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
The Power of One Goal
I was doing some reading last week and came across a great piece by Zen Habits that gave 16 Ways To Get Motivated When You’re In a Slump. The key point in staying motivated that the post makes is their first point which is to focus on one goal. There is a lot of power in being able to have that singular focus. The reason that this post resonated with me right now is that I feel that I have personally been in violation of the one goal rule. I took a step back and looked at some of the different ventures that I am involved in and wondered to
Measuring Results Starts With Clarity
Measuring results is important for any organization to have long term sustainable success. Before you can understand what results you need and why, you need to make sure that you understand your business at its’ core. Before you mearsure results, you mist have clarity in place. I have already talked about why mission, vision and values are important to your business. They really are the foundation for everything that you do and your results are no different. Many small business owners wander ahead with their business without understanding the fundamental questions about their business. Questions such as: Why do I exist? Where do I want to go? What’s most important
Your Business Plan Does Not Need to Be That Hard
If you have ever read Guy Kawasaki’s book, Art of the Start, then you are familiar with how he suggest that you put your business plan together. If you haven’t read the book, I am going to outline his 10 components for an effective business plan. Whether you need to raise money for your business or not, your business plan does not need to be that difficult. According to Guy Kawasaki, your business plan should contain the following: 1. The problem that exists 2.Your solution to the problem 3.Business model; i.e. a brief description of the type of firm you will operate 4.Underlying magic/technology; this is crucial. Basically, it explains
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
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
Should You Get More Done?
Many self help “gurus” who talk about time management and productivity talk about how to get more done in your day. I think that getting more done can be a good thing but I think the concept of thinking that you need to do “more” can be a little misleading. Before you go out and get more done, you should get a clearer picture on how you currently spend your day and what activities that you are currently doing to get an idea of what you are spending your time on. By taking inventory of your activities and what you are currently doing, you will be able to identify where
If You Don’t Have Goals, Why Worry about Time Management?
Once you have a set of core values down for yourself. The next piece to your time management platform is to have a goal or plan. I have always wondered why people get so concerned with how they manage their time on a day-to-day basis when typically they have no goals or plan. In the end all that ends up being managed is busy work. When you don’t have a specific plan of intentional action, time management is meaningless. Not too long ago, I ran across a statistic that said that only 5% of people actually have written goals. I was surprised by how low the number was. When I
Is Your Goal to Have Goals?
Since it’s still January and many are still in the goal setting mood, I thought I would touch on goals while you still care. For many the goal this year is to set goals. Unfortunately many will not set goals primarily because of fear. I posted some statistics in November about how many people actually set goals and how well they do as a result. http://buildyoursoulpurpose.com/get-the-facts-on-the-importance-of-soul-purpose So people don’t set goals because of fear, you get that. So what are we afraid of? We tend to primarily lie in one of two fear categories. They are the fears of success and failure. When we are afraid to fail it’s mainly
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