With remote work on the rise, the competition for talent has expanded, making it increasingly important to focus on retaining employees. You’ve done the hard work of finding, hiring, and training top recruits. Now, you need to take the steps necessary to keep those employees in their seats. Here you’ll find ten strategies to implement today to ensure you keep your key talent happy, engaged, and retained: Retention Starts at RecruitingFrom the application process to selecting …
Top Five Things Business Owners Struggle With
Most small businesses are living the American Dream; the idea that if you can dream it, you can do it. It’s also not a secret that being a business owner is no walk in the park, and you will struggle at some point. What we don’t always acknowledge is the journey to reach or keep our dream going. As the landscape of business changes, new obstacles will always arise. Here are the top five things business owners struggle with at one point or another: 1. Digital Transitions: Whether starting …
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How To Set Fourth Quarter Business Goals
Can you believe we are about to start the fourth quarter? I want to remind you to take a few minutes this week to set your goals and intentions for the next 3 months. When you wake up on December 31st, what do you want things to look like? What do you want to have accomplished? To have set in motion? While you are doing this, I also encourage you to spend a few minutes thinking about how you want to start off the next year. We don’t magically wake up on January 1st with a new playbook and a …
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Enjoy Your Business Journey
One of my clients teaches a program and has hired me to conduct weekly mindset sessions with their students. This week we were talking about using the power of your mind to create goals and generate energy around the things that you really want. In that session, one of the students asked me what I was working on right now and what action steps I was taking. In answering this question, it got me thinking about how while goals are important, so is enjoying the journey. When I think about my …
Can You Take a Day Off?
Last week I took Wednesday afternoon off and took my 4-year-old to the zoo for a mommy/daughter day. No clients. No phones. No checking email. Just 5 hours dedicated to creating memories and connection with my little one. When I got home, she was excitedly telling her dad and sister (and anyone else that would listen) all about the baby tigers she saw and the giraffes she got to feed…and of course the extra special treat of McDonald's for lunch. To this little girl it was the best day …
Turning Challenge into Strength
Oftentimes we focus on the roadblocks to our goals or the weaknesses that we see in ourselves. Sometimes the best way forward is to harness that barrier and see the strength that lies within it. As a little girl, I was so shy I would not even talk to my teachers. I needed time to build these trusting relationships and feel safe to open up leading me to build deep connections. I later discovered that for me building those trusting relationships later helped me build my career as well. What …