Let's face it. Small businesses have a lot of trouble attracting and retaining good talent. The most talented people still prefer to work for larger companies. And it's not always about a higher paycheck or a about the reputation of working for a bigger firm. The Staggering Insurance Gap One key reason is that smaller businesses don't offer the best health benefits. Only 54% of SMBs (with less than 200 employees) offer traditional health insurance to their employees, compared to 98% of large … [Read more...]
Why Women Need Impression Management to be Successful at Work
The most important markers of a successful career are challenging, skill-enhancing assignments, recognition as a talented, highly motivated individual, and ever-increasing responsibility and visibility. A career with these characteristics depends in large part on the people controlling your workflow, exposure, and training having very positive impressions of you. Hard work and first-rate work product are essential, but make no mistake: unless your supervisors, colleagues, and customers/clients … [Read more...]
4 Valuable Leadership Lessons From My Google Days
I believe that Google is one of the best big companies to work at. They do a great job of building an amazing culture and they really care about their employees. It’s very impressive how they’ve been able to maintain a small company feel, in terms of speed and agility, by keeping the teams small and breaking up the company into several parts. Culture is hard to define in a company, but if everyone seems to have something in common, has the same goals, and functions as one unit, they probably … [Read more...]
6 Tips to Develop a Winning Execution Plan
Whether you are launching a new business or implementing a new sales plan, a 90-day execution plan that details what needs to be done week by week and by whom provides a structure that delivers successful results. This post is essentially the “deep dive” into how you are going to deliver on the plan. Why 90-days? It’s important to allow enough time to deliver a successful project, keep the team focused, allow for unexpected challenges to be resolved and time to pivot all while having a clear … [Read more...]
How Short Term Results Obsession Damages Business Productivity
The heat is turned up, the pressure is building, the board or your boss is pushing for action. For many of us the last economic down turn was a memorable struggle that tested our short term vs long term priorities. Do the values on the wall of the corporate headquarters really matter? Do those speeches during orientation or at the annual staff gathering really count? There is usually a big gap between the short term, not exactly values driven solutions and the long term goals. The short … [Read more...]
How to Use Internal Communication to Boost your Team’s Productivity
Know what causes the most damage to a team’s productivity? Bad communication. Communication within an organization is often a battle. A war that ends up with missed targets, overworked and dissatisfied employees and frustrated bosses. Employees have little clarity about what the top bosses are trying to achieve. What does my company really expect from me? How does my contribution tie in with the big picture? What do I have to do to grow in the organization? Bosses are frustrated that their … [Read more...]
Scaling Up Your Business: 33 Leaders on the Biggest Mistakes to Avoid
Scaling up a business is a very different ball game from starting a business. A new level brings with it numerous challenges. If you get it wrong, you will either lose a lot of money, or worse - you might even have to shut down. The best way to avoid some of these mistakes is to listen to leaders who have successfully scaled up and learn from them. To know more about what mistakes one should avoid, we reached out to several leaders who have built and/or grown successful businesses. We asked … [Read more...]
Want Better Productivity? Focus on Your Health
Want to be more productive? Want to being your 'A' game to office everyday? Keen on tackling your daily tasks with motivation? The solution is simple: Give importance to your health! It may sound unimportant or downright silly, but what you eat, how much you exercise, whether you smoke or not, all directly impact your productivity levels. A healthy diet promotes good health, and employee wellness is tied so closely to worker efficiency that 77% of lost productivity is attributable to … [Read more...]
7 Reasons Why Coaching Works Brilliantly as a Leadership Development Tool
Remember that time when your boss gave you that piece of advice? Your boss thought the advice was great. You did not! You were thinking, “He/she doesn’t really understand my problem!” Remember your friends telling you about how their bosses gave them bad advice? It happens to everyone right? What about when you are the boss? How often do you give advice to your team members? How do they really take it? Do they always act upon your advice? How often have you wished your people would… … [Read more...]
Neelam Dhawan, HP India MD, shares 6 Leadership Lessons
What can the India Head of the $64 Billion Hewlett Packard Company teach you about Leadership? Lots! At a TiE interaction with Neelam Dhawan, HP India Managing Director, I had the opportunity to learn valuable perspectives on Leadership and Strategy. Here are Six Leadership Lessons: 1. What got you here will not get you there. Are you great at your job? You are a star at what your job – as a CEO, a rockstar sales person or a brilliant coder! Means you will grow to be a more successful … [Read more...]
