You’re the Boss published Should I Stay or Should I Go?. This article talks about making the decision to stay at work or to leave for the day and what needs to be done in order to make it easier to make this decision.
If you own your own business and you have made commitments, it is sometimes necessary to take care of business.
The Intuit Small Business Blog published How to Fire an Employee. The article outlines the steps necessary to terminate an employee’s job while covering yourself. Firing the employee starts with having a “solid legal basis” for taking action then taking the following steps:
You’re the Boss published A Plan for Working on (Not in) the Business. The author, Jay Goltz, goes through the parts of the business that need to be examined to enable the business to get to the next level. The top 10 things to look at are:
You’re the Boss published It’s Never the Employee. “Before You Blame Your Employee, Ask Yourself Some Question” is appropriately the tagline for this article. The article talks about looking in the mirror before pointing the finger.
The bottom line? It’s never the employees who are the problem. It is the training they didn’t get. It’s the oversight that wasn’t given. It’s the lack of structure. It’s the boss who can’t let go. It’s that the wrong employee was left in the job too long. It is the boss’s responsibility. In a privately held business, it is always the boss’s fault. The boss has control.
The Intuit Small Business Blog published 4 Small-Business Skills Worth Sharpening. This article talks about skills small business owners should be familiar with in order save time and money in the future. The 4 skills mentioned are:
Forbes published The First Step To Building Your Personal Brand. This is as important for the coach at a gym trying to get more private lessons as it is for the choreographer or music producer trying to get more clients. Forbes’ suggestions:
The Intuit Small Business Blog published Why It’s Bad Idea to Check a Job Applicant’s Facebook Profile. Although I think it’s a good idea to check out the information job applicant’s post online, this article brings up some good points to be aware of if you decide to check social networking sites and what to look for.
During the past week several cheerleading rules changes were handed down, including by the NFHS, AACCA, and USASF. All of these changes led to numerous comments on Facebook, Twitter, and the Fierce Board about why specific changes were made, but the USASF changes led to several questions about how the changes were made.
The USASF publicized a Rules Change Process earlier in the season, but the recent changes didn’t follow the published procedures. These changes came directly from the USASF Board of Directors. In their defense, the Board of Directors has always reserved the right to do just about anything they wanted to, but I don’t recall another time in which that right has been exercised and have bypassed the National Advisory Board, Rules Committee, and industry staples such as Les Stella and Debbie Love.
The reason I bring this up is because I want everyone to take a look at the way these types of changes are made. Are we better off with the AACCA or NFHS model of making changes, in which relatively few people get input, but changes can be made much more quickly or are we better off with the published USASF method in which changes are made every couple of years after getting input from everyone that is willing to provide feedback? Is having a Board that can make changes outside of the published process a good idea so things can get done in case of emergency or a bad idea because that authority can be misused?
This all leads to the final questions.If you were designing the perfect process for making rules changes what would it be? What elements of AACCA, NFHS, and USASF’s process would you keep and which would you change?
Jay Goltz published Six Attributes of Successful Entrepreneurs in the New York Times’ You’re the Boss blog. This article talks about the things that aren’t taught in college or business school that great entrepreneurs need.
The Intuit Small Business Blog published 7 Ways to Make Your Business Blog More Readable. This article offers clear, easy to follow advice for company bloggers:
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