Training your team members appropriately and frequently is indeed an investment – and one with a powerful return. When your team members are nurtured with the necessary staples they will make better decisions, their relationships will improve and their opinions will show deeper insight. Training can mean seminars, lectures and workshops, manuals, memos and meetings. [...]
In 1991 Charles Cresson Wood wrote an article entitled ‘Using Information Security to Achieve Competitive Advantages’. He would later become the recipient of the Computer Security Institutes Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, at its worldwide partner conference, Microsoft pitched security as a competitive advantage. Now seven years later, how has information technology security affected firms [...]
According to the Small Business Administration in the USA, only a third of family-run firms make it to the second generation. What are the strategies to ensuring your firm is one of those that survive? The key is succession planning. Succession planning can limit dissemination and downfall, and can be a simple step-by-step process that [...]
We are proud to announce a new seminar series titled “CEO Insights”. Our first seminar is June 22nd and will feature Sheldon Harris. Shelton is one of today’s most dynamic speakers on leadership in the workplace. From his days at Costco, where he became one of the youngest warehouse managers in that company’s history, to [...]
Cash flow, as they say, is the lifeblood of any firm. It does not matter whether you are making thousands of cars a year or selling lemonade to neighbors, if you are stuck waiting for payment from clients, then you cannot pay your suppliers for the next batch of products to sell. “Here are 10 [...]
Are you connected to your email all day with clients, co-workers and business partners expecting an immediate response until home time? Email etiquette is partly set by expectations. If you are in a role with high levels of communication, people will grow to expect a quick turnaround to their questions. This can be frustrating and [...]
Your bookkeeper calls in one morning to say her son is sick and can not go to school. She will have to stay home and look after him. In some firms, that would mean writing off the productivity of that employee for the day with possible knock-on effects for meetings, projects or appointments. What if [...]
John McQuaig was recently honored in Men’s Health Magazine as one of the World’s Richest and Fittest. The article was titled, “The World’s Richest and Fittest Guys – These Masters of Universe Also Treat Their Bodies Like a Temple.” John came in ranked #17 in the world! John explained, “I was a bit shocked when [...]
The desire to start your own company can have several motivations. A desire to make money or to change the world, the urge to be in control of your employment, or the ambition to test out a great idea. Unfortunately, becoming an entrepreneur takes more than a single good idea. Motivational speakers come up with [...]
One of the first things a retail firm considers is its front window display. It is the visual hook that will entice potential clients to walk into the shop, browse through stock on the shelves and make a purchase. These days businesses of all kinds are finding that they are making more sales to clients [...]
