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Financial Planners: Your Moral Obligation Supersedes Your Professional Expectations

Business owners, executives, and other professionals rely on financial planners to help them make strategic financial decisions to further their business goals and build individual wealth. But financial planners have their own obligations to their companies and their...

When to Back Away from Conflict in Business

Business owners and employees alike are often focused on trying to resolve conflict in the workplace. But not every fight needs to be won. Knowing how and when to back away from conflict in business can be key to effective team management, and in making your workplace...

How to Creatively Identify the Issues Holding Your Business Back

One of the hardest things for a business to overcome is a plateau. If your company becomes stagnant, it can be difficult to break out of those patterns to find new opportunities for growth. Here are some strategies to creatively identify the issues holding your...

What Candid Strategic Planning Means

Candor is a core value for many small business owners. But in the face of marketing spin and client expectations, it can be harder to hold onto than some other priorities. Here is what candid strategic planning means, and how you can keep candor at the center of your...

Engaging the Next Generation in Business Development

If you have spent your career building a thriving family business, you may worry about what will happen to it when you retire. Many family business owners hope to hand the reins over to children, nieces and nephews, and other younger family members, but often younger...

The Fear Factor in Business

Fear is always a factor in business. Whether you are considering the way business owners prioritize and work toward growth, or how employees respond to management strategies, the fear factor is a necessary consideration for any entrepreneurial endeavor. Understanding...

What to Expect from a Fiduciary Advisor

Knowing what to expect from a fiduciary advisor and how to take full advantage of their services may be key to your company’s financial success.

Disengagement, Micromanagement and Agency in the Workplace

Here is what you should know about disengagement, micromanagement, and agency in the workplace, to get your team to check back into their work. 

Putting Honesty at the Center of Your Business

Putting honesty at the center of your business can be an important tool to building a strong collaborative working environment and customer communication.

Evaluating Your Processes for Fairness

Here are several questions you can ask in evaluating your processes for fairness to improve workplace morale, and make sure everyone’s voices are heard.

Electronic Communications are Easily Misunderstood

Electronic Communications are Easily Misunderstood

In today’s world, we often use text and e-mail to communicate electronically. It’s a quick and easy way to get your message across. So, if it’s quick and easy, what’s the problem? Well, often the actual message isn’t communicated, it gets misunderstood. Emotion,...

A smaller operation, a new vision for leaving a legacy

A smaller operation, a new vision for leaving a legacy

When I started growing my consulting practice seven years ago (Stanislaw Consulting), I wanted to leave a legacy. I still do, but I’ve learned a lot about what that legacy can be. My original thought was that I would build a sustainable practice that would outlast me,...

Emotional Intelligence – Can it be Taught?

Emotional Intelligence – Can it be Taught?

Emotional Intelligence defined: The ability to know one’s emotional state, manage it, read the emotion in others, and use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. The author of the article reference below is an international authority in personality...

Do Your Employees Have Leadership Potential?

Do Your Employees Have Leadership Potential?

Effective future leaders within organizations are sometimes hard to assess at first glance. This article by Rick Lash, the director of the Leadership and Talent practice at Hay Group, highlights our view of the ingredients of effective leadership. Effective future...