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 […]
Best Leadership Skills Build Small Business Success
Which of your employees demonstrates the best leadership skills to build company relationships, coach employee performance and achieve group goals that grow your bottom line? Do you know? Is it a new Millennial you just hired in a lower level support function? Is it a Gen X employee who has been working hard and loyally […]
Taking the Plunge into Consulting Entrepreneurship
You have human resource experience and a big idea to help leaders transform their work culture, build employee engagement or stream line how employees cooperate with one another. You are also no longer satisfied with simply daydreaming about starting your own consulting business. You are ready to take the plunge into entrepreneurship and navigate the […]
Do Small Business Owners Have Time For Team Building Activities?
With our global presence we often look across the pond to see what our colleagues in the U.K. are up to. What we find interesting is that small business decision makers seem to lack the time for growth-related tasks when building their teams and businesses. In honor of the U.K.’s first-ever Small Business Saturday that […]
US Health Care Changes Meet News Collector Jenn X
Who can deny that change is tantalizing to a change agent and team development geek. For me, when change is punched up with some collaboration … life just gets better. So when a plucky out-of-work bartender-turned-entrepreneur by the name of Jenn X (LOVE that name!) cracks the code on the biggest change topic in US […]
What Fuels Entrepreneur Passions? New Study By American Express Open
What fuels entrepreneur passion? American Express Open took up the banner to answer this question and looked at the attitudes and differences between the Millennial Generation (Gen Y ages 24-35) and the Baby Boomers (ages 48-70). Clearly, the Great Recession has made a deep impression on both Millennials who found it difficult to find work […]
Study Shows Cyber Attacks Target Small Businesses
I was lucky this year. A link I opened from what appeared to be a real person on Twitter didn’t wipe out my computer systems altogether. But the cyber attack known as the FBI virus did considerable damage. Almost one-third of U.S. small businesses surveyed by the Ponemon Institute had a cyber attack in the […]
Computer Giant Launches World’s First Female Entrepreneurship Index
Dell announced the results of the world’s first gender-focused, global entrepreneurship index based on the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI) at its Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network annual event. “Unleashing the power of female entrepreneurship can have a dramatic effect on a country’s economy. The research clearly supports the assertion that key things need […]
Sales Presentations that Win Clients for the Long Term
On the constant hunt for clients? Do you wrap up a project with one client just to find yourself scrambling to find the next one? Can you even get past the initial client interview process to win the project? If you are a business consultant, team developer, or facilitator, these questions have haunted you at […]
How To Hire The Right Person For Your Team
How do you know you are hiring the right person for your team? This is the $1,000 question for leaders looking to attract and retain the best employees as companies spark into new growth cycles. Klaus Kocott, Klaus Kokott, Partner at Kokott, Wood & Associates, Inc., goes into detail on how to hire for fit […]