Soft skills are vital for leaders, regardless of your industry. Good business leaders today need a whole slew of skills and traits to stand out and get results, not the least of which is empathy. This characteristic can easily put you and your company on the fast track to success. But why exactly is empathy so powerful, and how can you develop it in yourself and your team?
A couple of months into the COVID-19 pandemic that struck the world unexpectedly (and with full force), causing uncertainty and instability for both companies and individuals alike, we all learnt that the first challenge in keeping our enterprises running was cash flow. Most industries were hit hard, and consequently, businesses were...
March 11, 2020 is a day destined for the history books: “WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak a Pandemic.” It was that day that, all around the world, leaders began scrambling, ripping through the pages of their crisis playbooks (or quickly creating them), searching for their pandemic play-by-play. Shortly after came the day the markets crashed on March 16,...
Your customer experience and your brand values have to match.
A lot of companies work hard to build a brand that stands for a particular set of values. Usually, the process to establish your brand starts with defining the values that are most important to you and then...
Running a business can feel like running a marathon. With rapidly evolving markets, an entrepreneur must continually anticipate how to offer their users a better product or service. But if you forget to pace yourself, you can slide down the slope to becoming a workaholic.
You might be thinking: "But the most...
Staying positive in the midst of a global crisis is easier said than done, but taking carefully measured steps to improve employee happiness and satisfaction might be one of the best ways to tackle the effects of the looming economic uncertainty — and bounce back stronger when the time comes.
Disability activist, social entrepreneur and founder of The Valuable 500 initiative, Caroline Casey, has told CNBC that business needs to be at the forefront of accelerating change to end the “disability inequality crisis,” as the world emerges from the coronavirus crisis.
“This problem is too big for governments and charities...