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Managing Employees
Discover the true source of your people problems—and solve them.
How to avoid crisis burnout
As a business owner, you’ve likely never experienced a year like 2020. The challenges have been complex and unfamiliar. And to keep business running, you’ve needed to confront each one head on. So has your team. While you’ve been focused on how to pivot, generate revenue, manage a remote team, and balance work and...
The dance between people and systems
If you own a business and have employees, it’s easy to understand why systematizing your business puts you at a great advantage. You know how you want things done. You know how things should work. You know the way you want your prospects and customers to be treated. But your ideal is just a series of pictures in y...
How Joe built the team his company needed to grow
Joe Dibbits grew up watching his steadfast father carry every role and responsibility in the excavating business he’d started with a leap of faith. “My father started with a used machine that broke down so many times,” Joe says. “He knew he either needed to buy a new machine and continue on with the business or ju...
The key to re-engaging your employees (isn’t what you’d expect)
As many teams are returning to work in some form, business owners are facing an uncomfortable realization. The old frustrations with your employees—the ones you’d forgotten about, or maybe only realized through that period of unprecedented space from your team—are still there. The things that weren't working befor...
Identify and overcome your unproductive leadership behaviors
Your business is a reflection of you. In every way, shape and form—from top to bottom—your business reflects your courage and fears. It reflects what you care about: your ideals, values, beliefs, experiences, knowledge and decision-making. This powerful EMyth Principle appears in the beginning pages of The EMyth R...
How to build a business partnership that works
Managing a business partnership may be the only thing more difficult than managing a business. Partnerships are hard for the same reasons that any relationship is hard. It takes diligence and work to bring together personalities, communication styles, and ideals. And if you want your partnership to serve your busi...
How Scott and MJ turned a hobby into a successful company
EMyth Clients Scott Present and MJ Navara never expected to have their own events company. For years, party production was side work, a fun hobby that made them some extra money. But after college, both gravitated away from the corporate careers they’d prepared for and back to something they were passionate about—...
Hiring and keeping rockstar employees
Finding the right employees can feel like a constant struggle. The hires you’re not crazy about end up staying while the great ones always seem to leave, causing you to wonder again and again, “Am I missing something or is this just the way it is to manage people?”
Prepare your business for the future by eliminating small assumptions
As the world continues to change and uncertainty abounds, you may be facing the big question, “When should I reopen my business?” Or, if your business has remained open in some form during the pandemic, maybe you’re asking different questions like, “Should I continue this new social media campaign I started to kee...
Ask the right interview questions
How do you run an interview that makes sure you find the employee your company needs? We can show you.
Two tools to keep your team focused on results
Now is a particularly challenging moment to show up for and manage your people. As a business owner weathering a global economic crisis, you have so many demands on your time and focus—not least of which may be keeping your business financially afloat. So making sure your team has what they need to do their jobs a...
Leading your business in the time of coronavirus
Starting last Tuesday, the topic of COVID-19 and the coronavirus became a part of each of my coaching calls, and as the week went on, it started to consume more and more time. Conversations about whether or not we should prepare quickly turned to, “We’ve already lost a job,” and “We’re going to shut our doors unti...
What’s your business resolution for 2020?
The key to transforming your business is accountability. So tell us—what’s your business resolution for the year ahead?
How to truly inspire your employees
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How to cultivate leaders you trust
Okay—let’s say you’ve taken all the necessary steps to build a self-sustaining business. You’ve made a clear decision to do it, and you’ve let your desire build. You’ve let go of unproductive beliefs and are thinking like an Entrepreneur. You’ve come to see your business as a process designed to produce a desired ...
Do you know what your employees need to succeed?
To find and retain high-performing employees, you need to develop a management system that gives structure to their roles. Take our quiz to discover how you can grow your management skills to increase employee success.