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Business Exit Strategy Paths: Creating Tomorrow’s Blueprint Today

As a business owner, you pour your heart and soul into building something remarkable. Someday, however, you’ll need to step back and let someone else take the reins. The question is, will you be ready when that day arrives? There’s a troubling tendency for business owners to think they can deal with exit planning in some ...
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No Time Like the Present: Defining a Vision for Your Exit Strategy

When you spend most of your time dealing with the daily ins and outs of being a small business owner, it’s perilously easy to forget that, someday, you’ll step away from the helm and move into the next phase of your life. Whether that day is decades away or just around the corner, the reality ...
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Want to Start 2025 on the Right Foot? Spend Q4 Updating Your Business Exit Strategy

Endings are hard. The last piece of gum in a pack, the last season of your favorite show, the last day of a vacation—all of them leave us with a certain longing, a nostalgia for the days when we weren’t counting down to “the last.”  But when it comes to your business, the ending is one ...
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NEW: The Elements of Employee Engagement eBook!

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What Are the Characteristics of a Toxic Workplace?

The term “toxic” has popped up more recently in conversations about workplace culture, often as a catch-all for any negative experience. However, what we might see as an easy-to-dismiss online buzzword reflects real problems. There’s abundant evidence that employees’ identification of toxic workplace characteristics strongly correlates with dissatisfaction, poor employee retention, and difficulties attracting new talent. If ...
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How to Rebuild Trust in the Workplace: Effective Strategies for a Stronger Team

How to Rebuild Trust in the Workplace: Effective Strategies for a Stronger Team We all know that trust is the foundation of our familial, romantic, and friendly relationships, but much less talked about is that it’s the foundation of all interpersonal relationships, including those we have in the workplace. Human beings are social creatures, and because of ...
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The Twelfth Element of Employee Engagement: Challenging Employees to Learn and Grow

We’re coming to the end of our series on Gallup’s 12 Elements of Employee Engagement, so it’s a great time to reveal some troubling statistics from the 2023 survey: “Employees in the U.S. continue to feel more detached from their employers, with less clear expectations, lower levels of satisfaction, and less connection to its mission or ...
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A Guide to the Eleventh Element of Employee Engagement: Prioritizing Progress-Based Feedback

Consider your workplace’s relationship with feedback. Is it treated like an annual obligation that managers have to check off of their to-do lists? If so, you and your leadership team miss countless opportunities to motivate and course-correct.  Employees don’t wait until their yearly performance review to grow and change; you shouldn’t wait until then to let ...
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A Guide to the Tenth Element of Employee Engagement: Encouraging Workplace Friendships

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In some workplaces—authoritarian ones, namely—there’s a lingering belief that workplace friendships are little more than distractions, pulling employees away from their responsibilities and reducing productivity. These leaders see those strong, personal relationships as a threat to efficiency, but in reality, workplace friendships can have a significant positive impact on collaboration and, yes, even job performance.  That’s ...
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A Guide to the Ninth Element of Employee Engagement: A Company Culture of Hard Work

Perhaps one of the most surprising aspects of employee engagement actually has little to do with themselves:  “My associates or fellow employees are committed to doing quality work.” In any workplace, it doesn’t take long for employees to notice when someone’s not pulling their weight. Whether it’s the colleague who’s mysteriously “busy” every time a deadline looms ...
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