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Everything you need to take your business online

Posted by jesse on Jun 16, 2020 3:33:13 PM

Set up your store in minutes and bring your business online

Get your products back in the hands of loyal customers. Follow self-paced programs to get your business online, fast. From easy website building to shipping and fulfillment strategies, you’ll gain the insights needed to bring your business online with Shopify.

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Tags: StartUp | ScaleUP, Technology Marketing, Marketing CNNX

Progress | Contributing to the Solution

Posted by jesse on Jun 11, 2020 4:34:27 AM

To feel a sense of purpose and a sense of progress in life is key to feeling happy, connected and productive.  But in a time when physical distancing is expected and many have either lost their job or are attempting to maintain productivity working from home, how can we achieve that all important sense of progress? By contributing to the solution!

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Tags: Women In Business, Professional Development, Culture, HR CNNX

Taking Responsibility | Me Myself and I

Posted by jesse on Jun 6, 2020 7:33:54 AM

Taking responsibility for your actions’ – something most of us heard at one time or another from our parents.  Whether we were avoiding our homework, skipping class or fabricating some story about where we were, the lesson to learn was always, take responsibility for our actions.  What our parents did not say was – take responsibility for your emotions – and that is where the real communication growth is.

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Tags: Women In Business, Professional Development, Culture, HR CNNX

Quarantine Quarrels

Posted by jesse on Jun 1, 2020 6:33:05 AM

Though this may come as a shock – men and women respond to stress very differently.  Okay, likely that is absolutely no shock at all, but what does it mean in this unprecedented time where stress levels are increased and so is the amount of time we spend together as families.  It means Quarantine Quarrels are inevitable.

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Tags: Women In Business, StartUp | ScaleUP, Professional Development, Culture, HR CNNX

News Flash | People like to be right

Posted by jesse on May 27, 2020 11:32:38 AM

Statistically the odds are good that there is not a single person reading this (or any of their friends) who has not tried at one time or another to change their partner. Whether you are still with the partner you tried to change is not relevant – that you tried to change them is. Human beings like to be right, it validates everything from our intelligence to our sense of self-worth; pretty powerful stuff. But what if you being right means your partner has to be wrong? Where does that leave them?

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Tags: Women In Business, StartUp | ScaleUP, Professional Development, Culture, HR CNNX

MAKING A SUCCESSFUL PIVOT THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE CULTURE

Posted by jesse on May 26, 2020 6:49:10 PM

In our recent look at what it takes to make a successful pivot in your business during these uncertain times, we've had some conversations that dig into the mentality and perspective required to have an innovative culture that would allow you to make a successful pivot. We had the opportunity to speak with Trefor Armstrong who operates as an Application Specialist at Innovative Automation. Trefor is at the forefront of their recent successful pivot to producing Ventilators for frontline workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Tags: Innovative Mindsets, Business Implications, SBX NOW & NXT

Recharging the Introvert and the Extrovert

Posted by jesse on May 22, 2020 5:32:03 AM

There is no shortage of written work on the difference between the introverted and extroverted personality style.  From their tendencies in work, play and relationships to which is a ‘better’ way to be there are many theories.  Interestingly, despite this abundance of information, most people are still getting it wrong. 

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Tags: Women In Business, Professional Development, Culture, HR CNNX

The Power of Language

Posted by jesse on May 17, 2020 6:31:32 AM

Words have the power to heal, the power to motivate and uplift and words have the power to influence and change.  Though we all know this to be true, most of us think of great speeches of history, moving monologues in movies or rousing oratory as something that others who are far more skilled with words have written.  We allow ourselves to be moved and shaped by the words of others, yet do not often consider that the words we off-handedly use can be equally as powerful.

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Tags: Women In Business, Professional Development, Culture, HR CNNX

Stress and anxiety | is there a difference?

Posted by jesse on May 12, 2020 4:28:04 AM

Perhaps for many people in their ‘normal life’ there isn’t really a need to consider the difference.  However, there are few in this time of pandemic who would likely consider their life to be even close to what was once normal.  Most people’s lives ebb and flow to some degree – there are some stressful times or occasions, some events that make us feel anxious, but generally, we move through them or that stressful or anxiety causing time passes.  But what happens when there is prolonged stress or the anxiety is caused by something that has no foreseeable ‘end date’?

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Tags: Women In Business, Professional Development, Culture, HR CNNX

Self Evaluation | Communicating with Yourself … no really

Posted by jesse on May 7, 2020 7:35:38 AM

In times of extreme stress like we are currently experiencing, we can find ourselves overwhelmed by a confusing array of feelings and thoughts. ‘Confusion’ is the key word – we can experience so many conflicting reactions that it’s hard to make sense of any of them. Unfortunately, we often react or take action without fully understanding those feelings and thoughts, leading to potentially negative consequences in our relationships.

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Tags: Women In Business, StartUp | ScaleUP, Professional Development, Culture, HR CNNX