Working with a plan will focus your efforts, unify your team in a single direction, and help guide you through tough business decisions.
A strategic plan requires you to define your goals, and in defining them, enables you to achieve them—a huge competitive advantage.
Learn how to build trust before negotiation and how to negotiate effectively.
Nothing will grow your business exponentially like team leaders who take ownership of the mission.
Creating ownership in business will help you find easy ways to solve problems, prioritize and accept outcomes and make adjustments where needed.
This is your business. You make the decisions. You need to shift your mindset away from being your own employee and start thinking more like an owner.
Your company’s growth will explode as you invite others into the entrepreneur mindset.
Interpersonal skills may seem secondary to financial and business skills.
Yet the intangible messages you communicate have very tangible effects on your bottom line if you do not convey them with confidence and proficiency.
Present yourself and your business powerfully. Project your skills, talents, and attributes.
With the right mindset, confidence, look, and behavior you can improve your self-image and feel your best.
Focusing on self-improvement will make you more resilient, proactive, committed and it presents you with new opportunities.
With personal development comes clarity, and clarity is vital to your success in business. Developing the necessary soft skills will make a real difference to a company’s bottom line.
Personal breakthroughs lead to organizational breakthroughs.
Conflicts can get you easily off track.
Mediating in conflict is a challenge akin to tightrope walking. But it’s a challenge that comes with the territory.
So, what’s the received wisdom in managing conflict successfully?
Learning how to handle conflict efficiently is a necessary skill for anyone in business and management and the key to preventing it from hindering professional growth.
Your team is your most critical asset. Poor Teamwork will jeopardize your brand’s success. Teams that fail to work as a collaborative functioning unit rarely accomplish goals and objectives.
Think of your team as a think tank. A think tank is made up of experts who work together to advise and solve specific problems – everyone has responsibility and influence and continually adds value.
A team that acts like this has constant energy around sharing opportunities and momentum with others to multiply success.
How can you manage yourself so you can stay focused, confident and calm despite everyday stress?
How can you manage yourself to positively affect those around you and protect yourself from the negative impact of others’ stress? How can you take control of politics or workload issues to lessen the friction and overwhelming pressure?
Resilience refers to your ability to handle and rise above the multiple stresses in the workplace by controlling what you can control. With the right toolkit, you can develop resilience quickly and manage stress effectively.
Identify your procrastination tendencies and excuses.
Apart from being bad for your health as a business owner, due to procrastination you will miss opportunities, ruin customer relationships and damage your reputation.
Procrastination can lead you to lose enthusiasm for a business you once loved and prevent you from achieving your goals.