Do you mine the collective intelligence of your board? In today’s world, corporations are establishing processes that have an emphasis on collective wisdom for competitive advantage. This concept can be actualized at the board level through the board evaluation process. A recent study by PwC found that 63% of directors believe self-evaluations are mostly a “check the box” … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
Top 40 Blogs for Entrepreneurs in 2015 Includes Women on Business
Women on Business has been included on a new list of the top 40 blogs for entrepreneurs in 2015! This list was developed by Dan Western, Founder and CEO of Wealthy Gorilla, and it's filled with awesome blogs that every entrepreneur should check out! First, I'm happy to see that it includes some of my favorites like Copyblogger (years ago, Founder Brian Clark wrote the … [Read more...]
Help a Reporter Out And Everybody Wins
As you may know, journalists are seriously busy people. Between research, interviewing and writing multiple stories daily, they don’t have a lot of free time. And they certainly don’t want to spend their free time chasing down leads. In steps Help A Reporter Out, commonly known the industry as HARO. Founded in 2008 by Peter Shankman, HARO is a free online service that … [Read more...]
Make Your Own Luck
There I was---thrilled to get my very first college acceptance letter. I couldn’t believe I had gotten into the musical theater program at University of Michigan! All my life, I had dreamed of pursuing a career in theater, on Broadway, in every musical possible---and this was my golden ticket! I had worked so hard all of my life for this and felt that at 18, everything had … [Read more...]
The Future of Sales Belongs to Women — If They’ll Take It
Anita Krizsan is one of the best saleswomen in the world. She sold 11 Bugatti Veyrons in one year, which go for a whopping $2 million each. While her colleagues were satisfied selling two to three cars a year, Krizsan was building customer relationships and outselling everyone else in the company by miles. Krizsan serves as an inspiration to all salespeople, but especially … [Read more...]
5 Customer Support Apps Small Businesses Will Love
Customers are essential. They are the reason businesses thrive. Not delivering customer service well is like closing your doors to opportunity! With a myriad of tools available for easing the customer service workflow, businesses have run out of excuses like: “We're a startup. We're strapped for cash.” “We're bootsrapping. We decided to do everything by ourselves, so we … [Read more...]
Board Evaluations – Getting It Right
The progressive board looks for the time and resources spent on board evaluation to align with their philosophy of continuous improvement and reflective intelligence. The Focus of a Board Evaluation At the very least, a board evaluation will focus on key functions of the board, provide a “gap” analysis that draws weak areas to the surface, provide disbursement of responses, … [Read more...]
7 Reasons You Should Use Infographics
We are visual beings. People love to see colors and movement. That being the case, what can we use as a marketing strategy for our business that uses visuals? We can use infographics. Before we can implement anything into our marketing strategy, we need to know what it is we are going to use and why. So what is an infographic? It’s a way of telling a story or sharing data in … [Read more...]
Establishing a Leadership Brand Within Your Organization
The term, leadership brand, was first used by David Ulrich and Norm Smallwood in 2007. Not only were these university professors describing---in their book with the same name---a way to assess the competencies that individual leaders must possess, but also to address the importance of leadership within the organization. In other words a company needs both individual leaders to … [Read more...]