Why Business Teams Fail & How to Avoid It : Strong Leadership Skills For Employee Engagement & High Performance

Success

Are You Satisfied with Your Level of Success?

Today I AM going to limit our discussion to a single topic – it just happens that this single topic is VERY BROAD and VERY HARD TO DEFINE.  But it is exactly what we are all striving to achieve – SUCCESS.

Converting Leads Into Customers

How Good is Your Team at Converting Leads into New Customers?

This week I want to focus on the front wheel of your bike – your ability to Win New Customers.  This is perhaps the biggest challenge that most business owners face in their business, I thought it might be worth addressing once again.

The Gap to your Ideal Future

What Is Holding You Back from Your Ideal Future? 

To be honest, we could all benefit by spending a bit more of our time thinking about what we want our ideal future to look like.  Far too often, as a business owner, your focus is on the here and now.

The only thing that is holding you back from the Ideal Future you are dreaming about is determining what needs to be worked on, setting some priorities, focusing your actions and setting an aggressive deadline.

Learning from Cycling Teams

What Could we Learn from Watching Professional Cycling Teams Compete?

I’m not sure if you’ve ever paid attention to a professional cycling team, but I’ve spent MANY hours watching, observing and analyzing what they do and thinking about why they do it.  The more I watch, the more I see things that I think EVERYONE in business should be doing – even if their business has NOTHING to do with cycling or any kind of sport.

Applying Profit First to Your Business

Are You Using the Concepts of Profit First in Your Business?

Most business owners I meet run their businesses in the traditional way. And by “traditional” I mean they look at their business and think about their business from their CPA’s or bookkeeper’s point of view.

But there is a different way to think about your business finances. And I believe it’s a BETTER way for a business owner to think about their financials – and that’s the PROFIT FIRST way.

Aligning Performance With Rewards

Are Your Rewards Programs Aligned with Your Performance Expectations?

Today I want to talk about ALIGNMENT as it relates to your business.  Just like the wheels on your car or your spine, if your rewards programs aren’t in alignment with your performance expectations, you won’t get the kind of results and great performance that you need or should expect.

Re-Igniting Your Passion

How Fired Up Are You about Your Business Right Now?

No matter your situation, we ALL find ourselves questioning our resolve from time to time.  Somedays we ARE Fired Up and other days we couldn’t light a fire if our life depended on it!

So what should you do and how should you react?  That's what we're going to address here today.

The Power of Positivity

Are Your Team Members ENTHUSIASTIC about Serving Your Customers?

We decide every day whether we’re going to show up with a POSITIVE attitude or a NEGATIVE attitude.  And how we show up sets the tone and the expectation for how our TEAM shows up.

Your job, as the business owner, is to inspire, display and demonstrate how a POSITIVE approach wins over a neutral or negative approach.

Establishing Vendor Standards

Do Your Vendors and Suppliers Know and Respect Your Performance Standards?

As more and more businesses narrow their focus to become “experts” in one specific thing, they often times make the decision to “outsource” some of their non-core activities.  The idea is that by not having to do EVERYTHING, they can get REALLY GOOD at the one or two things that they can become EXPERTS in.

Anyone and everyone who engages with your prospects and customers should be living up to YOUR standards.  It’s one of the big benefits of owning your own business.  Don’t leave this to chance.

Providing Performance Feedback

Do You Focus More Time and Attention Helping Your Team Get Better or Identifying Where They are Falling Short?

This week I want to focus on a pet peeve I have with many business owners and senior leaders – how we perceive our role in providing performance feedback.