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Wednesday, June 8, 2005
The Ripple Effect
The Strategic Coach’s Director of Sales and Marketing finds herself delivering aid in Belarus.
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Get Rid Of Your Office
A roomful of things in your way. One of the biggest things that undermines their productivity is an office that?s wall-to-wall with hundreds and thousands of files, notes, memos, reports, journals, magazines, books, brochures, junk mail, and reminders. None of it is organized, all of it is an energy drain.
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
The Creative Destruction Series
An opportunity for frustrated financial advisors. Financial advisors who feel frustrated and stifled by the current conditions in their industry have more power than they realize, and a tremendous opportunity to enjoy greater personal and creative freedom, says Dan Sullivan, the founder of The Strategic Coach Program?.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Entrepreneur Seeks Experienced Assistant. Mind Reading An Asset
Wouldn’t it be great if the people who work with you could anticipate your every need? What if their goals and efforts were so aligned with yours that as soon as you identified a danger or an opportunity, they came up with ideas and solutions that fit perfectly because they’d already been thinking about the same things? Certainly this is an ideal, but it’s one that provides a great focus for goal setting. The entrepreneurs who come closest to achieving it are those who share their vision for the future of their company with their teams.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Strategies For Effective Delegation
The challenge of delegation. As you spring clean your life, you'll recognize some tasks that frustrate you or that you're likely to put off until they turn into messes. The way to handle these is to delegate them. For many entrepreneurs, delegation is a big challenge ? making the transition from doing everything yourself to working effectively with a team of others. What makes this especially difficult is the knowledge that doing everything yourself used to work well for you. In fact, it may have been what helped you build your business to what it is. However, there's a point at which it will hold you and your company back. When you learn to delegate effectively to others, you're permanently freed from your own limitations and weaknesses. You vastly increase your productivity. You'll also increase your freedom to focus on what you're best at and enjoy doing, and to spend and enjoy time away from work.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Delegation - Accept The Challenge
For many entrepreneurs, the issue of delegation is a source of frustration, confusion, and complexity. At first, it may seem too difficult to trust others and to give up control over important projects. Just for a moment though, imagine being freed up to focus on the activities that you really love, all the while feeling confident that those other projects are being handled.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Delegate Everything Except Genius
Getting back to simplicity. When we first meet entrepreneurs, they often tell us that they have no time. They hear our concept of Free Day? ? a 24-hour period spent completely away from all work-related thinking or activity ? and they think it sounds like a nice idea ? for someone else. They?re far too busy for that, far too essential to the operation of their company.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
The Unique Ability® Organization - The Spirit Of The Entrepreneurial Team®
Picture an organization that is designed to bring out the very best of the unique talents, skills, and energy of everyone involved. This results-oriented organization has inspirational ideals, measurable goals, and encourages self-motivation and teamwork. It enjoys financial success and superb customer service. Does this sound intriguing to you? At The Strategic Coach®, we strive to create a workplace where everyone does activities that they love to do, and do best — a Unique Ability® Organization.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Top Entrepreneurial Issues - Teamwork, Communication, And Delegation
Lonely at the top. Few entrepreneurs have an aptitude or passion for team issues. One of the reasons they choose to start businesses rather than become managers or salaried employees in the first place is that they get energy from innovating, taking risks, and creating results in the marketplace, not from hiring people, explaining things to them, and managing their progress. But if you want your business to grow into the ?future company? you imagine, you?ll need the help of other people.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
The Way Out Of Commoditization
There are two traps entrepreneurs can fall into that leave them “commoditized” — under intense pressure from competition and price scrutiny. By making two mental shifts, though, you can free yourself from commoditization forever.
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