Starting and growing a business basically forces us to develop skills in areas we may otherwise never have to learn. One of the most challenging for many is the aspect of leadership; which encompasses hiring, training and building a team; a team that will grow with you, support you and ideally will believe in and share your vision.

Leadership I’m afraid can be one of the most frustrating aspects of running your business but it honestly doesn’t have to be. I have been in business for twenty one years. For many of those years, my staff were part time, independent contractors AND seasonal, and the average length of time that an instructor would return year after year, was 5 years. I worked with many team members for up to ten years and a few even longer than that. My management and admin team have been with me for between four and seven years and we all remained intact through covid.

While it isn’t rocket science, there are key components of inspired leadership that can change your workplace from something enervating into something invigorating, inspiring and highly collaborative. Its a shift in thinking and some easy to implement tips and strategies that will bring conflict to a screeching halt and allow trust, respect and loyalty to flourish. Doesn’t that sound so much better? Now, Isn’t it time to get your leadershit together?

Our financial journey towards really understanding our money, our relationship to it and how to manage it is a lifelong process. However, when we take on the role of ‘business owner’, that process is expedited simply because we cannot run successful businesses without really knowing where our money is going and how to take care of it so that at the end of the day, month and year we have something to show for all our hard work.

Our financial journey towards really understanding our money, our relationship to it, and how to manage it is a lifelong process.

When we take on the role of ‘business owner’, that process is expedited, simply because we cannot run a successful business without knowing where our money is going and how to take care of it.

At the end of the day, month and year we will have something to show for all our hard work.

Business owners are typically creative types, big picture thinkers, dreamers, what-iffers I like to call us; and accessing the portion of our brain that is methodical, systematic and spread sheet oriented, takes time and patience. But I am living proof that you CAN overcome your money anxieties and feelings of financial inadequacy to become not only financially literate, but financially powerful.

All it takes is some organization, a few systems in place that will help you stay on top of your money and daily practices of really no more than 15 minutes. You CAN be a creative big picture thinker who is also an exceptional money manager, saver and investor.