Posts Tagged ‘results’
Great Questions about Business Coaching?
My coach yelled and screamed at me in high school, do I need that? Is business coaching touchy feely - therapeutic stuff? You don't know anything about my business. I have been at this for xx years, how can you help me? How long before I see results? Do I need to meet with you every week? Am I signing up for a long contract? This must [...]
Business Coaching
Business owners and managers have plenty of work and lots to worry about. This seems to be the natural state of being entrepreneurial and liking to run your own affairs. Worrying is not productive The worry part of running a business (or starting one, for that matter) can be minimized. Learning new skills and approaches to make you more [...]
Proven Checklist for Business Success – How Do You Put Them Into Action?
I receive a regular email titled, "Management Intelligence...... from Edward de Bono and Robert Heller" ((http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/)) . Their most recent email was "Management Intelligence: A proven checklist for business success". Here is the checklist they provided: "DO YOU... IMPROVE basic, measured efficiencies [...]
Unhappy Prospects and Customers – a gold mine
A client told me a story today that illustrates a principle that every business owner or manager needs to embrace and act on. Unhappy prospects or customers are an opportunity to display your real value and win a fan for life. Here is the story from the owner of a start up yoga studio in New York City. A neighborhood person began to [...]
Podcast – Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager
Be a More Effective Manager - stop answering those questions, seize your time, and it's your fault
Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager
Become a More Effective Manager - Three Counter-Intuitive Steps In the world of planning and strategy, there is a truism that too much planning, too much detail, too much analysis, leads to inaction, to a loss of opportunity. Along the same line of observation, in the world of learning to becoming a more effective manager, there can be too [...]
Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit
I have used David Allen's book, Getting Things Done: the art of stress-free productivity (Penguin: NY 2001) both personally and with clients for a number of years. Recently I volunteered to lead a discussion of the book's approach to personal productivity with the Greater Boston Business Network. This provoked me to re-read the book in [...]
Time Management – is now the time to get beyond this distracting oxymoron?
Time management is an extremely popular topic. Is this productive? A Google search for the phrase "time management" returns the droll news that there are more than 14,900,000 responses. Amazon lists 448 books with 'time management" in the title or subject line. A similar search on Youtube.com returns over 2,000 videos about time [...]
Podcast – How to Hire a Part-time CFO
Five steps to hiring a part-time CFO to simplify your life. This podcast lasts for 8 minutes 49 seconds. A written format is available here.
How to Hire a Part-time CFO
In my earlier article, Seven Reasons to Add a CFO - part-time or full - to Your Team, I discussed the reasons to add a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to your team. If you have not read that article you should do so before reading this one. The first step in the hiring process is to define the job you want filled. What specific results should the [...]
