When using social media tools alone to drive your company’s messages, it’s nearly impossible to determine the correlation between all the likes, tweets, and shares you receive and how they translate in actual, concrete sales results.
Few people receive formal training on how to conduct a great meeting, and this lack of training is apparent in corporate conference rooms across the country.
Nonverbal communication speaks volumes about your style of management and how receptive you are to new ideas without worrying about who comes up with them. The best CEOs are the ones who know their people’s first names, a little bit about their personal lives, and their jobs.
Last month I wrote about how to determine whether you can afford to hire a field employee. This month I’ll give you the calculations to determine whether you can afford to hire a new office employee.
Despite the wealth of information available these days, many of the best business leaders still make poor decisions. This is unfortunate, because sound decision making is at the heart of every company’s success.
A major concern, particularly in more affluent neighborhoods, is noise (unwanted sound). Knowing what is causing the noise, and how to address it, can be a key element in preserving your reputation as a supplier and installer of quality equipment.
Your company is growing. You feel the need to hire another field employee. Can you afford to hire this person? Find out by using this mathematical calculation.
It's important for all business and government leaders to grasp how their personal behavior affects the organization's culture. Reckless risk taking by a leader begets reckless risk taking by his or her subordinates, managers, and employees. Dishonesty begets more dishonesty.
Now is a good time to think about the investing, saving or budgeting methods you could employ toward specific objectives. Some year-end financial moves may prove crucial to the pursuit of those goals as well.
Without the people who support you personally and professionally, your business wouldn't be successful. That's why I'm taking time to thank those who've been there for me for six years.
Disagreements and anger are a reality in the workplace and in life. People react differently under pressure. This behavior quickly reduces productivity. Here's how to call a timeout.
John Barbour, owner of Union Mechanical in Fort Myers Florida, discusses advertising, his company's award winning fleet design, business growth and challenges facing his company in the coming year.
You could be making another mistake, though, if you aren’t considering “big picture” trends that will affect your future. Customer surveys and economic outlooks are important, but larger changes are underway that will alter how contractors work forever.
