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7 Traits to Look for When Buying a Business
Many people want to avoid the daunting process of setting up and growing a new business from scratch. As a result, buying an existing business has become a reasonable alternative. There’s no question about it: buying a business – no matter the size – is rewarding and...
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Are You a Creative or a Reactive Leader?
Good leaders, some experts say, are creative rather than reactive. In other words, they anticipate future demands & trends and make new products or tailor the ones they already have to suit that future. For many reasons things are changing very rapidly, these days. ...
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4 Signs That Your Boss is an Effective Leader
When you enter a new workplace for the very first time, you quickly get a sense of what life will be like for you there. As you meet your new coworkers, you’ll quickly develop a feel for what the general tone or atmosphere of your work environment is like. Having...
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6 Tips to Improve Your Cash Flow
Cash flow improvement has been made a mystery over time and has become elusive for many business owners. However, here are 6 Tips to improving your cash flow in any business. This means if you only focus on these 6 tips of your business to make a massive improvement....
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5 key steps to remove negative employee behavior
It starts with your leadership and management, you don’t build your company, your people do… if your people don’t grow, the business won’t grow. The real challenge for most business owners is to build their employees. Employees need training, management,...
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Execution is the Key to Success
In order to execute well, you must know what success looks like. Success means something different to every business. Hitting a specific amount in revenue, having a certain number of employees, profit growth or acquiring the next business are just a few ways your...
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5 tips on How to Work Less Hours in your Business
Now, this goes without saying that there are some of you that have tied yourselves up so much on your business doing the day to day, that it’s not going to be that simple. It’s going to take you a bit of time before you can reduce the number of hours you work in your...
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What Gets Measured, Improves
Management thinker Peter Drucker said it best, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” You can’t know if you are successful unless success is defined and tracked. By measuring performance, you track the information necessary to better understand what must improve...
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Hiring Best Practices in a Competitive Job Market
Welcome to the new normal. If you’re a hiring manager, business owner, or other company executive responsible for recruiting talent, you’ve likely noticed that the job market today isn’t what it was 8 or 10 years ago. It wasn’t so long ago that prospective applicants...
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8 Tips for Terminating an Employee Gracefully
Terminating an employee is far from fun. For many business leaders, it never gets easier – whether it be completing a round of company layoffs or terminating a problematic employee. Here are 8 tips to help when terminating an employee. Be prepared beforehand....
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The Advantages of Pre-Employment Assessments
For most businesses, labor is the largest expense. In fact, payroll costs make up approximately 70% of a typical U.S. business’s cost structure. Reports have estimated that American businesses spend $130 billion dollars annually on hiring and selection. It should come...
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10 WAYS TO ORIENT YOURSELF AROUND YOUR VALUES
The definition of 'values': 'Those qualities of behavior, thought, and character that society regards as being intrinsically good, having desirable results, and worthy of emulation by others.' Picture the Identity Iceberg... The deepest, core aspects of you achieving...
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Important Questions You Need To Ask Before You Delegate
As a small business owner, there are times when you feel like you are handling everything on your own and even when you do assign a job to someone within your establishment; it doesn’t always get done as scheduled. This is a very common occurrence and you may hear...
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Are your Employees Engaged? 7 Tips on Keeping Them Focused and Committed
Employee engagement is currently a hot topic discussed among business owners and management teams alike. Everyone is looking for the secret to create more focused, productive, high-performing employees – especially when it comes to motivating millennials. While there...
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How to Attract the Right People to Your Job Ad
Managing a team is a huge responsibility, and your ability to do so effectively will determine the success of your business. However, many entrepreneurs don’t have this problem. Why? No, it isn’t because they are incredible team leaders and have fantastic company...
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6 Time Management Tips for Business Owners
Whether you’re a business owner or a manager, there never seems to be enough hours in the day. Balancing your team, their needs, while tracking output can be a nightmare if you don’t have concrete processes in place. The biggest key in time management is...
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How to build a Great Business with Great People
Growing a business is one of those things that can be a little difficult to understand, especially if you don't think about exactly "what" a company "is". I remember watching an interview with Sir Richard Branson and he said, “A company is just people.” And you know,...
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Tips to Create a Great Company Culture
Tips to Create a Great Company Culture As a business owner you try to ensure that your office environment and work culture is good and that all your staff members are happy too. But this task isn’t as easy as it seems and sometimes it’s very evident that your...
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6 Keys to a Winning Team
Selecting the right people is just the beginning of building a successful team for your business. However, you cannot simply expect that your team alone will transform your business and take it to its next level of performance. It is equally important to have the...
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9 Kick-Ass Ways to Simplify Your Business
9 Kick-Ass Ways to Simplify Your Business Author: Dave Schoenbeck Running a business is tough. There are dozens of plates to juggle and tasks to be done, and when it seems like there are multiple fires to put out, it can be difficult to know which ones to attend to...
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