Work on Your Weaknesses...Sometimes.

The US Government has passed the $2 Trillion CARES act, which is the largest relief bill in history. If you own a small business or run a small organization of less than 500 employees, there are [...]

When the World Health Organization recently declared a pandemic from the COVID-19 (cororavirus), several organizations have taken steps to protect their teams by having employees work remotely. [...]

Business owners, this is going to hurt, so get scrappy.

A community is judged not by it’s challenges, but by it’s response to the challenges. During the challenging times presented by the COVID-19 virus, we get to determine our response as a community.

I had a friend ask me recently, “which side do you fall on with this whole virus thing?”. It wasn’t a surprising question given some of the conversations I’ve seen on social media and the fact that [...]

Your Communication Systems get your people the information they need. Every organization we’ve ever worked with (and probably haven’t worked with) struggles with communication - and everyone knows [...]

Your People Systems get the right people into the right places within your organization. In every organization, success starts (and sometimes stops) with your People. We’ve all experienced the magic [...]

Talent attraction and retention is a battlefield. Companies are vying for employee attention, and we are all determined to find the perfect match. Traditional hiring tells us that to find this [...]

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of joining 83 people from the Springfield area to attend a Community Leadership Visit in Lexington, KY. This group of leaders included civic leaders, social [...]

As a business owner, I knew it’s important to know my numbers, so every month when we closed our books on the 10th, I would look over the financials. Some months were better than others, but the [...]