Work Smarter Not Harder and Fast Track Your Business

There is one challenge that I see that keeps popping up for organizations that hold them and their teams back from achieving more. Are your employees having a hard time keeping up with how rapidly your business is growing? If your team is struggling to handle the capacity of work that comes from scaling your business, I'm going to suggest to you a few strategies to help them to keep pace with your organizational growth. If you've noticed that projects seem to be falling through the cracks, the more work that your business has, this is a great thing for your business but not so good with the things that are falling through the cracks, right? I suggest to don't be too hard on your employees because maybe it might just be very hard and difficult to adjust to the growth of the heavier capacity of the work that they now have. Instead of cracking down on them, you need to focus on being heavy on accountability. If your employees are missing deadlines or aren't completing

  How do you create an automatic business that runs without you? This is not just theory. It comes from guidance, a system, and a commitment from the business owner that they want to work on it. Let's get started with the definition of a Business according to ActionCOACH.  It is a commercial profitable enterprise that works without you - the business owner. You see, when I work with my clients, I get them to just work on one of these areas. Is it a commercial enterprise? Or is it a profitable enterprise that works without you? See, I meet lots of entrepreneurs that want to start, maybe, one, two, or three businesses, and guess what? They all have the same problems. Because the fundamentals are not set up correctly. Commercial means that you're selling something that people value or something that they want to buy. Profitable means that you understand enough about your business finances that you could possibly increase your profits without even increasing your revenue or even l

  Let's start by digging into some of the frameworks that ActionCOACH has to help entrepreneurs understand their real role in business and how to run an automatic business that runs without them. You see, as a small and medium-sized enterprise, what is your product? Is it the food that you serve? Or the service that you sell? We say that your product is actually your business, and the only reason that you would want to build a business is to eventually sell it. Now some of you I think might disagree but some of you might decide to franchise it. Well, that's selling. Some of you might decide to bring in new shareholders and that's selling it, partially. Some of you might want to sell it all together and then again, some of you might want to go IPO with this business. The essence is that the name of the game in owning a business is “How can I further expand my wealth by using other people's money?” Whether it's expanding my business or selling it or building other bu

  Today, we're going to talk about how we can improve the quality of life and businesses for small and medium-sized enterprises right here in North Florida and beyond. ActionCOACH is a globally proven system that I want to talk to you about and how we could really work for you and your business, to provide a different way of guidance and support for your businesses and really other small and medium-sized Enterprises right here in the North Florida area. You see, 80% of small and medium-sized businesses closed their doors within 5 years. That's pretty sad, isn't it? But why is this? Because many of the small and medium-sized business owners just burnt out. They're not getting enough results. And this is not the dream that they had. And so they had to close their doors and they had to try to maybe go into another business or go back to work for other people. This is why we have to bring a different way or a different kind of business education and business guidance to t

  I keep hearing the same thing out there these days. From business owners and managers, it's all over the media. You might even be asking it yourself. It's really simple. I keep hearing it. It is “ I just can't get good people. " And you know what? You're probably right. The US Department of Labor reports that two out of three new hires proved to be a mistake within the first year, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars for each departing employee. Hiring mistakes negatively impact your productivity and erode your company's profits. If you can't find good people, what I'm going to suggest is let's change the question. “ How can I get THEM to find ME? ” Jim Collins, landmark study and book “Good to Great” states three things. He says: Good to Great Leaders Understood Three Simple Truths. (1) If you begin with WHO rather than WHAT, you can more easily adapt to this changing world. (2) If you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to

  So does your business have a soul? It might sound like a really strange question, but I believe really that every business has a soul and really more specifically, every business should have a soul. For good or for worse, I believe each of us has a soul that really makes us unique. He makes us who we are. Because, you know, if we were all the same life would be pretty boring and get pretty boring very quickly. When I'm talking about uniqueness here, I'm not referring to your company's USP, your unique selling proposition. This uniqueness goes really much deeper. It's really to the core of your company's values and its culture. Your team is the key to creating a more valuable business. See, you don’t grow your business, your team does. Really selecting team members that really have very similar values and that are aligned to your values is really the key. That's the thing that really makes a difference. If you think about it, about all the people that you had t

  I'd like to share with you the Circle of Success for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners because you see, at the top of the circle in the diagram is YOU - the business owner, the business leader. You know, when we got into the business we were so excited. We started building up our business and we were selling and we were talking to more people and we were just doing and we were doing and we were doing and doing it… And we just got exhausted, we ran out of time. So what do we have to do? We have to go back and restart hiring employees to pick up the slack and to cover all the things that we just couldn't get to. We were just spending all of our time now in the business. We were dealing with our customers. We are trying to work with our team. We were trying to get them to do things right the first time, trying to get them to be problem solvers without having  to come and ask us about every little thing. What was really happening in our business is one really simple word to descr

  One challenge I hear a lot from business owners is around struggling to get people right now and that makes total a lot of sense. With everything that has happened, recruitment is now harder than usual. We now have more people starting their own businesses. You have people still on government subsidies. You got people who've changed jobs. And so we got a bunch of business owners out there hunting for new people. Here are 5 strategies that I've found over the years that have helped especially when you're in times where there's high employment. It is an employee market. Recruiting is NOT going to get any easier. But these 5 strategies will help you to navigate this new employee recruitment landscape. The first thing you have to consider is that hiring people is no longer just about running an ad. It's really about a full marketing blitz. You have to consider all sorts of things: referrals, where you're placing the ad, how you can get the ad shared on social

The Power of the Point. This is the point where success and failure meet. This point is the point deep inside us. This is the point of our motivation, where our decisions to choose come from. We are talking about people taking responsibility and accountability for their life and business, and taking ownership of the situation they find themselves in. Most people aren’t really aware of the way most people operate. The point is pretty simple. We can either add to or drain this point. When our actions and decisions drain our energy and that of those around us, we are lying in bed while opportunities pass us by. This bed is made up of our blaming, our excuses, and our denial. I'm sure you've met some people that live in this space a little bit of their time. If you think about it, it's easy to blame other people for the circumstances that our choices put us in, people will find anybody and every one the blame. This could be the government to their competitors, to their mo