The Next LVL
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Welcome to our blog, The Next LVL, where our team shares relevant and useful information you can use to LVL-Up yourself, your business, and your lifestyle so you can #GetItHandled®.
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4 Tips for Getting through your Next Career Reinvention as an EFM or Military Spouse
Ways to reinvent your career as an EFM or MilSpouse.
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“Now I’m Gonna Pretend I Didn’t Hear What I Clearly Just Heard”
LVL-Up uses GiANT's Five Voices tools to keep communications objective.
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3 Reasons Solopreneurs Should Be Tracking Their Time
How time tracking helps solopreneurs be more efficient and profitable.
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Five Tips for Hiring Your Next Remote Team Member
Hiring a remote employee can be challenging, but you can maintain productivity, connection, and a positive work culture with the right technology and platforms.
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SMART Goals Are Not Always the Answer — Here’s Why
If your SMART goals keep failing, you may need to use HARD or FAST goals instead.
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How to Use Your Vision to Create Business Goals
Want to know why you keep failing to reach your annual business goals? Because you are confusing your “vision” with your “goal.”
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Tips to Scale Your Business Development while Managing your Team Capacity
As a small business owner, you're likely already juggling a lot of responsibilities. It can be tempting to put off business development until a later date; however, this can hinder your long-term growth and ultimately impact your bottom line.
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LVL-Up Team Shares Their Favorite Mom Hacks in Honor of Mother’s Day
LVL-Up brings you a wealth of knowledge and professional experience from women who have worked all over the world in different professional settings. But let’s be real here, a lot of our best people management skills have come from being moms and managing our households.
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What is Process Documentation & Why Is It Important?
Process documentation is the gateway to better efficiencies, effectiveness, and eventually scalable growth in any budding company.
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Finding the Best CRM for Your Business
Finding a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) that’s perfect for your business can be overwhelming. When you consider the positive benefits to your daily business operations the stress and hours are well worth it.
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Your First Steps in Building a Successful Team
If you’re uncertain about how to bring on a first team member or get anxious because you’ve never hired anyone before, you are not alone.
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Learning Your Leadership Voice
GiANT Worldwide “Five Voices” method is a personality system meant to help you understand how to work with others. This training is vital to the success of our company as an entirely remote company because we place a lot of emphasis on how we work together as a team spread out across the globe.
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Why Delegation Is Key For Entrepreneurs
As an entrepreneur the biggest challenge can be letting go. Here are three BIG ways that delegation can help.
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Finding and Solving Your Pain Points
Discovering and solving your company’s pain points is the only way to make sure that your company can grow and develop into what you dream it to be.
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Adaptability, a guiding principle put into action
LVL-Up has built a culture of adaptability for our staff and our clients by embracing change, taking risks, planning for the entire alphabet, and communicating clearly.
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Five Reasons Your Business Needs a Well-designed and Cohesive Look
Building a visual representation of your business using fonts, colors, illustrations, and patterns takes organization and strategy. By taking the time to make your look cohesive and recognizable, your brand is elevated.
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4 Ways to Build a Team that Turns Inspiration Into Action
To benefit from inspiration in action, you need a company culture that celebrates diversified thinking and creative problem solving.
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Collaboration, a guiding principle put into action
At LVL-Up team members are invited to join the team and help shape and grow the culture, the norms and the business.
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Building a Supportive Remote Culture: Four Tips That Go A Long Way
Even in our remote work environment, LVL-Up’s founders have created a collaborative and suppportive culture that provides the psychological safety needed to grow and progress.
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How to Use Social Media as a Tool to Influence, not Sell
Getting hot leads and sales from social media is absolutely possible, but you or your sales team must dedicate daily time to generate and nurture those leads.