Posts Tagged ‘Goals’
Are You Having a Good Day?
If you ask most people “Are you having a good day?” they will have some method, no matter how arbitrary or factual, to provide an answer that they are in fact having a good, mediocre or bad day. If you ask employees at most companies “Are you having a good day?” they have some method…
READ MORE...Are your managers Coaches?
It is said that employees don’t leave companies, they leave mangers and I believe that. We have all known this for a while. Lately I have been asking people how they were first trained to be a manager. The most common answer is “I wasn’t”. Most of us began managing people the way we wanted…
READ MORE...Personal Strategic Direction Questions
Ask yourself the following questions, remember to be honest with yourself when answering. When you have finished writing your answer read them. Is that the life you want? If so, go after it. How important is balance of life? How do you balance personal and business life? If you had unlimited resources (money, time, people)…
READ MORE...…We’re Having a Great Year!
A few months ago, many companies and many industries suffered tremendous losses of customers, sales and profits. Many, but not all companies and industries have bounced back, if not all the way back, at least well on their way. But not necessarily all companies in those industries…Why? What we need to realize is that, customers…
READ MORE...Gaining Time
Time management is a skill that takes time to develop and perfect. It’s also is a skill that is different for everyone. If you’re like a lot of people you spend your days in a frenzy of activity but achieve very little because you are not concentrating on the right things. As an entrepreneur, you…
READ MORE...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...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...Could this be your holiday wish list or New Year’s resolution?
The month of December is always an interesting time. Form some it is a frantic, hectic time, trying to get projects or money leftover from the budget spent. For others it is a quiet time, one of reflection and planning for the year ahead. At the start of each year most individuals create a list…
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