Do you love your business? Several factors will determine the answer to such a loaded question. Having reached the end of the month, you may have thought I wouldn’t touch on the subject. But let’s briefly go over this in honour of the month of love. The First Love of your Business As someone new […]
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Key policies to have in your online business will help you grow with purpose. Firstly, let’s recap what a policy is (because small business owners don’t believe this applies to them). Also, it makes up one of the three core elements of The Ethical Strategist’s HouseRules (along with Internal Community and Ethics). Going through the
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Let’s walk through three ways to eliminate a toxic workplace with HouseRules. There is so much information on spotting signs of a toxic work environment but not so much on practical solutions. As the foundation of your business, policies and procedures should serve your internal community and clientele. So here are three tips on how
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The mantra of any business owner before long is Know Like and Trust. This is how you will get customers and clients. This will be how you can make those 10k months and beyond. The focus of the business is almost wholly external. You spend so much time pleasing others that you end up sacrificing
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Never mind about love and hate; it’s a thin line between banter and bullying. You may not be familiar with The Persuaders, but what would convince you that banter in the workplace has gone too far? It’s not necessarily appropriate to tell someone to brush it off and toughen up. Unfortunately, there have been many
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The game of show and tell in the business world needs updating. Why is it acceptable to display your refund and delivery information but not your anti-bullying or social media policies easily accessible to potential new recruits? Recruiters encourage jobseekers to go onto the company website and their social media channels to d their due
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And the battle for mothers in business continues. An admin assistant at a security system supplier revealed that she was pregnant after a short time of starting at the company. She was effectively fired and ended up being awarded £15,000 for discrimination. So how is it possible that this type of discrimination continues today? The
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Change management can be applied in many different ways. You can have a complete overall team or department, or you can have more minor actions that streamline the running of the business and is more appealing to the affected individuals. Those who can don’t stand around overseeing, from personal experience, the intention is always to
The core strength of your business is not in your marketing or sales team (or any other department, for that matter). Failing to take the time to put in place HouseRules is prematurely restricting the success from the outset. It’s all very well having it on your mental list of things to do, but your
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