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10 Tips for Your Social Media and How to Apply it to Your SBE
Social media is a prominent part of our lives now. It’s how we connect with people all over the world, stay in contact with family and friends who are far, and how businesses market their products and services.
Establishing Your Target Market
The target market of your business is your ideal customer based on the product or services you are offering. Depending on the business, there may be more than one target market but it is important to establish your primary target market.
Understanding Your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities for Growth, and Potential Threats
In your personal life or within a team or company, it is important to assess your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for growth, and threats. Being aware of what you are good at versus what you could improve on is what will push you towards success.
Conflict Resolution on Your Team
Every team, friendship, and relationship has conflict. Conflict is inevitable but it is how we handle the conflict when it happens. Addressing an issue immediately and before it grows often can result in quicker resolution. Have you had an issue with a teammate and not known what to do? Well, buckle up and let’s go!
8 Tips: How to Increase Your Knowledge on Diversity and Inclusivity
Growing your knowledge for different cultures, religions, genders, races, ethnicities, and other characteristics or cultural expression that you do not identify with will not only improve your career but will improve our world as a whole.
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou
Why Having a Contingency Plan is Crucial for Your Spirit Box
This has been a very uneasy few weeks with the growth of COVID19. Our country is slowly filling with more anxiety around the spread of this virus; anxiety for our health and for our economy. As business owners, for the health of our business, we must have a plan of action for how we keep our business afloat during a time like this. Specifically, for a Spirit Box business, many schools are extending breaks as well as moving to remote teaching for the rest of the semester. What can your team do during this time of uncertainty? A great start is to create a contingency plan.
Visioning: Writing Your Preferred Future
Laying out our vision says we believe that tomorrow will be better than today; that if we work together, we can make great things happen.
5 Tips on How to Have a Successful Team
You know the saying… teamwork makes the dream work. There is no “I” in team. These are clichés for a reason because they are true. When working on a team every player is important. There are no small parts on a team and each role plays a part in leading your team to success.
Working on a team comes with struggles. There are many moving parts due to varying schedules, different communication styles, lack of organization, and more. Here are some tips to help your team get on track for success.
5 Ways How Entrepreneurship Focused Project Based Learning Prepares Students for the Real World
2,000 high schools graduate less than 60% of their students.
50% of students think what they are learning in school is relevant to the real world.
81% of high school dropouts say that relevant, real-world learning would have kept them in school.
It’s time we change the conversation on how we educate our students. As educators, it is our responsibility to send students into the real world with the knowledge they need to succeed. Teaching students entrepreneurship through project based learning takes the way we teach students to the next level. ⠀
Creating Goals: Strategies to Get You Where You Want to Go
Let’s talk goals! Often times, at the start of a project or the start of a new year, you may create goals for yourself. As time passes, you realize you have not completed hardly any of the goals you set out to accomplish. It’s safe to say we have all probably been here. Clearly there are good intentions behind the points you hope to achieve, however, maybe you aren’t giving yourself the right goal. In other words…work smarter not harder. Outlined below are strategies to help you achieve your goals!