tough task. Especially when many sectors depend on the work force. At Hammer & Mop, we experimented and successfully created an environment where we enjoy nil...
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10 Steps to Managing Employees Older Than You
Business owners are getting younger and younger, it seems. At the same time, unfortunately, many of our parent’s generations are facing job loss due to layoffs, a receding economy, or changes in...
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Lighting the Fire: 8 Ways to Engage Your Staff Through Emotional Investment
Let me start with the bottom line: the economy sucks, and Americans are being forced to find meaning in their work versus meaning in all the materialistic crap we have accumulated over the last few...
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How do You Create an Environment of Productivity?
Energetic. Electric. Focused. Committed. Professional. Value-based. Determined. Passionate. Inspired. Motivated. These are some of the single-word adjectives people in my company have used to describe...
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7 Affordable Ways To Boost Your Support Team’s Morale
Unhappy employees can be detrimental to your business. Not only are they less productive and absent more often but turnover costs can accumulate and make it difficult to recover. Lucky for you,...
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How To Hire the Best Employees For Your Young Startup
Hiring your first staff as a young entrepreneur and business owner is crucial to determining how far you go with growing your company. You have certain challenges as a young business owner looking to...
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Three Ways Doubling Your Company’s Size Can Double Your Free Time
Building a business requires a high degree of motivation, focus and support. The first years can be lean, with little spare time. It’s during these times that entrepreneurs might begin to adopt the old...
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Outsmart Yourself: Hire People Who Know What You Don’t
No one is the best at everything. And when it comes to running a business, you simply can’t do it all. Many entrepreneurs have a variety of great skills, but may be lacking in some essential areas. It...
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Keep Employees Engaged in Workers’ Comp
Nobody likes workers’ compensation. If we’re honest, everyone hates it. As a business owner, it can be tempting to hang up the mandatory information poster in a break area and never mention workers’...
View ArticlePartner Offer: Get the Right People – 9 Questions for Getting the Best Hires
The most important decision a company makes about employees is whether to hire them. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute...
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14 Ways to Keep Your Talent Happy and Incentivize “Intrapreneurship”
Q. As a Gen Y founder, how do you keep Gen Y (and X) talent happy? How do you incentivize intrapreneurship over, well, leaving?! The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council...
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5 Obstacles That Are Demotivating Your Employees
Employee motivation is vital for the continuing success and development of any business. However, motivators do not only include good salaries and benefits, employers must dig deeper and understand...
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Use Employees to Improve Your Company’s Online Presence
There’s an unfortunate truth about business websites in general. Actually, two of them: (1) usually the only person who realizes the power of being online is the CEO himself/herself, and (2) it’s...
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4 Signs of a Successful Company
Every budding entrepreneur should take a few moments to recognize what it is that makes a company a success. How do you know you are successful and can you pinpoint the moment you just knew you were a...
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Are the People You Have the People You Need?
This is one of the most difficult questions CEOs of all ages ask themselves. Our Vistage Chair constantly asks the CEOs in our group, “Are the people who got you to this level in your business, going...
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When Generals Get Complacent
No, I’m not talking about you. In a startup, you’re a king who has mighty generals to lead your employee army. One probably handles client relations, another handles operations and one might be...
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5 Lessons About Negotiating Salaries With Employees
When a potential employee accepts a job offer you – as the employer, manager, and entrepreneur – must willing to negotiate further terms. Nowadays, job seekers have at their disposal a plethora of...
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14 Reasons to Give Your Employees a Raise
What was the determining factor that led to the last raise you gave to one of your employees? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization...
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How to Attract People Who Are Ready to Work with You
I work with business owners around the world who want to grow a lucrative practice of ideal clients. Nearly everyone I speak with has the same issues and more often than not they experience...
View ArticleHow to Provide a Safe Return to the Office for Your Employees
As employees return to the office after stay-at-home orders have been lifted, business owners, supervisors, HR personnel, and employees have one thing on their minds: safety. It’s likely that...
View ArticleCommon Staff Rota Complaints…And How to Avoid Them
Staff rotas can cause managers headaches. Schedule too many staff for a shift and you’ll have people standing around doing nothing. Schedule too few and you’ll have overworked employees running around...
View ArticleHow Can Small Businesses Help Keep Their Employees on Track for Retirement?
When you’re just starting out in your career, retirement can seem like a million miles away. It’s tough to look forward 50 years and imagine your lifestyle. But one thing’s for sure: Money will always...
View Article5 Ways to Show Employees You Care Right Now
The outlook for work environments pre-COVID was bleak. A survey released in early 2020 revealed only 31% of employees strongly agreed that their employers cared about them as individuals. One of the...
View ArticleFour Steps to Take for Extra Due Diligence When Hiring Remote Workers
Hiring remote workers is rife with a number of unique challenges. From trying to weed out the unqualified candidates, to wanting to make sure they mesh well with your company’s culture, there’s only so...
View ArticleEmpowering Your Sales Team: A Practical Guide
Your sales team is doing a great job, but they could do better, and you can help them improve by empowering them in new and exciting ways. So…do you know where to begin? 4 Ways to Empower Your Sales...
View Article6 Ways Managers Can Encourage Ongoing Employee Development
In any well-managed company, employees are treated as the driving force that helps that organization reach new heights of success. For that reason alone, it’s every manager’s responsibility to keep...
View ArticleHow Using ESG Investing Policies Can Boost Your Team’s Health
“Conscious capitalism” is having a moment right now. Consequently, team health and wellness is being prioritized now more than ever. According to Morningstar’s Sustainable Funds U.S. Landscape Report...
View ArticleHow to Empower Employees Within a Remote Work Environment
Remote employees work better — and do more for their teams — when they feel empowered and supported. That’s a key finding of a Harvard Business Review study that tied employee creativity (and creative...
View ArticleWhat Empathy Isn’t: 5 Myths To Avoid
Is empathy more necessary now than it was previously? Perhaps. It’s also likely that people are more aware of what others are going through. Empathy is all the rage these days, with millions of people...
View Article5 Steps to Make You More Hirable as a Young Professional
Are you feeling stuck in your career as a young professional? Are you frustrated with the lack of opportunities available to you? If so, you aren’t alone. As the world becomes more competitive, it’s...
View ArticleHow to Be More Organized as a Young Professional
Do you struggle to keep up with your work and personal commitments? Don’t know how to be more organized or where to even begin? You’re not alone. Many young professionals feel overwhelmed by their...
View ArticleEmployee Well-Being: Five Things to Keep Track Of
Our world has been more than a little crazy these past few years. Having a global pandemic spring up seemingly out of nowhere was certainly not on anyone’s 2020 BINGO card. Employee well-being...
View ArticleThree Ways to Give Everyone a Break, While Maintaining Good Results
Sometimes working in an office can be a bit mundane. With office cubicles, it can feel as though you and your co-workers are packed in. Along with the white fluorescent lights and water cooler,...
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Meeting Ideas for CEOs Leading a Company Through Transitions
A lot of people think being a CEO is easy. After all, you are the boss! You have so many people working for you. What could possibly stress you out? But the truth is being a leader is the toughest job...
View Article5 Ways to Effectively Manage Business Equity for Company Growth
You saw your company grow immensely in 2022. Now you are looking to expand your company growth by introducing greater corporate ownership. The problem is, where do you begin to effectively manage the...
View ArticleStep-by-Step Guide on How to Pay Employees in a Small Business
Turns out, there is quite a process to pay employees from a small business. While you can’t just give them a pile of cash from the bank, there are tax documents and other items and processes that you...
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