So your boss has just put you in charge of leading a team. You have specific goals to achieve within your team, and you have people to lead, but the…
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Four Tips to Improve Leadership Skills
Never Stop Learning You must make a commitment to personal development if you want to reach your greatest potential as a leader. There is always room to improve as a…
How Do You Make Them Do It?
Do you struggle with motivating your employees? Many business owners do. They find themselves thinking on a particularly frustrating day, “The business would grow and prosper if only my employees…
Leadership: 6 Challenges Leaders Face
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, and difficulty.” My take is this: good things come with challenges….
Common Mistakes Business Leaders Make and What to Do About Them
When you’re a business leader, your time is precious. As an entrepreneur and business owner, I understand this! There are a lot of demands on your time. But it’s also…
It Doesn’t Take Much
Has anyone else noticed that the overall quality of the goods and services we’re purchasing has dropped in the past year? Hotels that previously offered free breakfasts now don’t. They…
Building Connections
The term networking has gotten a bad rap over the past few years. Networking evokes an image of large conference rooms or local bars filled with people in business attire…
Managing the Generation Gap
Effective leaders understand that it takes more than just moving sales and revenue numbers upward for a company to be successful. It also takes teamwork, a work environment conducive to…
From Leadership to Mentorship: The Importance of Showing the Way
One of my favorite quotes about leadership is from John C. Maxwell: “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the ways, and shows the way.” It speaks to…
Breaking Bad News
Have you ever had to deliver bad news to your employees? I have, and it’s not fun. Not at all. There’s a reason why many business executives run from this…