One Tip for Relationship Building with Your Team
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 […]
Where Hope Is Found
There is something consistent I have found to be true not only this past year, but my whole life is that I tend to gravitate and cling on to this thing called hope. The word hope is not one used lightly, it’s full of weight, expectancy, promise, and expectation. It can often swing like a […]
Are You Running Your Business Or Is It Running You?
Your initial reaction may be “of course I’m running my business, it’s all I do!” In which case I would argue that you actually fall in the latter category. As business owners and managers, work is often intimately connected to all areas of life. You dedicate your time, thought, finances, passion and emotional energy to […]
Handling Creative Criticism
As a shy freshman, I shrunk back at the thought of having to critique my own work, especially having to critique my fellow classmates. Imagine my dismay when I learned that more than half my time spent in the design program at LSU would be “critique days.” I’m displaying hours upon hours of hard work […]
On The Art of Troubleshooting: A Better Way to Solve Problems
Throughout my career, the most helpful skill I have learned to develop is troubleshooting, or put more generally, problem-solving. The reason this is so important is that it keeps the project, and your team, moving, therefore limiting and breaks in momentum. Losing momentum and staying stuck can be a huge driver of low morale. People […]
What Keeps You Up At Night
I rarely come across a person who says they “sleep like a rock” all of the time. Most would say rarely, if ever at all. We have all had a night or two that we awake in the dark. And as dark does, it threatens to swallow us whole. Cycling thoughts begin. Never is it […]
What NOT To Do on Social Media
We live in a world of content: curated content, sponsored content, original content, and so on and so forth. The content we absorb can subconsciously affect what we put out on our own accounts. Changing the content you see on a daily basis can be as easy as unfollowing and following accounts, but what about […]
In Leading Your Business – Can You, or Should You?
As a business owner, you make a lot of decisions. Some decisions seem very important while others look insignificant. The reality is that the decisions you make do have varying degrees of consequences but, all of your decisions are important. Call it “just part of the gig” that you’ve taken on as a business leader […]
The Secret to Entrepreneurial Resilience and Preventing Burnout
For many small business owners, work is a calling. The Lord has gifted you in entrepreneurship, leadership, ingenuity, and other skills. Therefore, this journey of business ownership is fulfilling a passion and purpose. However, that doesn’t mean you don’t still get tired. In fact, as business owners, so much of ourselves is poured into our […]
Navigating the Road of Recruiting and Hiring
The idea of going through the hiring and recruiting process can often make a small business owners’ head spin. It could be that you have never hired someone and have no idea even where to begin, or maybe you have hired before and it seems like candidate after candidate doesn’t work out. This leads you […]