Posts by Dave Baney
Goals are a Great thing?
Setting goals gives you that feeling of accomplishment and the ability to check another item off your list. It is also a crucial part of business, helping us to keep track and measure our progress. But when you think about reaching those goals does it include an actual reward? Research has shown us that more…
READ MORE...4 Steps to Improve Your Performance in 2021
With today’s speed of change, if you aren’t looking and moving forward, you are quickly falling behind. Even though 2020 is almost ¾ complete, now is a great time to be looking forward to 2021 and how you want to improve upon your 2020 goals and performance (so you don’t fall behind your competition). If…
READ MORE...The 10 Steps to Acquire Top Talent
There are three challenges I consistently see plaguing employers during the hiring process: How to maximize the talent caliber of the people they hire for positions in their company How to accelerate acquiring top candidates The cost of acquisition The most important factor is your company’s attitude toward acquiring top talent. When I refer to attitude,…
READ MORE...Building Your Company’s Value
Building for exit (a.k.a. enterprise) value optimization is a great way to build a highly valuable business regardless of your interest in selling it or not someday. Here is a relatively comprehensive list of areas to address in priority order to optimize exit value and build a healthy and thriving company. Things that drive exit value: Reduce…
READ MORE...Get Sales Strategy In Place….NOW!
In order to have an effective sales staff and successful sales numbers within your company, requires a very intentional and meticulous undertaking. Your company needs a sales strategy that you and your salespeople can implement time and time again that will generate abundant business ventures. It is not easy to turn these plans into action…
READ MORE...Company Must Have: Big Hairy Audacious Goal!
We all know that goals are vital for everyone; one thing that sets an outstanding company apart from the others is the way they set objectives. Great companies set great goals. James Collins and Jerry Porras wrote in their book ‘Built to Last’, about BHAG, which stands for ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal’. A BHAG is…
READ MORE...10 Key Leadership Skills to Learn For 2020
You might be an expert in your field or even the smartest person in the room — but that’s no guarantee of success! As a leader, you need a set of skills that are compatible with the changing times and increasing obligations of your business. There is no crystal ball to help you predict what…
READ MORE...How to Increase Accountability
“Without accountability, teamwork breaks down” The coach does not even need to get involved. Each player knows their job and so do their teammates. If someone fails, they know it and so does everyone else. It is not unusual for someone to apologize to the other team members when they fail to be in their…
READ MORE...The Power of your Brand Promise
What is your brand’s promise? Not your brand’s slogan, logo, package, or image…those aren’t promises, they are marketing tools. Your brand promise is everything a brand is, everything it does, everything it stands for, and every way it affects the life of your customer. A strong brand promise is one that connects your purpose, your…
READ MORE...Do You Know the Power of One?
Sometimes it is the little things that can make a huge difference. What would happen if you could just lose one pound per month? In just 3 years you could go from 200 pounds to 165 pounds, without any major diet or crazy lifestyle change. Just some focus and a few minor tweaks to eating…
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