No doubt, profitability should always be the focus of any successful organization. As we approach the halfway mark of the year, you are probably firmly aware of how much profit your business has already made and how well it is projected to do this year. Perhaps you work in a not-for-profit environment and your concern is increasing value to your clients instead of profitability. 

As you build your organization, you have probably thought about how to improve the performance of the current team that you work with.  Whether you have two employees or two hundred, this series aims to equip you with common sense but not necessarily common practice tools.  This week, I will be writing about the second step of building strong teams: how to keep your team at peak performance!

Annual Reviews: Most established organizations have an annual review process that normally coincides with a salary evaluation.  If you do not have annual reviews, you need to consider the cost to your team; however small it happens to be.  The common misconception is that annual reviews are not necessary for small teams.........

As you build your organization, you have probably thought about how to improve the performance of the current team that you work with. Whether you have two employees or two hundred, this series aims to equip you with common sense but not necessarily common practice tools. This week, I will be writing about the first step of building strong teams: the hiring process!

Create detailed job postings. I have seen far too many job advertisements that have a total of 3 lines of detail in the posting. The more information you can put down about the job, the less work you have to do in weeding out unqualified candidates. This, in turn, saves you valuable time to focus on your business. As you consider posting for an opening in your company, .........

I've been going through a book on my looming stack of "To Read" books and have really loved what Daniel Pink writes about in his book "Drive: Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us".

• Autonomy: Our desire to be self directed.
• Mastery: The urge to get better at what you do
• Purpose: .........
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