Archive for Better Management
06.06.08
Posted in Better Management at 8:57 pm by admin
It happens easily.
You’re conducting a meeting and suddenly a small side meeting starts. Then two side meetings develop. Soon you have many meetings going at once, and all of them are out of control.
Or maybe someone introduces an unrelated issue. Someone else ridicules the new issue. Everyone laughs, except the person who mentioned the idea. Then someone insults the person who told the joke. Two people stand up and walk out. Others complain that the meeting is a waste of time.
So, how do you prevent things like this from happening?
Or how do you bring your meeting back on track?
Let’s begin with basic strategies for dealing with unproductive behavior in meetings.
Respect other people.
Always treat others with respect, even if they are doing things that seem wrong. Their “bad” behavior could be based on many things, such as a lack of skill, a misunderstanding, or a response to a threat. It could also be a simple mistake. Or maybe they’re expressing an indirect warning, complaint, or cry of pain. If you respond with disrespect, such as with a counterattack, you will make a bad situation worse. They will either retreat, which means they stop contributing to your meeting, or they will retaliate, which can escalate to an argument that ruins your meeting.
Ask questions.
Use questions to find out what is really happening. For example, if someone introduces a new issue, respond by saying, “That sounds interesting, and I wonder how that relates to what we are working on.” Notice that this is a neutral, gentle question. It is not a trick question like, “What are your trying to do, ruin my meeting?” and it is not a command like, “Hey, stick to the topic.” Hostile responses are bad because they put the other person in an awkward position, which always ruins cooperation.
Focus on the behavior.
Your goal is to hold an effective meeting — not teach lessons. If you attempt to punish people, through admonitions, ridicule, or threats, you will make enemies. In the short term, that can ruin the effectiveness of your meeting, and in the long term it can ruin your career. So, when unproductive behavior appears in your meeting, talk about the behavior. For example, if a side conversation starts, you could say, “We seem to have more than one meeting going on now, and that’s preventing us from working on the budget.”
Apply diplomatic courage.
Leaders project strength and confidence; losers project negativity and fear. Detach from the behavior that seems bothersome, realizing it is simply something that the other person is doing. Assume that there is no personal intent to hurt you. Just talk about what is happening and ask for what you want to happen as shown in the above paragraph.
Show what you expect.
Be a model of effective meeting behavior. If it is your meeting, or if you hold a leadership role in your organization, realize that others regard you as the standard for their actions. If you arrive on time for meetings, others will interpret this to mean that they should come to your meetings on time. If you make positive, appropriate contributions in meetings, others will infer that this is what you expect from them.
Apply these strategies to make your meetings effective.
This is the first of a seven part article on Managing Monsters in Meetings.
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Steve Kaye helps leaders hold effective meetings. He is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator, author, and speaker. His meeting facilitation and leadership workshops create success for everyone. Call 714-528-1300 for details. Visit www.stevekaye.com for a free report.
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05.28.08
Posted in Better Management at 3:38 am by admin
Alistair clearly knew his subject - but what was frightening him was the thought of the major presentation that he was going to be making in a month’s time.
Sheepishly, he acknowledged that he had managed to avoid making presentations in the past - choosing instead to delegate the task to his assistant manager.
But on this occasion, his assistant was working on a two month contract abroad - leaving Alistair with little choice but to get to grips with his fear of standing up in front of two hundred people for an hour.
Firstly, I asked Alistair to describe the emotions he was feeling regarding the prospect of making the presentation. Not surprisingly, he said that he felt overwhelming fear - particularly at the thought of making a fool of himself.
I spoke briefly with Alistair about the sub-conscious mind - and pointed out that its role as a “slave” meant that it would tend to deliver whatever Alistair spent his time thinking about.
By focusing on fear and the thought of making a fool of himself, Alistair was actually asking his sub-conscious mind to make this a reality for him. I cited the example of a client of mine who insisted that every Christmas he would come down with a cold.
Alistair’s eyes lit up with dawning comprehension when I pointed out that my client actually had no need for a cold each Christmas, but that because he believed he would have one, he was effectively programming his mind to produce a cold for him.
What Alistair needed was more than just positive thinking. I asked him to describe how he physically knew that he was experiencing fear. He explained that he felt his throat constricting and his stomach had “butterflies”.
