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Diversity

Prioritizing DEI Is the Secret to Future-Proofing Your Business

Despite the recent Supreme Court decision and what might seem the prevailing wind of a diversity, equity and inclusion rollback, savvy entrepreneurs aren't just keeping these programs vigorous but broadening them using quantitative analysis and other tools.

Growing a Business

Is Your Relentless Pursuit of Efficiency Actually Hurting Your Business? Here's How to Tell When You're Taking Productivity Too Far.

A fanatical eye to the leanest and most productive systems can sometimes have diminishing returns.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

Thriving Workplaces: The Key to Employee Well-being

Your employees want to feel like they're doing their best. Now is the chance for you to make it easier for them to be as successful as possible.

Culture

Stop Trying to Retain Employees With Flashy Perks. Rethink Your Organizational Structure Instead.

Most execs try to improve culture at a top level with perks, but a better success method might be a hard look at leadership systems as a whole — and a willingness to shake them up.

Leadership

Don't Neglect Your Middle Managers — Here's Why They're the Key to Your Company's Success

Discussing the power of middle managers and their crucial role in driving employee engagement and performance.

Leadership

Don't Talk to Another Customer Until You Learn This Simple Customer Service Secret

Every customer is at the center of their own world. This simple realization can be your ticket to customer service transformation and excellence, as this customer service consultant and trainer explains.

Leadership

Why Assessments Are a Critical Component of Knowing Your Team

How assessments can provide an objective understanding of interpersonal needs, communication styles and drivers of trust for the individuals and teams leaders work with.

Productivity

Companies Spend More Than $37 Billion Each Year on Unnecessary Meetings — Use These 5 Tips to Make Sure Yours Are Worth Attending.

Now more than ever before, we're in a meeting overload, spending countless hours on calls and in brainstorming sessions with our colleagues, only to get nothing done. Here are five ways to make your meetings more efficient.

Leadership

How to Manage These 6 Different Workplace Personality Types

The ideal of treating all your employees equally doesn't always lead to optimal outcomes. Instead, cater your management style to individual personality types — then watch your staff blossom!

Franchise

So You Decided to Become a Franchisee. Here's What Happens Next.

The author of "The Wealthy Franchisee" gives an uncensored account of the highs and lows experienced during those initial days of doing business.

Leadership

CEOs Are Tricking Employees Into Spending More Time In The Office — But Here's Why They're Only Fooling Themselves.

Traditionalist CEOs seem to be turning up the heat to trick employees into spending more time in the office — but at what cost?

Growing a Business

How to Turn Every Employee into a Sales Superstar

When you run a small business, you do not have a machine to grind out leads, vet them and close the deal. You need every person on your team to generate business.

Leadership

How to Ask Truly Powerful Questions as a Leader (and Why It's Important)

To be an effective leader, you must develop the skill of asking powerful questions. Here's why — and how to do it.

Leadership

Mastering Emotional Intelligence Is the Key to Effective Leadership and Team Building

Why EI is vital for leaders and team dynamics, and how to boost yours.