Consistency.
For high-achieving business owners, it's one of the painstaking parts of growing your business.
For almost every business, you operate like a farmer. You plant today what you want to harvest tomorrow. It's the in between time of nurturing the business and doing everything necessary to generate a good crop of business.
The waiting can be frustrating!
Seth Godin talks about that in between time in his blog, Now is Never (but here comes tomorrow). He writes:
"Everything
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Wiring Lesson: The Motivation Behind the Rapid-Fire Emails
As one of my clients read her email, she saw a notification from an employee. A few seconds later, another notification from the same employee.
Then another.
Then another.
What's happening here? “Why is this employee sending me rapid-fire emails?” she thought.
Wait!
"What is this employee's wiring?" she asked aloud.
As my clients discover, wiring provides insights and answers to the ‘why’ questions. To go a step further, ‘how’ wiring influences an individual’s actions
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What’s Your Company’s Hidden Culture?
Would you dress or act the same way to attend the Master's Golf Tournament as you would to attend a hockey game? Although both are sporting events, they have their own set of unwritten rules that influence social norms, like how you behave and dress at these events.
Newcomers to these events are expected to learn these unwritten rules. They often learn what is acceptable or not by observing the protocols or through others already in the group.
Whether you are a solopreneur who hires
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Turnover: Do you Keep Hiring and Letting People Go? (What You Need to Know To Get the Right Fit the First Time)
You hear a lot of talk about the high cost of turnover, but press a business owner for the actual costs and they often can’t come up with a number. That is, until, they start to identify the hard expenses, like the price to post a position, the fee of a headhunter, or the overtime rates for the existing staff who pick up the slack.
Many of the costs, like overworked remaining staff, decreased productivity, and lost knowledge are often the hidden costs of turnover. Add it all up, and the
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How Does Your Wiring Increase Sales Conversions (or Not)?
It has been estimated that 9 out of 10 sales training courses have no lasting impact after just three months. That’s really unfortunate since many business owners spend thousands of dollars on sales training each year.
With a significantly high failure rate, that’s a major cut into your profitability, especially when you calculate the number of training hours you and your team spent in training. If you add up everyone’s time and travel expenses, you might just find you didn’t get the return
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