Resources
>Resist The Urge to Make Your Superstar’s Idea Better
>This is an experience that should be occurring regularly: You are discussing a mutual problem with your team — the superstars you have chosen to help you achieve your company’s vision.
>Holding Your Team Accountable
>One of the major challenges I come across in organisations today is to ensure accountability through its policies, procedures, and philosophies.
Getting Outside The Box
Thinking “outside the box” or (as it is sometimes known) “colouring outside the lines” is a popular idea in the business world today.
Getting What You Want, Getting What You Need
Here are two lists which should serve as a valuable guide toward helping you make progress in all of your efforts.
>Dip Don’t Skip
>http://bitURL.net/btch
Accelerated Innovation
More and more it appears true that the only way businesses today, whether large or small, are going to survive and thrive is through accelerated innovation.
>Catching People Doing Things Right
>A great business I did some work with – ‘Pret A Manger’ – had a unique philosophy with their staff which I’d like to share it with you.
>Tips on building and managing a great team…..
>To achieve your company’s potential you need to get ‘the right people on the bus in the right seats’.
Communicating with Your Team
>I often come across people in organisations that say things like, “Management never lets us know what’s going on,” “Our questions and concerns don’t get through to them” or “They just don’t care.
Where you live and how you succeed are joined at the hip
When I say “success environment” what do you think about? Is it the French Riviera where you are out sunbathing and relaxing? Is it a brand new office, with a brand new computer, and you in a brand new suit?
>How to Tap into your Intuition
>“In recent years, the subject of intuition has emerged from obscurity.
What are you afraid of losing?
All change means loss. We lose something in every change.
Simple Tips to Boost Your Referrals
1. Make sure our product/service is being delivered with consistency. You need to give people what they expect.
Not all Customers are Equal…..
Businesses need customers and without them, the business won’t last long.
Embedding Culture
There is a saying that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. This is a very true and often overlooked by business owners who are frustrated by their inability to get their staff to change and implement new strategies.
>The Power of the Common Goal
>If you lead a team, one of the most powerful ways to unite people is to have everyone working towards a common goal.
The Power of Priorities
There are two things that business people find very challenging: thinking ahead and doing things in order of importance.
Getting Back to Basics
Sometimes, it pays to change your business for the sake of change. At other times, you have to change your business because the market tells you to. And if you don’t change, you’re dead.
It’s our self image
Over the years I have become fascinated with finding out why business owners are challenged with taking action and executing the routine action points they need to accomplish in order to be successful.
Time Management = Self Management
Are you like most business owners out there that are struggling to find enough time to breathe? Do you have a list of tactics and strategies that would take your business to the next level if you only had the time to implement them?
Eat That Frog
Okay. So, you’ve started your day, and there’s so much to do. Ever ask yourself, “Where do I start?” Many business owners I talk to do.
How not to sell on price….
The perception in the market place is that people are shopping based on price alone. The only reason your customer asks for the price upfront, is because, that is what we, as business owners, have trained them to do.
Know your customers better,,,,,,
Most sales trainers agree there are a certain number of steps that need to be taken towards making a sale; typically the steps are:
>Building the Right Team
>Too often you hear business owners say ‘I can’t get good people’ or ‘why can’t I get my people to do as I tell them’. Well here are a few ideas that may make life a lot easier.