4 Guidelines For Setting Expectations In Your Organization
One of the trickiest things for leaders and new business owners is to set the proper expectations for their team and then ensure that those expectation actually happen. We must think about what the end result is that we have in mind and how well we can follow up any actions that we implement. These are just a couple of concerns however and I am going to give my breakdown on how to set expectations for your organization. The are a few things to consider when you are setting expectations for your team as you look at what the end result will look like when everything is complete. Will you
Trust=The Value of Your Business
The landscape of today’s marketplace has changed dramatically. With more and more products becoming commodities, having a great product is not always enough to get your product/service off the ground. Differntiating yourself means creating a superior experience around your product/service. Trust is the #1 component to building that relationship. Without trust, your business has little value. You may be thinking that trust has always been important and I think to a certain extent that it has. In today’s information society with tons of information at people’s fingertips in a matter of seconds, your reputation needs to be solid. In the past it was much easier to fake certain things and
Working Towards The Wrong Goals
I worked in the corporate world for a long time before I decided to start my own business. At the outset of my career I had set some specific goals for myself. It turns out that these goals were the wrong goals but I kept working towards them anyway. One of the goals that I set was centered around moving up the corporate ladder and to get there by a certain age. The great thing about setting goals is that when we set them and use consistent action towards achieving them, we usually come out on top even faster than we planned. This is what happened to me. Unfortunately, from
External vs. Internal Accountability tools
Putting your accountability system in place requires looking at all the resources that you have at your disposal to keep us on track. There are 2 methods of tools that we need to think about to assist us in accountability- internal tools and external tools. External tools Your boss, if you are employed, is one tool for external accountability. As an employee we all need help getting to our goals and seeing new directions and good boss can help us do that. A business coach can help guide business owners in any number of business issues from sales and marketing to building your start up. Life coaching takes a holistic
Making the Best Use of Your Time
Time. We all have the same 24 hours in the day as everyone else. One thing that separates the successful people from those who struggle to find success is how they use their time. Making the best use of our time is one of the first steps to a solid accountability plan. I will spare you the old time cliches like “time is money”. In essence how you hold yourself accountable from a time management standpoint is how you are going to hold yourself accountable for others things in our life. When we waste time, we miss opportunities for sales, idea creation, networking etc. Pick a system for managing your
Does the C-word Make You Uncomfortable?
Some say that men typically have this problem…. Some say that it’s a problem in society in general… It has to do with our problem with the word commitment. When it comes to our day, most us commit to one simple action item…trying. We can’t tell you that we will achieve a result, we can only tell you that we will try. Effort and try are noble words that when practiced carelessly, lead to failure. Daily success and achievement starts with a commitment to achieving our daily game plan consistently. Too often we go about our day with either no game plan or no real commitment to doing what we
Easy Accountability Starts Today
We have goals. We have a plan. The trick is executing those in a manner that doesn’t take a lot of thinking so we can just go out and make things happen. As business owners, we can make things easy on ourselves by making our action items short, sweet and manageable. This means setting daily markers for ourselves so that we can manage our goals on a day-to-day basis. Most of us, if we have them written out, don’t manage goals and important items frequently enough. When we finally do look at them, it’s a huge ordeal because we waited a few months and now we don’t know where to
Goals: The Ultimate Accountability Partner
It’s been a while since I talked about goals, here and here, but since I have been recently talking about accountability, goals are a big part of that. When built and used properly, goals can be a great accountability partner to help you build your business and make sure that you are on track for personal success. I am not going to go into how to set goals or why goals are important because there a ton of great resources to help you with that already. The problem that we sometimes have is actually doing something with our goals once we have them set. So how do we actually make
How Edit-able Are You?
Accountability is a word that we hear thrown around quite a bit. Have you ever noticed that the people who call the loudest for accountability are the ones that are typically in need of it themselves? From the church leader who screams about the immorality of homosexuality only to later reveal his own homosexual activity to the politician who beats their chest about family values only to have infidelity revealed in their own marriage. Accountability is important but when it comes to self improvement there is another step to accountability which is the ability to be edit-able. I ran across the concept of edit-ability vs. accountability in the book 11:
What If I am Not Good at Holding Myself Accountable?
Accountability. The word alone makes some cringe and others get fired up. I actually can’t believe that this is the first time that I am talking about the concept in this blog because it’s such an integral part of being an effective small business owner. What if you are not good at holding yourself accountable? Is success over for you? It is only if you have given up on achieving higher levels of success. We have been talking about time management and productivity which are vital to success. The problem with these and any other system you are faced with is that they are just systems that we plug ourselves
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