If you’re actively growing your business, it’s never too soon to start thinking about your leadership team.
Successfully scaling a business isn’t quite rocket science, but there are quite a few moving parts that you have to get right in order to make it all work. Continue reading
Don’t miss National Small Business Week!
National Small Business Week is April 30 through May 6 this year. It really gets rolling on Monday, May 1, with the NSBW Awards Luncheon in Washington, D.C., when SBA Administrator Linda McMahon announces SBA’s National Small Business Person of the Year. However, don’t feel left out if you can’t make lunch with Linda. On the following days, live events will be broadcast online. Here’s a listing of those events:
Finally, you can join or monitor the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #SmallBusinessWeek.
The Roane State Community College (RSCC) Center for Lifelong Learning has been selected as a Screening Site for Hospice Foundation of America’s Being Mortal project funded by the John and Wauna Harman Foundation. Continue reading
Roane State Community College is accepting applications for Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) classes that will be offered on the Crossville campus this fall. They have not been offered in Cumberland County for quite some time. The EMT certificate program is a one semester program. Applicants to the EMT program will be selected in a cohort of 24 students. Continue reading
If entrepreneurs have mixed feelings about selling, that’s nothing compared to what the employees go through during a change of ownership. If you are selling, the new buyer expects the knowledge and expertise of your employees to come in the purchase. If you are the buyer, you based the purchase price on a going concern. Losing trained employees costs money. Continue reading
If you are considering leasing office space for your business, curb your enthusiasm and excitement long enough to ask yourself these five questions: Continue reading
Picking up where we left off from the two most recent articles …….
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Many businesses have been in business 3, 8, 12, or more years, yet each year is a repeat of any other prior year. Why? Because everyone is so caught up in the day to day work of the business (working IN the business) that they don’t take the time to step back and take an assessment of where the business is (working ON the business) and intentionally do things differently to move forward toward the vision for their business. Continue reading
The first industrial revolution spanned from about 1760 to around 1840, triggered by the construction of railroads and the invention of the steam engine and ushered in mechanical production. The second industrial revolution, starting in the late 19th century made mass production possible, fostered by the advent of electricity and the assembly line. The third industrial revolution began in 1960’s, with the digital revolution and the development of semiconductors, mainframe computing, personal computing and the internet. Continue reading
I had the privilege of attending a meeting earlier this week to catch up with 3 of my own TN Promise mentees and 3 other mentees that we sitting at the same table. They are all enrolled in classes at Roane State Community College this semester. One is going into education, one accounting/business and one is studying music with classes at RSCC Harriman. Two are looking at something in the physical therapy and medical fields and one is undecided. One of my mentees that I did not get the chance to connect with at the meeting is enrolled in the welding program at TCAT. I started out with 5 mentees. One was accepted to the University of Tennessee and choosing to attend UT did not qualify for the TN Promise (community colleges and technical schools do). The other four made it from high school to college with the help of the TN Promise scholarship! Continue reading