Why Business Teams Fail & How to Avoid It : Strong Leadership Skills For Employee Engagement & High Performance

Is The Rate of Your Business Growth Meeting Your Expectations? Today I want to talk about SPEED.  Not the kind where you get into a fast car and break the speed limit, but the kind where your business grows at a consistently exciting pace. If your business is not growing, it means that the customers are not coming back to do business with you regularly and they are not telling their family and fri...

How is Your Business Going to be Better Today Than It Was Yesterday? It’s a simple but powerful question to ask yourself – especially if you ask it and work on it each and every day!  For many of you listening this may not be a question you’ve asked in a long time.  For others of you, it may be a question you ask from time to time, but certainly not every day.

What Causes the Most Friction on Your Team? This week I want to share a big lesson that I heard recently from a well-respected, winning coach.  I’m not sure about you, but when someone gives me advice, the first thing I do is ask myself – Is this someone who I should be taking advice from?

When is the Right Time to Start Rewarding Your Team for Performance? I’ve found that far too many business owners struggle to find the “right time” to set up a “pay for performance” type of compensation system for their business.  

Are You Maximizing Your Opportunities to Generate Leads? Most business owners I meet WISH they had more leads for their business.  It’s one of the most frustrating struggles that many business owners deal with – not having enough leads to grow their business as fast as they had hoped. But a quick peek behind the curtain often reveals that most businesses are not fully utilizing their maximum lead-...

Do Your Habits Include those Followed by High Achievers?  We all have habits.  It’s not something that you either have or don’t have.  The more important question is WHAT are the habits that have become the control mechanism for your actions, decisions and behaviors? Got a pen and paper handy?  You may want to write these down and give yourself a thumbs up or thumbs down on each to see what work y...

What BELIEFS are Influencing your Actions, Behaviors and Results? This podcast episode explores the impact of beliefs on actions, behaviors, and results in the context of achieving business success. It introduces seven key beliefs held by successful individuals, emphasizing the importance of mindset. The host encourages listeners to reflect on these beliefs and consider their own perspectives for...

What single word will define your focus for this next year?  If you were to boil down your primary objective, your most important goal, and your singular focus for this new year ahead, what single word would best describe it for you?

What’s TRULY MOST Important in your Life? My bet is it’s NOT your business.  Nor is it your QuickBooks balance.  Nor is it your office lease payment or your overhead burn rate.  I’d bet that aside from your faith, what’s TRULY most important is probably a person or a group of people.  Shouldn’t we prioritize what matters most over what seems most urgent at the moment?

What’s on your short list of changes to be made in the new year ahead? Today I want to focus your attention on preparing for the upcoming new year.  As we approach the end of this year, it’s time for you to share your plan for next year with your team and get them bought into your growth targets.

How well are you performing the 5 Critical Roles that a Business Owner should NEVER Delegate? Far too often, business owners who are actively involved in the day-to-day operations of the business confuse their operational responsibilities with their ownership responsibilities. Today I want to make sure you are thinking correctly about your own job description as the business owner.

Who Takes the Lead on Making Sure Your Team Lives Up to Your Performance Standards? To be honest, it’s hard to both inspire and discipline.  It’s hard to look at the big picture when you’re constantly being pulled into the daily details.  It’s hard to be enthusiastic when you’re spending all your time filling the gaps in your execution or delivery. But, this week I’m going to try to make your life...

What Kinds of Drugs are you Dealing to Those Around You? This week I want to confront you on a serious offense – dealing drugs! That’s right – you’re a drug dealer!  I know it and you know it.  So it’s time for you to come clean and confess that you’ve been dealing drugs to your team, your prospects and your customers! Since you are a drug dealer by nature, be sure to deal the right drugs at the r...

What Grade Would You Give Yourself on Leadership? Let’s face it – you can have a one-of-a-kind product, or you can have a service that is far superior to anyone else in your industry, but unless you become a best-in-class leader for your team, your business will struggle and you will be frustrated with your results. In this episode, I want to share the 4 F's of Leadership – straight from the groun...

Is Your Plan to Make Improvements in Your Business Working? In my years of working with business owners in many different types of businesses, I’ve come to recognize that there are actually 3 HIDDEN SECRETS that must be addressed in order for your production improvement strategy to be successful. Today, I’d like to share these 3 hidden secrets with you and give you some practical ideas on how to e...

Are You Among the Few Who Have WRITTEN Goals? It can’t be just a coincidence that 85% of the wealth in the world just happens to be owned by 12% of the people on the planet AND those people ALSO happen to have taken time to write down their big goals. There must be something to it.  At least that’s what I believe and what I’m going to help you with today.

How Solid is Your Marketing Plan? I have found that one of the biggest issues facing most businesses today is that not enough people know that they even exist and as a result, they not only don’t know who you are, but they don’t know what makes you “special”. Today I have an exercise for you - to build a one-page Marketing Plan.  With your one-page plan in place, you can make marketing decisions w...

What does Rock and Roll have to do with You and Your Business? This week I want to take you back in time.  I want you to go back to the 1970’s with me.  To an era where Rock and Roll was king.  And today, I want to explain how “Rock and Roll” applies to you and your business.

What’s Your Plan to Grow Your Business This Next Year? I want to share with you a nine-category model that covers the critical areas of your business that must be in your game plan for next year. These nine categories will help you structure your business plan and focus your strategic actions on the areas that matter most to your business growth and success.

Do Your Team Members Know That You WANT them to Take Risks? This week I want to focus on one of the seven keys to building a winning team.  That’s right – you DID know that there are seven very specific things you need to do well to build a “winning team” – didn’t you?  If you weren’t aware, then I’m VERY glad you’ve tuned in today.

How well have you Mastered the Use of Your Time? I’m sure you’ve heard it said that we can all make more money, but none of us can make more time!  It’s a universal truth.  We’re all given the same amount of time each day and what often sets us apart from one another is how well we use the time that we’ve been given.

Are You Satisfied with Your Level of Success? Today I AM going to limit our discussion to a single topic – it just happens that this single topic is VERY BROAD and VERY HARD TO DEFINE.  But it is exactly what we are all striving to achieve – SUCCESS.

How Good is Your Team at Converting Leads into New Customers? This week I want to focus on the front wheel of your bike – your ability to Win New Customers.  This is perhaps the biggest challenge that most business owners face in their business, I thought it might be worth addressing once again.

What Is Holding You Back from Your Ideal Future?  To be honest, we could all benefit by spending a bit more of our time thinking about what we want our ideal future to look like.  Far too often, as a business owner, your focus is on the here and now. The only thing that is holding you back from the Ideal Future you are dreaming about is determining what needs to be worked on, setting some prioriti...

What Could we Learn from Watching Professional Cycling Teams Compete? I’m not sure if you’ve ever paid attention to a professional cycling team, but I’ve spent MANY hours watching, observing and analyzing what they do and thinking about why they do it.  The more I watch, the more I see things that I think EVERYONE in business should be doing – even if their business has NOTHING to do with cycling...