Tag: social business
My Favorite Story on Social Business
A landscape gardener ran a business that had been in the family for two or three generations. The staff was happy, and customers loved to visit the store, or to have the staff work on their gardens or make deliveries – anything from bedding plants to ride-on mowers. A great social business example, yes? For…
7 Key Benefits of an Innovative Social Business Strategy
I am about to tell you how to build an extraordinary and innovative social business strategy. But first I want to tell you an important story about one such strategy. This is a story about a business near my home … a landscape nursery business. People will forget what you said, people will forget what…
Employee Traits: Staffing for a Social Business?
Wayne Dyer once said: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. What is the most challenging element of your social business? We feel one of the most difficult, yet most important elements of any business are the hiring process. This is particularly true for a social business. Here…
Building Collaboration and Sharing Skills Are Key to Business Growth
How many times in your business career have you been in an organization where real energy was expended to building collaboration and sharing? How successful were these efforts? To build team collaboration and sharing is not an easy job, is it? But we’d all agree that the payoffs certainly outweigh the efforts, wouldn’t we? As…