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Category Archives: Managing

Are You A Right Or Left Brain Thinker? [Infographic]

As a business owner, do you know if you’re a Right or Left Brain Thinker? Knowing more about the way you think will help in understanding yourself and why you prefer things the way you do. It’ll also help to understand your employees better and help you to tailor your management style according to theirContinue Reading

5 Effective Tips for Creating Productive New Hires

5 Effective Tips for Creating Productive New Hires

This is a guest post by Valentina Ries, owner of Brava Coaching, LLC Let’s face it, even in a booming economy, what company has the time to hire, train, and dedicate resources just to do it all over again in six months and for the same position!! Now don’t get me wrong, sometimes company’s needContinue Reading

Are You A Great Manager?

Being a successful business owner means you need to be a good manager. That is, unless you want to forever be a one employee company. Your ability to manage other people can mean the difference between being a slave to your business (you do everything, always), and having the freedom to use your time howContinue Reading

Five Tips That Go Beyond The Resume When Hiring

Five Tips That Go Beyond The Resume When Hiring

  Everyone knows how to write a resume, or knows someone who can. I think everyone can remember putting together their first resume, trying to emphasize the important life skills they learned working part time at the local movie theater or spending their Summers as a camp counselor while in school. With a little creativityContinue Reading

5 Tips to Manage Employees

Managing employees takes practice and patience. Being an effective manager is a skill that can be learned if you’re willing. According to the ground breaking book “First Break all the Rules”, people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. This is absolutely true as a great manager can turn even mediocre employees into fine tuned productivity machines. Below are my top five tips to start you on the road to becoming a great manager.Continue Reading

How to Motivate Employees

How to Motivate Employees

What drives any of us to perform at our best? Is it money, fear of punishment, reward or is it something more than that? Once I started reading “Drive”, I realized that Pink was on to something.Continue Reading

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