January 26, 2022 I am sure you have been waiting anxiously all week for the exciting conclusion in my two part series on employee trust. If you missed last week, you can binge read by starting here with the first episode: The Value of Employees’ Trust. Get your popcorn ready, this is gonna be exciting! […]
January 19, 2022 Trust. It is key to relationships. And while you might not have given it a lot of thought, that includes our relationships with our employees. With the Great Recession still ongoing, you might think there are more pressing things for small business owners to focus on right now, but I am here […]
January 4, 2022 It’s January 4th, and I am pretty sure I asked my travel agent to put me somewhere on a beach sipping a Corona, not back here at the Corona Carnival. This place just isn’t fun any more, and I have had my fill of fried food on a stick. But, here we […]
December 29, 2021 I promised my assistant that I would approach the coming year with caution. I said I wouldn’t poke it, that I even swore I wouldn’t say its name lest I wake the beast and provoke another crazy year full of variants, quarantines, and perhaps scurries of angry, mutant, three-eyed, rabid purple squirrels. […]
December 20, 2021 Remember that book about the miserly old man who changed his tune after being visited by three ghosts? Well, I am not here to haunt your dreams, trust me, no one wants that. But I do have some past, present, and future information for small business owners. I might even dig these […]
December 7, 2021 If you missed my last two posts, I talked about little things you can do throughout the day and how focussing on the positives can help you destress. Today I am going to focus more on things you can do while working to help reduce stress. According to the Small Business Administration, […]
December 1, 2021 I hope you all had a fun, relaxing, and calorie filled holiday weekend. If you are like me, you come back to the office after all of that time off and feel overwhelmed with how much was waiting for your attention. So much so that it took me until today to get […]
November 19, 2021 Confession time: part of the reason I decided to start my own business is that I thought working for myself would be less stressful. The reality, I have discovered, is that owning my own business comes with a whole different set of stressors. And let’s face it, the last year and a […]
November 8, 2021 If you are a business owner and you haven’t been affected by the Great Resignation, consider yourself fortunate. Month after month in 2021 record numbers of people have quit their jobs. While many factors are contributing to this mass exodus, many of them out of our control as business owners, the underlying […]
November 1, 2021 It seems only right with Halloween still fresh in my mind that I try to scare you just a little bit. That’s right, not only am I resurrecting discussion of the Paycheck Protection Program, I am also going to talk about common mistakes on the forgiveness application. If the thought of not […]