Rae Majors-Wildman | Business Strategy Consultant and Results Coach

02/10/2021

Small businesses, which sometimes hire just a few employees, can commit to diversity by building a welcoming workplace where each individual feels valued, small-business expert Rhonda Abrams writes. Some of the other ways small businesses can bolster equity, diversity and inclusion are training staff to treat everyone with respect, seeking diverse suppliers, and adjusting services or products for a more diverse audience.

A diverse workforce makes your company more resilient and helps you grow. An inclusive attitude helps you attract a broader audience.

02/08/2021

02/04/2021

Remote work doesn't have to stifle creativity. The shift to remote work changed the nature of collaboration, but ensuring employees have the proper training, tools and scheduling can help maintain productivity levels and foster creativity, writes JotForm founder Aytekin Tank. "As the best innovators will tell you, sometimes it's during those quiet mental moments, when we're far from our desk, that our minds manage to synthesize the daily input and generate novel solutions," Tank writes. Learn more:

Innovation is still possible while we’re away from the office, when we trust in the best tools and practices.

02/03/2021

Find your "why" to lead in difficult times. Understanding why your venture exists and why you'll succeed is the first step to addressing uncertainty and determining goals, writes Girish Pancha, founder and CEO of StreamSets. Next, Pancha writes, look to what's needed to solve the issues, and be comfortable with people who disagree. Learn more:

To address user challenges, they must first be understood. These principles of why, what and how also apply to management, especially in turbulent times.

02/01/2021

01/28/2021

Entrepreneurs who succeed going forward are aware of changes to the business landscape that were accelerated by the pandemic and are ready to adapt, writes Spartan Media founder Jeremy Knauff. Such shifts include forming customer relationships that go beyond transactions and building a personal brand, writes Knauff, who provides guidance on those topics. Learn more:

Entrepreneurs need to understand and adapt to shifts ushered in during 2020 in order to remain competitive going forward.

01/27/2021

Having doubts about your leadership abilities can be good when you use it to improve your listening, humility, and preparation, writes Dan Rockwell. "In complicated situations and turbulent times, the person with easy answers is an idiot," he writes. Learn how to make your doubts work for you here:

It’s astonishing to see the confidence of leaders who oversee failure and still believe they have answers. Unchallenged self-belief produces intolerance. The problem of unchallenged self-beli…

01/25/2021

What type of are you?

01/21/2021

Leaders need to keep up their enthusiasm and passion for the job, and they can do so by continuously improving their craft and remembering what it's like to be a new member of the team, writes David Dye. "You've done solved this problem 55 times, but your newest person is just learning and the magic of expanding their capacity is waiting for your leadership," he writes. Here are 4 ways to reconnect with your passion for :

Life will always include some level of the mundane and routine. As a leader, how do you give your team energy to meet these challenges?

01/20/2021

What can we learn from 30 leading companies? Forward-thinking companies have clear goals, can adapt quickly, and seek innovation regardless of origin, according to an analysis of 30 top companies from McKinsey. One key highlighted by the research is that old ways of organizing people and hierarchies won't work today, nor will approaches that don't prioritize talent. Learn 9 keys to becoming a future-ready company here:

To better organize for a postpandemic future, leaders should embrace nine imperatives that collectively explain “who we are” as an organization, “how we operate,” and “how we grow.”

01/18/2021

Today, we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

01/14/2021

Do your customers feel valued?