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How Often do you Update Your Employee Handbook?
- Employee handbooks are what most Business Owners consider a necessary evil – something that is nice to have but it rarely changes. But employee handbooks can be a living, breathing document that can increase team culture, help avoid extremely costly HR-related lawsuits, and more. We say this often, but the more you can do to […] Read More
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Financials: Why Everyone Needs to Know the Score
- Most of the high-performing businesses that we coach have the entire leadership team, or at least the owners, have a solid grasp on the financial health of the company. Profit and Loss Statements and Balance Sheets are typically familiar terms. But, of course, the net profit is the most important – it is how much […] Read More
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Price Increases: Strategies to Keep Customers
- Do you know who gets upset by price increases the most often? Spoiler alert: it’s not the customers. Increasing prices is an inevitable fact of growing a business: labor costs, inflation, market prices, and more can drive a business’s need to raise prices. So when we assess a business in the first few weeks of […] Read More
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Building Boom: Next Normal for Construction
- The last 16 months have been something to behold for the Construction and Trades industries, particularly in residential construction. Fueled by the pandemic, and the general public rarely leaving their homes for over a year, all of a sudden the house that once worked for you is no longer working. Most of us have heard […] Read More
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Planning your Exit Part 4: Sale to Employees
- This is Part 4 of a Series about planning for succession at the time that you decide to leave your business. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 can be found here, Part 3 here, and look for part 5 next week! Just like in the previous posts, Business Owners need to assure that […] Read More
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A Fresh Start for Team Culture
- Over the last few weeks we’ve explored goal-setting for your team, for you as a leader, but what about making sure that your team is focused, getting along, and working toward achieving your company’s goals? One of the #1 things that you can do to put the pedal to the metal is increasing Employee Engagement. […] Read More
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New Year: Don’t Forget About YOU
- If you’ve read our previous blog posts about planning for the New Year (check them out here, here, and here), and taken action on getting ready to spring into action in 2021, congratulations! You’ve taken the first step to having your company’s best year ever. Daily focus on strategies to achieve each and every goal […] Read More
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Planning for 2021: Goals vs Strategies
- This is the third in a 3-part series getting you and your business ready for 2021. Check out part 1 here and part 2 here. OK, so you’ve got your theme established, your goals identified and smartified (yes, that’s a word around here), and you’re ready to take on 2021! Right? Not quite yet. The very […] Read More
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Planning for 2021: Narrow Big Dreams
- This is the second in a 3-part series getting you and your business ready for 2021. Check out part 1 here, and look for part 3 next week, December 30. Business Owners have one thing in common: they want their businesses to succeed. And part of taking the leap to own your own business is […] Read More
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8 Signs Coaching is Working for You
- Ok, so you’ve decided your business needs some help. At least you as the business owner needs some help, and you have decided Business Coaching is the way to go. How do you know that Business Coaching is working? We’ve noticed our happiest clients have these 8 things in common: Your view of yourself, your […] Read More
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