We’ve spoken before about how to create a happy, productive workplace and the importance of communicating with your employees on a personal as well as a business level (How to Create a Happier, More Productive Workplace). While it is important to identify and convey your business vision and create a “cause” for your employees to […]
Creating happy and productive employees is about fostering an environment where they see themselves as a part of something important and where that something important means something to them. When the company is a cause each employee can rally around, they are more productive, very engaged and very willing to put forth the effort and energy […]
Plan = control. If you don’t have a plan, then whatever else is happening becomes the controller. If you don’t know where you want to go next, the only thing you can do is look to where others want you to go next. Example: If you go into a sales call with Plan A, but […]
Systems help establish what needs to be done by employees with little to no input from the business owner. Organizational systems allow employees to do excellent work on a consistent basis and know how you’d want it done. Lack of systems and training is really what drives employees to do poor work, not poor employees. […]
How do you build a vision? How do you identify what YOUR perfect business looks like? Define it. Put it on paper. Make sure it’s YOURS and not someone else’s vision. You don’t want it be just good, where people will read it and say, “Oh yes, that’s a good mission statement.” Make it passionate. […]
Once you get onto the drug, it’s hard to get off. A few years ago, Microsoft came out with a paperclip character that would pop up on your screen to alert you to a new email as soon as it came in. What is the response inside you when that icon pops up to tell […]
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