“Lead as if you’ll be held accountable, because you will.”-Bobby Bowden
Leadership is critical to your business success, your personal freedom and fulfillment, and optimizing the potential of your team. If you don’t lead more and work less, you’ll never be free from the daily grind and technical trenches of your business. Your critical role is leadership, not doer-ship. Improving your leadership effectiveness is a never-ending growth process. Leadership is everything to the success of a business!
If you continue to wear multiple hats in your company, you will continue to be diverted from your primary responsibility … Leading !! A business can rise only to the level of the leader’s effectiveness. As you know, you are 100% responsible for the good, bad and ugly in your business. Leaders create clarity – clarity of vision, direction, goals, focus, expectations, consequences, etc. Leaders also create the right conditions for others to succeed. They get people rowing in the same direction.
Leading others properly is a significant part of the foundation for your freedom and success. Never lose sight of the fact that your primary responsibility as a Strategic Business Owner is LEADING!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Getting Organized And Staying Organized
Organizing is the process by which we create environments that enable us to live, work, and relax exactly as we want to. Julie Morgenstern
One of the challenges that every small business owner deals with is getting organized and staying organized. Being organized has less to do with the way your office looks than how effectively it functions! Your system should reflect your unique personality and style, but it must function efficiently.
Analyze
In order to get organized and stay organized you need to think about how your business and your office functions. Think about your workflow. Think about your paperflow. Think about how information processes through your office. Then think about where every item and every piece of information needs to end up. Look for bottlenecks. Observe where the clutter comes from and why it becomes clutter for you. Then think about how you want your environment to function.
Strategize
If you do a good job of analysis, you will then be able to create a plan of action for the transformation of your office, including a realistic schedule for making it happen. Remember, you have to schedule time to de-clutter and to get organized. But you need a workable system to stay organized.
Implement
Schedule yourself and methodically start sorting and arranging items to reflect the way you think, making sure you see visible results as you work.
Organization is a skill. Some of us are better at it than others. But all of us can improve! If you work at it, you will be more efficient, more effective, and you'll feel better about yourself and your business. If you have staff, they will greatly appreciate it! Make the time to get and stay organized, you'll be glad you did! What action could you take today?
One of the challenges that every small business owner deals with is getting organized and staying organized. Being organized has less to do with the way your office looks than how effectively it functions! Your system should reflect your unique personality and style, but it must function efficiently.
Analyze
In order to get organized and stay organized you need to think about how your business and your office functions. Think about your workflow. Think about your paperflow. Think about how information processes through your office. Then think about where every item and every piece of information needs to end up. Look for bottlenecks. Observe where the clutter comes from and why it becomes clutter for you. Then think about how you want your environment to function.
Strategize
If you do a good job of analysis, you will then be able to create a plan of action for the transformation of your office, including a realistic schedule for making it happen. Remember, you have to schedule time to de-clutter and to get organized. But you need a workable system to stay organized.
Implement
Schedule yourself and methodically start sorting and arranging items to reflect the way you think, making sure you see visible results as you work.
Organization is a skill. Some of us are better at it than others. But all of us can improve! If you work at it, you will be more efficient, more effective, and you'll feel better about yourself and your business. If you have staff, they will greatly appreciate it! Make the time to get and stay organized, you'll be glad you did! What action could you take today?
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