Take Flight – Business Growth Strategies with Business Coach Dan Holstein

Video can be used to communicate with your customers, your staff, and even improve your sales processes.  This week I sat down with Raymond Tuquero - filmmaker, videographer and the owner of Creative Crunch Productions to discuss how to effectively use video to grow your business. We had a wide ranging conversation that included Raymond sharing insights on: Why an effective strategy is critical to...

Would you like to get an accurate idea of your business performance but don’t know what exactly to look at? In this video, I go over important metrics for measuring success in your business and how you can identify the changes that you need to make in order to scale. 👉 Subscribe First of all, it’s important to keep in mind that there’s only a few indicators you should be measuring. The question i...

If you have been in business for a while, you've most likely experienced a situation where a long time team member is no longer able to keep up - and their performance is having a negative effect on the business. It could be their role has become more complex, or requires a different skillset, or a new way of thinking - and the team member is unable to evolve. This is a challenging situation,...

We hire team members because we have a role that needs fulfilling and the folks we hire seem to be the best candidates possible. But sometimes these rock stars turn out to just 'ok' or 'so-so' performers. What to do? Sometimes as business owners, we start to compensate for a team member's weaknesses by helping them out here and there and picking up their slack - or general...

In this video, I discuss the importance of identifying your business weaknesses so that you can fix them before getting “shot down.” You see, often the areas of improvement that make businesses most vulnerable are, in fact, ones that we wouldn’t necessarily think of.  The reason I talk about getting “shot down” is because during WWII, when planes would come back from seeing action, they’d be all s...

How is your To-Do list looking? Is it ever shrinking... or ever growing? If you are like many leaders of growth businesses, your To-Do list is likely growing. However, the most effective leaders have short To-Do lists, and instead focus their time on their To-Achieve list. In this week's video, I share a simple 3 part strategy to shrink your To-Do list, free up time for your To-Achieve items,...

In this video I’d like to share my tips for recruiting top talent to your business.  Talented employees (the ‘A Players’) can elevate your business to the next level. We all want them, but what can we do to attract them to join us rather than our competitors? PLEASE SUBSCRIBE 👈 To attract top tier talent you need to be a great leader: to know what a good leader looks like for your business is as...

When you’re in high growth mode, a time will come when things start to get sloppy. Deadlines start getting missed, mistakes begin to happen more often in the office and in the field - and everyone is getting a little stressed. This is when we run into Execution Drift - when things just don't work the way they used to - and you as the business leader get distracted from the strategic, and pull...

As business leaders, we all get stuck from time to time. In this video I'd like to share a problem solving framework that you can use to move through stuck points in your business. If you find this video helpful, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE 👈 The formula is called AADA which stands for: Avoidance - often if we feel stuck, or we have a major challenge in our business, we might just avoid dealing with it...

Want to know how to build momentum in your business? Well, the key is consistent effort. When you take action day after day despite not seeing results, that work will pay off for you. -- 💥 For more tips to help your business take flight, be sure to SUBSCRIBE: -- But what is momentum in business? Well, it's essentially when everything is going really well. You're in growth mode, you&apos...

Back when you started your business, your intelligence and ability to think of everything, take care of everything, and solve problems quickly was absolutely critical, and helped you get where you are now. But, is this the way forward, now that you have a team? Could you be hanging on to too much, and getting bogged down? In order to get into serious growth mode, you need to start doing less, and...

As humans, we will quickly move away from pain, just switch course, and may look to blame external factors for why things didn't work out. But if we don’t see how our own thinking has contributed to the situation, we’re going to continue to have that problem repeated over and over again. Whether it’s an issue with our team, our customers, our sales performance, or any other condition that we’...

Are you finding that the more your business grows, the more stretched you become? It’s common for business leaders - especially founders - to hang on to tasks and responsibilities, that really could (and should) be done by someone else on their team. As your business growth accelerates, your time, energy and effort need to be focused more and more on the strategic, growth management oriented work....

Have you ever had a meeting that ended with you believing that everyone was on point, knowing what they need to do, only to review at the next meeting, and find out that not everything was completed, because it turned out, not everyone was clear after all? This can lead to frustration, and a lot of wasted time. Holding effective meetings can be a challenge for many business owners, so I’m sharing...

A major challenge faced by leaders of high growth businesses is the recruiting, onboarding and retaining of great team members. One of the most critical phases here is the onboarding process. This is what the new team member experiences from their first day onward, and we need to get this right. If we don't (and maybe you have experienced this), we risk losing a great hire, or having issues w...

Wanting to be liked can cause problems. If you’re more interested in being liked than in gaining respect in the workplace, it’ll interfere with your ability to make hard decisions and have tough conversations. 👉 If you find this video helpful, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! As an example, let’s think about a situation in which there’s an employee who’s not executing well in their role. Maybe they’re just not...

It seems to me that 2021 went by in an instant, and we are already looking at 2022 arriving in just a few short weeks! How has your year gone? I hope you've had a good one and are ready for a strong finish to 2021. Ending the year strong means being ready to jump into the new year with a clear vision, goals that excite you, and strategies for accelerated growth.   In this week's video, I...

Earlier this week I received a message on LinkedIn that was clearly an inauthentic, boilerplate, copy/paste script - you probably receive them all the time too. You know the type I mean... "Hi Dan, would you be interested in exploring the joys of business ownership..." But here's the thing. Authentic marketing requires authentic communication. It needs to be customer centric. If you...

Are you frustrated with the same irritating situations that keep recurring in your business?   Do you perhaps grudgingly accept and believe that “that’s just the way it is” even though you really want to figure it out?   Very often, what is keeping us stuck is actually our personal beliefs about what we can change and what we can’t.   In this week's video, I share a powerful question you can...

Ever have days where everything is coming at you, and it feels like you are juggling tasks and priorities the whole day? As business owners and leaders, I think we’ve all been there from time to time. Not fun! In this week’s video , I share a simple strategy to have more focused days and eliminate the juggling (well, at least some of the juggling!) so you can focus on growing your business! Connec...

Do you ever find yourself questioning the goals you've set for yourself?  Maybe they aren't as meaningful or exciting to you as when you set them?   As we grow and evolve personally, our reasons for setting particular goals naturally changes as well, and the long term goals we set in the past, may no longer be relevant to us.   In this week's video, I break down the three different...

Have you ever noticed how the actors in sketch comedy (think SCTV, Who’s Line is it Anyway, Saturday Night Live, etc) have the ability to build on one another’s antics to create some hilarious content?  They are able to do this by not only being talented and funny, but by following one very important rule of Improvisational Comedy. That rule is “Yes, And”. Without respecting this rule, scenes will...

Do you ever feel like you’re carrying around a negative view on what’s going on in your business?   It’s a trap I have seen a lot of ambitious business owners fall into - they don’t see the amazing progress that they’re making – instead they focus on the problems and perceived short-falls of themselves and their team.   But the truth is often that you’re doing better than you think you are - you j...

Many business owners tend to get their self identity entangled with their work identity. And it’s completely understandable. In order to build a business, it takes a whole lot of blood, sweat, and tears. There’s a certain amount of pride and attachment that naturally goes along with that kind of effort.  This is what’s known as performance based esteem. Your self worth becomes tied to the success...

The growth of your business is closely tied to the level of your team’s morale, and how aligned everyone is with the core values of your business. In this week’s video , I share with you a strategy that is easy to do, and also easy not to do - to regularly (and sincerely) recognize members of your team for the value of their work that they bring to your business. Connect with me on LinkedIn Watch...