Watching Nonverbal Communication
Studies reveal that verbal communication conveys only 7% of a typical message’s meaning, while nonverbal cues convey 93%. Are you listening completely? Are you being heard completely?
Tips for Better Writing
Clear and effective writing is vital to entrepreneurs. If your company’s literature is well-crafted, readers will see you and your company as focused and efficient. Poorly thought out and hastily written messages, on the other, could cost you business and confuse your staff.
Better Decision Making
How do you make decisions? The key to good decision making is knowing your goals; nail down your objectives first, and then select the options that will achieve them.
Stop Procrastinating
If your motto is "Don’t do today what you can put off until tomorrow," you may be putting too much stress on your business. You need just twenty-one days and a strategy to kick one procrastinating habit.
Communicating the Vision: Lead by Telling Stories
When you need to make a point, tell a story. Stories make connections for your listeners between context and content — attaching facts to a story makes them much easier to remember.
Learn to Delegate Effectively
Don’t do anything that doesn’t absolutely need to be done by you. Delegating effectively is one of the hallmarks of good business leadership.
Self-Assessment Tools
What kind of leader are you? Taking a self-assessment test can reveal a lot about how you deal with others, how you make decisions and what your strengths and weaknesses are.
Stimulating Creativity
Creative ideas are the result of effort. Your effort to create the free-flowing atmosphere that stimulates your employees to reach into themselves for a brilliant solution to that nagging problem. Your success depends on their creative juices, so make sure you’ve designed your business to release them.
Shopping for Business Insurance
Finding the right business insurance policies can be complex and intimidating. Making a mistake could cost you some major money, so do your research, find a good agent and protect yourself and your company.
Open-Book Management at Work
Letting your staff see into your financial books gives them a sense of ownership in your company. They’ll think and act like entrepreneurs, innovating more freely and allocating resources more sensibly.