We’ve been talking for the last few weeks about the Six Key Words to use to identify great team members.  We’ve covered the first three (like, trust, and respect).  Let’s pause this week to look at why businesses have such a hard time getting the right people. Reason #4: You Don’t Know What You’re Looking [...]

Continuing our series on the Six Key Words, we move on from like to trust. Can I trust this person as an individual and to fulfill the commitments and responsibilities of her position?  Distrust in the workplace (which is surprisingly common in many large companies) costs time, energy, and money – valuable resources that small [...]

As business owners and entrepreneurs, we need some short-hand to help us easily and quickly evaluate people that we are going to work with – in any type of relationship: employee, vendor, customer, partner, investor, lender, or personal. These six key words can be used as a guidepost to raise red flags. I’ve combined resources [...]