Why People Fail to Act on Their Instincts
Most friction inside a company can be traced to a specific employee or group of employees. More often than not, addressing the problem head-on takes way too long. For a company and its employees, the cost of doing nothing is expensive and painful; both financially and emotionally. Why does this happen? Paralysis by analysis is…
Redefining the Labor Day Movement for Small Business
Over 120 years ago, the federal government officially recognized the first Monday in September as Labor Day; a public holiday whose purpose was to honor the American Labor Movement. Over time, labor unions have diminished in both membership and influence; which in part has led to redefinition of Labor Day as the symbolic end of…
How to Increase Employee Productivity Effortlessly – Part 2
“Who are the employees that bring a certain darkness into a room every time they walk in the room?” Whether the darkness is barely palpable, like a solar eclipse, or something much darker that brings coldness into the workplace, you know who I am talking about.” My question is…. “What are you going to do…
How to Increase Employee Productivity Effortlessly – Part I
“Is the energy level in the room high? Is the group ready to be highly productive? Are you all ready to have some fun? “ Those were three leading questions I asked a group of business owners last week to start an online training program on How to Build High Performance Teams. This group was…
Whose Responsibility is Employee Engagement
No employer wants to create a bad working environment and no employee shows up for work on the first day hoping to dislike their job. Yet Gallup research shows that over 70% of employees are not engaged with their job or the company. What’s up with this disconnect? Whose fault is it? The employer? The…
Avoiding the Hidden Tax of Voluntary Employee Turnover
Partners of professional service firms take note. If a competitor or stragetic buyer offered to purchase your business today, what do you think it would be worth? Now assume that 100% of your employees were to resign tomorrow. What would your company be worth by the end of the week? Yep…. Not much at all;…
How to Increase Team Effectiveness
There is a palpable magic which happens when employes have fun taking ownership over deliberately improving their contributions to your company. The formula looks like this: #Winning! = Skill Building + Team Buiding and successful businesses consistently work to improve their score. How does your company rank on this measure? How can it improve? Here’s…
When it Comes to Effective Team Building No One Knows Better Than Your Employees
When was the last time you asked your employees how they can develop into becoming a more effective team? Competing in the game of business is a team sport and highly engaged employees want to play on a winning team. They usually have great ideas about how to get better! Are you listening? More importantly,…
How to Build a Fun Profitable and Rewarding Business
Competing in the game business should be fun, profitable and rewarding. Winning is a lot more fun than losing and while quantifying or qualifying what winning looks like is largely subjective, you can immediately apply a simple principle to improve business results immediately with less effort. Measuring the Smile to Frown Ratio One way to…
Earl Bell – Onward Nation podcast w/Stephen Woessner
Episode 307: How to build a SUPER TEAM of employees Secret – timesaving technique Earl takes a look at his daily and weekly calendar at the end of every night — get the top 2-3 things done that you need to get done every day. ONWARD! Daily habit that contributes to success Be disciplined and…