Jim Miley
It’s unanimous; we’re in an employee’s job market with no end in sight for employers struggling to recruit and retain good people. I read articles, listen to business pundits, and talk to business owners about their strategies for recruiting talent. My firm serves as the recruiting resource for nearly all of our business coaching clients […]
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Small business owners face so many challenges that it’s easy to lose sight of one of the most fundamental competitive advantages, “being easy to business with.” You may have heard the joke, “common sense, so rare it’s like a superpower,” I argue the same for ease of doing business. Being easy to do business with […]
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So many business owners and managers struggle with employee performance improvement discussions. Outside of my employee performance discussions over the years, I have the opportunity to work with client’s employee performance. It’s the client meetings which are most eye opening as I get to observe from a more objective position. It’s like the difference between […]
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With the turn of the new year, it’s a great time to evaluate things. Business Strategic Plans, Personal Goals, Bucket Lists…. How about a check up on how deeply your Faith is driving your business? As a business owner with a family and a few years on me, I know how easy it is to […]
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One of the most common needs expressed by small business owners is improving their business’ sales performance. It may be expressed as help with sales management or implementation of a better sales CRM system or even just facilitating improved accountability amongst the salespeople. When you boil it down, business owners commonly feel they should be […]
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It’s all about relationships. Most people agree on that but how to apply it in our business lives can be a bit elusive. The gumbo that is developing relationships while leading a high performing work team can lead to either the most rewarding and soul nourishing of experience or a bland and soupy broth you can get […]
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If you deal with people, you deal with their attitudes. Great attitudes are infectious, contribute to positive performance for a team and are just more pleasant to have around. Bad attitudes are also infectious and make an impact to the business that is overall… bad. Judging from my personal management experience and conversations with clients […]
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Balancing your health with other priorities including work is a universal challenge. We all face similar obstacles; work deadlines, sleep, family / kids, legitimate social needs, illegitimate social needs, whatever energy is leftover to carve out some time to exercise and eat well. I think sharing my personal testimony could be helpful to a lot […]
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