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The good news is that there are simple strategies that have been proven to boost employee engagement. Take the 30-day Engagement Booster Challenge

Branding is not an easy task. Sure, a right marketing strategy coupled with tweaks around social presence might do the trick, but your employees are a part of what makes your brand whole.

What? How could a leadership coach say something like that you say? It’s easy. Listen to small business owners complain about customers who barter them down to a price proposal that’s unprofitable. Work with a small business owner who can’t tell you what their sales were for last year – but still want to make more this year and next.

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is used in organizations as a strategy to bring about continuous organizational change. It is a systematic approach for continually improving all processes that deliver products and services. These can be incremental improvement to processes over time or dramatic for more immediate changes. All processes are continually reviewed in terms of their efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility.

Recently I sat down with Jay Niblick, author of the best-selling book What’s Your Genius – How the Best Think [...]

Recently I sat down with Jay Niblick, author of the best-selling book What’s Your Genius – How the Best Think for Success in the New Economy and the Owner of Innermetrix, Inc., to talk about the two significant concepts within What’s Your Genius. This is the first of a two-part interview.

News that WellPoint Inc. acquired Amerigroup Corp. recently sent health insurer shares soaring. When done well, aquisitions result in positive [...]

Team building efforts in business often vary dependent on the type of organization, the number of individuals in a team, [...]

People view managers differently than leaders; that managers, by virtue of their focus on following process inhibit change, creativity, initiative, and innovation; that they don’t, well, they don’t lead. Sounds scary huh? Well, let me ask you do we need managers to bring our businesses to growth and success in this new economy? or do we need leaders; leaders who will work with their employees to create a vision for growth and success?

Business start-ups, entrepreneurs, business plans – to plan or not to plan – oh my; that is the question we work on in this weekly summary by presenting 11 posts that look at different ways and manners that small business can benefit – or not – from a business plan and process.