October 2025 Business Tips Recap
In the month of October, we shared many business tips we find online on our social media stories weekly, every Tuesday. If you missed them, here is a monthly recap!
Improving Employee Moral
October 7, 2025
What Causes Low Employee Morale
The workforce is changing. While some changes contribute to greater work satisfaction, others create challenges for morale. The first step to take toward improving company culture and productivity is asking: what causes low morale in the first place?
Common reasons include:
- Lack of recognition.
- Poor work-life balance.
- Weak leadership.
- Limited career growth.
- Lack of psychological safety.
Set Up Regular Check-Ins
Regular check-ins can help team members feel valued by leaders and help prevent communication breakdowns, especially among remote workers. In-the-moment communication is what drives employee engagement and prevents communication silos and fragmented communication that can derail projects.
Ways to improve employee engagement:
- One-on-one meetings for career development and growth opportunities.
- Meetings to align on current projects, challenges, and wins.
- Leadership accessibility.
- Digital/collaboration tools to share knowledge, ideas, and engage with others.
Support Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is vital to prevent burnout and low morale. Every employee should have clear boundaries for their work and personal time.
Managers can respect work-life boundaries by:
- Sending emails/messages only during work hours.
- Creating reasonable response time expectations .
- Providing mental health days or floating holidays.
- Allowing employees to work remotely one or more days each week.
- Sharing time management tips and tools that can help reduce workplace stress, fatigue, and burnout.
Source: “10 Proven Strategies to Boost Employee Morale and Engagement” Slack from Salesforce, 4 Aug. 2025
Integrity in Business
October 21, 2025
Be Honest to a Fault.
When you become a business owner, you have an obligation to tell the truth at every turn and not hold back information that could be considered useful to employees and customers. And if you make a mistake, it is ok to admit so.
Meet Every Commitment.
Whether you make promises or not, customers have expectations. This means that your products and services should work correctly, solve an issue, and add value. Understand these types of commitments and if an issue appears fix it and honor them at all costs.
Treat Everyone the Same.
When you have big clients you tend to give them more attention to keep them, but remember, integrity is about being fair in every situation. This means that everyone gets equal treatment regardless of how much they may contribute to your bottom line.
Show Respect.
Being considerate and courteous is the bare minimum. So work hard to understand different perspectives when it comes to positions, ages, races, and cultural differences. Aim to treat everyone with kindness and respect.
Self Discipline
October 14, 2025
1. Dedicate Time To Learn
Use 2–3 hours each week to study your craft through books, industry webinars, podcasts or mentorship.
2. Think Like An Owner
If I owned this business, would I make the same decision? Asking yourself this helps sharpen strategic thinking and long-term accountability.
3. Practice
Professionals should prepare outside work of hours. You can do this through side projects, role-playing scenarios or rehearsing skills you want to master.
4. Seek Feedback
Don’t sit around for reviews. Seek out honest input from peers, mentors and direct reports. Learn what you can do better and act on it.
Halloween Business Season
October 28, 2025
Everyone loves a good holiday promotional deal. Halloween is fantastic for this because it’s one of the last holidays before the Christmas season. People are looking to get things done, and a limited-time offer can be just the right promotion to bring in business.
“Haunted Hour Discounts. For an hour in the evening, offer 25 % off on certain items or services.”
“Tiered Treat Packs. Bundle products or services into fun on-theme packages.”
“Trick-or-Treat Coupons. Partner with neighboring businesses to hide little coupon cards in their shops, for customers to cash in.”
“Reverse Trick-or-Treat. Hand out small freebies or discount trinkets to passersby on foot traffic routes, ideally with your branding.”
Source: “13 of the Best Halloween Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses” thryv, 11 Oct. 2025