10 Tips to Survive And Thrive In Business Today
Are you just barely surviving or thriving in your business? 10 Tips to Survive And Thrive In Business Today. A timely read that speaks to the challenges that many entrepreneurs and well-established businesses deal with every day. Plus a good reminder to be kind to yourself.
Quick Tips for More Productive Meetings
A quick and concise look at meetings and productivity, and how the two are intertwined. More professionals are spending excessive amounts of time in meetings, racking up hours in the week, both online and in person. A real productivity-killer if not managed well.
Optimize Product Pricing/Profits
Knowing when to raise the price is a strategic way to raise profits and can be done without damaging sales or revenue. Do you want to successfully turn your company around? Business Operations Improvement
How far-reaching and long-lasting is your legacy as a leader?
High-integrity leaders leave a legacy that’s far-reaching and long-lasting. How far-reaching and long-lasting is your legacy as a leader? “Leaders who take a comprehensive approach to mentoring and insights from subject-matter experts continually outperform their competitor”
Know Your Competition – Market and Value Advantage
Competitive Advantage. One of the most important small business valuation ideas is to build a company that provides a service not provided by anyone else. If your company can separate itself from others in the marketplace, this is an instant way to increase your value to potential suitors.
The Great Resignation – What Employers Should Have Learned
Why are employees still joining The Great Resignation? How has the business world globally been impacted by The Great Resignation? What should businesses have comprehended by now? In his article, Gallimore seeks to answer the above questions and a few more challenging ones regarding why employees are still quitting their jobs.
R E M O T E – 3 Simple Ways To Motivate Your Online Team
R E M O T E – Key insights into helping leaders keep morale high with online & /hybrid workers. Three Simple ways to motivate your team. Create a remote workforce of enthusiastic collaborators who are excited to log on for the day
Secrets Behind Successful Employee Onboarding
Looking for increased employee retention and less turnover? Successful onboarding may be the key. Having a buddy or mentor is also invaluable. It’s not something that just happens – good onboarding requires strategic planning.
4 tips for sustaining companies’ long-term
“The spirit of the West is an attitude, a mindset that change can bring about a better life” notes Braydan Shaw, president of Burns. The oldest same-family-owned western retail business in the world, Burns, a sixth-generation company that Launched in 1876. A great read, filled with history and a business mindset. “When we have problems, we’re able to lean back on our ancestors and find answers,” he says. “Keeping that history alive and telling those stories helps us have gratitude for the past and put things into perspective.”
Rifle vs. Shotgun Marketing Approach® How to close a conversation with a customer
What is the value of a high-growth industry? What is a typical response to close a conversation with a customer? Welcome to Part 5 of 10. Top Ten Tip of Week by Dale S Richards. This week we will address: Rifle vs. Shotgun Marketing Approach® How to close a conversation with a customer
Mindset Matters – How to Prepare Your Company for Ongoing Change
Mindset Matters – How to Prepare Your Company for Ongoing Change. Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth one? A Leaders mindset serves as a key determining factor in their ability to face disruption. challenges can be the catalyst for major improvements and success.
Why do Customer Buy? – Building Your Brand
While you interact with customers, please ask them “Why do you buy from us?” or “Why do you not buy from our competitors?” Solidify in customers’ minds why they bought from your company.
80/20 – Customer Gold Program® Learn who your top 20 are.
80/20 – Customer Gold Program® Learn who your top 20 are. Do you know who the top 20% of your customers are? How can you use the 80/20 principle to PROACTIVELY increase your revenue by 10% – 200%? First, you must find out who the top 20% of the customers are.
Productivity Pyramid® Goals, Coaching, Accountability, and Rewards
Do you know what the 6 “Ws” of quality goal setting are? How about the rule of thumb? The rule states that if you lose an A performer, it takes you 3 years of salary to get them back. Having goals, accountability, and rewards for your team ensures that you keep your A performers because it’s a huge expense to get another one back. It’s important to try and keep your high-performing employees as they know the job and can do it correctly.
Why Independent Business Valuation Services are Important
When the time comes to sell your business or when you are looking to purchase a new business it is important that you are aware of the value you are dealing with for your company or the company that interests you. Many sellers have a business valuation service provider create an estimated value before they list their business.
Keeping sight of your company’s long term vision
Three uniquely different approaches used by other leaders to successfully handle challenges that could derail your planning attempts. Some food for thought on how to get started on the road to planning your vision and being successful at it.
Meaningful Ways You Can Help Ukraine
Excel Management Systems’ thoughts and prayers go out to those fighting to preserve the sovereignty of their country in Ukraine. These events will have repercussions for everyone in our global system. The consequences could take generations to overcome. When history repeats itself, it’s time to “say something”. It’s time for peace. It is time to stop the unjustified and horrendous attack on the innocent. I encourage you to watch the following video, it is very touching. Video by: Snowflake (CC Mixter)
Want to increase your leadership skills?
Want to increase your leadership skills? By becoming fully engaged with employees you may prevent your “A” team from walking out the door. Knowledge is Power. You must lead by example. Good leaders need to be fully present, engaged, and resourcefully motivated.
Cultures That Create a Climate for Change Are More Innovative – featured in the AMA Winter 2022
I was honored to have my article Cultures That Create a Climate for Change Are More Innovative, featured in the Winter 2022 Journal of the American Management Association (AMA) Quarterly (pg. 23). I am privileged to share it with my trusted readers/followers as well.
An outside-the-box approach to workplace wellness – Mental Health
What programs are set up in your company to help support mental health and well-being? “The most important thing is to not use workplace wellbeing techniques as a bandaid to cover up deeper issues” noted Shafi. Rather, she gives a few focus techniques to help leaders provide open discussion about mental health without judgment.
Keys to Evaluating Valuation Service Providers
Finding a valuation service provider that specializes in the type of valuation you need is the first consideration. When you need a business valuation make sure you choose a service provider that specializes in businesses rather than property or automobiles.