How to Implement Social Distancing Strategies While Running Your Small Business
As the coronavirus continues its global spread, doctors and countries alike have recommended social distancing strategies. They also recommend quarantine and discourage people from spending too much time in crowds. Yet this poses a unique challenge to many businesses. How can business continue if employees and customers have to stay home? Can business continue even […]
Employee Benefits Program “Dream Manager” is Revolutionary Among Team Building Ideas
Imagine coming into work one day and hearing, “make a list of the dreams you want to achieve in your life and as a company we will help you through the process; whether it is purchasing your first home, going back to school, or and even learning a new language. Sound like something only a […]
Do Small Business Owners Have Time For Team Building Activities?
With our global presence we often look across the pond to see what our colleagues in the U.K. are up to. What we find interesting is that small business decision makers seem to lack the time for growth-related tasks when building their teams and businesses. In honor of the U.K.’s first-ever Small Business Saturday that […]
What Are Small Business Owners Doing to Find and Retain Excellent Employees in 2014
Bank of America has been busy taking the pulse of small business owners in larger communities to determine what work life will be like in 2014. Following on the heels of their fall 2013 study, I am making the projection that employee training and development will increase in 2014 in the small business marketplace. So, […]
Creating and Sustaining Employee “Fidelity” in the Workplace
Employee infidelity. It can be the demise of today’s businesses. But just what does it mean when employees are unfaithful to an organization? It means that a once solid relationship between employee and employer is now broken and the employee has moved on to a competitor willing to “woo” and nurture their expertise and talents. […]
How to Take Your Team Consulting Business To The Next Level
What is best – remote online consulting or onsite consulting? With the advent of coaching on line and on the phone, should consulting take the same route. Absolutely not and here is why. With the soaring use of independent consultants for business growth, culture refinement and team building activities, the strategy to work from a […]
Do Working Americans Own Businesses On The Side?
With job insecurity hitting all time lows over the past seven years, many more Americans are taking control of their destiny. Or, so it seems according to a new report published by the University of Phoenix. According to the report, more than half of working adults own a business or have entrepreneurial ambitions and nearly […]
Study Shows Cyber Attacks Target Small Businesses
I was lucky this year. A link I opened from what appeared to be a real person on Twitter didn’t wipe out my computer systems altogether. But the cyber attack known as the FBI virus did considerable damage. Almost one-third of U.S. small businesses surveyed by the Ponemon Institute had a cyber attack in the […]
Success Strategies Of Small Business High Achievers
How are Small Businesses currently viewing the economy and what are High Achievers doing about it? While economic uncertainty persists, there are signs that many entrepreneurs feel more confident and less stressed. According to the latest findings of the American Express OPEN® Small Business Monitor, just 20 percent believe economic conditions are the biggest barrier […]
Business Worries Keep 58 Percent of Decision-makers Awake at Night
Small business decision-makers from across the country reported an unchanged opinion about the U.S. economy. They reported, however, a slight increase in optimism about their own prospects for revenue growth in 2012 compared to 2011 according to a recent Small Business Opinion Poll. The poll conducted by ORC International was commissioned by EMPLOYERS®. The poll revealed that 44 percent […]
