As a business owner, you know that your team can make or break your success. But here’s a hard truth many entrepreneurs struggle to face: The people who helped you build your business may not be the ones to help you scale it. In the latest episode of The...
Delegation is often seen as a simple task: Assign a job to someone else and move on. But as any experienced leader knows, true delegation is far more complex. In this episode of The Business You Really Want, co-host Tonya Kubo and I explore the deeper layers of...
After four decades in business, I’ve seen workplace communications evolve dramatically. As the founder of Everyday Effectiveness, a business operations firm advising impact-driven business owners and executives, I’ve also witnessed firsthand the high cost...
“Get a VA to do it.” If you’re an overworked business owner, chances are you’ve heard those words more times than you can count. And you’ve probably taken that advice and hired more virtual assistants, or VAs, than you’d care to admit. Let me guess … you still feel...
Do you struggle to make decisions for your life or business, because you never know if you’re making the “right” choice? The truth is, you may never know if you made THE “right choice” at the moment, and chances are there’s more than one option that could be right for...
In my last post, I outlined the biggest obstacles we face when we have to make a tough decision (click here if you haven’t read that one yet). This is also a follow-up to the piece I wrote for APeeling Magazine; if you’d like to read the original piece, click here....
I'm Gwen Bortner, and I've spent 40 years turning chaotic businesses into well-oiled machines across 47 industries. Now, my team and I work with women entrepreneurs to build sustainable, fulfilling businessesaligned with their values.