I enquired whether he enjoyed roller coaster rides at fun fairs - and Alistair vigorously nodded and smiled. He acknowledged that before a ride he felt a great sense of anticipation and excitement.
“And how do you physically experience anticipation and excitement?” I asked. Again, Alistair replied that he experienced both emotions physically as throat constriction and butterflies in his stomach.
It wasn’t hard for Alistair to make the connection between the physical sensations that he was experiencing and the labels that he was giving them. After employing a few Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques with him, Alistair was soon able to envisage his forthcoming presentation with a sense of anticipation and excitement.
Finally, I asked him to spend ten minutes each morning and evening focusing on his giving a brilliant presentation - and to imagine the elation he would experience when everyone started clapping at the end of the event, perhaps even giving him a standing ovation!
© Olivia Stefanino 2004
Olivia Stefanino is a leadership development consultant and excecutive coach, who works with blue chip organisations, SMEs and individuals. To find out more - and to download your free e-booklet “128 ways to harness your personal power”, visit http://www.beyourownguru.com
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05.25.08
Posted in Better Management at 6:54 am by admin
The business in the 21st century is far from what it was 200+ years ago. Centuries ago business was mainly traditional. With people or organizations trading goods with other parties for their goods. Now business is fast. The “Global Village” is becoming smaller and smaller. There is a science to running a business. It involves entrepreneurial skills, and the ability to take risks. A major part in running a business is making sure it is efficient. Weather you run your business traditionally or on the information super highway (the internet); it is critical that it be run economically.
Economics involves the way you use your resources. It involves knowing your business’s limits and knowing how to push sales or production to its maximum. Many owners fail to realize the importance of knowing your business’s limits and how to push those limits outwards.
One of the key ways to run your business economically is to understand the numbers behind the receipts and bills. A strong understanding of how money works and the way it relates to a business is important. To achieve this you must keep up to date and have accurate records. A strong knowledge of accounting is very important. Understanding the numbers involved in the business will show you how one decision affects another and what must be done to achieve a particular result.
It is also important to understand how your resources go to work. Placing all your resources and capital in one product, or selling will affect another. For example if you sell books and videos on your website, and you place all your effort, skills and marketing towards selling videos, your book sales will significantly decrease.
Finding a common ground is important. Or placing 100% of your resources into selling one product will make you more efficient and productive when selling that product. For example websites such as www.boxingglobal.com specialize in information about boxing but have a little side focus on other sports. If this website focused on providing information equally the product will not be as rich. Finding a common ground is very important.
A major source of running a business economically is the use of labor. Labor can be defined as any work that is either physical or mental. For you to be economical about your business, you need to make sure your labor (weather it be just you or hundreds of employees) is highly motivated. You need to set goals and reward your labor for work and results.
In economics it is understood that a business can only achieve so much profit. There will be a point where you just can’t earn any more money. For example if you own a local barber shop don’t expect to earn millions of dollars.
For you to reach a point that is beyond your economic limit, you must expand. Economists generally have three major categories to choose from in order to expand your earning limit. This is through labor, resources, and capital.
Labor as I explained above can be both physical and mental. Acquiring a larger or more skilled labor force will push your earning boundary further out. Work and the quality of it will defiantly help your business.
Resources include factors such as the people you know, the places you know, and how close and easily attainable something is. For example if you know Bill Gates, that is a huge resource to have.
The final Major factor is Capital. Capital includes: money, equipment, buildings, or anything that can be considered an asset. Capital maybe the most important of the three resources because, what you put into your business increases the probability that it will be successful.
Every one of the above three categories can then be multiplied into numerous categories. But the above three are very important to expand in order to increase the production possibilities of your business. Keep caution through that expanding too fast in a category will result negatively. The key is to expand slow and steady.
Business’s need to run economically. The decisions you make will directly affect the development of your business. You need to understand how to run a business efficiently and how you will manage your labor, resources and capital.
By: Mark Jacobs
Mark Jacobs is a professional website promoter, promoting sites such as http://www.boxingglobal.com
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04.24.08
Posted in Better Management at 12:51 pm by admin
Before you are going to do something, there is nothing as sensible as goal planning. A plan as we know it is something thought about and chalked out in advance before the real action takes place and is actually a recipe for success. Pretty good definition, huh? I made it up myself.
