7 Steps Your Small Business Should Take Before Hiring That New Employee
When a small business is formed, it is often difficult to imagine the time when there is a need to hire employees. When that day comes, it is essential to…
The 5 Step Process of Strategic Planning
We are a few short weeks away from a new year. Hopefully, you have begun your planning for next year! Strategic plans help identify what an organization is striving to…
2025 Business Planning
We have managed to plow through another year of managing the unpredictable. We’re a few weeks into the fourth quarter, and I thought it might be helpful to discuss what…
7 Steps to Implementing Business Strategy
Business success is the result of strategy, planning, and management skills. Every business should have a strategy and a plan. However, a strategic plan is only as effective as…
13 Tips For Improving Job Satisfaction
According to an Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement Report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 62.3% of US employees reported overall satisfaction with their current job in 2022….
Advantages and Disadvantages of Performance Appraisals
The end of the year is quickly approaching, which typically means an evaluation of how the organization performed during the prior twelve months. This year-end review can help an organization…
7 Tips for Your Benchmarking Efforts
Learning from others is how we all improve. Organizations use benchmarking to compare themselves to others and learn. What Is Benchmarking In Business? Benchmarking is the process of going outside…
5 Barriers to Achieving Business Goals
Organizations use strategy and goals to move a business forward. However, a successful strategy is dependent on how well goals are achieved. Organizations need to have a structured performance management…
What Are The 5 Levels of Customer Satisfaction?
As a business owner, the first thing you will learn is that you need customers to pay the bills. Without them, a business would cease to exist. After you gain…