Your job is to be the best leader you possible so your company can make a profit. Wouldn’t it be great if you generate profits and happy employees? Making employees happy at work is one of the biggest achievements for a leader, and a reliable way to increase productivity.
Prepare Your Family for the New Year
Special, heart felt gratitude and many thanks to my friend, Jean. Jean was in the In Case of Emergency, Break Glass! program about a year ago, which focuses on getting important paperwork organized and updated. We talked about wills, trusts, letters of instruction, health care…
Increase Productivity in 2014: 6 Ways to Lead Your Business to More Profits
Let’s be serious about growing your business now. Everyone needs more time and resources. How can we carve out more time for our business? What do successful businesses do to maximize their resources, including making the most of their employees’ time?
5 Ways to Make Your Business Resolutions Stick
We all make New Year’s Resolutions. Looking at a clean calendar for the new year makes it seem as though huge possibilities are waiting for us. We need to make the most of opportunities so we resolve to take better care of our families, our careers, our friends, and ourselves.
12 Days of Christmas
What can we do to help our clients and ourselves during December? Can we enjoy the holidays and prepare for the New Year at the same time? Yes. Here are a few suggestions: 12 Months to plan. Get your calendars, both paper, electronic, and white board for 2014 ready to go.
Are you running a business or a hobby?
It sounded harsh responding to the person asking for business advice at a networking meeting. She was grilling me about how to get more business. I asked how many years she had been in this business (several) and then asked what she did to market her business. I was surprised when…
Suddenly Unemployed or Furloughed? How to prepare for a sudden loss of income
Almost 1,000,000 US federal workers suddenly found themselves temporarily jobless this week, and hundreds of thousands more are affected with lost income due to the government shutdown. Restaurants, dry cleaners, retail stores, gas stations, other DoD contractors…
What are you going to plan to do while you are furloughed?
A list of non-business suggestions. Please feel free to add in yours.
Make a doctors appointment
Use those Groupon and Living Social vouchers
Do 2012 taxes
The Importance of Strategic Planning for Your Business
I was recently interviewed by Private Wealth Counsel on this topic. Listen to the audio recording at:
http://www.pwcounsel.com/mary-kelly-strategic-planning-for-your-business
April Peterson