But then, the word ‘plan’ does not need much of a definition. It has been used so much that it has become quite hackneyed. So, we all know what it means, but how many of us really resort to planning before we start a course of action.
No, I’m not referring to a mental picture that we chart out in our minds that is in one word, vague. I mean a real plan in black and white, that is, put down on a piece of paper. Please do not underestimate the importance of a written down plan. Once we write down something it clears up a lot of hazy areas and opens aspects that we probably overlooked.
And the most important of all is that with a plan and only with a plan can we get a rough estimate at least, of how much time the course of action would take. Plans should always be time bound and there we get the relation between time management and planning. In fact, planning is as fundamental to time management as organizing and prioritizing. The advantages of planning are given below.
The advantages of planning
- Planning helps us to have a better idea about the course of action that we propose to take.
- Planning better defines the course of action that we propose to undertake.
- Planning gives a rough estimate of the time required for a project.
- Planning gives us a fairly good idea about the expenses involved in the project. In fact a budget is also a plan, a financial plan.
- Planning helps us to get prepared for emergencies that may arise during the course of the project.
- A well though about plan gives us a clear idea about what is to be done every day, every week and every month.
- Planning helps avoid duplication of labor.
- If a plan is followed, every one will have a clear idea about his or her role.
A point that I would like to add while we are talking about planning is, we should have both short term plans as well as long term strategy plans. At the same time we should also try to draft out contingency plans to deal with a crisis if it arises. There are lots of good free planning resources online. Just try a search and you’ll have a long list of sites to choose from.
I thought it would be useful for you to have a brief overview of the different steps involved in planning.
The steps in planning are
- Set objectives
- Assess you present situation
- Survey your alternatives
- Decide on the course of action
- Provide for control
- Implement the plan
But whatever be the plan, I again want to stress the point that a plan should always be time bound. As the project moves along, the plan should be flexible in the sense that it should incorporate any changes that might prove necessary once the project is put into action.
Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet publisher. He runs the website 1st-Self_Improvement.net Terje is a Sociologist who enjoys contributing to the personal growth and happiness of others. He tries to accomplish this by writing about self help issues from his own experience and knowledge. For example, successful self improvement goal accomplishment and relationship success.
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04.22.08
Posted in Better Management at 3:58 pm by admin
“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my
instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
Statistics predict that about 45% of you are setting up your
goals and resolutions for the New Year. Unfortunately, in six
months 46% of the 45% will have lost contact with those
resolutions.
It is part of our human nature to be ever evolving, setting
goals, and heading towards something. It is a wonder to me
that there are so many people helping so many people
accomplish what they want to do. You’d think it would be
easier than that.
What really gets in the way? After 30 years of working with
people to help them get where they want to go, I find that the
number one reason that people don’t get what they say they
want is that they just don’t take action. Not enough action.
Not inspired action. Not prolonged action. Not considered
action. Not informed action.
We live a lot of our life in our heads. Visualization and
imagery are important parts of goal attainment. But when
you spend more time visualizing, imagining and thinking
about your goals, resolutions and intentions than you do
carrying them out, that is pretty much where they are likely to
stay - in your head.
It is true that you can not make something happen by forcing
it into manifestation. So action designed to manipulate
results hardly ever works. And you have very little direct
control on the results of your actions. All you can be
committed to is taking the inspired action and regulating
your relationship with the actions you take.
The reason that people don’t take action is because they
really prefer what they are doing now or they definitely don’t
like the action that is needed to get the results they want.
Sure we would like the results to already be in place. But we
are just not that keen on doing the things to bring about
those results.
What you are doing now and the life you are living now are
perfectly aligned to give you the results that you have now. If
you want something different you have to do something
different. This is so obvious that we tend to let it slip by us
without really grasping its meaning. The more truthful we
are with ourselves the more we will notice that things
around us are not changing because we are not changing. If
we want the results around us to fundamentally change, we
have to fundamentally change and take fundamentally
different actions than we are taking now.
If you want radically new results (not just a rehash of the
same old same old), you have to take radically new actions.
And for most of us, radically new actions are scary.
