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Tag Archives: 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, business coaching, business results, opportunities, problems, productive discussions, questions and answers, results, right things
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Business Coaching
Business owners and managers have plenty of work and lots toworry about. This seems to be the natural state of being entrepreneurial and liking to … Continue reading
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Tagged business coach, business coaching, business owners, Coaching, customers, entrepreneur, results, right things, running a business, small business, start up, Startup, worry
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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”[[1]] . Their most recent email was “Management Intelligence: A proven checklist for business success”. Here is the checklist they provided: “DO YOU… IMPROVE basic, measured … Continue reading
Posted in Business structure, Change Management, Functional Skills, Operations, People, Productivity, Quality System
Tagged baldrige national quality program, business processes, customers, edward de bono, Fact-based, high performance management, high performance organization, management, overlap, performance, results, Robert Heller
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing/Sales, Quality System
Tagged customers, Facebook, Fact-based, feedback, Google Alert, problems, prospects, results, social web, Twitter, Yahoo Groups
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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
Posted in Change Management, Integrity, Operations, People, Podcasts, Productivity, Strength
Tagged Coaching, culture, delegation, Drucker, effective manager, employee, fear, human resources, management skills, participation, People, performance, personnel, pruning, responsibility, results, strategies, Time, time management, training
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Change Management, Integrity, Operations, People, Productivity, Strength
Tagged Coaching, culture, delegation, Drucker, effective manager, employee, fear, human resources, management skills, participation, People, performance, personnel, pruning, responsibility, results, strategies, Time, time management, training
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Podcast – How to Hire a Part-time CFO
Five steps to hiring a part-time CFO to simplify your life.
Posted in Financial Management, People, Podcasts
Tagged accounting systems, actionable, balance sheet, Cash, cash flow analysis, cash flow projection, cash flow statement, CFO, chief financial officer, delegation, Financial Management, financial statements, high performance organization, keeping score, management infrastructure, performance, results
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Management, People
Tagged accounting systems, actionable, balance sheet, Cash, cash flow analysis, cash flow projection, cash flow statement, CFO, chief financial officer, delegation, Financial Management, financial statements, high performance organization, keeping score, management infrastructure, performance, results
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