Kelsey Balzli Yarbrough

Council Post: How Small Business Owners Can Weather The Great Resignation

Employers are facing record difficulties filling jobs as the fight to attract and retain talent continues. In November, 4.5 million U.S. workers left their jobs, and almost a quarter of employed individuals plan to find new jobs in 2022. It’s easy to assume that workers are leaving their jobs over money, but it’s more than that.

How Business Leaders Can Show Appreciation During The Great Resignation

It should go without saying that the U.S. workforce’s position has been tenuous since the onset of COVID-19. The pandemic kicked off with record-high unemployment rates, then took a turn last spring when the Great Resignation gave way to 33 million Americans leaving their jobs voluntarily.

4 Ways to Stay on After Selling Your Business

Even as the economy struggled to find its footing in 2021, business-for-sale transactions bounced back by 14 percent last year. Change is often the forerunner to opportunity. So, if you’re wondering whether now is a good time to sell your business, you’re not alone.

Your Business Is Already Part of an Ecosystem. Use It.

When small to midsize business owners operate under the notion that they have no ecosystem, they fail to leverage the one they have. Here’s how you can better map your ecosystem players, understand how to meet client needs, and meet these needs to uncover growth opportunities.

Forbes • 28th November 2021

How To Upskill Your Employees And Help Them Develop Their Careers

The employment landscape was an incredibly bleak one for jobseekers at the start of the pandemic. Brighter days now lie ahead, though, as a recent jobs report has unemployment sitting at a record low of 4.6% and employers opening up an estimated 531,000 new jobs in October alone. As this wave of talent considers their next professional move, they’re looking at a lot more than their day-to-day responsibilities and compensation—they want a chance at professional growth.

No, We Can’t Control Every Aspect of the Financial Gender Gap, But We Can Take Charge of These 3 Things

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women earned in 2020. The wage gap was even wider for women of color, as Black and Latina women earned only 65% of white men’s earnings. And the financial gender gap only starts here; because they make less than men, women also fall behind in overall wealth and investments.

Council Post: The Role Nonprofit Partnerships Play In Social Progress

The Social Progress Imperative’s 2020 Social Progress Index recently ranked how well countries prioritize environmental and social issues. The SPI represents a full-fledged view of each country’s performance on those issues without factoring in economics. Besides this, the index also complements more traditional success measures (e.g., gross domestic product).

Why I Went to Law School and Didn’t Practice Law

Every time I scroll through my LinkedIn news feed this time of year, I see an all too familiar type of post. A bubbly undergraduate student pictured in a cap and gown exuberantly announces that they are attending ___________ School of Law in the fall. The post usually amasses hundreds of likes from strangers across the internet cheering on this soon-to-be 1L.

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Council Post: How Small Business Owners Can Weather The Great Resignation

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