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Lagging at work? – 5 Top Strategies For Increasing Business Productivity

This is a guest post from Jori Hamilton (see bio at the end of the article). Workplace productivity is a key factor in overall business success, and if your employees are falling behind, then the lack of output and motivation can hurt them and your company’s bottom line. The good news is that there are […]

Opinions: Resistance, Acceptance, and Common Ground

We all want to be heard.  We all have our opinions.  And as we know all too well when there are differences of opinion the fuse can often be very short from ignition to explosion.  In business this can completely derail an otherwise productive meeting or project.  Worse yet, in our personal lives it can […]

Want to be more productive? Be a Goldfish…

If you haven’t seen the show ‘Ted Lasso’ yet, you need to. It’s a heartwarming, funny show about an American football coach who takes a job in the United Kingdom as a soccer coach in the Premier League. The coach, Ted Lasso, doesn’t know anything about soccer, but he knows how to build a great […]

Patrick Mahomes – The Ideal Team Player

When you lose something you really worked for it is supposed to hurt.  There is a lot of hurting going on in the Chief’s Kingdom.  No matter what anyone says it is hard to accept defeat when victory was in your grasp.  This year the Kansas City Chiefs reached a championship game they had not […]

Are you going it alone…?

Most business owners feel like they’re on some kind of island. That their company’s success or failure rides solely on their shoulders…and their shoulders alone. The problem with that feeling is that not only is it wrong, it’s incredibly stressful and tends to lead to bad decisions and eventually to business failures. The media has […]

The 3 things you must do to build trust and teamwork

Teamwork has been described as the ultimate competitive advantage for a business. “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable According to […]