How To Stay Focused On What You Can Control In Your Business
Are you a victim or a victor? In business it’s important to recognize when you are being a victim or a champion. Business owners spend a lot of time worrying about things that are either not real or they worry about things they can’t control. Here’s how to stay focused on the things that you have control over. The first thing is to recognize what are the things that you do have control over. When you know what those things are you can spend your time working on those things and not wasting time worrying about the rest. Mindset The first area that you have control over is your mindset.
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
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
Make A Simple Plan For Your Business With Three Questions
If you’re reading this, you may not be much of a planner. In fact, for most people setting plans and goals sucks. So with that being said, thanks for reading this far. Planning can be difficult as you sit and try and figure out what the right goals are and not make those goals feel arbitrary. For you haters of planning, here are three simple questions to get you started. Answer these and you are well on your way to having a plan that will make your year better. These questions are questions that we ask ourselves and our clients frequently. It’s also part of our Alignment Blueprint that we
How You Separate The Wheat From The Chaff In Your Business
It’s easy to get caught up in the not-so-important details of your business. This shows up when business owners swear their e-mail box needs to be open at all times of the day. It also shows up when an employee swears that they needed to redesign a new fax cover sheet for the office. I mean, come on, the old cover sheets were ugly! Separating what’s important from what’s not important is essential in your business. This Bible idiom of separating the wheat from the chaff is so appropriate in business. When your operation starts to grow, it’s easy to get lost in the minutiae of the day-to-day operations. Keeping
The One Person Most Likely Sabotaging Your Business’ Culture
I just wrapped up a high level workshop with a group of great business owners that covered setting the right strategy for your business as well as coaching your employees for high level performance. One of the questions that I get a lot in any workshop that I do, and this last one was no different, centers around business owners’ concern with how employees handle their work. Most of these concerns center around where employees lack in the areas of productivity, goal setting and overall organization. The question is always, “How do I make these employees better?” For some business owners they may be talking about the single employee that
Why Your Business Lacks Focus and What To Do About It
Focus is sometimes a difficult task for an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, for these same entrepreneurs, focus is also a necessary component for execution and making your business work. You must be able to not only initiate an idea but also be able to see it through to completion. For most entrepreneurs, the thing that they love most is starting a new venture. It seems like most of the entrepreneurs that I have worked with have one eye on their current business and the other eye on their next project. This is a tremendous strength but when not managed can be a huge liability as well. Some business owners just don’t seem
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