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•Thankfulness Steps for Growing Your Business
During this week of Thanksgiving in the United States, many of us are reflecting on all that we appreciate in our business and personal lives. Did you know, being grateful actually increases your results?
You might already be aware that being grateful is good for your sense of well-being and your state of mind and mood. Now there is research demonstrating that gratitude is good for your physical and mental health AND your ability to achieve your goals.
Dr. Robert Emmons of the University of...
•How To Lead The Pack In Business
Business life has cycles. Some of them are created by external circumstances, like the economy we're all contending with these days. Others are internal to our company, driven for instance by new products and services we decide to offer our customers.
Each of those cycles has the potential to be disruptive to our business results OR create opportunities for expanding success.
A group of professionals I coach each month took a look at their own cycles last week. The question was whether they...
•Business Systems Lessons from the ICU
Early in my business career I worked at the world-renowned UCLA Medical Center, running the non-medical patient care activities in several regular and intensive care units. I frequently heard comments that 'healthcare just isn't the same as business.' It was said in ignorance about the true complexity and need for accurate coordination needed to provide excellent customer service: patient care.
As a Unit Service Coordinator, I was in charge of arranging all the movements of the patients and...
•How To Bust Out Of Stuck The 3 R s and 4 C s that Keep You on Track
Is this you? You have customers to satisfy, professional goals to deliver on and your personal goals shoved to the back burner... and you and your friends, colleagues, clients and vendors are already talking about 'next' year. I'll admit, I've had a few of those days that stretched to weeks with my attention caught in that tension.
If you cannot get a handle on the tug of war for your attention, your future is at risk! The truth is, you will always be bombarded by more information, more...
•The Power Of A Timely No
One of my private coaching clients had an epiphany this week.
It took place because Scott had changed his schedule, changed his pattern, and stopped what he was doing to join me in a conversation outside the bounds of his To Do list for the week.
The only reason he was available for his own revelation was that he said Yes to changing his pattern and making time to meet with me.
For many business owners, professionals and entrepreneurs, your workload has you so inundated that you simply...
•Hop Skip or Jump Your Way to Entrepreneurial Success
I've mentored a quite a few already-successful entrepreneurs over the years. To folks holding jobs inside businesses, these business owners appear to be a breed apart. I say 'appear' because you may think all entrepreneurs fall into a single unique category and can be considered 'successful' for making that choice. You'd be wrong and there's a lesson in how to create your High Payoff results by understanding what distinguishes them.
You've heard me say that I'm all about getting my clients...
•Is It Time To Reset Your Business
? When is 'too much to do' finally enough? I mean enough to have you reach out and slap your personal and business 'reset' button?
I was working with my client, Brenda, last month when she looked me dead in the eye and said There's no way to get out from under this list of what I need to get done.
We could have gone on and on about prioritizing her lists, rank ordering them by fit with her strategy or sorting by the highest payoff at the bottom line. She could have found relief by delegating...
•Fear Is NOT A Growth Strategy
Businesses are not built on fear - they're built on optimism.
Moreover - the companies that succeed, that thrive, and that last over time are those run by people who can separate out the noise from the naysayers chatter and locate the opportunities that surface.
As Amy C. Crosper, Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur magazine puts it, It's bad enough that Detroit is wheezing and Rome is burning and all hell has broken loose, but what's worse is that the situation is making normally rational...
•Which Of These 3 Business Management Mistakes Are YOU Making
? In the same way that kids will gravitate to their favorite games at recess - the average business owner cannot resist making the same mistakes over and over again.
I was reminded of that habit we all share as I sat across the desk from one of my clients this past week. I'll call him Fred. He's the owner of a multimillion dollar business who came to me to get coached on how to get different results from his management team.
I have to admit that I love the clients I draw - they're forward...
•4 Keys to Ending the Entrepreneurial Aloneness Blues
How do you fight off the blues?
The blues I'm speaking of are the entrepreneurial 'aloneness' blues.
I've found myself guiding several of my clients this past week as they sort this out. Their aloneness stems from immersing themselves whole heartedly in their passion as they create their business. They have a clear Vision for what they want to achieve, and they're stellar at keeping their attention on the goal.
My client new Mark commented that he realized he'd built a business model that...
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