Category Archives: Managing employees
Solve Business Anxiety with Action
Have you ever felt stress about a particular business issue? Just ‘thinking’ about the problem doesn’t help. Take action, any action! Continue reading
Business Style: Family or Corporation?
One of the intangible assets of any small business is its culture or style. In developing your own style for your business, there is a big difference between operating it ‘like a family’ or operating like a large ‘corporation’. Continue reading
How To Be A Good Employee
Respectful communication is essential to a happy, productive employer – employee relationship. Here are some tips to be a good employee. Continue reading
Employer – Employee Dynamics
One management philosophy states that business owners need to have control over their employee, in order to for them to be productive, and the other style says employees will thrive when given the freedom to be productive without supervision. Which one is right? Continue reading
Mutual Respect in the Workplace is Free
If you survey the employees of any business and ask them to rank what is important to them respect always ranks higher than money. Let’s explore the benefits of a respectful workplace. Continue reading
Don’t Avoid Firing an Employee
As a business owner, dealing with employee issues can be difficult, but not dealing with them can be worse. Continue reading
Eliminating Customer Service Issues
If your business has specific ‘black and white’ written instructions or systems to deal with customer service issues that arise time and time again – everyone benefits – the business owner, the customers and the employees. Continue reading
Minder, Grinder or Finder – Determining Your Business Preference
In business,each of us has a natural preference to be one of three business styles. The first step is to determine which type of work you naturally prefer. Continue reading
3 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Your Team
In the book, ‘The Magic of Thinking Big’ by David J. Schwartz, Ph.D suggests: “To activate others, to make them enthusiastic, you must first be enthusiastic yourself.” Dr. Schwartz provides 3 ways to get motivated or activated. Continue reading
Problem Solving in Business
Whenever you come across a problem, the next step is to solve the problem, right? Actually not quite – first you need to ask the question: “Is the problem really the problem?” Continue reading