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Is your team healthy and aligned? (10 questions)
I am just back from presenting "Scaling Up Your People for Growth" two times last week-- one to a startup incubator and once for the Scaling Up Workshop in Niagara on the Lake with established growing companies. (Take a look below for a short summary of the "People"...
8 Benefits of Dashboards for your business
I have an important question for you ... How is your business doing? Can you tell me if you are having a "good" year or a "bad" year? If you can only check your bank balance or ask your accountant, you are flying blind... this is not enough...
Can your business handle 25% more revenue?
“More companies die from indigestion than starvation.” - Dave Packard, Hewlett Packard You might be surprised to know that I speak to business owners every month who want to grow 25% next year, but they don’t have a plan to get the sales or handle the extra work....
4 Essential Plans for Predictable Successful Business Growth
If you want to "grow" your business 20% or more in the next year... what is your plan to make it happen? Do you have an achievable sales plan? Great! Now: What about a People Plan to handle the additional work and keep your...
21 Questions to Rate Your Hiring Process
It's a candidates' market ... 50-90% of small businesses report "few or no qualified applicants" apply to their advertising [NFIB December 2018]. Yes we get it-- highest employment in the US in decades, lowest unemployment rates, 30 million shortage in skilled...
11 Common mistakes in your recruiting practices
Description is too short or BORING-- if it sounds corporate or not interesting most people will not apply Not tracking and evaluating your results (such as measuring your cost per application /candidate by paid advertising source) Posting your jobs with the same ad at...
Which Do You Want- a Culture of Results or Culture of Caring?
If you are looking to increase your organization’s performance in a positive way, you might choose to shift your culture to include characteristics from both Results and Caring.
Part 2- Why Aren’t You Finishing Projects?
Is it time to focus and finish your projects for this quarter? Before you answer, click here to read my article from two weeks ago-- "Why Aren't You Finishing Projects (Part 1)." Here are my thoughts on "Why Aren't You Finishing Projects - Part 2": The main answer...
Part 1 – Why Aren’t You Finishing Projects?
You, small business manager, want to improve things. I will bet dollars to Freddy’s Famous Buffalo donuts that you have a "wish list" of projects you want to implement, and you have started some of them. Yet your office (and mine) is littered with books unread,...
Step 6 of 6 to Coach for Accountability – Be Consistent
The most important step in bringing accountability to your team -- be Consistent! If you don't "inspect what you expect" ... then some things will get done, but many will be forgotten. One of the most persistent complaints I hear from employees of small business is...
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