Here’s a great tip I received from my coach:
Sometimes, at the end of the day, I found myself staring at a yellow pad full of undone To Do’s. This can freeze you and keep you from being productive to the very end. One way to thaw you out is to choose The One Thing you [...]

All businesses have a team. Including you! If you have employees, then they are clearly your team. But even if you are a one-person insurance agent or financial products salesperson, you interact with a variety of others - printers, answering services, franchise reps, etc. That means you have a team!
At ActionCOACH, we know that teams [...]

We had a great time at our 5 Ways To Massive Profits workshop. Participants shared their largest learning from the day and it is always great fun to see business owners have “blinding flashes of the obvious” - moments when ideas or realizations hit the conscious mind. Hope you can join us next time.
One of [...]

I have a long history working in the restaurant business. One key measure we were constantly working on improving was Productivity.  In the restaurant business, it is the largest cost that is controllable at all times. We scheduled staff down to the 15 minute period and if sales weren’t there, we looked hard for volunteers [...]

As we finish our quick discussion of Time, I’d like to identify the four types of events which take our time. Picture a target - the outside circle is the Unimportant, Not Urgent. These are tasks which we don’t need to do and are not forced to do. Things like playing solitaire on the computer, [...]