I am going to be honest here and tell you that the 5 Essential Pillars of Leadership in this blog were developed by me back in 2018. I was lucky to spend much of 2021 working in depth on this topic with an outstanding leader, Alex A. Pilkington and ...
[Read more] about 5 Essential Pillars of Leadership
Leadership
The Art of Effective Delegation
I have found the fear of effective delegation and trusting someone else to do something up to your standards is right behind the fear of public speaking, death and taxes! How significant a fear is it? My Google search for articles written ...
[Read more] about The Art of Effective Delegation
Want to Keep Employees Around Awhile? Here’s How.
Employee engagement is always important. Recently, as I was working with one of my clients to help them hire a salesperson, it became a top priority. They worried about finding someone that would stay for the long haul in their startup company. ...
[Read more] about Want to Keep Employees Around Awhile? Here’s How.
Independent Contractor or Employee?
Guidelines for determining whether you are hiring an independent contractor or employee
How to decide between hiring an independent contractor and an employee is one of the questions I get asked frequently. This is a very important distinction ...
[Read more] about Independent Contractor or Employee?
Have More Work Than You Can Handle? How to Hire Your First Employee
Is it time to hire your first employee? Running a business by yourself can be overwhelming and while bringing on another person to help can be exciting and relieve some pressure, hiring your first employee can also prove stressful. I've laid out ...
[Read more] about Have More Work Than You Can Handle? How to Hire Your First Employee
3 Tips to Becoming an Influential Leader
Leading As an Influencer, Instead of an Authoritarian
Influential leaders have the power to persuade. John Maxwell says that leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. To have influence means that you have won people over to your point of ...
[Read more] about 3 Tips to Becoming an Influential Leader