Internal vs External hires

Internal vs External hires

When you’re expanding your workforce, it’s common to struggle with the decision of promoting and hiring from within, versus looking for external candidates. This can be a critical decision for certain kinds of roles. Hiring from within gives you people who are...
Compliment in public, Reprimand in private

Compliment in public, Reprimand in private

When you’re interacting with employees, context is everything. A good message can turn bad when it’s done wrong. Here’s a great example. When you want to compliment someone on a job well done, you can say that in private. It will have impact. But even more powerful is...

Biggest Frustration in Business

We thought it might be fun to do some comparing.  What pisses you off the most about your business or in your business or about being in business?  Click here to tell us your answers.  I’ll tell you mine next week, as I don’t want to pre-empt any of your...

How to make your team perform better

Last week, Jon gave a leadership talk at the Leadership Summit. If you’ve missed it, we’ve got a free download for you here. He talks about: the leadership process and how you can use it in a small business some recent psychological learning that can help...