So, what to do…?
The short answer is to just do something - anything -
radically different. It would be nice if it is an inspired radical
action that has something to do with your intended goal. But
even if the radical new action does not seem to be directly
connected to your intended goal - try it anyhow.
Doing anything radically different is like a passport to a New
World where there is a new you waiting. Take a calculated
risk. A strategic chance. A considered tactic. Don’t hurt
yourself - don’t gamble away everything in one play. But do
take a leap.
You can not travel to a New World if you are taking the same
old train every day. Be bold. Be outrageous. Get used to
being scared and feeling out of place and just do something
radically new.
Some radical new actions for 2006:
- Run for public office
- Submit a book proposal
- Ask your sweetheart to marry you
- Apply to go on the Amazing Race
- Audition at a Broadway theater
- Become a news reporter
- Find out if you have food allergies
- Take a Vision Quest
- Start a magazine
- Go back to school
- Get the best lipid profile you have ever had
- Find out if you have adrenal stress
- Start eating fresh food
- Get a handle on your brain chemistry
- Volunteer at your local Habitat for Humanity
Or some other radically, outrageous action calling to you. Be
bold. Be brave. Be radically different this year and see what
shows up.
“Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is
not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the
stairs.”
-Vaclav Havel
Mary Ann Copson is the creator of the Evenstar Mood
and Energy Management System for Women. With
Master’s Degrees in Human Development and in
Psychology and Counseling, Mary Ann is a Certified
Licensed Nutritionist, a Certified Holistic Health
Practitioner, a Brain Chemistry Profile Clinician, a
Professional Life Coach and Human Development
Consultant. For resources about reconnecting to your
natural rhythms through better management of your
physical, emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual
energy visit http://evenstaronline.com
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04.18.08
Posted in Better Management at 12:21 pm by admin
Many of us get so caught up in day-to-day pressures that we often find ourselves reacting to external demands rather than designing lives that really fulfill us. While in today’s economic environment we face many stresses in our jobs, it is still possible to create balance between our work and personal lives. The following are some ideas to help you do just that:
Determine What is Important to You - When we don’t know what is important to us, it is very easy to let external demands determine our actions. The result can be that we feel our lives have lost their purpose. When we know what really matters to us (i.e., career, family, friends, health), these critical areas become the barometer against which our decisions are made. For instance, if you feel that being with your family is important, you might decide to cut back on some of your professional meetings so you can spend more time at home.
Define Acceptable Performance Levels - Contrary to what many of us super achievers believe, not everything we do needs to be done perfectly. Sometimes ‘okay’ is good enough. Choose those things where excellence is the only acceptable standard and then decide which tasks can be less than perfect. When I attend certain meetings, my associates laugh when they see my binder with its massive amounts of paper sticking out from all ends. I shove whatever pertains to the meeting into the binder so I can pull it out when I need it. Could I be more organized? Absolutely, but the extra effort is not worth it to me. However, when it comes to getting my programs ready, I am meticulously organized. I write notes for everything I need and check off each item after I place it in the appropriate folder. Before I leave for an event, I triple-check to be sure I have everything. When it comes to my programs, I only accept excellent performance. With other things, I am willing to cut myself some slack.
Combine Activities - Is it possible to combine activities so you are able to enjoy two or more important aspects of your life at the same time? My best friend is a business owner. Each week we meet for lunch and discuss ways to make our businesses more successful. On Saturdays, my husband and I go to the gym together. We enjoy each other’s company while we get our bodies into shape. Combining activities saves time and allows you to meet multiple goals with reduced stress.
Meditate and Exercise Regularly - You may think that you cannot possibly fit meditation and exercise into your already overcrowded schedule. However, taking time to meditate and exercise on a regular basis can do much to reduce your stress and improve your productivity. Studies have proven that people who exercise regularly are usually more creative than those that don’t move much. This means that their ability to find creative solutions to their challenges is enhanced. They also have the energy to do the work that is required. Meditation also increases energy and creativity and reduces stress levels. The few minutes it takes to engage in these activities will pay big dividends.
