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Issues Meetings: Fix Problems Once and Forever
Playing the Problem Whack A Mole Game in your company? Don’t let the little critters win. Warren Buffet famously said about investing: “it’s simple, but it isn’t easy.” He was referring to the emotion that comes into play when people make investment decisions. When making decisions in your business, a myriad of reasons can get… Read more »
Building Exceptional Managers
One would assume that if you find a strong leader in a company, that person is innately able to build great managers. But for some leaders – in fact, many leaders – their abilities rest more in attracting and retaining great talent than teaching that talent the best practices and managerial skills to do their… Read more »
Five Habits of Strong Leaders
The correlation between the performance of an organization and its leadership is obvious when you compare only a few companies. And if they are in the middle of a change initiative, leadership becomes an even more important factor. The companies that we’ve seen enjoying the highest returns are those with a leadership team that exhibits five… Read more »
Culture Via Hollywood
Trying to explain what it is like to work with your organization is like trying to describe the colour blue to a blind person. We embed ourselves in a couple dozen companies a year, and every one of them is unique. There are inside jokes, quirky personalities, and a whole lexicon of references and language… Read more »
Know If They Like You. Guaranteed.
The only thing you know for sure is that your business has to adapt, easily and often, if you want to remain profitable. Your clients may be happy today, but what systems and processes can you install to ensure you keep them happy in the future?
Three Simple Ways to Delight
Out-of-office alerts, on-hold recordings, and email footers don’t have to be boring. I’ve always wanted anyone who interacts with my company to be delighted with their experience. I learned this 20 years ago in San Francisco. I was wandering Fisherman’s Wharf on a gorgeous spring day. There was a crowd of people standing on one… Read more »
Why and How: Employee Interviews and Surveys
Annual employee surveys gather critical information about what staff members really think of their jobs. If constructed well, a survey provides great insight into what the company excels at, and what it could do better. But many companies do not formally survey their employees simply because they haven’t figured out how to do it effectively,… Read more »
5 Ways to Capitalize on LinkedIn
This article is meant for those of you who have either never used LinkedIn, or have used it, but don’t understand what all the fuss is about. Think about this: at the time of the original publishing of this post (September 30, 2012) LinkedIn had over 6 million members in Canada and 187 million members… Read more »
Improve Operations with 5 GREAT Questions
Are you missing out on thousands of dollars just by making the common operations mistakes of entrepreneurs? To find out, ask yourself these five questions: 1. Are we sacrificing the long-term benefit of management and strategy for short term profit? There is a value to prioritizing some time to “management” time in almost every environment…. Read more »