6 Reasons Why You Should Be a Role Model to Your Employees
If you want your employees to be happy, then you need to be a role model. Employees are looking for leaders that they can respect and admire. Here are six reasons why being a role model is important for your employees. 1) A role model is inspiring Employees...
The Benefits of a Workplace Mentorship Program
For the past few years, mentorship programs have been popping up all over the country. This has led to a lot of discussion about their effectiveness and how they should be run. What's often forgotten is that these programs are not just for young people; adults can...
Managing the Human Element in Business
At the core of the excellent performance of any business, the human element is arguably the most essential asset. Human resources are the interface for all the other resources leading to the desired results. The human element also occurs in the form of customers and...
How to Have an Entrepreneurial Spirit
The word entrepreneur as we use it today can be traced to the 13th Century from the French verb entreprendre. That means "to do something" or "to undertake." It was a term that didn't necessarily have anything to do with business back then. Free market capitalism did...
Should My Business Use a Freelancer or Marketing Agency?
The life of an entrepreneur is characterized by juggling multiple things at the same time. Whether it is accounting, fundraising, operations, or procurement, the entrepreneur's mind is hardly ever at ease. Unfortunately, of all business functions, marketing...
The Best Business Podcasts in the UK
Podcasts have become one of the most ubiquitous forms of entertainment today. They make it possible for listeners to find the topics they're interested in and hear them when it's convenient. They're also very informative. Podcasts centered on business have made it...
Is Lean the Way to Go? A Look at the Pros and Cons
Lean production or manufacturing is a philosophy that focuses on efficiency and eliminating multiple kinds of waste (Muda) from work processes. Initially developed in Japanese automotive factories, lean production has helped many companies worldwide drastically...
How to Identify Your Customer’s Pain Points & Improve Their Experiences
Successful, veteran entrepreneurs understand that the key to establishing brand credibility and eventually building long-term customer relationships is understanding the customers' pain points and providing them effective solutions affordably. In a 2018 study...
4 Tips to Choosing the Right Task Management Software for Your Business
Project management juggles between three surrogates; time, cost, and quality. Thanks to technology, task management tools are the fad in the silent majority of businesses. Task management, or project management tool, aids in the administration, planning, and...
How to Win Customers Back
Customer churn is a problem for most small businesses because it can affect the company's overall growth. Even if you're consistently attracting new consumers to your brand or products, your loss of past customers may counteract that progress. This is why your...