After mentoring business owners over 20 years now, I find that many business professionals take a bits-and-pieces approach to expanding their business. They wake up and wonder what else they could do to find new clients. If they see a networking opportunity, they would attend that networking event. If someone said, “join this-or-that group,” they would join. If they got new clients, they would work themselves and their team harder.
It’s commonplace for business owners to fill their calendar
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Introduction to Scaling and Systematizing Your Business
We are excited to collaborate with Citizens Bank as our latest sponsor for our upcoming
Introduction to Scaling and Systematizing Your Business
Thursday, October 13, 2022 from 9 - 11:30 am Eastern Time
(Join us online or onsite).If you're a business owner who is inspired to:
-Shift from business owner to CEO and maximize your team's talents
-Learn fresh ways to attract talent and clients
-Identify the systems that are missing in your business
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One Fast-Food Chain Fail We Can All Learn From When Implementing Systems
Best-Selling Author of E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber said, "Let systems run the business and people run the systems…People come and go but the systems remain constant."
There are many examples of systems at work, including our human wiring systems, eco systems, and even marketing and social media systems. Some of the most profitable businesses started with systems: McDonald's and Federal Express are popular ones.
A system can simply include a set of steps completed at regular intervals
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Scale Your Business: Aligning Context and Action
Seth Godin once wrote, "If you view any particular day without context, it is almost certain to be a failure."
In my over 30 years of working with high-achieving business professionals, context is often missing. It's missing when you go about your day choosing to prove someone wrong or that you're right.
Yet, context is a powerful tool in creating new opportunities. Equally important to building a context on what you want to attract is aligned action.
Sometimes you think you're
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Build the Basics Before Scaling Your Business
You heard this advice over and over. Work on your business, not just in your business.
You realize it's important to keep an eye on the details. After all, the finer details can give your business marketplace distinction.
However, if you don't focus on key activities that move your business forward in a strategic way, you will stall your big ideas. What's more, is that any lack of clarity, overwhelm, not having an effective team, and missing business management systems can stall
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