Archive for July 2010

The Secret of Communicating With Every Employee

As a small-to-medium sized company grows, it becomes harder to effectively communicate across the organization. Whether within or between departments, communications must be optimized for organizations to execute at their peak. The key, according to ActionCOACH Marketing Director Jodie Shaw, is to recognize each employee’s preferred style of information exchange.

“Modern personality assessment models [...]

How to Get Your Team to Take More Ownership

Then, lead the way! Ownership means much more than being a legal shareholder. It comes from having an effective attitude, whether you own a business, or work for someone else who does. If you want to achieve different results, you need to change behavior. Before changing behavior, though, first examine your [...]

Leadership Vs. Management: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way.

Leadership is a facet of management:
Leadership is just one of the many assets a successful manager must possess. Care must be taken in distinguishing between the two concepts. The main aim of a manager is to maximise the output of the organisation through administrative implementation. To achieve this, managers must undertake [...]

Breakeven Analysis

Breakeven analysis is a tool used to determine when a business will be able to cover all its expenses and begin to make a profit. For the startup business it is extremely important to know your startup costs, which provide you with the information you need to generate enough sales revenue to pay the ongoing [...]

The Cashflow Budget

Do you know and understand how to make and use a cashflow budget?
I am going to assume that you already agree that it is essential to track and project your cashflow.  If not, give me a call and I will gladly provide a free coaching session - no kidding - and ask [...]

Financial Mastery

Most business owners believe they have Mastery of their business, but let’s not just “hope”, let’s make certain that we do!
The first stage in the Mastery region is FINANCIAL MASTERY. Financial mastery is one of the skills, capabilities and toolsets you must have in your business to be successful. This week, your [...]

Above and Below the Line

Below the Line
Below the line people do 3 things like…
1. Blame  Who do people blame?
A - Anyone they possibly can the government, the economy, their mother-in-law, their staff, their neighbor, their competition.
Q - How many of you know people that do the blame game?  Q - How many kids do it? [...]