How Collaboration Helps Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Navigate Uncertainty
As we move into 2025, U.S. businesses are bracing for potential trade wars and tariffs on imported goods. This unpredictable environment poses significant challenges, particularly for small and medium- sized businesses (SMEs) that often operate on tighter margins. Yet, amid navigating uncertainty, there’s a powerful strategy SMEs can adopt to not only weather these challenges […]
Surviving 2022 with a hybrid work environment
This time of the year people start thinking about their new year’s resolutions. Perhaps some of those resolutions involve surviving next year in a hybrid work environment. I get it. 2020 and 2021 have been horrible for some managers. Some tech organizations, on the other hand, have experienced record earnings with managers whose stress levels […]
Strong Workplace Culture? Include Remote Workers!
The ability to telecommute to work may not be feasible for all industries or workplaces. However, more and more workers are looking for the opportunity. According to Gallup research, 51 percent of employees say that they would leave their current positions for a job that offered flextime. The opportunity to telecommute is catching up, with […]
How Poor Leadership Behavior Impacts Work Culture
How does poor leadership behavior impact your work culture? Employee engagement, goal achievement, productivity, civility, workplace bullying and your bottom line are all impacted by poor leadership behavior. That said, changing poor leadership behavior is possible when executives measure change in department attitude and performance. The problem is that a few employees will copy poor […]
Team Huddles Improve Work Culture Success
Work culture can be messy for many small and medium-sized businesses. Not every job starts with positive onboarding, which is needed to perform well in a new position and for work culture success. Studies on work culture support this. One 2016 study found that 94 percent of executives and 88 percent of employees believe a […]
Maintaining Your Company Culture When Selling The Company
You’ve worked hard to build your company. It bought you a nice house and college tuition for the kids. And your business is well known in your community. You now want to retire and are putting the business up for sale. Is it possible to maintain or improve company culture when selling your company? According […]