Feeling the Overwhelm: How Our Executive Assistant Started Winning Her Week and How You Can Too!
An Interview with Kayla Lintz on Transforming Overwhelm into Success. Recognizing the Overwhelm: In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, juggling work, family, and personal responsibilities can often feel like an insurmountable challenge. Many of us have experienced that overwhelming sensation of too much on our plate. Today, we sit down with Kayla Linz, […]
Efficient Email Processing: Strategies for Simplifying Your Inbox
In the hustle and bustle of daily life, managing your email efficiently can be a game-changer. Let’s explore strategies for streamlining your email processing and regaining control of your digital workspace. Calendar Integration for Email Time Blocks Consider integrating your email processing time into your calendar. Allocate dedicated time slots for handling emails, ensuring that […]
Mastering Email Productivity: A Rewarding Approach
In our fast-paced digital world, managing emails efficiently can be a game-changer for productivity. The constant influx of messages can be overwhelming, but with the right strategies and a little self-reward system, you can turn your email processing routine into a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. Set Clear Time Blocks for Email Processing Establish specific […]
Building Teams vs Team Building
So you’ve got yourself an exciting business with several employees and lots of work to do. But who is supposed to do what? Building teams is a very specific process and the thing to recognize when crafting a team is that a key factor is finding the best position for everyone on your team. In […]
Business Advisory Boards (BABs) (Part 3 of 3)
Chesapeake Think Tank has a unique approach to its Private Advisory Boards (BABs). We have discovered that group size is one of the secret ingredients to success. The more people in a room, the more ideas start bouncing and the gears start churning –exponentially. Having sixteen people in a room who are engaged AND when […]
What is a Business Advisory Board (BAB) and how it differs from Advisory Boards (Part 2 of 3)
Previously, we talked about Advisory Boards and how business owners can bring on a team of experts to offer insight and advice for their business, depending on the specific pain point. Alternatively, there are Business Advisory Boards (also known as Peer Advisory Boards). The primary difference is that instead of a group of specific “experts” […]
Advisory Boards vs Business Advisory Boards Part 1
Advisory Boards, Business Advisory Boards, Peer Advisory Boards…we’ve heard them all but have you ever wondered what the difference between them actually is? We’re here to break that down for you in a three-part series. Typically, a “standard” Advisory Board is when a business owner decides they need an outside perspective and expertise that they […]
Productive Conflict
Understand that our society trains us to enter conflict with a “Win-Lose” mindset. Conflict is inherently competitive in this methodology, and someone stands to win, while someone else must therefore lose. But what happens if we enter a conflict situation with a “win-win” approach? With “win-win”, you end up with both (or all) parties saying […]
How to Achieve your New Year’s Resolutions
As arbitrary as it is, starting a new year is a fresh start and a good psychological tool for motivating yourself to set new goals, both personally and professionally. It not only serves to measure how you’d like to grow, but to measure your current progress. The feeling that January 1st brings can improve optimism […]
Vision, Alignment, Execution
It is often difficult for business owners to effectively track how their employees’ skills match up with their company’s needs. This is generally due to lacking an overarching understanding of the business or organization’s model and state of developmental maturity. When provided with this overarching model, the owner can quickly determine both what skills are […]
