Insights from Leading Entrepreneurs
You know that employees benefit from constructive feedback. You understand that the opportunity to apply helpful criticism helps an employee perform better and even grow more loyal.
Still, it’s hard to deliver effective feedback. Even the greatest leaders struggle with providing constructive and beneficial performance reviews.
Follow this feedback primer to practice delivering effective criticism. (more…)
Categories: general
Tags: 411 Locals constructive feedback employee review feedback performance review Roumen Todorov
Written for EO by Jack Anzarouth, president of Digital Ink Marketing.
Many new founders and entrepreneurs feel they have to say “yes” to every opportunity that comes their way. But that small word “yes” comes with a big cost.
We get into the habit of saying “yes” to every professional opportunity presented to us for a number of reasons: (more…)
Categories: Leadership Startup
Tags: business digital ink marketing entrepreneur founder jack anzarouth saying no startup
Written for EO by Adam Witty, writer, speaker and founder of Advantage Media Group and ForbesBooks.
Computing pioneer Alan Kay said, “Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.”
Storytelling is the hot trend in business communications and branding. Smart entrepreneurs are eager to humanize their websites, marketing outreach and presentations with inspirational stories of the creation, challenges and success of their companies.
They’re discovering that telling their story, whether via a tweet, a speech or a book, may be the most effective way for them to connect with potential customers.
As a business book publisher who’s worked with hundreds of CEOs and entrepreneurs, I’ve picked up a few do’s and don’ts along the way: (more…)
Categories: general Marketing Sales
Tags: Adam Witty Advantage Media Group brand branding communications EO Charleston ForbesBooks marketing storytelling
Written for EO by Jackie Roberson, writer.
In many companies corporate culture is never explicitly defined, but rather implied. It shows up in the way that employees interact with each other, the way they dress and maintain their work areas, the hours they work, and how they conduct business with the outside world. Culture is defined through the satisfaction of the employees and the clients, the way the office is set up, and the benefits offered to employees.
In short, everything about the experience of working for the company falls under the umbrella of culture and is usually determined in large part by the company leadership and the values, mission, and vision of the organization. (more…)
Categories: Company Culture
Tags: company culture employee satisfaction Jackie Roberson Office Culture
A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world.
He also considered what separated him and the people he admired from his neighbors, local students, other Bahraini entrepreneurs and societal shapers, including government officials and corporate executives. After much thought, it came to him: the difference was in how they think!
“The Middle East consists of developing nations and, sadly, we are consumers of innovation and create very little of it ourselves. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I want to encourage more innovative thinking.”
He was inspired by a George Bernard Shaw quote, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” (more…)
Categories: Business/Finance Tips Coaching general Make a Mark
Tags: Bahrain Economic Development Board EO Bahrain Falak Consulting FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) Suhail Ghazi Algosaibi TAMKEEN United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)
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