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
Creating The Right Habits In Your Business
You matter a lot to your business. You are the primary driver of the culture and what happens in the business. When I work with a business owner, the first place I start is habits. I want to see how you interact with your business. There are some specific are that we cover when it comes to habits. The first place to start is with beliefs. If you have limiting beliefs that negatively affect your productivity then all the tools in the world won’t help you. What are those things you tell yourself that hold you back? How you start your day is also important. Getting your day started on
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
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
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
The Benevolence of Confrontation
I know it’s not often that you hear confrontation referred to as a gift but when used properly it is a powerful management tool. If you are in any type of leadership position, you know there are times when confrontation is essential to your business. So with all the talk about avoiding confrontation, why is confrontation good? We spend a lot of time talking about how to avoid confrontation. On the flip side, we rarely talk about how to confront people to create positive outcomes in the workplace or in your business. We fear confrontation so that we don’t hurt people’s feelings or rock the boat. When it comes down
How To Keep Your Disagreements From Becoming Arguments
The workplace is typically a veritable hodge-podge of different personality and styles. This tends to lead to passionate discussions about issues that arise in your business. Being able to manage disagreements is an important skill to keep discussions productive. Ed Muzio, CEO of Group Harmonics, talks about this very subject on BNET.com. The first step to managing a disagreement is to define what you actually must agree on. From there Ed gives 5 Building Blocks of Reality to help you manage the conversation. 1. Information- This is where you lay out facts. What are the objective aspects of the issue. 2. Situation- This is the context with which the information
Personal Time vs. Work Time: Just Be Productive With Both
When choosing a producitvity management system to get things done, don’t just think about what you can accomplish at work. It’s a good idea to also think about what you can accomplish at home as well. It seems that, generally speaking, we place a certain value over getting things done at work but we are cool to wing it when we leave. When you think about it, you probably value what you do outside of work even more than what you do at work. My suggestion is to just be productive in both arenas. The first question to ask, when using a time management/productivity system, is can this system be
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