This week, I was the featured guest author over on the eWomen Network blog discussing hiring your ideal team. The other night I was wide-awake at 2:00 a.m. and was leafing through a cooking magazine. A few pages in, I found a mouthwatering picture of a pie. I immediately felt hungry and ready to make a… Continue reading 4 Surprise Ingredients for Hiring Your Ideal Team
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A Behind the Scenes Look at The YOLO Principle on Vacation
The YOLO Principle™ Takes a Caribbean Vacation On a recent trip to the Caribbean, one of my choices was to dine at a restaurant that got exceptionally high reviews for food, service, and atmosphere. That meal earned a place on my top ten best restaurants, and I will definitely return on my next vacation. Why?… Continue reading A Behind the Scenes Look at The YOLO Principle on Vacation
10 Insanely Easy and Fun Search Techniques
Hiring great employees is hard work. Even in the best of times, hiring isn’t easy. You can no longer rely on posting a job and having plenty of qualified candidates come to you. Finding these great employees requires strategic planning, creativity, and some fun search techniques. Fun? Yes, hiring can be an enjoyable process. Here… Continue reading 10 Insanely Easy and Fun Search Techniques
Fall Is the Perfect Time to Spice Up Your Recruiting
Fall arrives Friday, and with it comes the annual pumpkin spice obsession. People go crazy for their pumpkin spice. It’s like some pumpkin spice cult mesmerizes us. It seems like everything has pumpkin spice in it these days—even Cheerios! A little spice can be a nice change; however, too much can put you into… Continue reading Fall Is the Perfect Time to Spice Up Your Recruiting
Recruit Like a Pirate
Recruiting is often a bold adventure that can feel like a pirate sailing the high seas. Like running a pirate ship, recruiting has lots of moving parts, needs skilled professionals to sail it well, and must be on the lookout for other pirates (aka your competitors) who are also searching for bounty on your… Continue reading Recruit Like a Pirate
Recruiting Lessons From Super Bowl Commercials
Super Bowl LI is this Sunday. Sports fans are debating the skills of the quarterbacks, wide receivers, and running backs, while also arguing about which defense can stop the high-powered offenses of the two teams. The rest of us are talking about the commercials. This year, a 30-second commercial is reported to cost a minimum… Continue reading Recruiting Lessons From Super Bowl Commercials
Christmas Blessings from our Insightful Community to Yours
How to Make the Most of an Ugly Christmas Sweater
December is a few days away and with it comes a season of holiday gift giving. Most of us can probably think of one gift that stands out in our minds as being perfect. It’s a gift that keeps giving long after it was received and possibly even after it exists. That gift might… Continue reading How to Make the Most of an Ugly Christmas Sweater
3 Lessons from a Demolition Project
On a Saturday morning in July, with a heat index close to 100 degrees at 7:00 a.m., a group of seven men, three young boys, and one women (me) came together to demolish a burned out mobile home. The county was pressuring the owner to demolish the home and the owner had no insurance or… Continue reading 3 Lessons from a Demolition Project
The Top 7 Business Building Lessons I Learned From Dad
Remember when you learned to ride a bicycle? I was so excited to finally get those training wheels removed and join the older kids. Once those wheels came off, there was no turning back; I would be a big kid. And yet, a part of me was still afraid. You know, that little voice… Continue reading The Top 7 Business Building Lessons I Learned From Dad