The Team That Plans Together, Builds Together
Your busier than ever, working harder than ever. Your business has been trending this way for some time which seems good. One thing that you have noticed is that you can only do so much. For goodness sake,”you are just one person!” At least, that’s your story. The big question is why isn’t business growing at the same level as your to-do list? The main reason is that you have become a rugged individualist and you don’t even realize it. Instead of getting the freedom and upward potential that your business can offer, the reality is that you are overworked and overwhelmed. There is a better way. That better way
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
Business Relationships: What Are Your Intentions?
Great relationships don’t happen by accident. You may initially meet someone by chance. For example, I met my wife by a chance occurrence and we have a great relationship. In some cases you may be seeking out a specific relationship. Whatever the case, when you are communicating with people about your business, what are your intentions for doing so? Connections come from different groups of people with entirely different intentions. For customers, they want to know how you can improve their lives. For employees they want you to help them feel a sense of purpose and importance. For partnerships, they want to know how you can help them move their
Enjoy Smooth Sailing With Your Clients By Following One Simple Tip
Effective managers know that, to get the best out of your employees, you need to set the right expectations right up front. Doing this not only ensures that your team will be successful, it also helps you to build a strong relationship with your team also. The same advice also works to ensure that you client relationships go smoothly as well. When your business is newer and you haven’t established rules and parameters for how you work with clients, it’s easy to create some bad habits in your relationships with your customers. These bad habits can be due to any of the following: You don’t anticipate the rules that need
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:
Positively Impact Your Life Forever
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is the one day with a great teacher– Japanese Proverb To get off on the right foot with mentoring, you need to know what your needs are. There are three important components to setting up your relationship. Planning up front on your part, communication throughout the relationship and coaching. The better you understand your needs upfront the more likely you mentoring relationship will be a success. In terms of planning, the first question to ask yourself is what are my areas of need? Is it technology? Is it leadership? Once you have identified your needs you can then think about what you
Increase the possibilities for your Team
As entrepreneurs/leaders, we sometimes fall victim to the curse of knowledge when we are running our teams. The curse of knowledge being that we understand what’s in our heads and expect everyone to know what we are thinking and what we need. Communication of specific goals is so critical to our team’s and businesses’ success. Effective communication is an easy way for to increase the possibilities that exist. In Setting SMART goals , http://www.bnet.com/2422-13731_23-262557.html?promo=713&tag=nl.e713 , Ed Muzio, President & CEO of Group Harmonics, talks about the need for setting SMART goals and the increase efficiency while also increasing the morale of the team as well. Being specific with your
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