article thumbnail

Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2015

Small Business Labs

Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2015.   2015 Technology Trends. The ongoing technology platform shifts to Cloud and Mobile Computing will continue as long term drivers of change in 2015. 2015 Economic Trends. Despite signs of a global slowdown, our 2015 U.S.   2. . 

2015 100
article thumbnail

Should People with Grit Ever Give Up?

Success

We have mid-level goals that are broader, but still discrete, like learning a new skill or starting a new hobby or business venture. And if we’re feeling overconfident, we may over-inflate our estimation of our own skills, potentially leading to failure. But this can be a hard question to answer. We fail to consider alternatives.

UPS 279
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial to Good Leadership—Here’s Why

Success

Emotional intelligence refers to your capacity to handle internal and external emotions. But unlike innate, fixed characteristics, such as your IQ, EQ is a flexible skill that you can improve. enumerates the specific components of emotional intelligence as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.

Stress 328
article thumbnail

When It Comes to Pleasing Difficult Clients, Sometimes It’s Better to Be Fired

Success

Jane was referred to me by a trusted friend who had done business with her previously. But was I also perhaps not skilled enough to read between the lines and understand what she wanted? This article was published in December 2015 and has been updated. The challenge of customer satisfaction. Was she a cryptic communicator?

2015 279
article thumbnail

The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

When you start talking to a potential outsourcing hire, make sure the person understands your business, your needs and possesses the necessary skills. This article was published in February 2015 and has been updated. VirtualAssistantAssistant.com has reviews and ratings of many virtual assistant companies.

Elance 290
article thumbnail

Tips for New Hire Retention

Office Dynamics

by MARY ELLEN SLAYTER on JANUARY 14, 2015 1:57PM. Some of the tips suggested so far have been: Keeping a Desk Reference Guide. How do you keep a new admin who’s under the gun from the start? in ADMIN PRO FORUM. Question: “In the space of six weeks, our admin team lost two consecutive new hires—they left very quickly.

2015 100
article thumbnail

Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

Allwork

And I’m referring to your co working book, which is a fantastic book called around the World in 250 Allwork.Space. And at the time in Berlin 2015, as I said, there were plenty of other spaces that were targeting very different audiences, like freelancers musicians or even parents. Jo Meunier [00:00:50] Fantastic.