As CEO, how do I pull my team back together?
Regardless of how many Zoom cocktail hours you’ve held, that slight fluttering sound you hear might be the magic seeping out of your team. Broken leaders and dysfunctional teams must be reinvigorated to achieve success.
How to expand your business during COVID-19
Whether you are a high-level manager looking to find creative solutions to help your firm or a small business-owner looking to keep your doors open and grow, creative problem solving is of the utmost importance during uncertain times.
Does my insurance cover loss of income from COVID-19?
Most business insurance policies will have at least three kinds of coverages to pay for the loss of business income: property, dependent property and civil authority. Whether there is coverage or not will depend on the language in each policy and the facts of a loss.
A CEOs’ top challenge: Getting your arms around required changes
The way employees and employers are communicating, behaving, working and measuring results have changed rapidly over the last month. For CEOs, this presents an interesting challenge: What changes are you going to carry with you in the long term? It’s important for them to consider the following.
Why the world needs leaders right now
Whatever situation you find yourself and your organization in, here are few leadership tips for both the short-term and long-term to help navigate social distancing and business in the “new normal.”
Weathering the COVID-19 Storm: Advice from local businesses
As any small business owner or entrepreneur knows, running a business has its ups and downs and requires tenacity, perseverance, patience and innovation on the path to continued success. Here is what several long-standing businesses have learned about keeping your business up and running during challenging times.
How Colorado will reopen businesses
Colorado has officially moved from phase one (stay at home) of our COVID-19 Response to phase two (safer at home). What does the second phase look like? Which businesses will open? And when will everything return to normal?
Why small businesses should leverage platform business models
Providing the right guidance on how to play in a platform economy is going to be increasingly central to that advisory role. Tapping into the power of a platform of capability – at the right level of value – will be an increasingly reliable strategy to avoid hitting that five-year wall and proceeding to leadership.
How to manage a remote team for the first time
Still, the current coronavirus outbreak marked the first time many managers had to coordinate operations entirely online. Chances are that the transition wasn’t exactly seamless. But while these circumstances are atypical—and temporary—remote work is here to stay in some form or another.
How to get your employees to buy into their jobs
When you show that you care to invest in making your employees better leaders and better people, you engender loyalty and integrity, which makes them even more valuable as proud representatives of your company and your industry.
Breaking down the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program
The Paycheck Protection Program includes 100% federally guaranteed loans to small businesses but has many local business owners scratching their heads about eligibility, what’s required, who can help them get financed and more.
Will coronavirus kill my business?
During the current surreal situation, business leaders are seeking guidance. Todd Ordal, a CEO coach, poses several questions for CEOs to consider while leading through the crisis based one his conversations with clients and board members.