Now that we’ve been away from our office for a couple of months, it gives us a chance to step back and examine; what’s our office for? An office is a place where we store stuff! As someone who recently closed an office, I can tell you about all the stuff that’s left once everyone…
On Tuesday we reviewed some reasons why you might want to reopen your office right away, today let’s look at some things to consider if you are not rushing back into the office. Giving folks the option to keep working from home makes room for those who still have challenges with childcare, or who might…
With cities starting to re-open after the COVID pause business owners are asking the question, should I re-open my office? If you are thinking about re-opening your office, you’d better have a good reason! Your company has spent the last two months working at home, and there’s a number of them who are liking it….
This week my wife assigned her nieces and nephews some homework. She asked them to write two letters to the Coronavirus. In one, she wanted them to start, “I hate you coronavirus…” and then write down all the crummy things that happened since the shutdown. In the second letter, she asked them to start with,…
“Hey boss, could I ask you something? You know we just had a baby last year, and we bought a new house too. I’m just wondering, how’s the company doing?” It’s reasonable for your team to be asking you questions like this right now. Truthfully, if they aren’t asking you, it’s because they are too…
When the quarantine first started, one of the things I saw was businesses that had primarily sold through networking, and F2F interaction had their top of funnel activity cut off. In quarantine we have; No networking No conferences No meetups No leads! No business can survive for long without regularly putting leads into the top…
”There was this long list of things that I swore couldn’t be done remotely. In the last two months we’ve done all of them.” There are a lot of folks who are re-evaluating their need for office space right now. After having worked for 2 months without being in the same physical location as your…
It’s 3 AM; you’re wide awake, unable to go back to sleep. What’s on your mind? When I’m awake at 3 AM unable to go back to sleep, my fears are running away with me. I’ve done something terribly wrong, I’ve miscalculated my expenses, my clients are never going to pay me again, I’m defaulting…
When you own a business you get to be the top dog, things run “your way,” and you get to decide what you want to do, when you want to work, everything about your business is yours to decide. It also means that when things go wrong, it’s your fault. When your team members drop…
When I as in Jr High, I started buying bikes at garage sales. I had a paper route, so I had a little money, but not too much. So most of the bikes I bought were non-functional. I started cannibalizing parts from one bike to make another bike work. I could generally make one “franken-bike”…