In a recent business owner survey we conducted with several thousand of our clients, it became very clear that email has eclipsed phone calls and meetings as the single biggest time distraction in business. It’s addictive, never-ending, and overwhelming. Here are our top 10 email best practices we think every company should adopt. 1. Use…
Leadership Training: One of our biggest responsibilities as a leader of a company is to help intentionally shape our company culture. Your leadership habits have an oversize impact on the culture you’re creating. Your team watches everything you do. Even when you think no one is looking, everyone is. Here are 7 leadership habits that…
Which of these 10 all-to-common things are you are your staff unintentionally doing that is putting your company at risk of getting sued…
Are you a “micromanager”? An “abdicator”? Learn how to spot your management style and how to help your team produce more.
Here’s a simple yet powerful strategy to create a compelling process to lead greater numbers of prospective customers into deeper, richer relationships with your company.
“David,” Tina said [actual business coaching client, but not her real name], “We’re really struggling to meet our payables this month but we have over $700,000 in profit year-to-date, how can this be happening to us? This is not something we’ve experienced before. Do you have any business advice?” That’s when I had to share…
Which of these 5 potentially fatal scaling mistakes is your company making?
If you’ve ever felt yourself scrambling to oversee your sales or marketing efforts and team, here are 10 must have “controls” to put you back in the driver’s seat…
Don ran a successful engineering firm with revenues of roughly $1 million annually. But he had been stuck at this level for over a decade. “David,” he said, “We go out and respond to RFPs and take past clients out to lunch to reconnect, which generates a ton of new business for us. But then…
Following up on my earlier article on five concrete steps to begin to create your company culture, here are seven simple ways to reinforce and build the company culture you want. 1. Get clear on your goals and priorities. Your company culture needs to absorb what you consider most important – your company’s priorities and…