Okay, so we’ve talked about knowing your staff, motivating your staff, managing your staff, compensating your staff, communicating with your staff, knowing what is wrong with your business and now I want to talk about Knowing What Kind of Boss You Are… Read more »

I’ve said it before and I will continue to say it, “Communication is the best way to have a successful business.”  You need to communicate with your customers, your staff and everyone else you meet… Read more »

Do you know what’s wrong with your company?  If you think your business is the best business in the world, then you need to ask your staff if they agree… Read more »

My last post, What a Great Idea,  I told you about the Random Act of Kindness idea and gave you some examples of how to share this kindness with your employees, but I’ve been thinking about this and I’ve come up with some simple ideas for you to do with your customers. Read more »

Thanks to my Facebook friend, Christine Norris at Landlord Tips, I have found out about a great site and an interesting Facebook Event called Random Acts of Kindness.  This got me thinking, what can we do to show our employees some “Random Acts of Kindness? Read more »

Another touchy part of being a boss is how to pay your employees.  You have to be fair, or you will lose your good employees to better paying companies.  I know if you’re a small company you might not be able to pay as well as a major company, so you need to come up with better ways to compensate your employees… Read more »

There are people, in every company, that are difficult employees.  They don’t do the job right, so you offer to help them and they do fine while you are there, but as soon as they are left alone, they ‘forget’ everything you’ve told them.  If you continue to give in and continue to work with this person, you might just be supporting the behavior.   Read more »

A boss has a hard job.  There are times when we have to tell an employee they are doing something wrong or worse, we have to fire them.  But the way you do this is what makes you a boss or a better boss. Read more »

So yesterday, you started thinking about your staff and where their strengths are and today I want to show you how to motivate those strengths to bring out the best in your employees… Read more »