Many businesses thought that they had a great plan coming into the new year. Budgets were set, people in place, and all ready to go. The challenge came about as they began facing inconsistent demand, staffing challenges brought on by the pandemic, and a supply chain...
Year over year improvements can be a great performance yardstick for most companies. Especially as a business emerges from a pandemic, moving the needle to the plus side is certainly an accomplishment. The question that may come up though, is did the business really...
The good news is that your business is growing. The bad news is that you’re short staffed. Finding good applicants has never faced headwinds like it does today. I hear it every day, people don’t apply for your openings, or when they do, they don’t show up for the...
Vision and clarity are powerful attributes. They are as important to your daily activities as they are to your business. Vision and clarity are also vital as you work on putting a puzzle together. Think about how hard it would be to complete a puzzle without having...
It’s Thursday morning and the senior team has gathered for the weekly meeting. The meeting where a group of your highest paid managers assemble to, you know, have a meeting. Sometimes there’s an agenda, and sometimes there isn’t one. There may be action items and...
There’s an argument some make that the pandemic did not cause all the hiring challenges that printers face today, but what the pandemic did was accelerate trends that were already in place. What do you think? I believe that the trends were already visible, and whether...