Hiring the right people and reducing turnover, two important steps. But building staff into a team is the challenge that will set your business above your competition.

Stress is our reaction to people or things going on around us. Sometimes the situations are positive and other times negative. When you are unhappy about how things are going, there are three strategies which will help you move forward in a positive direction. To mange your mood, consider your needs, wants, and values before you choose one of the three strategies. Then take positive steps to move forward confidently.

In business, the blueprint for success has zero to do with gender and everything to do with characteristics. The number one reason most people don't start a business is not because of a lack of money but a conceptual fear. For one to operate a successful business, they must first define what success is in their own terms.

Looking after your current clients is far more effective in gaining business than marketing to new people. Here is why.

Exactly how much do you really know about business security? Do you feel that you're careful at work with electronic files? Some of your everyday tasks might be the cause of a data breach. A stray or lost laptop, word documents, spreadsheets and leaked customer information over email can cause financial and reputation problems to your company. To further your knowledge about how you and your company can play an active role in creating a security plan, take this quiz to test your security knowledge.

In today's world, making ends meet is a major goal for just about everyone. For some, a home based business may just be the answer. Do you have what it takes to start your own work from home business?

The world that people live and work in is complex. The behaviours and skills required to solve a simple problem are always multi-dimensional. And yet much, or indeed most, training developed and executed in corporate training programmes are linear in nature. This mismatch between the real world and the training world makes it a certainty that organisations are wasting their training dollar.

A home-based business is subject to many of the same laws and regulations affecting other businesses and you will be responsible for complying with them.

Global supply chain management has emerged as a major topic in the age of globalization and now it is sitting at the heart of the whole system. But you might be asking yourself, so what exactly is supply chain management and how can it affect my company?

If it is time to renovate your home, consider becoming your own contractor and save yourself hundreds or thousands of dollars! If you are capable of completing the work yourself, bypass the costly contractors and finish the project on your own and under budget. For a larger project, hire individuals directly to work on each specific part of the renovation. Hiring sub contractors directly will still save you a great deal of money and allow you to better apply your budget to quality materials.

Water is big business? No, it is a huge business. The business of water and droughts is alive and well. Currently we see pipeline for water being build, retention basins, damns, Desalination Plants and water rights being bought up by billionaires...

The surety bond market is currently a very conservative market. Contract and commercial bond departments throughout the nation have tightened up their underwriting practices due to enormous loses throughout the industry. Many sureties have had to close their doors, other have had their ratings drop to a level where they can not write the same business they could in years past. Obviously this leaves the bonding companies that are still operating with a very conservative outlook when it comes to their underwriting guidelines.

Advancements in technology have made the world so much smaller, don’t you think? We used to be separated by mountains and oceans, color and culture. But now on the highways and byways of the internet...

I've been telling people this for several years. Why is it that we often focus on the task – solving a problem – much more that on the process?

After you’ve completed the inventory of existing files, the next step is to establish user-friendly retention guidelines. Often, offices are glutted with paper and computer files because people using them aren’t given guidelines about what to keep and what to eliminate. Ironically, some organizations do have such guidelines, but they’re not communicated to the people who really need them, or not provided in a user-friendly form...Establishing Retention Guidelines

People are spending more time at home, and less time searching out your business offerings. How will you change your business model to meet this growing trend?