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The first step to great leadership is your ability to communicate your goals and objectives to the people you have brought in to support and grow your business.

Your sales team is the lifeblood of your business. They are your most accessible brand ambassadors and are often the only points of contact with your customers. Developing your team into high performance salespeople is essential.

Employee engagement is critical in today’s work environment? How “engaged” are your employees? If you don’t know, read on.

Do you have a healthy work environment? Is your team aligned? Do you communicate well together? If you answered no or are not sure, read on.

The New Normal. The term has become a bit of a catchphrase since the early months of 2020. So much so, in fact, that the concept feels to many almost cliché. “New Normal” implies that current business dynamics are stationary, but business owners know that is far from accurate.

As a business owner, you need to understand your finances! I know this can be daunting to those who “are not numbers people” but you don’t have a choice. This article provides some tips to help you better understand and manage your finances.

Learn how to be better at time management to improve your business.

Strategic planning is a business leadership activity that identifies goals, creates business strategies designed to attain those goals, implements actions around those strategies, then continues to evaluate the effectiveness of plan execution. It all boils down to where your business currently stands, where you want your business to be tomorrow, how on earth you are going to get there, and what key performance indicators are the telltales of your plan’s success.

A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is one of those things that are easy to overlook until disaster strikes and a company is left to spitball its way to recovery. Or worse, the business simply collapses due to a lack of preparedness and planning.

An expression specific to the entrepreneurial world and which describes the success (or not) of a company. Anyone who has a project must evaluate it beforehand to check the feasibility of its creation. Once the company is physically created, it is imperative that the turnover is positive. Conditions that weigh heavily on the shoulders of the contractor!

Before defining which pricing strategy to use, it is important to be clear about who your target customer is, the prices of the competition, and understand the relationship between perception of quality, positioning, and price.

A business plan is a written description of the future of your business. A document that explains what you are going to do to make your company profitable and how you have to do it. Normally when a business idea arises you know what resources and capabilities you have to start with, and where you want to get to in a certain period (normally in 3 or 5 years). But what is the way to reach that goal? Where to start? How to arouse the interest of investors?

Branding is the comprehensive process of identifying your business in a strategic way and then embedding that branding in everything you do. And “everything” means so much more than just designing a fancy logo or splashing a tagline on your business cards. Your branding should also be reflected comprehensively across your entire business operations and procedures including your sales process, your company culture, and of course your Mission and Vision statements.

At this point, no business owner should be caught off guard by suppliers’ inability to satisfy purchase orders. Demand is up in nearly every sector due to the expanding US economy. So is inflation. Supply chain challenges like disruptions in access to raw materials, delays in transportation and delivery, and slowdowns in production due to lack of labor are pervasive. And all can be anticipated to varying degrees.

You are a business owner. You work relentlessly to take care of your customers and grow your company. You think you are doing pretty well, but you keep reading articles about the importance of being an innovator in your business. “An innovator? Hah! That’s not me,” you scoff. “I just run an accounting firm (or a roofing business or a paperclip manufacturing company).” So you keep plugging away, inching along doing what you do, never realizing an essential truth.

As a business owner, do you want to get a competitive advantage over competitors? Educate yourself on your financials and what they mean as most business owners are financially challenged. For some tips, read this post on the financial skills every business owner should hone.

Generation Z. They are the Zoomers. Born between 1997 and 2012, this collective group of young people is poised to change nearly everything you know about employee acquisition and retention.

While Zoomers are a collective of dynamic individuals each with their own strengths and weaknesses, many in the generation share some common traits.

As a business owner, you have certainly heard it said before. Hope is not a business strategy.

The assertion is mostly true. Crossing one’s fingers and wishing for the best will simply never move the needle forward, in good times nor in bad.

If the last two years have taught us anything in business and in life, it is that certainty is a façade, the world can turn on a dime, and that yesterday’s victories don’t guarantee tomorrow’s success.