Ah, team building, two words that make your colleagues roll their eyes and escape the office in no time. And it’s true, lousily done team building activities can be quite boring. However, some team-building exercises promote fellowship and improve the team’s communication and collaboration skills, while having fun. There are various types of team-building exercises….
Category: Personal Development
How a Branding Consultant Can Help Your Business
Why a Personal Brand? There is reasonable skepticism about the value of developing your personal brand. You may think that investing in your business’s brand would be better for sales, or that business owners who spend time and money chasing a personal brand are being vain. But in the influencer-driven age, success in business as…
A Helping Hand For Broadway First-Timers
If you’re planning a trip to Broadway for the first time, it can be a little overwhelming. With so many shows in the offing, it can sometimes be hard to figure out which one you should watch. After all, there are so many fabulous productions from which to choose. Musicals like Mary Poppins, Pretty Woman,…
5 Tenure Gift Ideas That Will Make Your Employees Feel Appreciated
If you want to reward your tenured employees, then you can find a variety of ways to do this. Consider these ideas for the best gifts for your tenured employees so that they will feel appreciated and valued in the workplace. Extra Personal Time Off Days You can reward your tenured employees with extra personal…
5 Small Changes You Can Make to Be Way More Productive
We all, of course, want to be more productive. No matter how clinical or cold that phrase sounds, at its core it just means we accomplish more in less time. Becoming more productive means we have more time to spend on our passions, to think, to play, to achieve our dreams or just more time…
4 Investments That Will Bring Your Business to the Top
What should you do with the money that you are earning from your business? Figuring out how much of it is worth investing in the future growth of your company should be one of your top priorities as a business owner. The second question is what to invest in? Not all investments will have the…
4 Tips for Building Strong Work Relationships
When it comes to the professional workplace, the differences that atmosphere creates lends to automatic tensions. This is why it’s important from the beginning to build strong work relationships. Here are four tips that you can use in order to ensure that your work relationships are solid and thriving. Initiate Personal Conversations In a professional…
Does Your Employee Handbook Need a Makeover?
Nothing about your business is chiseled into granite. But if your handbook goes years in between revisions, you might be giving your employees — as well as prospective new hires — the idea that you’re treading water or that you’ve gotten stuck in time. For reasons ranging from the practical to the legal, it’s a…
Monetizing Your Blog For Six-Figure Returns
Blogs can make upwards of $10,000 a month for even just solo-owners. With the right SEO, advertising, and readership, your blog can easily be monetized far beyond what you’d expect to find in a normal office job. In this article, you’ll be given some of the top tips for monetizing your blog, and living off the proceeds. What…
How to Encourage Your Employees to Participate in Charitable Causes
Getting your employees to participate in charitable causes and events is a great way to bring your team together and give back to the community at the same time. Surprisingly, encouraging employee participation in such causes is fairly easy. Here are four creative ways you can get your employees to become active in charitable causes….