How to Scale Your Business

Growing your business is a linear process. Sales increase and you hire more employees. The revenue increase as expenditures increase. Scaling is when the revenues increase without a substantial increase in resources. Email marketing is one example. You expend the...
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How to Manage Remote Work

Managing remote workers can be challenging. Managing new employees cause further challenges since they didn’t have the opportunity to build relationships with colleagues or learn company processes or culture. However, here are some tips on managing remote working. Establish daily...
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How to Build an Effective Remote Working (RW) Plan

Conduct a needs assessment to determine if the activities and work tasks are conducive to RW. If the answer is yes, determine how much time is needed for RW. Is it full-time or 2-3 days a week? Once you identified...
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What Makes Remote Working Beneficial and Successful?

From last week’s blog, we learned that certain activities and occupations are more conducive to working remotely, primarily jobs that require a lot of digital activities. We also learned that productivity on collaborative tasks needs good planning to be successful....
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What We Learned from Embracing Remote Working Practices

Remote working (RW) is not a new phenomenon, but the pandemic pushed it through cultural and technological barriers that prevented it from happening in the past. Several studies have since been conducted. Lund S. et al (November 2020) analyzed 2,000 tasks, 800...
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How Effective Leaders Manage their Employee Systems

A system is a collection of elements that interact together to form a whole. An employee system includes the processes used to hire, develop, and retain the best talent. Businesses invest in employees to grow and profit. An employee system...
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Leadership Skills that Lead to Employee Retention

Leadership can be defined as the art of motivating employees to achieve business goals that lead to growth and profits. Based on research, some leadership skills lead to employee retention better than others. Building a positive culture is a key...
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How to Develop a Training Plan to Drive Profits

Training employees is considered both an investment and a cost to a company. According to statista.com, 82.5 billion U.S. dollars were spent on workplace training in 2020. The expenditures included the budget allocated by businesses for training activities, training related...
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Effects of Employee Training on Business Growth

Business growth can be defined as a process of achieving some measure of success such as greater sales, increased production, or increasing the bottom line by decreasing costs. Staff training is an investment in the growth of employees and leads...
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How to Build a Culture to Increase Employee Retention

Business culture consists of the sum of employees’ values, principles, and attitudes. It also includes the work environment and workspaces. Conventional work environments are highly structured and organized and are characterized by rules and procedures, while more creative environments are...
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