This Week in Business Strategies

June 10, 2019
In this week's business-building article, learn how to keep your brand message consistent, how to remain a gracious leader and how a new employee can benefit from an onboarding buddy.

June 10, 2019—To better assist shop owners with their production management, marketing tactics and leadership styles, Ratchet+Wrench has compiled a short list of essential business-building material from some of its favorite sources.

How To Keep Your Brand Messaging Consistent – Forbes

Reducing or eliminating brand dilution isn’t easy, but it’s well worth the effort. Top businesses have proven this repeatedly. When it comes to consistency, major corporations such as Adobe and Walmart rely on specific style guides that govern all aspects of their brand messaging, even their partners’ branding.

3 Things Only Exceptional Leaders Do to Inspire Great Teamwork Inc

When it comes to innovation in the business world, the greatest idea is only a shell without the right people on the bus to give it life.  

How to Remain a Gracious Leader – Darling Magazine

When you work hard to accomplish your goals, do everything in your power to achieve a milestone and earn a leadership position, you have every right to be proud of your successes. However, it’s also just as important to remain gracious and treat your team with the same respect once you have made it to the top. 

Every New Employee Needs an Onboarding "Buddy" – Harvard Business Review

Bringing a new employee onboard is both an exciting and stressful time. And while managers play a critical role in shaping a new employees’ first weeks and months, a broader team effort can ensure the experience is both positive and productive.

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