How Strong is Your Platform for Customer Growth?

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Customer Loyalty, Internal Business Assessment, Organizational Assessment, Relationship Building, Strategic Thinking and Planning

Without clients there is no business. But too many businesses add as many clients as they can, as quickly as they can, before they build the right framework.  If one of your business goals is sustainability, building the right infrastructure (see the post  Behind the Scenes- What is Really Going On) and focusing on strategies designed to develop loyal clients  will result in a stronger outcome. […]

What Makes Good Ideas Take Root? Keys to Execution

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Communication, Employee Engagement, Execution, Leadership, New Year Planning, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Time Management

SEEDS OF CHANGE Despite enthusiastic beginnings, many well-intended plans never translate into action, and an even larger number lose momentum along the way. What enables good ideas and plans to take root? As a business coach, advocate and facilitator of strategic planning I have observed quite a few projects – some that succeed and others that […]

Strategic Planning for a Small Business – How to Overcome the Challenges

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Decision Making, Motivation to Tackle Change, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Visioning

You spend the day scrambling. But how do you know you are on the right path? Are you leveraging the strengths, interests and talents on your team? Will you wind up in a place that will make you happy? It is not that you haven’t been thinking about these questions. The business environment is complex and […]

Leaders, Are You Preventing Your Team from Soaring?

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Collaboration, Communication, Decision Making, Employee Engagement, Learning and Development, Productivity, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Team Building, Visioning

In coaching sessions I hear key common cries for help. This past week the key theme on a surprising number of calls has been ‘my team is not doing what I need them to be doing’. The names have been changed but the following stressful situations have not. ·     I am here most nights and many […]

It Takes Courage to Self Examine

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Leadership, New Year Planning, Personal Assessment, Personal Growth, Personal Strategic Planning & Thinking, Self Discovery, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Team Building

You never know what you might find. Brené Brown tells us that “vulnerability is the birthplace for innovation, creativity and change”.  Not a place for the weak. As a strategic planning facilitator I am always totally impressed by the leader of an organization making the decision to open themselves up to all of the possibilities that […]

Crystal Ball Murky?

Posted Leave a commentPosted in Business Owner, Change Management, Leadership, Motivation to Tackle Change, New Year Planning, Personal Strategic Planning & Thinking, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Visioning

None of us knows with any sort of certainty what outside forces are going to impact our lives. However we all have the power to work towards our own clearly defined desire for the future. Without an inspired, desired picture of what we want to accomplish there are huge implications in the present. Without clarity […]

Business Owners – Are You Thriving or Simply Surviving?

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Change Management, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Learning and Development, Motivation to Tackle Change, New Year Planning, Personal Strategic Planning & Thinking, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Team Building

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” — e.e. cummings The dictionary says that survival is to remain alive or in existence, to carry on despite hardships, or to persevere; while the the word thrive is to prosper, to grow vigorously, and to flourish. Which one of […]

Align Your Organization for Growth

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Change Management, Collaboration, Communication, Core Values, Decision Making, Employee Engagement, Execution, Internal Business Assessment, Leadership, Learning and Development, Measurements for Sucess, Motivation to Tackle Change, New Year Planning, Organizational Assessment, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Systems and Process, Team Building

The act of setting goals is important for business growth. And there is no shortage of goals being set. But way too many goals and initiatives end up far short of success. One of the key differentiators of those initiatives that succeed from those that fail is organizational alignment. Organizational alignment requires agreement between interdependent […]

Get Off That Shaky Ladder! 4 Stable Legs to Balanced Success

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Change Management, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Motivation to Tackle Change, New Year Planning, Organizational Assessment, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Team Building, Visioning

2015. New start. Fresh thinking. Higher goals. Before you go flying, or tentatively stepping, up a shaky ladder aspiring to new heights, make sure you have checked the legs. Without a stable foundation there is a good chance you are going to come tumbling down.

Six Mental Traps That Will Prevent Your Business From Thriving

Posted Posted in Business Owner, Internal Business Assessment, Leadership, Meeting Facilitator, Motivation to Tackle Change, New Year Planning, Organizational Assessment, Productivity, Strategic Thinking and Planning, Time Management, Visioning

If you are not getting the results you want, or making a difference in the way you dreamed was possible,  you are well aware that something has to change. Knowing and doing can feel miles apart. Are you trapped in the status quo?   For the same reasons that pilots use maps when they fly cross-country and […]