Each business has a defined culture, and business leaders must identify it in order to start improving, building, or maintaining company culture in a virtual world. Your business’s culture influences everything you do, the decisions you make, the decisions your team makes, and the way you work with your customers. When you’re all together in the workplace, team members can easily share your company’s cultural values with each other. At Equinox, we prioritize maintaining a positive culture by focusing on consistent communication, collaboration, and recognition. We have our Celebration Unicorn that gets passed to team members to celebrate wins.
While you’re battling workplace chaos caused by COVID-19, the last thing on your mind may be the state of your company’s virtual workplace culture. It may seem trivial when you are trying to keep folks on payroll, help those with sick family members or kids out of school, and manage a virtual workforce. However, if... View Article
Culture eats strategy for breakfast Peter Drucker The Golden Rule vs The Platinum Rule I recently came across the idea of the “Platinum Rule” as compared with the “Golden Rule” while thinking about company culture. We’re all familiar with the Golden Rule: Treat others as you would like to be treated. The Platinum Rule is... View Article
As small business owners, we often wear many hats, including head of finance, customer service and HR. As CEOs, we are tasked with strategy and leading the execution plan. The “doing” work of a business owner can get separated from the “strategy” work of the CEO. In my experience, when this happens, we get lost. ... View Article
Blog written by Dave Mantel, ACME Sales Development Just Stop That! Yes… THAT! Cut it out already! I’m talking about falling in love – falling in love with people who appear to be able to sell. You do it over and over and aren’t getting results. You meet them, begin the dance, fall in love, bring... View Article
This weeks guest blog comes from Laura Doehle, Director of Client Services, Resourceful HR When it comes to hiring new employees there are many things to cross off your ‘to do’ list, especially when it comes to compliance and operations – writing accurate job descriptions, correctly classifying roles as exempt or non-exempt, ensuring interview questions... View Article