By Nick Jervis
What action can you take to ensure that you hold onto your staff and keep your recruitment costs as low as possible? Estimates vary, but to replace a solicitor the total expense in terms of recruitment, lost man hours of the outgoing staff and the training of the incoming member, can exceed £100,000.
The [...]
By Lani and Allen Voivod
As small business owners, it’s all too easy for us to get so immersed in the daily planning and producing of projects and profits that we forget to step back and take a look at the Bigger Picture of what’s going on “in the field,” as they say.
So take a minute [...]
Creativity…”Originality, Imaginative thinking”
You’ve no doubt heard about “thinking outside the box”. Very often, business creativity is referred to as thinking outside the box. You can get locked in to your day-to-day operational thinking “inside the box”, and forget totally about the requirements of the need for business creativity. It is very easy to lose sight [...]
Have you ever been working on something, going down a path in your business or life, and it just doesn’t feel as good as you want it to?
You can reason it out - doing this makes sense, this is something that’s good for me or my business, I need to do this, I’ve got it [...]
By Dr Mark Yates
Although most businesses are effectively treading water through the current economic crisis, many astute business owners are looking to the growth of business by utilising what’s commonly referred to as an innovation business model.
Innovation and change are often requirements for business growth and many opportunities present in times of business hardship.
The growth [...]
By Niki Irmal
As 81 million American baby boomers begin to move into their retirement years, they are redefining what retirement means. For many, it doesn’t mean they’ve stopped working, but rather that they are exercising more choice over how they work. According to a 2009 survey, some 75 percent of people who chose to engage [...]
By AnnA Rushton
Have you heard of K.I.S.S? It is much used in business and particularly in training, and it stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. Now I agree with keeping it simple in principle, but calling me stupid is not going to help tackle procrastination.
I prefer a much kinder, and more effective way of thinking [...]
With the unprecedented growth explosion of e-commerce, retailing and the expansion of the internet marketplace, an overwhelming number of opportunities for starting an online business have emerged. Yet, the question remains: should you take up a job or start an online business? A working job requires less responsibility than owning an online business, solely because [...]
Victor Mataraso, M.B.A. is the founder and president of Reliable Receptionist, a personalized, off-site telephone reception and appointment scheduling service.
This summer I went on a quest of sorts. In truth, the initial idea was to take a cross-country summer vacation with my family. However, being the ever vigilant multi-tasker, my trip soon evolved into [...]
Death clock quizzes are now becoming popular especially for those people who just want to have some fun. These quizzes consist of questionnaires that they say would help in determining the exact date when a person will die or pass away. Some people think that it is kind of interesting to know the specific date [...]
As a small business start-up coach and consultant, one of my favorite things to do is help my clients write vision statements for their businesses. However, this isn’t always easy for them to do.
Why? Because they, like many people, think vision statements and mission statements are one and the same. They haven’t really stopped to [...]
Even if you just want to get on with running your business and keep your costs down because times are tough and you are getting sick and tired of hearing all the politicians, big business and the green groups all endlessly arguing about carbon: going green to save makes sound business sense.
Climate change caused by [...]
“The million” honestly doesn’t mean anything in a business until you have a better whole view of the business; its mission, vision, purpose, and financials.. and an idea of the priorities and lifestyle vision of the business owner.
Many of you feel like you “should” hit the million-dollar mark because that’s what you see other people [...]
Are you sick of working 15 hour days? I’ll show you how to STOP once and for all!
As attorneys, we are all pretty much type-A perfectionists with control issues, right?
While that personality has pushed us to excel, it is a HUGE liability when transferred into our businesses if we want a work/life balance that our [...]
Many people believe that you can only create a successful business by destroying your competitors. They view business is a “dog eat dog” “anything for a buck” world where only the toughest and meanest person survives.
This perspective still prevails in the business world. As a result most entrepreneurs hesitate to reveal any vulnerability for they [...]
The word “Innovation” has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the most overused and misunderstood concepts in business. Today’s tumultuous economic climate has sent companies across the globe scrambling to decipher the secrets of Innovation and to find ways to quickly download it throughout their organizations. Innovation fever is everywhere.
In the corporate gold [...]
There was a time in my business when I simply did whatever was put in front of me to be done. I was a task-master without a clear vision of where I was taking my business. (I felt as if the ship were steering me more than I was steering it!) You see, I started [...]
