One Important Rule For Small Business Owners
When you are running a business in its beginning stages the only thing you focus on is making it work. Somehow. Someway. (Insert Snoop Dogg reference here if necessary.) Everything else seems unimportant in the grand scheme of things. In reality growing your business is the most important. But there is a proper way to do it. This brings me to one important rule for your business, don’t wait until you need it. Growing our businesses is hard enough without having to worry about the more seemingly inconsequential aspects of our business. Take for example the process for hiring people for your business that I talked about a couple of
One Simple Personal Inventory Task for The Upcoming Year
Productivity is not just about systems and getting tasks accomplished. It’s more about where you spend your time and the specific tasks that you accomplish. One simple personal inventory task that you can implement for the coming year is to identify your most critical tasks and also the time waster/less important tasks that you need to stop doing altogether. This is something that should take you maybe an hour to complete and once it’s done, will help you in your goal setting and planning for next year. The first step is to look at what tasks that you could engage in that would ensure personal success. This could be in
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
Don’t Ignore Your Values
Having core values personally and professionally are extremely important to guiding effective decision making. I am positive I could have used them in college. Just having core values laid out is not enough if you don’t have a system for utilizing them within your organization. Because of this, when we make decisions about what new products and services to offer, we sometimes ignore our values altogether and utilize other criteria to judge the decision. A great example of ignoring values is when I started working for a consumer finance company in the late 90′s. Our job was to sell loans yet we had many tasks that required a lot of
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
