What does an owner of an insurance agency, CEO of a training company, and a CEO of a video production company have in common?
They all own their own business? Yes.
But, that's not all.
They all had several frustrations in common:
1. They didn't know how to succinctly explain the array of services holding them back from marketing.
2. They overwhelmed their clients because they offered a variety of services or products but didn't know how to easily move them through their products
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Systems Thinking is a State of Mind
Consider that systems thinking is a state of mind. Systems thinking is a holistic approach that focuses on the way that all the different areas of your business interrelate. Once you have this state of mind, you realize how each part of your business flows into the other and identify ways to create efficiencies.
Without systems or limited systems, things fall through the cracks: The networking events you keep forgetting to put on your calendar, registering for the business workshop you've
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It’s Time to Scale Your Business
If you are inspired to scale and systematize your business in alignment with your Contribution in the World, I invite you to join us for the Wake Up Profitable Boot Camp on October 3-4, 2019.
Together we'll work through a framework to:
-Improve productivity by understanding how to align your business with your natural human wiring (and how to identify the optimal human wiring for positions in your organization);
-See what you might be missing to create a high-performance team (even if
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6 Tips for Creating Capacity
Have you ever completed your day only to ask, "what did I really accomplish today?" When I first got started in business, I had days where it felt like I was putting out fires and days where I felt like I got something accomplished. Quite frankly, there were times where I couldn’t absorb any more.
However, there was one question that was helpful in shifting how I could create capacity. The question is: “How can I create more capacity without working harder?” When I took a moment to reflect
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Three Business Essentials Every Business Owners Must Get Clear On and Why
What do these business tools have in common?
Organizational Chart
Core Values
Fiscal Fitness
These tools are often overlooked essentials. Without them you will:
Wrestle with knowing your bench strength
Struggle to shape your company’s culture
Be caught off guard as you scale
Bench Strength
As soon as one of my mentoring clients got clear on the reporting relationships within her rapidly growing business, she was then able to see clearly how to stop being the bottleneck in
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