7 Ways For Onboarding New Employees During the Pandemic
Employee recruitment, training, and orientation are critical to the success of any organisation. A well-thought-out and executed onboarding plan helps set new employees up for success. However, the current pandemic has made the hiring process more challenging than...
What Is Business Coaching And Do You Really Need It?
A business coach will assist and guide an owner in running their business by helping them clarify the vision of their business and how it fits in with their personal goals. Business coaching is a process used to take a business from where it is now to where the...
Maintaining Accountability in a World of Distraction
There is a lot of competing noise demanding our attention. As an entrepreneur, you are expected to stay accountable to your clients, your employees, your vendors, friends, family and yourself. It can be hard to stay focused when distraction is always close at hand....
Why You Need a Strategic Planning Session
Kick-off your business in 2021 on the right foot by starting at the foundation of every successful business: strategy. The strategy is even more important for your business after the year we all had last year, where many of our strategies went off course. Strategic...
Now is a Good Time to Cut Business Expenditures
In “normal” times, businesses often face the challenge of reducing expenditures while maintaining efficiency and productivity within their business operations. As we have noted before, “excessive costs—which also detract from funding new customer acquisitions or...
Seven Needless Expenditures You Need to Stop Paying Today
At some point, every business makes needless expenditures that sap valuable time and resources from other projects, and damage the bottom line. These excessive costs—which also detract from funding new customer acquisitions or product upgrades—often perpetuate...
Business Best Practises: How to Lead Effective Meetings
Have more efficient meetings by removing secret time-wasters. For most businesses, meetings are an essential component for getting things done. At the same time, poorly led and organised meetings are a time-consuming swamp that bedevils business leaders at every turn....
The Best Ways to Build More Efficiency into Your Business
“How do I make my business more efficient?” is question business owners or CEOs might ask themselves every day. While what constitutes “efficiency” might differ from one industry to the next, generally speaking, an efficient business is one...
5 Tips on Reducing Workplace Distractions in a Digital World
These days, employees are faced with an unprecedented onslaught of workplace distractions, chief among them all the apps and digital sideshows that now pervade everyone’s consciousness. With all of these productivity killers, it’s no wonder employees complain...
How to Get a Handle on Emails to Boost Productivity
Depending on who you talk to, the use of email is one of the greatest advances in business communications or the worst thing to affect productivity in the past several decades. Every CEO and business owner knows what it’s like to open his or her inbox to a deluge of...
Does Your Sales Team Possess Client Engagement Skills?
We hear a lot of talk about the importance of employee engagement, but how well do members of your sales team engage with current and prospective clients? Whenever a customer and salesperson talk directly, or a prospect reaches out to a business on their social media...
The Pros and Cons of Invoice Financing
Businesses are often haunted by customers who consistently pay their invoices later than expected, or by those who don’t pay at all. A great deal of time, effort, and resources can be consumed by chasing after delinquent accounts receivables, while the effect on cash...
Hiring Efficiently – How to Hire the Next Steve Jobs
The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Data: Encoded in DNA describes a project running at Harvard that is using DNA as a storage medium for digital information. The project team translated a book, a text on genomic engineering no less, into actual DNA. This...
Are you tired of churning through ineffective salespeople?
Learn how to seek, assess, and onboard your next salesperson with confidence. If you have ever hired salespeople, only to be disappointed by their performance, then this fast-paced session is for you. Sales selection expert, Dave Kurlan, CEO of Objective Management...
You Know You’re In the Company of A Great Coach When …
I have had the chance to meet a lot of coaches over the years. Life Coaches, Business Coaches, Executive Coaches, Leadership Coaches, Law of Attraction Coaches, and even a Speaking Coach. You name a type of coach and I most likely know one. Coaching was touted as the...
Methods to Get New Employees Off to a Fantastic Start
Even at companies with great products and technologies, employees are invaluable. After all, someone needs to develop those new innovations and maintain your technology. It’s no secret that a company is only as strong as its weakest link. But even though...
Hiring New Employees
Do you wish you could know which applicants were the most likely to succeed? Finding the perfect candidate for an open position can be tricky. You want a person who will be a good cultural fit, possess the right job skills and who will be able to get up to speed...
How to Build Innovation Through Strategic Planning
At this point, not a lot can be predicted about how businesses will fare in 2021. But one thing’s for sure—innovation, the ability to come up with new products, upgrades, and other breakthroughs, will be critically important. That’s why companies should strive to...
How to market digitally, without making standard mistakes
I work on the creative side of marketing. When I tell people this, there are two responses, my more artistic friends, often repressed at their day jobs, usually respond with bitter jealousy, saying things like, “you don’t even have a job, you just play on Facebook all...
12 Ways to Make Budgeting And Forecasting Easier
Building and implementing a budgeting and forecasting process is critical to revenue growth. In today’s fiercely disruptive and competitive world, the importance of such an approach cannot be undermined. And during the volatile and challenging COVID-19 era, we...
Focus on Three B2B Business Fundamentals to Rebuild and Grow Your Business
As the first wave of businesses opened up these past couple of weeks, it is critical for business owners to cut through the noise and focus on the three things that matter most, to lead the way to preserve and restore revenue as well as profitability, rebuild and grow...
How to cross-promote the business and stay profitable
At this point, you’re probably tired of reading blogs about sugary snack rolls. If you humour me by reading this last one, I promise to keep it short, and I promise that this will be the last time that I mention Twinkies in a blog. English: Hostess Twinkies. Yellow...
Fill Your Sales Funnel With Online Lead Generation
In this Webinar, we will explore how Online Lead Generation can provide an alternative or supplement to telemarketing, cold calling, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Jim Burris of Burris Creative will explain how it works and what structure companies need to have in...
Changing Trends in Website Design
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the many changes in website design that have taken place in recent years. Website traffic and behaviour have evolved significantly. Search engines such as Google have placed new requirements for a site to show up in a search and...
5 Ways to Surprise and Delight Your Customers in 2021
Customers are a lot savvier than they used to be. With tools like the internet and social media at their disposal, they can do a great deal of preliminary research before embarking upon the purchasing journey. They also have considerably more expectations regarding...