8 Ways to Help Employees Find Value in Work
Helping employees find value in their work is an important aspect of leadership. It increases employee engagement, motivation, and retention rates. Everyone wants to feel like the work they’re doing matters. Therefore, it’s your responsibility as a leader to help them see the importance of their roles and how it contributes to the bigger picture […]
5 Ways to Help an Underperforming Employee
In the perfect world, every employee would be the right hire and work hard to accomplish the company’s goals. However, this isn’t a perfect world, and all companies consist of imperfect human beings. Our work performance is impacted by our moods, physical health, passion, motivation, and skill or lack thereof. If you’re managing a team […]
6 Signs It’s Time to Hire Your First Employee
Are you an entrepreneur with a growing business? Your schedule is full and you are starting to think about the possibility of hiring your first employee. This is a big decision that can be hard to make. You may be stuck in the growing pains of needing more business in order to hire but needing […]
Why You Need to Delegate More and Do Less
There is a common obstacle where we see business owners and leaders struggle—delegating. When you have been the reason, or one of the big reasons, why the company has succeeded and grown, it’s hard to pass tasks on to someone else. It’s easy to get caught up in thinking that if things are going to […]
7 Ways to Improve Work-Life Balance
Does work-life balance sound like something from a fairytale? Your reality looks more like hustling all day at work and then falling into bed feeling guilty about the things you didn’t accomplish in your personal life. Maybe you’re worried about the lack of time you’re giving to your most important relationships like your spouse or […]
7 Things to Do If You’ve Lost Joy in Your Business
No one starts a business believing they will hate what they do day in and day out. You start a business believing you are going to build something that gives you control, freedom, and allows you to use your skills and passion. However, many business owners and entrepreneurs eventually find themselves in a place where […]
Tips for Finding New Talent as Your Business Grows
Do you remember having growing pains when you were a child? I can remember waking up in the middle of the night because my legs were hurting. My dad would come into my room and assure me I would be okay and that it was only growing pains. Well, your business experiences the same type […]
Top 5 SPEARity Blog Posts for Leaders
There is a lot of information floating around the internet to help business leaders be more effective and successful, which is helpful since leaders face many different challenges. We thought we would make it easy for you and compile some of our information together into one easy-to-read place. These are our top 5 most read […]
The Importance of Aligning Your Work with Your Goals
Dan Kennedy wrote in his book No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, “Similarly, I insist that the only real reason more people aren’t much, much more productive is that they don’t have enough reasons to. So, a secret to greater personal productivity is more good reasons to be more productive. That’s why you have to […]