Hiring the best people for your team is tricky, but choosing a leader? For many recruiters, it can fast become an impossible task. Recruiting for a management position requires particular attributes and experiences which differ from other roles and need to be carefully noted on your interview checklist. Any management job, regardless of sector or business size, requires a … [Read more...]
Archives for 2016
Is Your LLC Really Protecting You?
You may think that your limited liability company (LLC) will limit your personal liability if someone sues your company, but will it? In reality, this liability protection can be breached purely based on the way you run the company. If there are multiple members in the LLC and one member exposes the company to liability, are all the other members protected in their personal … [Read more...]
3 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Can Close the Gender Gap in 2017
Women in the U.S. enjoy unprecedented freedoms — but we still have a long way to go before we’re seen as equals to men in the workplace. While the intention to change is more widely acknowledged today than ever before, the gender gap stems from an attitude that’s deep-seated in many companies. Investor and entrepreneur John Greathouse recently wrote a column for The Wall … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Upgrade Your LinkedIn Profile Before the New Year
If you are not putting your best self forward on LinkedIn, you are doing yourself a huge disservice. It's time to change your LinkedIn habits before the New Year. Think about it. Do you know how many people Google your name and use your LinkedIn profile to judge your professional value? Potential employers, clients, mentors, and partners are all viewing your profile. Your … [Read more...]
20+ Food and Drink WordPresss Themes with WooCommerce Integration
Starting a business can be a painstaking and time-consuming process. The restaurant business in not an exception. In fact, things can be even more complicated in this field. You not only need to launch your culinary vision, but you also need to develop a target audience and attract new clients. As you're building flavor experiences for your customers and the right … [Read more...]
Top 100 Small Business Blogs on the Web Ranking Includes Women on Business
Feedspot has released its ranking of the top 100 small business blogs from thousands of top blogs in its index using search and social metrics. I'm happy to announce that Women on Business is included on the list! Blogs were rated based on four criteria: Google reputation and Google search ranking Influence and popularity on Facebook, Twitter and other social media … [Read more...]
Ergonomic Essentials: Posture-Friendly Props You Need To Invest In
Sponsored by Colebrook Bosson Saunders: Your posture never seems to matter too much until you begin to get older. As a child, most people don’t worry about their posture and focus instead on running around and playing games and generally doing childlike things. Once we begin our adult life, however, posture becomes very important, and we start to notice aches and pains in … [Read more...]
Business Leaders Strive to Combat Plummeting Employee Engagement Rates
As a manager, you've most likely dealt with poor behavior from certain employees—and even your best behaved workers may have the occasional lapse in judgment. It could be something as simple as playing on their phone during a meeting or as serious as showing up late every day. Large or small, these behaviors are signs of a deeper problem: disengagement. Statistics show … [Read more...]
5 Creative and Fun Team Building Activities
Sponsored by Museum Hack: Tech hub, creative melting pot, cultural destination -- these are just a few ways to describe the Bay Area. With so much going on, San Francisco is the perfect place for companies looking to do some serious team building - and not the kind that puts employees to sleep. Sometimes, the key is adding a little creativity -- and creativity isn’t hard to … [Read more...]
Imbalance Can Work: Stop Stressing About Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is a loaded concept, promising perfect harmony across all areas of our life. It’s an unrealistic ideal we’ve set up as a proxy for happiness, implying that “balance” is an achievable zen-like state where all our obligations — professional and personal — receive equal amounts of attention. Let’s be honest, though. Not everyone wants to achieve balance … [Read more...]