Have you wondered about your leadership style and how it affects your business? As a business owner, it is a good idea to understand your leadership style and to cultivate it continuously. So I will share a few common leadership styles along with how they function.

Below is a short list of common leadership styles:

Servant leader: is someone whose role is to lead as a steward or keeper of business resources whether they are human, financial or otherwise. The whole focus of a servant leader is to serve others while continuing to stay focused on accomplishing the goals of the business …read more

So the question might be, how can you integrate project management into a small business? My answer would be very easily because business owners daily manage projects and may not even know it. In this installment regarding small business project management, I will cover a scenario that actually steps through the Deming process of Plan-Do-Check-Act.
 
Scenario 1: Business owner needs to develop process for handling client support request
Phase 1: Plan-establish your objectives

Analyze what steps you need to put in place to handle client support request in a timely manner.
Ask yourself questions that will help you determine your objectives.

What am I trying …read more

Regardless of the size of a business, project management should be an important part to conducting business. Project management can be used to convey the process for managing technical project or handling customers. Ideally, as a business owner, you should have a generic plan in place that you follow when developing your project plans.
Case in point, as a small business owner, one of the processes that I have chosen to use the Deming cycle. The Deming cycle has four-parts:

 
The Deming cycle is an four-part problem-solving process that project managers use to monitor the continued progress of a project. It …read more