As a founder, you were never really on the “manager career path.” You never made a conscious decision to be a manager. It’s not that you’re not good at managing people. The truth is you never [...]

Team meetings are absolutely essential. But are you using them as the grounding stone that they are intended to be, or are you using them as a work group? Are they debilitating or are they [...]

Today Kris discusses how an unexpected personal issue recently required her to step away from her business for a short period of time. The beauty? She can do this comfortably because she has [...]

If you sometimes feel that dealing with difficult employees is like a game of whack-a-mole, you’re in the right place. We’ll talk about labels and thoughts and identified behaviors. Here [...]

Are you looking to hire someone who has amazing experience and a really great resume? Here’s a little advice, based on my experience, when hiring people who come from corporate cultures. What [...]

As a female entrepreneur and business owner, do you crave having an ownership-accountability culture? Today I have the “what, how and why” that will show you how to be a coach for your employees! [...]

There’s a distinct difference between coaching, managing and leading. Leading is about the vision. Managing is about the business. Coaching is about the individual. In a small business, [...]

Do you believe that asking for help is a sign of weakness or a lack of ability? Maybe you just feel like – “Why bother – I’m just going to end up doing it myself anyway.” You have too much [...]

If your business has a culture of accountability, that means that your employees accept ownership for their results, no matter what. But with that comes this unexpected truth that has been a [...]

Hiring is like dating. Sometimes we get “candidate crushes” and those don’t always turn out like we had hoped. Thus the term “hiring PTSD.” If you’re disenchanted with the hiring [...]