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Strategies for Staying Open

As if the labor shortage weren’t already aggravated by the so-called Great Resignation and the droves of baby-boomers retiring, you can add a giant spike of employees calling out sick recently. Fueled by the Omicron surge and likely combined with other seasonal maladies, many businesses are struggling to field enough…
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Great Service, No Excuses

The pandemic has either created or magnified a myriad of problems for manufacturers, distributors, and businesses all across the world. Supply is constrained and delayed, and costs have risen dramatically. Add to this the labor shortage, and businesses are left scrambling to find a way to tread water, let alone…
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‘Tis the Season for Appreciation

Though it’s been another difficult year, businesses everywhere should take the time to look back with appreciation for all that they’ve been able to accomplish in 2021—despite the challenges arrayed against us all. The biggest reason for this success is, without a doubt, the loyalty of customers and employees alike.…
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Cutting Costs

One of the great challenges many small businesses are facing right now is figuring out how to survive amid economic inflation, supply chain disruptions, and the labor shortage. Belts are getting tight, and it’s getting much harder to find a way to keep the doors open. One such consequence of…
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The Choice Short-Staffing Forces

An ongoing challenge that businesses across the country are facing is short-staffing. At the start of the pandemic, many employees were furloughed or lost their jobs altogether, sending millions to unemployment. As our country has opened back up again, many of these workers have not returned to work en masse,…
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Understanding the Supply Chain Woes

The last couple of years have either created or magnified many of the economic challenges we all face today, not the least of which is the critical problem with supply chains. As Peter S. Goodman, writing for The New York Times explains, “The pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of…
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How to Survive Short Staffing

According to the National Federation of Independent Business’s October 2021 Report, nearly half of business owners report that they have job openings that they cannot fill. According to NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg, “Small business owners are attempting to take advantage of current economic growth but remain pessimistic about business…
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Setting Expectations for Your Employees

Every business has goals of some kind, even beyond the basic need to make enough money to keep the lights on this month. Usually, a business hopes to grow, to bolster its reputation, and to genuinely satisfy everyone involved day-in and day-out. These kinds of goals are often broken into…
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What Does a Leader Really Do?

When we think about the importance of designing a great customer experience, it’s easy to get hyper-focused on the frontline staff. This makes sense because these employees are the ones with whom the customers will be interacting the most, whether they are the servers at restaurants, cashiers at retail stores,…
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