3 Tips for a First-Time CEO
So, you’ve decided to take your first steps into your entrepreneurial career. Congratulations! You are undoubtedly experiencing a plethora of different emotions right now: excitement, anticipation, nervousness, stress, and more....
Emotional Intelligence as a Hiring Trend
The way that you conduct your hiring process can, and will, make or break your organization. Great employees can have a powerful effect on your business, taking it to new...
Is Creating Balance an Achievable Goal?
Here’s a question that I often hear from my clients: “Is trying to create balance between my business and my life really even achievable as a goal?” The answer is...
How Female Entrepreneurs Can Get Ahead
Even with all the social progress that has been made in recent decades, women still receive a raw deal in the world of business. Women still statistically earn less than...
How Entrepreneurs Sabotage Their Success
Creating your own business is a challenge like no other. It takes time, patience, and intelligence in order to succeed, and even with all three of those ingredients in play,...
Four More Tips for Retaining Good Employees
I’ve talked in the past about some of the best ways to ensure that your good employees aren’t leaving your organization. However, one can’t talk too much about this topic,...
Client in the Spotlight: Propagate Content and Apple Deal
It is not uncommon to see my clients in the news. Clients who utilize my services are typically innovators and leaders within their respective industries. I am exceptionally proud of...
How to Make Meetings More Effective
Have you ever walked out of a work meeting thinking, “Wow, that meeting was a complete and total waste of time?” Here’s a secret: so have we all. It’s incredibly...
Long-Term and Short-Term Life and Career Goals
Too often I see clients who are too focused on today, on the minutiae, and what is in front of them. They often lose sight of the bigger picture issues...
4 Hot Small Business Trends for 2016
Almost 3 months into 2016, it’s high time for small business owners to start capitalizing on the coming trends this year. More so than ever, 2016 promises to be a...
Tips on How to Be a Better Leader
If you ask a dozen different people what it is that makes a leader, you’ll get a dozen different responses. There are some people that will tell you that great...
How Philanthropy Can Boost Your Personal Brand
We’ve talked before about how you can develop your personal brand outside of your business. Personal brands establish you as an industry leader, show what you stand for, attracts clientele,...
Five Technology Tools to Improve Your Business
There are numerous reasons to use technology tools in your business or organization: they allow you to get ahead of the constant day-to-day challenges that you run into as...
How to Successfully Use Project Management Software
Project management software has been in use for many years and is an essential part of any business in modern times, large or small. While the definition of “project management”...
Four Tips for Retaining Good Employees
Any business owner will eventually be faced with one unfortunate fact: sometimes employees, even highly talented ones, leave the organization. Occasionally, there isn’t much you can do about it....
Are You Focused Enough on Your Personal Brand?
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” -Bruce Lee Every successful company and organization has...
How to Stay Focused
It’s easy to become overwhelmed with all of the challenges you face as an entrepreneur: in between growing your business, managing your employees, managing client relationships and the more mundane...
Three Ways to Build More Business Relationships
You’ve probably heard this phrase before: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Nowhere is this axiom truer than in business growth. Both your personal life and your professional...
Use the Month of January to Take Steps to Improve Your Career
January is the month where we look back on the past year, reflect on our decisions, and make plans and resolutions for the future. These resolutions can range from aspects...
Short Term Work Pain for Possible Long Term Career Gain
A question that is posed to me often in sessions is related to a rather puzzling request by an employer—can you take on an increased workload or additional responsibilities for...
10 Tips for Improving Productivity
Many clients and friends struggle daily with checking off everything on their to-do lists. Whether they are not sure where to start, or they are just having trouble getting started,...
Welcoming the New Chief Experience Officer
Most businesses beyond early stage, both large and small, have the "big three" of senior management positions: the chief executive officer (CEO), the chief operations officer (COO), and the chief...
5 Tips for New Entrepreneurs
Having an innovative idea can lead to a “start up” of a new business. With this adventure of entrepreneurship will undoubtedly come a lot of challenges unique to an early...