Office Space Coworking

As business managers, we are trained to provide feedback to employees, partners and customers. In our business culture, many have taken the polite way to praise others be it regarding elements of a relationship, a product, a piece of work or even a meeting. These are beneficial skills that many of us have mastered.While it’s [… Read More]

The other day I was talking with a member of our Office Space Coworking in Akron. He wanted examples of short, intermediate, and long term goals. He wanted strategies used to support these goals as well as some tactics he could use to implement those strategies. This is a need felt by many small business [… Read More]

To get what you want; stop doing what isn’t working. –Dennis Weaver You have your To Do list. Do you have a Not To Do List? Jim Collins’ book Good To Great was the first time I was introduced to this concept and I found it fascinating. The basic concept is we all have idiosyncrasies [… Read More]

Beyond Microsoft Project: Alternative Project Management Tools When we think about project management, we often go straight to images of Gantt charts and Microsoft Project. While these are extremely useful tools and ways of thinking about project management, there are alternatives to these approaches that may approve more useful for you, depending on your learning [… Read More]

So you just submitted a big proposal to a prospective client who could really make a difference for your business. If this one comes through, it could make your year ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú or at least it could cover your payroll for the next few months. You are naturally patient, understanding that it will take time for [… Read More]

Project Communication: An Exercise in Managing Change Everyone intuitively knows it: communication is the key to any successful project. In fact, constant, effective communication among all project stakeholders ranks high among the factors leading to the success of a project. It is a key prerequisite of getting the right things done in the right way. [… Read More]

?¢‚Ǩ?ìWe do not remember days, we remember moments.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù-Cesare Pavese Long, long ago, employees worked from 9-5, Monday through Friday. Sure, there were occasional exceptions, but most of the time, the boundaries between home and work lives were clear. Those were the days. The world certainly has changed, and in many ways has made our lives [… Read More]

The Small Business Owners Daily Work Plan We all have emergencies that enter into our world. But if we let ourselves be driven by the latest & loudest, we never make progress towards our long term goals. If we’re going to ‘advance the ball’, we need to Plan Our Work & Work Our Plan. Successful business [… Read More]

Anita spoke at our first BizCamp on a topic of interest to all of small business owners & entrepreneurs – Don’t Make these 5 Mistakes in YOUR Business (I Wish I Hadn’t) In this discussion you’ll learn: How to make your business more profitable and not become a failure statistic, including practical advice on: How [… Read More]

Procrastination can sneak up on us when we least expect it. Certainly, we’ve all been in situations where we’ve raced against the clock to finish tasks, only to find we could have done a more thorough and complete job with more successful outcomes if we had planned and prioritized better. But never fear there are [… Read More]