Leadership: Doing It All Consistently
Have you ever seen anyone who works out perfectly for one week of the month, and then fall off for a few weeks, get in the best shape of their life? Can you eat great a few days and then gorge yourself and stay feeling great? Can you build excellence into anything by occasionally killing […]
5 Important Steps to Improving Your Creative Team Process
So, you have the job of managing the creative team process for your business. Firstly, we’ll pray for you, but secondly, we’ll provide some tips we have learned over the years to improve our own internal creative processes. At first thought, “creative” and “process” really don’t seem to go together. Raise your hand if you’ve […]
Five Essentials to Building a Strong Team
Leading a small business can be hard. Leading a small business without a strong team is a lot harder. You cast the vision, you take the risks, you produce results that enable the business to grow; then if you grow enough to need employees, you manage a team of people. Whether you’ve already got a team […]
How Understanding Data Can Help Grow Your Business
Every business has access to large amounts of data whether big or small. Many small business owners do not utilize their data to its full potential. Understanding your data allows for businesses to gain valuable information and knowledge into company performance, its consumers, and its competitors. 4 Ways Understanding Data Can Help Your Business Here […]
Getting Organized at Work
Getting organized at work can seem like a full-time job in itself so it’s easy to see why it’s such a hard task. You may find yourself always starting a new organization strategy or following someone else’s method to keep up with your schedule, but they never stick. You have to find something that works […]
Being Faithful When it Feels Like There’s Not Enough
Dishonest. Deceitful. Unfaithful. These are not words I would have used to describe myself. But recently, I was reading a parable in Luke that hit me hard. And as my eyes rolled over these words, I saw myself resonating with the “dishonest manager.” Maybe you will, too. “There was a rich man who had […]
Employee Retention: An Asset, Not A Cost
As a small business owner is there such thing as a perfect team? I don’t know what your definition of perfect is, but to me, when a company has a perfect team, it has: All of the technical skills needed to run the business. A mix of people that all match and enhance the culture you […]
Leading in the Wilderness
We have all been or at some point will be in a leadership role in our life. As business owners, you already have that covered. You are the leader of your business whether it’s two employees or 200. For those of you who may not be a business owner or a leader in your company, […]
Why Have a Hobby
As I get older it seems I have less and less time to do anything. Crazy right? I am unmarried, no kids, and it still feels as though my time is becoming more and more precious. I can’t imagine having to devote some of it to a husband or child. Yet, I feel it is […]
Quick to Hear but Slow to Speak
Sometimes it may feel like you just can’t help yourself. You’re having a bad day and then one more thing happens, no matter how small it may be, and you explode in anger. You lash out at those around you, even if it wasn’t their fault. In Galatians 5:19-21, we find a clear picture of […]