Delegate, Delegate, Delegate - Think about all of the things you do. Which of those activities can be delegated to others? Are there team members who would gain important skills by taking on some of the tasks that you are now doing? If so, give them the opportunity to learn by delegating the tasks to them. Can your family members help you with certain activities? I used to make every dish for our holiday meals. Now other people help create the dinner by bringing something that they have cooked. We get to sample a variety of foods and I have the time and energy to enjoy my guests.
Learn to Say No - Just because someone asks you to do something, does not mean you have to say yes. I realize this is more difficult to do in your job or business, but we can often assert our power of no in our personal lives. If someone asks you to do something, think about whether or not you can really handle the extra pressure at this time. If you can and you want to do it, then say yes. If it will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, then answer with a guilt-free no. Do those things that are important to you and bring joy into your life.
So as you continually try to balance the various aspects of your life, refer to these ideas. They can help you gain greater control and allow you to feel more fulfilled in whatever you are doing.
About The Author
Della Menechella is a speaker, author, and trainer who inspires people to achieve greater success from the inside out. She is a contributing author to Thriving in the Midst of Change and the author of the videotape The Twelve Commandments of Goal Setting. She can be reached at della@dellamenechella.com. Subscribe to free Peak Performance Pointers e-zine - send blank e-mail to mailto:subscribe@dellamenechella.com.
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03.30.08
Posted in Better Management at 10:44 am by admin
Have you ever watched an old-fashioned delicatessen counterman or woman work?
For one thing, they work fast.
And unless you find them during a rare moment of leisure, they’re strictly business. When one transaction is finished, they’ll say, “Next?”
If the customer they’ve called is off somewhere, chatting or not paying attention, a second later and that word comes flying out again: “Next!”
One transaction is done and all attention is paid to you guessed it, the one coming up.
This, as I see it, is a beautiful Zen metaphor, a reminder that when you give everything to what is happening NOW, you get the payoff called the “pleasantness of presentness.”
It’s essential we do this, whether we’re in sales, customer service, management, and especially in the mechanical arts, such as school bus driving or flying planes. The past is interesting, and it may even contain lessons, but we’ll get to those in the future, when we can give over our entire consciousness to them.
But NOW, we need to address the things relevant to what is in front of us.
Sellers, especially when the next prospect pops up in front of them, as on the phone, have to wipe away vestiges of the last one, especially if it was negative.
Service people can’t blame all customers, or make this one atone for the sins of the last.
And drivers and pilots can’t spend a second considering the debris that they just avoided. Once it’s in the rearview, it must stay there.
So, how do we stay in the here and now?
(1) Take one deep breath between transactions, to remind yourself that the time is NOW.
(2) When you drift, have an image or a thought that you use to refocus. I use the image of a triangle. When I superimpose that on what I’m seeing, I return to NOW.
(3) Don’t hold back or resist fully doing what you’re doing. You can’t be here and now and saying, “I hate this” at the same time. Just do it, without commentary.
And if these don’t help, just say “Next!”
Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone®, You Can Sell Anything By Telephone! and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service, and the audio program, “The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable,” published by Nightingale-Conant. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, a Loyola lawyer, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He holds the rank of Shodan, 1st Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.
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03.19.08
Posted in Better Management at 4:45 pm by admin
Why talk about leadership?”
Leadership is important whether you a leader of a team or are a sole proprietor with no one working for you. Effective leadership is actually a way of thinking, a way to get things done.
Successful entrepreneurs of today MUST possess and exude effective leadership skills!
The best leaders are:
◦Personable, ◦entrepreneurial, ◦ethical, ◦positive, ◦good communicators, ◦work hard, ◦demand excellence, ◦excellent at creative problem solving!
Excellent Leaders:
◦know that the rewards will far outweigh any potential negatives on the road to getting things done!
◦take on the mantra, “If it’s to be, it’s up to me!” Leaders accept FULL 100% accountability and responsibility for everything in their lives!
Below lists some of the differences between the mindset of the mediocre or average entrepreneur and the successful entrepreneur with the LEADERSHIP MINDSET!
Manager mentality (Mindset of the average entrepreneur):
Cope with the complexity of the day
Engage in present tense activity
Do what they are told
Perform to expectations
Hard Working and Analytical
Leaders (Mindset of the successful entrepreneur):
Enact change
Focused on future-tense activities
Involved in what to do
Create Expectations
Visualize a purpose
Are Imaginative and creative
Passionate about what they do
Are risk takers
Now let’s compare their attitudes toward goals.
