How Can the Lack of Accurate Financial Information Destroy Your Business?
At some point, after hanging the shingle up and opening for business, most entrepreneurs hire someone to help with their bookkeeping. Whether a family member, friend, or clerk, we pay our bills, send out invoices, and make deposits in the bank. However, since the person hired to help isn’t an accountant, very few actually have […]
What Does it Mean to be an Advocate for Your Team?
I think it would be arguable to say that everyone is an advocate. We advocate for our favorite sports team in the stands. We advocate for our political representatives by voting on the ballot. We advocate our favorite brands claiming better quality or taste. We advocate for our favorite schools, bands, businesses, the list can […]
Strong Christian Values are the Foundation of a Healthy Life and Business
I’m sure you’ve heard the story of the wise and foolish builders. If you have not, it is a parable that Jesus told, about a man who built his house on a rock, and a man who built his house on the sand. Of course, once a storm came, the house that was built on […]
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 […]