Category Archives: Small business management advice
The Hiring Decision – Costs, Risks and Growth Plans
There are risks and a financial investment when hiring new employees. Here are some tips to make the hiring process less risky. Continue reading
Expert Knowledge as a Product
For business owners looking to improve employee relations and motivation, there is so much expert knowledge readily available as a product, and often for free. Continue reading
What Type of Startup are You?
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
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
Implementing Change in Business – Understanding the J Curve
Many businesses striving to make a change, abandon the effort early on because ‘the plan didn’t work’. The reality is, ‘the plan didn’t work – yet’. Continue reading
