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Consultant Proficiency Resources: End of Business Year Report out

Dec 30, 2022
2 min

Consultant Proficiency Resources: End of Business Year Report out

Taking a leap of faith to pursue your passion is bold, scary, exciting, and a winning formula for securing your future. According to SYNVOUS online 2022 report, entrepreneurship is at an all-time high. Whether the baby boomers are returning to the workforce or workers who exited corporate during the Great American Resignation wave, people are turning their passion into their business. Today's post highlights CPR's 2022 year in review and what every first-year business owner

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Flipping a Toxic Work Culture Series: Identifying your Organization's Culture

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Oct 20, 2022
3 min

Flipping a Toxic Work Culture Series: Identifying your Organization's Culture

In prior posts, CPR recommended the importance of identifying your organization's culture. The posts noted that the organization's culture is likened to your organization's personality. For a small business owner, this may signify that the organization functions the way the founder and or current CEO functions. So yes, it begins with the type of leader you are. As a reminder, a toxic leader fosters toxicity. Conversely, a transformational leader fosters a more creative and p

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Toxic Work Culture Series: Entrepreneur's Antidote to Overcoming Workplace Toxicity

CeeCee

Aug 25, 2022
4 min

Toxic Work Culture Series: Entrepreneur's Antidote to Overcoming Workplace Toxicity

If you are a business owner, like it or not, you are a leader. You are responsible for not only the day-to-day operations of your business but the work climate or environment, professional development of your team, and constructing of cohesive teams, sales, revenue, strategic pricing, and regulation. We can go on and on about your role and responsibility. The reality is that you are wearing multiple hats at a time. As a result, the culture within your organization is easi

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Toxic Work Culture Series: Stomping Out Toxic Work Culture-Integrity Matters

CeeCee

Jul 20, 2022
4 min

Toxic Work Culture Series: Stomping Out Toxic Work Culture-Integrity Matters

As we continue the Toxic Work Culture series today, we will explore the importance of integrity as a leader in the workplace instead of a dishonest and inconsistent leader. A leader tells the truth regardless of the fallout. Integrity is essential for cultivating a healthy work culture. Oxford defines integrity as the attribute of being honest, possessing solid moral principles, and upright. Consultant Proficiency Resources (CPR) adds to Oxford's definition of integrity t

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Small Business Emergency Readiness Series: Inventory

CeeCee

Jul 5, 2022
5 min

Small Business Emergency Readiness Series: Inventory

Consultant Proficiency Resources resume its Small Business Emergency Preparedness series with the spotlight on maintaining an inventory. Depending on your business and the industry, inventory may look differently. In addition, if you are operating from a brick and mortar, your inventory may be of more excellent stock. A small business inventory is a process your small business must go through to know about your stock of products or services. Through this process, you will d

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Small Business Emergency series: Business Emergency kit

CeeCee

Jun 28, 2022
2 min

Small Business Emergency series: Business Emergency kit

As we begin to wind down the emergency checklist for leaders within the small business communities, it is important to underscore that the list and priorities may change based on Global matters. Whether natural disasters, large-scale emergencies like a health epidemic, war, or the apocalypse, understand that unforeseen circumstances may have varying degrees of impact on your business operations. No matter what the situation, there are a few necessary steps to take to build

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Small Business Emergency Readiness series: Technology

CeeCee

Jun 27, 2022
3 min

Small Business Emergency Readiness series: Technology

As we resume the Small Business Emergency Readiness series, understand the goal of the series is to encourage you to perform Acts of Commission. This signifies preparing your business now as opposed to when times become more challenging. Unless you are in a deep slumber, you should be cognizant of the troubling times looming. While I hope you are making preparations for your family, you need to consider ways to protect your business as much as you can. Today we will explo

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Small Business Emergency Preparedness series: Your Finances

CeeCee

Jun 21, 2022
2 min

Small Business Emergency Preparedness series: Your Finances

Today CPR continues to explore the concept of Small Business Emergency Preparedness. CPR offered six elements, today we will explore Business Finance. We all witnessed the deadly impact CoVID had on our loved ones as well as the economy. Financial experts also link financial crises to “4 deadly D’s”: (1) Sharp economic downturns follow banking crises; (2) with government revenues dragged down, fiscal deficits worsen; (3) deficits lead to debt; (4) as debt piles up rating do

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Small Business Emergency series: Personnel & Safety

CeeCee

Jun 20, 2022
3 min

Small Business Emergency series: Personnel & Safety

Last week, Consultant Proficiency Resources (CPR) LLC initiated a series on emergency preparedness in small businesses. The writing is on the wall. Whether it's the economy, rumors of WW3, food shortages, race riots, zombie apocalypse, and/or natural disasters, the earth is saying something, as small business owners, we also need to pay attention to the signs along with politicians, media, and spiritual leaders. To get through the series, we identified six-(6) significant c

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Small Business Emergency Readiness series: Checklist

CeeCee

Jun 16, 2022
1 min

Small Business Emergency Readiness series: Checklist

Yesterday's blog commenced a series on Small Business Emergency Readiness. The goal is to alarm new and established small business owners. This post will offer some ideas for a Small Business checklist that should serve as a guide. Please be sure to customize the list that best meets your organization's needs. Let's begin. During this series, emergency readiness applies to internal and external disasters, including natural disasters. While this may be a tricky topic, it's

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CeeCee

Jun 15, 2022
2 min

Small Business Emergency Readiness series: Leaders Must Stay Ready

Welcome back to another Consultant Proficiency Resources LLC series. Today's series explores a topic that is the 600-pound gorilla in every virtual or in-person leadership meeting. This series was created to sound the alarm within the small business community. While CPR may not be able to explore all the emergency issues, CPR hopes to shed some light that will spring you into action. The subject is emergency preparedness. If you are scratching your head, this series is fo

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Dadtrepreneur series: Reviewing Attributes of Male Entrepreneurs

CeeCee

Jun 6, 2022
2 min

Dadtrepreneur series: Reviewing Attributes of Male Entrepreneurs

Last week, CPR introduced the Dadtrepreneur series to balance out the attributes of successful male and female entrepreneurs. Initiated with the momtrepreneur series for the month of June, CPR spotlights the attributes of a dad and how the traits are used to operate a small business successfully. Let's begin. Today's blog will zero in on two attributes identified by a psychologist experienced in counseling fathers. They are (1) dependability and (2) involvement. 1. Dependab

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Saluting Dadtrepreneurs: Understanding Attributes of Male Leaders

CeeCee

Jun 1, 2022
3 min

Saluting Dadtrepreneurs: Understanding Attributes of Male Leaders

Alas! It is June 1st, 2022. The birds are tweeting, flowers bloom, graduations to attend, weddings to plan, and the heat is on. Ahhhhh! There are A plethora of studies suggests that the weather dictates your mood. As I attend meetings, walk the dog, do my power walk, and hang with friends or family, I can feel the excitement in the air. June is a month full of expectations and promises. In that spirit, I hope to salute our dadtrepreneurs and consider some of the attributes

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State of Consumer Engagement series: Trust and Quality in Business

CeeCee

May 27, 2022
3 min

State of Consumer Engagement series: Trust and Quality in Business

At the onset of the State of Consumer Engagement series, CPR highlighted the voices of consumers in a 2022 report. CPR extrapolated five key points from the report and offered five additional recommendations. If you have not read CPR's blog post from this week, please be sure and do so. Today, we will explore consumers' trust and demand for quality. The 2022 report indicated that 95% of consumers trust companies. While this is surprising at face value, this statistic is g

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