I’ve been beating the planning drum a lot lately and for good reason…its an essential skill for ultimate business success. But what does planning really mean and how can you simplify it to take advantage of planning immediately? First, set down your ideal outcomes…always begin at the end. Second, make some priorities. Third, lay out […]
Holiday Blowout!
Have you ever thought about the kind of business plan and strategy that leads a business to generate all of their profits in one month out of the year and have losses the rest of the year? If you have, how do you avoid that? If you haven’t, where do you start thinking about that […]
When you get there…
One challenge we all have to overcome is “what do we say when we get…" With the blank being: a meeting a job an opportunity The key is to think about what you are going to do when you get where you are going, sure. More, the key to answering the question is finding ways […]
Resolutions?
In about 2 weeks we will all start seeing and hearing people talk about the ways that they are going to make their resolutions stick in the new year… Ok, great! Here is the thing…the process of change and reinvention is constant. You don’t need a day or a landmark to define the jumping off […]
Planning A Sales Funnel
In continuing my thinking about planning for now and the future of your organizations… One challenge that I think needs a lot more thought and planning for is the sales process. Because the need for sales success is a constant in our society and if you aren’t planning for your most likely targets, you are […]
What is a failure?
I think we all think about failure… Or, I can say that I do. What no one teaches us about failure, if they mention it at all, is that we are all failures at things…that’s how we learn. We don’t really learn from our successes, but we learn from the errors we make on the […]
What Have You Done Today?
How do you plan your day? That’s a fairly straight forward topic, right? But it often isn’t… I’ve been working off of note cards for years and will continue to. As our inboxes fill up more and more, it is more and more important that we focus on setting our agendas and planning to achieve […]