How to Change Your Inner Circle to Develop New Ideas and Opportunities

Does your inner circle help you create more opportunities in your business? The inner circle focuses on creating more value, finding new markets, and pushing you to grow. An ineffective inner circle creates doubt and can steer you in the wrong direction. If you are not growing, then a change must occur. Your inner circle …

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Let’s Grow Your Business in the New Year

It is a new day and a New Year. Are you ready to shake things up so you can grow your business? Has your business become stagnant? Believing in the status quo creates comfort, but it hinders growth. Without growth, your business will die. The New Year is a great time and opportunity to re-evaluate …

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How Leaders Can Better Understand and Drive the Process for Their Team Members to Create Effective Individual Development Plans that Help to Achieve Their Goals and to Exceed Their Potential

Leaders often talk about the importance of creating individual development plans with their team members, but are leaders approaching them correctly? Are they putting in real effort to create effective plans that achieve positive results? Our first duty as leaders is to grow our people. While serving in the Army for over 20 years, an …

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Why It’s Important to Schedule Time to Think Through the Issues of the Business to Gain Perspective and to Consider All Options Relating to Strategic Decisions

Protecting time in your schedule to think through issues and reviewing your strategy provides great returns for yourself and the business. Some decisions are quick, and some require a longer review. Every day, your schedule fills with meetings and updates because your opinions matter, but blocking a specific time to do nothing else but think …

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Four Tips to Eliminate Wasteful Processes and Tasks in Your Business to Gain More Time, Productivity and Margin

Your team may be spending too much time and effort on wasteful processes and tasks in your office that do not support the daily mission and overall strategy. As the leader, I advise you to continually review and decide tasks to be eliminated. Wasteful processes use up limited time and resources that produce no margin …

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