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Why Micromanagement in the Workplace Stifles Innovation — and How to Stop It!

Part 3 in our Mindsets of Workplace Transformation series. Below, we cover how workplace micromanagement can severely diminish employee capacity, and what you can do about it. Picture a company where all workers do exactly as their managers ask with no feedback or resistance. Sound like nirvana? If so, you might be in need of this mindset shift: moving from control to creativity. Many leaders fall into the trap of...

From Status-Seeker to Servant Leader: The Second Mindset Shift

This is part 2 in our Mindsets of Workplace Transformation series. Read on to discover how becoming a servant leader can transform your company. The research is in — piles of it, and growing: for businesses to thrive, work must become more than just a paycheque. It must become a source of aliveness that calls forth the potential of every employee. To achieve this, leaders need to shift away...

How Fear Blocks Your Ability to Create a High-Performance Workplace

Part 1 in our Mindsets of Workplace Transformation series. After 25 years working with individuals and organizations to transform their work and their workplaces, I can point to hundreds of ways in which the high-performance workplace has become not only more prevalent, but more healthy. Technology has made it possible for people to work from anywhere, allowing work arrangements to accommodate a wide variety of lifestyles and schedules. Hierarchies...

How to Keep Employees Happy and Productive (Without Huge Salaries)

Following up on the theme of last week’s post, we’d like to focus on how employers can keep and engage core talent by keeping employees happy and productive without paying huge salaries. That’s not to say that Gravity Payments' model, which involved CEO Dan Price taking a major pay cut to boost his employee minimum pay to $70,000, didn’t get Gravity Payments workers pretty excited; however, this model is...

Gravity Payments Pays Up: The Good and the Bad About a High Minimum Salary

The media is still buzzing after the CEO of Gravity Payments, Dan Price, announced that he was cutting his own salary to ensure that none of his employees make less than $70,000 per year. It’s a magnanimous move, and the employees, many of whom saw their salaries double instantly, are justifiably happy. For some background, Gravity Payments is a Seattle-based payment processing firm. In young tech companies like Gravity...

3 Ways to Fix a Cash-Flow Emergency

Cash-flow crunches are an all too frequent feature of small business life. Sometimes this problem is the result of poor planning, inadequate financial management systems, or insufficient marketing. Your first stop when cash-flow shortages are looming, should be to call ...

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How to Build Your Company Culture on Core Values

A company culture is just a mirror of its owner. The clearer an owner is on what they stand for (and what they won’t stand for) the stronger the company culture  they establish will be.  In Forbes online, Stanford MBA graduate Kevon Saber gives us the following questions that he used to build the culture at his online wellness app company: 1. When have you felt most alive? Kevon discovered...

3 Thoughts to Avoid to Increase Sales

Closing sales is the deciding factor between success and failure for every entrepreneur. This kind of pressure can put you in the wrong mindset which can nullify all your efforts. Teri Evans from entrepreneur magazine interviewed sales expert Grant Cardone on how ...

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9 Tips for Employee Motivation in Stressful Times

Can’t seem to keep your workers from getting discouraged during a crisis? Try these 9 steps from The Wall Street Journal to optimize employee motivation in stressful times: 1. Be available for support. Make sure to be available for questions your employees might have, be honest and avoid making promises that you can’t keep. 2. Don’t hover over your workers. Have faith that your staff will figure things out on...

3 Key Places to Invest Your Marketing Dollars

Is cheap really cheaper?
Saving money is always a good thing,  that doesn’t always mean spending less.  In this video from Entrepreneur Magazine, Karen Leyland tells us that one of the classic mistakes businesses and start-ups make when branding or ...

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