15 Strategies For Turning A Lackluster Brand Around
Build Your Personal Brand Though it may sound counterintuitive, I recommend my clients build their personal brand to help their business brand. The logic and success behind such an approach are...
View Article14 Ways For Business Leaders To Build Team Cohesion
Create A Necessity From a practical standpoint, it is all about creating a “necessity.” Human behavior is most likely to adapt when changes are a matter of survival. The most effective method I have...
View Article14 Ways To Establish Yourself As A New Leader In Business
Be In A Student Mindset The most viable way to illustrate leadership is to show a student mindset. In a new organization, there are many things that are unknown to a new leader. It is important to...
View Article13 Methods For Maintaining Your Company Culture When Leadership Changes
Maintain A Feedback Loop There is no better way to get ahead of cultural shifts within the organization then maintaining a feedback loop from bottom to top. The impact of departing leaders is likely...
View Article14 Strategies For Ensuring Personal Biases Don’t Affect Your Business...
Isolate Facts From Personal Opinion One time-tested method is to isolate the relevant and specific facts from personal opinion. The most significant hurdle is to consciously put a barrier between...
View ArticleSocial Engineering Attacks: Common Techniques & How to Prevent an Attack
@kshahwork Kamyar Shah is a small business advisor helping companies increase profitability and productivity, offering remote CMO and remote COO services. There are simply too many different ways to...
View Article13 Signs That You Should Walk Away From Your Startup Business
You’re Feeling Regret It is understood that entrepreneurship is inherently risky, and as the old adage goes, “A good business person knows when to fold.” That being said, from experience, feelings of...
View ArticleLacking Experience For Your Dream Job? Address Skill Gaps In The Interview
Treat The Interview Like A Sales Meeting A job interview in its most basic form is a sales meeting. Your job as an applicant is to convince the buyer (that is, the employer) that you are the right...
View Article13 Tips For Overcoming Your Entrepreneurial Anxiety
Keep Coming Back To Your ‘Why’ Being an entrepreneur is not easy and can be very stressful. To keep those burdensome factors from influencing progress, one has to remember the “why.” Why did I start...
View Article15 Ways To Stay Relevant And Find Success As A Salesperson
Be A Trusted Partner In spite of the many changes in technology and business culture, the main ingredient for a successful salesperson hasn’t changed; only the tools have changed. Sales have always...
View ArticleHow to Manage with Servant Leadership
Servant Leaders Develop New Leaders, Not Followers Kamyar Shah, Remote COO, thinks that the primary benefit derived from servant leadership is its ability to nurture fledgling leaders on the team....
View Article12 Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Personal Brand
Lack Of Consistency In Your Brand Voice One of the main pillars of branding is consistency, both in tone and subject matter. It is also one of the rather common issues that hinder or damage a brand....
View ArticleHow To Decide If An Open Floor Plan Is Right For Your Business
Study The Data And Experiment Much like most decisions in business, the physical layout of an office should not be subjective. It should be based on historical industry data and available case studies...
View Article14 Major Considerations For Leaders Planning An Employee Retreat
Get Your Team’s Input Balancing corporate outings is not difficult if the basics of the end goal are the starting point: teamwork. Considering that the most likely goal of such an endeavor is to...
View ArticleThese 13 Nonverbal Cues Could Hurt You During A Job Interview
Being Unenthusiastic Though one would think that being enthusiastic in an interview is a no-brainer, I have witnessed the opposite. In my experience, the candidate too often concentrates on appearing...
View Article15 Coaches Share How Introverted Leaders Can Succeed In An Extrovert World
Don’t Let Your Introversion Limit You Yes, introverts have it harder when it comes to some aspects of a business. That being said, it is no different than any other obstacle that can be overcome by a...
View ArticleIs Your Business Overwhelmed By Heavy Workloads? Here Are 10 Signs To Look For
Missed Deadlines One of the rather reliable ways to diagnose potential excess in workload is to match progress to initial timelines. Once the “noise” is cleared up, i.e. reasons that could have...
View Article14 Ways To Embrace And Accept Change In Your Life
Be Consistent In Your Actions And Motivation Irrelevant from the purpose of the change, consistency in actions matter. Wanting to achieve change will inherently require consistent actions, which in...
View Article15 Essential Questions To Ask Your Mentor Or Business Coach
What are my end goals? Asking about the end results or impact of any advice should be a standard question after each piece of advice is received. It can be as simple as, “To what end?” The answer will...
View Article15 Common Pitfalls To Avoid As A New Business Owner Or Entrepreneur
Letting Ego Get In The Way Education and collaboration are still some of the best ways of avoiding pitfalls. A serious entrepreneur has to put their ego aside and consider either one in order to...
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