Category Archives: Small business management advice

What Type of Startup are You?

By Paul Foster

There are two radically different types of startups – one type is a known business model, and the other type is an unknown model. What type is your startup? Continue reading

A Video is Worth 228 Pages of Words

By Paul Foster

If you want to create a system of how to do one of the routines of your business, why not just video you or an employee performing the system and load to a private link on YouTube? Continue reading

Business Meeting Tip

By Paul Foster

Why do some business owners hold up a meeting waiting for the latecomers? When you think about it, you are punishing those who arrived on time and rewarding the ones who come late. Continue reading

Is Going to a Conference Work or a Perk?

By Paul Foster

The Business Therapist® Inc. sent an employee (Rich) to a conference this week. It happens to be in a nice hotel in a warm place. What expectations are reasonable when attending a work conference? Continue reading

The Four Stages of Learning a New Skill

By Paul Foster

While attending a sales training discussion at a business coaching client of ours, I learned the concept of The Four Stages of Learning. Continue reading

Carrots or Sticks – How Do You Motivate and Engage Your Employees?

By Paul Foster

In the best selling book, The Carrot Principle, by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, they report that the practice of recognition in the workplace achieves a higher level of employee motivation and engagement. Continue reading

Hiring and Firing Employees – The Best Tip

By Paul Foster

Some business tips need a lot of explanation and support stories. This particular piece of advice about hiring and firing employees stands on its own: Continue reading

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