Posts Tagged ‘action coach’

Stage 50: Recognizing Your Best Customers

As we near the end of this year’s Tour de Profit, it is appropriate to take time to recognize those who have helped you achieve your success. I know that the first group of people who come to mind are your team members – those who have worked hard in your business all year [...]

Stage 48: Building Next Year’s Race Plan

Congratulations to you on your efforts over these past two stages. Over the last two weeks you have gathered intelligence on your competition and reached out to your best customers to get their feedback on your opportunities for improvement. While it is difficult to determine absolute importance, these efforts on your part may [...]

Stage 46: Benchmarking Your Competition

It is hard to believe that we are already on Stage 46 of this year’s Tour de Profit! Only 6 weeks left to the finish line! But this is not the time to slow down or give up. Instead, this is the time to begin your planning for how you are going [...]

Stage 45: Building a Succession Plan

When was the last time you put some serious thought into what you would do after you sold or transferred your business to someone else? Seriously? I know that we all have those moments when we are so frustrated that all we want to do is get past what we are doing today. [...]

Stage 41: Using Personal Development to Fuel your Growth

Congratulations on taking the time to create your own Personal Development Plan! I trust you have shared it with your team so that they can see what you believe to be important and that you are serious about getting better yourself.
If for some reason you hit a bump in the road last week and [...]

Stage 40: Creating Your Personal Development Plan

Exceptional leaders are constantly working harder on themselves than they are on their business! The success of any business is limited only by the thinking, knowledge and growth of the senior-most leaders on the team. What is the limiting factor in your business?
Welcome to Stage 40 of the 2010 Tour de Profit. [...]

Stage 35: Harnessing the Power of EVERYONE on the Team

This week’s Stage 35 takes us to the 6th Key to a Winning Team – 100% Involvement! It is very difficult to decide which of the seven keys is most important, but this particular key can open the door to incredible results for your business. If you’re ready to “hit the road” this [...]

Stage 34: Accelerate by Supporting Risk Taking

Welcome to Stage 34 of this year’s Tour de Profit! We are in the heart of the region we call Seven Keys to Creating a Winning Team. Over this seven-stage section of the race we are diving deeper into the critical areas that must be a priority in your business in order to [...]

Stage 32: Establishing Rules of the Game

Welcome to Stage 32 of this year’s Tour de Profit! You are in the region I call Seven Keys to a Winning Team. This is where you define the kind of company you want to have by creating the right kind of environment for your people to do their best work.

In Stage 31 we [...]

Stage 23: Improving Your Profit Margins

Stage 23 – the last stage of the five stages in the Mountain Region we call the Business Chassis. This week, we complete the Business Chassis stages by focusing on your Profit Margins.

Over the past four weeks, you have worked on Lead Generation, Lead Conversion, Increasing Number of Transactions and Increasing your Average [...]