Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

Category: Business

  • What Employees Are Looking For In A Safe Workplace

    What Employees Are Looking For In A Safe Workplace

    Your employees want you to look after them. That’s standard across industries. But what are you actually doing on a practical level to assuage their concerns? Are you really taking care of them the way they want you to care for them?  If you’re not, this post is here to help. We take a look…

  • How to Show Appreciation in the Workplace Without Generic Gestures

    How to Show Appreciation in the Workplace Without Generic Gestures

    These days, appreciating employees is more of a checkbox for many companies. There’s Employee Appreciation Day. There’s an obligatory email that says, “thank you for your efforts.” There’s some branded mug that will go into a drawer. It’s not that any of these gestures are incorrect, but they’re far from memorable. Appreciation should take more…

  • Forget Cost Cutting! Here’s How to Really Boost Revenue in Business

    Forget Cost Cutting! Here’s How to Really Boost Revenue in Business

    When you know that you want to increase your business income, it’s tempting to think about cutting back. After all, all we ever read about is spending less to make more money. However, cutting costs isn’t the only answer, and you may find it doesn’t actually create the results you’re looking for. When you know…

  • Why Some Business Decisions Are About People, Not Profit

    Why Some Business Decisions Are About People, Not Profit

    When you run a business, it’s easy to think that every decision has to come from – or lead to – numbers, like revenue, growth, the cost per lead, and so on. And that is what most reports tend to focus on, especially when you realise it’s important, but sometimes the best decisions you ever…

  • Making Your Warehouse More Efficient

    Making Your Warehouse More Efficient

    Do you feel as though your warehouse isn’t as efficient as it could be? It may be that you feel as though you aren’t making changes that will go on to benefit you as much as you’d like. Either way, if you want to make some positive steps, all you have to do is take…

  • Here’s Why “Cheaper Quotes” Keep Winning Jobs they Don’t Deserve

    Here’s Why “Cheaper Quotes” Keep Winning Jobs they Don’t Deserve

    As you know, a lot of homeowners hire contractors when it’s time to do renovations. They’ll shop around, and usually they’ll do the whole “Sorry, we found someone cheaper” once you reach back out to them after you give a quote. And yeah, it’s frustrating, because half the time it’s not even that the other…