Picture this: you are thrilled because you have a shot at getting in front of your ideal audience.
To enroll them in your idea, you spend some time working out your content. As you deliver the presentation, you assume that you’ll figure out the rest.
You deliver your speech and are quite pleased with your presentation. You’re relieved to finish, the audience claps, and some people ask questions.
Then you wait. And wait. And wait.
You check your phone to make sure it’s
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Be a Hiring Hero
Research indicates that time to fill vacant positions across U.S. industries are taking over 42 working days. Across the world, time-to-fill estimates are over 62 days.
When you consider payroll expenses, unproductive hours, like sick time, it’s more important than ever to make sure you fill that vacancy with a match that is a good one. If there’s a mismatch between the person and position, you’ll lose more than pay and benefit expenses. For customer-facing position, you’ll lose valuable
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From Confusion to Certainty: Practical Tools to Scale Your Business
As your company grows, notice when there’s confusion. Confusion about who is responsible for certain tasks or areas of responsibility. If you step away for a period of time, notice if your team is confused about who to report to or who can answer their questions in your absence. Notice when you’re overwhelmed with questions, things are falling through the cracks, and you can’t keep up. Consider that you may be the bottleneck.
The good news is there are tools that will help you to lead your
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Freedom to Create
This week in the U.S., we celebrate Independence Day. Independence is a condition where you exercise self-government. Entrepreneurs know all too well about independence. Independence provides freedom: freedom to create or to do nothing at all.
With that freedom to create also comes commitment, responsibility, and effort. The question is, what are you creating that contributes to the world?
Enjoy your day, weekend, and holiday.
Lisa Mininni
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