A Powerful Key To Building A High Performance Team
How do you relate to people in this world? Are you someone who lifts people up or do you look for reasons why people are the problem? A good friend of mine just shared this insightful video from Simon Sinek regarding relationships and loving what you do. I thought I would share this powerful video and my thoughts on the subject. No one will ever accuse me of being a fluffy person. In my coaching, I typically err on the side of telling someone how it is in a direct manner. However, there is one topic that sounds warm and fuzzy to people that I will always promote until I’m
Tips For Delegating And Hiring- Podcast
When it comes to employee management, this isn’t always something that comes natural to newer business owners. Particular areas of concern is for business is with hiring talent and delegating responsibilities. With regards to hiring, the main tip that I can give here it to know what you want and what you value. Business owners that are clear on what they want can better find and assess candidates. If you know your values, then you can ask questions that will provide some insight on whether or not the candidate you are looking at shares the same values as your company. With delegation, it comes down to protecting your Soul
Aligning Your Business- New Podcast
Cue the theme from Welcome Back Kotter because the Your Life, Your Purpose podcast has been resurrected from the ashes. Today I wanted to talk more about aligning your business. Why it’s important and what problems that aligning your business solves. Also make sure you check out these recent posts on the subject as well: Success This Year Starts At The Core Of Your Business The Process of Aligning Your Business Want A Stronger Team? Communicate. Enjoy the podcast below.  
What If You Focus On The Wrong Thing?
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all …” ~W. Edwards Deming “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting.” ~Siddhartha Gautama Nothing makes me happier than to get insight and comments on the various musings from this blog. When I talked last week about the process of aligning your business, I had mentioned on Facebook that a focused business is a profitable business. I will acknowledge that the comment was oversimplified and full of holes. My good, longtime friend Patrick called me on it by saying: “Unless
The Process of Aligning Your Business
Recently I talked about what your business looks like if it is aligned. Some business may have read that and realized that there business is not aligned. We have a specific process that we take a business through to help them get aligned and ultimately focused. I want to spend a few minutes today and walk you through that process. Alignment is about you and your team working towards a common set of objectives. It creates focus, unity, communication and an improvement of systems in your business. Small businesses historically have a hard time with focus and creating systems in their business. Where does alignment start? Here are the three
Want A Stronger Team? Communicate.
In describing the three ways to know if your business is aligned, I mentioned that communication was a huge piece to aligning your business. I also mentioned that there are too many business owners who are unwilling to commit to great communication. Since you are reading this I am going to assume that you are one of the committed and want to connect with your team. It’s so hard for me to not use a sports analogy here but, since I am sports enthused meathead, here it comes. In sports, great individuals don’t make great teams, great individuals must learn how to best operate in the system and with regards
3 Signs That Point To Your Business Being Aligned
Alignment in your business is about focus. It’s about a collective working together for a common goal and having the ability to overcome the obstacles that come up along the way. Alignment can be difficult to achieve but when you have it, your business thrives. Alignment is about aligning the work that your business does with the vision for where the business needs to go. A common theme that you will see about alignment is that it takes a high level of commitment to communication to achieve. This is, quite frankly, a commitment that a lot of business owners are unwilling to make. But not you. How do you know
Winning Impossible Games
Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves. It’s easy to play it safe in business. We set safe goals. Make what we think are safe hires. Playing it safe can only take us so far. To stretch yourself and your business, you need an impossible game. Having an impossible game and stretching yourself shouldn’t be confused with being reckless. If your impossible game is to jump off a ten story building and live, well, good luck with that. That’s extreme but impossible games are those projects that just don’t seem reachable for us. You may lack the knowledge to get it done or the
Write It Don’t Wing It
Since I have been talking about objectives recently and also since we are getting ready to do a call on the subject as well, then we definitely need to talk about the power of committing what you are doing to writing. A big problem for business owners when it comes to staying focused is their desire to just wing it rather than writing important things down. Let me start by saying that I can sympathize with business owners who don’t write things down. I get that people don’t want to feel like they are put in a box and that written goals can feel like you are sacrificing your ability
Teamwork Is A Way Of Life
“In Africa there is a concept known as Ubuntu – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to accomplish anything in this world it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.” — Nelson Mandela I Am Because We Are As your business grows and you start achieving a certain level of success, at some point, you are going to have a team that helps you keep your business moving forward. For some business owners, running and managing a team is a liability. For others, they thrive in a team environment. Ubuntu and Its’ Role
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