Business Goals
The Simple Trick to Stop Repeating Yourself
Monday morning staff meeting, you roll out a new and important employee procedure. You tell the story about what led to this procedure, you talk about it in detail, and you make it clear that this is a mandatory and immediate change. By Wednesday, though, your team has forgotten, and you find yourself repeating the…
Human Resources
The Solution for Workplace Frustration
We’ve all been there. The problems aren’t big, but they’re frequent and persistent. Each day, you head home feeling irritable, exhausted, and drained. When the road is bumpy with you team, frustration is an emotion that can overtake not just you, but your entire culture. Frustration in the workplace is a symptom of a bigger…
Small Business
The Biggest Challenge Facing Small Business Owners
As small business owners ourselves, we get it – ensuring that your customers and employees are happy with your business while maintaining an appropriate amount of growth and a healthy ROI can be a constant balancing act. Small business owners wear a number of hats and may function in a number of roles on their…
Business Goals
Transform Your Workplace Culture
When your company started, undoubtedly there were passionate, optimistic and visionary people who led the charge with an idea big enough that it could make a difference, and be profitable. As the years go on, though, the idealism of those first few years fade as you face the reality of the challenges all businesses face….
Business Goals
4 Myths Business Owners Should Stop Believing
When you own a business, you understand what it means to “figure it out.” You might not have the experience, education, or confidence in what you’re doing, but your business requires you to make it work and find a solution – no matter what. When you hit the threshold of success, it doesn’t really matter how…
Human Resources
3 Tips for Communicating More Effectively With Employees
It hasn’t always been such a challenge to communicate well in a corporate setting. Before the days of automatic deposit, there were physical paychecks that employees took home, and you could put the most important messages inside. People weren’t as distracted, either, but with a cell phone constantly in hand, it’s hard to get the…
Communication
The Key to Breaking Through the Clutter
We experience it every day – everywhere we look, something is fighting for our attention. Billboards, phone notifications, junk mail, emails, memos, ads… for our own sanity, our brains begin to tune it all out. But, when that happens, we also start to miss the important bits – the critical messages, the key updates, or the opportunities to connect that…
Retail
Three Reasons Your Store Should Use Digital Signage
It comes as no surprise to any retail business that times have changed. Customers shop differently today than they did in any previous decade. Your store now not only competes with your local competitors, it’s a part of a worldwide marketplace that exists online simultaneously with your physical storefront. Your customers make decisions about your product and whether they’re…
Churches
Engage Your Congregation
If you’ve been involved in a church for any length of time, you’ve experienced this scene: each Sunday morning, your congregants are welcomed and handed a paper bulletin with the important updates on the life of the church: upcoming events, special announcements, prayer requests, and reports on various ministries. One of two things happen with that bulletin….
Banking
Three Ways Banks Should Be Using Digital Signs
From the time someone walks into the door or pulls into the drive-thru of your bank, you have an opportunity. The built in wait time at a bank is expected by your customers, but many banks don’t take advantage of the opportunity to educate and engage their customers during that time. Successful banks are using…