Manager mentality (Mindset of the average entrepreneur):
Impersonal attitudes toward goals
Identify goals based on need
Tend to be reactive
Successful entrepreneur with leader mentality:
Personal attitude toward goals
Active envisioning/promoting their goals
Are proactive
Create the action
Alter the way people think about what is possible
Next differentiating area to look at is how they see themselves (self identity):
Manager mentality (Mindset of the average entrepreneur):
Peaceful life since birth
Social
Successful entrepreneur with leader mentality:
Struggle to find order
Not satisfied with the status quo
Don’t take things for granted
Seek change
Focusing on personal mastery in their own lives
So, which of the above attributes can you relate better to? Actually the ones we called those qualities of a mediocre entrepreneur are those of a manager. Managers are good at maintaining the status quo and add stability to companies, but unfortunately don’t make for successful entrepreneurs. Leaders and successful entrepreneurs are good at stirring people’s emotions, raising their expectations, and taking them in new directions!
As an entrepreneur it is up to you to ensure that you exude effective management traits when necessary. And that you exude effective leadership skills ALWAYS… CONSISTENTLY!! Leaders are the ones who GET THINGS DONE!! As an entrepreneur who is focused on laying the foundation now for an awesome future in your company, it is VERY important that you lead the vision for what your business can achieve. This includes sales goals, customer service levels, marketing initiatives and every aspect of your business.
The best leader entrepreneurs think, “How do my products/services positively affect my clients?”
So what are some steps to becoming OR remaining an effective leader?
1- It all starts with YOUR VISION FOR THE COMPANY! Who would you like to serve? How many clients will you have? Where are your clients? What difference are you making? Etc. Remember, leaders are visionaries! Leaders always have their eyes on what they would like to see in the future! And they make sure that EVERYTHNG they do is in line with that vision. If it is not, they don’t do it!
2- Be a GREAT communicator of the vision! (who you are, what you are all about….) Leaders are excellent communicators and are therefore able to articulate it effectively to others. They know how to get others to listen, be interested and help.
3- Build LOYALTY!! Leaders let others see how hard they work, how sincere they are in their quest to help and serve others, etc. They ask their associates, employees, clients for feedback and then use it to improve. This will definitely build loyalty!
4- Become an expert!! Leaders are seen as experts in their industry!! An expert in helping your clients BEST!! An expert in seeking excellence in all that they do. They speak, write articles and so much more.
5- Proactively create solutions to problems! The words proactive and creative are key! Leaders don’t wait for something to happen… good or bad. They look for and anticipate both good and bad, and try to creatively think of ways through both scenarios. They do not avoid or ignore them, but hit them straight on. Some examples: Let’s say your business usually slows down in the summer. A leader will ahead of time think of ways to ensure business does NOT slow down and begin marketing efforts and the like to incentivise business in the summer. OR, let’s say a client truly needs your product and wants to do business with you, but they are short all of the money needed. You could either lose the business all together or come up with financing options that will keep you whole while allowing the client to come on board.
6- A leader always gathers and shares nformation/resources to help their clients as well as themselves!
7- A leader willingly accepts full accountability 100% of the time!
8- An awesome leader inspects what they expect! They KNOW their business statistics! And do so proactively. When you are in business for yourself, no one is there asking to see the latest report. You need to create your own report. (avg. revenue per customer, income year to date and month to date, trends in their industry, etc.)
9- Servant leadership always wins! There is a fine line to draw between being a pushover and exuding a servant attitude. I encourage you to desire to serve others, help others. Perhaps as a mentor for someone starting out. The successful leaders are servants to their clients, peers and colleagues. They are helpful when they can be, understanding that they are engaging in those things that will also further their business and relationships that will be in line with their vision.
10- An effective leader continually works on growing themselves!! They don’t take the easy way out! They work HARD!!
Always an attitude of hope, can-dowhile keeping your nose to the grind stone and it WILL happen!
Do you have what it takes to be a great awesome leader?
Are you ready to work hard?
And have fun while doing it?
