Onboarding new hires is a crucial moment in their company culture experience. Making sure your employees are welcomed and given all the information they need can be crucial for them feeling secure and confident enough to ask questions and successfully integrate into their teams. That’s why we asked entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question:

Unlocking employees’ creative potential has long been recognized as a key component of management. Creativity is the bases for innovation and innovation is the turning point for successful results. Front-running businesses are well aware of it and invest time and resources on developing creative structures and teams. And design thinking is one of their preferred tools for it.

Bold moves are never easy. They’re also not cheap or safe. But one reason leaders discard maverick thinking is because they pay three seconds’ attention to strategy and immediately proceed to execution challenges.

Does your small business give employees bonuses? Almost three-fourths of companies do, according to PayScale’s 2018 Compensation Best Practices Report. Giving bonuses (also called “variable pay”) allows companies to reward top performers without increasing their fixed costs for salaries. Top-performing businesses are more likely to offer bonuses than the average business (79% vs. 70%), PayScale reports. According to a 2018 WorldAtWork survey, bonuses are becoming more popular, especially among small and midsized companies.

Leveraging remote workers can provide many benefits to companies. In a world where remote work is the future of industry, understanding how to utilize these remote teams is vital.

If you can’t do one-on-one meetings with all of your direct reports, you probably have too many people reporting to you.