Are you ready to go out of your comfort zone at times and do things that may feel weird to you? Are you ready to be a servant leader?
Are you ready to get your plan together and start your business afresh and put into use many of the items we reviewed today?
I sure hope so!! IT CAN HAPPEN!! Remember, “If it’s to be, it’s up to me!”
If you would like to take advantage of a complimentary coaching session with me, simply email or call me and we can assess how best to move YOU and YOUR business forward!
Janice Copeland, Owner and Founder-Unlimited Growth Potential, 703-727-4155, www.UnlimitedGrowthPotential.com, Janice@UnlimitedGrowthPotential.com ©
Janice M. Copeland, author of 15 No-nonsense Strategies for Women and myriad self help CDs covering topics pertinent to every area of a woman’s life, has over 20 years of combined corporate and entrepreneurial success. Climbing the corporate ladder to a senior level position with responsibility for a team of hundreds taught her many life lessons that she shares readily to her coaching and consulting clients.
She coaches women who are ready for change for the better. Women who know there is more to life available to them, but don’t know how to claim it.
Check out all of her resources geared toward helping busy executive women live more balanced, stress and guilt-free lives with more passion and purpose at http://www.unlimitedgrowthpotential.com or call her at 703-727-4155 and ask her your toughest questions. She looks forward to helping you live a vibrant and meaningful life! Yes, you can do it! (even with kids, laundry, hubby, a pile of dirty dishes and a dog that slobbers :))
(c) 2005
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03.18.08
Posted in Better Management at 5:02 pm by admin
“A wise man will learn everything and a stupid man will learn nothing.”
Learning time management is not as difficult as many believe. In fact, when we first start school we are in the process of learning new strategies that help us obtain goals. When our parents teach us we are, also learning skills needed in time management. The advantage of learning requires the proper training, and since our world constitutes a variety of teachings; this is where time management becomes difficult. The best part reward from learning is learning who we are.
We have our parents, schools, peers, political leaders, newspaper, and many other resources that tell us to do this for best results or do that for best results and all of them differ. Our parents are some of the best teachers in life since most parents care for their children and will help them to see their mistake clearly. Teachers are great also, but everyone was raised differently, which is another subject, for the most part, it does affect how we think and behave. The correct form of managing time is to understand your individuality and what you can handle. If you are struggling, you might be working at a job that over succeeds your ability to function as a person. You might want to find a job that matches your abilities and skills.
Biting off more than you can chew is one of the first steps to the road of failure. If this is true then your time management is out of order. It might be that you are not meeting the demands that are placed on you, but have the ability to accomplish the responsibilities. Regardless, the time management scheme is out of order. We can break time management down according to individualities, but for the most part managing time is the process of handling tasks placed upon us without decreasing our flow of work or succeeding our ability to handle the tasks. We need the ability to alter our plans, since people, places, things, and businesses change.
We need a direct order of skills to make a plan work and need the ability to comply with those plans. We need to learn to accept changes as they come and learn social skills and conditioning in order to manage our time. Changes are accepted through proper punishment and rewards. If we fail to accept a change in life, it might be because rewards or punishment is not in action. When you find your self in a difficult spot and handle it accordingly, a reward is in demand, but if you hit a difficult spot and you fail, punishment is in demand.
Punishment is not harsh; rather it is a form of correcting an action or decision made. This gives us balance if we are correcting our selves when we make bad decisions and rewarding our selves when we make good decisions. It is important that rewards and punishment are positive, since balance is essential in managing time.
Positive Skills
Positive skills lead us to a positive light. When we are balanced and learning our time is spent wisely, which contributes to time management. Another great tool to have in the road to success is motivation. Motivation is achieved in many ways, and some things in life can affect how we feel or think. Some of the things that affect our motivation levels are smoking, caffeine, lack of exercise, overeating, lack of dieting, and having the ability to cope with changes.
To cultivate motivation then we need to treat our minds and body good, and plan to reach our purpose in life. Learning time management is essential for all the things we do in life. From the first day, you came into the world up until the time you went to school you began learning time managing skills in all directions, and mostly you were on the road to learning yourself, which is a priority if you want to set goals for your future. If we do not understand who we are as an individual, we are not learning what it takes to managing our time wisely. Do not waste time get on the learning boat!
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