Posts Tagged ‘Change’
How to Get Your Team on Board with Change
Sometimes, you need to shake up the day-to-day operations of your business. Settings and maintaining goals needs to happen frequently in your business, since you need to adapt to market conditions. This all means you need to get your team ready to accept change. It can be difficult to get your team on board, especially…
Read More7 Tips for Creating a Smart Organizational Change Management Plan
One of life’s only guarantees is change—even at work. In the office, though, change can be especially disruptive. It’s up to an organization’s leadership to make adjustments easy for employees. And that’s where organizational change management (OCM) comes in. Keep reading to learn what OCM is, what it isn’t, and 7 tips for implementing it…
Read More3 Ways to Shift Mindsets for Implementation of BIM
Fear of failure, fear of change, and fear of criticism are all hardwired into the human brain as deeply as the primal urge for self-preservation. However, when humans embrace change, with its demands for flexibility and transparency, the species is capable of achieving great things. Confronting those fears is familiar ground for Eddy Slim. Trained…
Read More3 Books That Will Transform Your Thinking on Success Habits
Do you ever regret agreeing to something? Maybe you said yes when you should have said “no.” You said yes to a meeting that you knew was going to be a waste of time. It was unproductive and stopped you getting “your work” done. You didn’t say no to that urge to opening up your…
Read MoreWhat You’ve Always Been Doing Won’t Get You Where You Want to Be
I do dozens of business reviews with all sorts of organizations, globally. Many are struggling, they aren’t hitting their numbers—at least consistently. Or their markets/customers are changing, or their competitors are changing. They are all well intended, but too often, they are approaching these challenges in the wrong way. Most of the time, they are…
Read More10 Leadership Blind Spots That Stunt Business Growth
We all have blind spots – things you don’t see despite your best intentions to observe the world changing around you. In business, these can quickly take you off the growth track, even as you work harder and harder. In my role as startup and small business advisor, it’s my job to help you see…
Read MoreYour Organization’s Mark
In marketing terms, an organization’s trademark, or “mark,” is any word, phrase, symbol, design, sound, smell, color, or combination of these, used by a company to identify its products or services, and distinguish them from products and services provided by others. We’ve talked many times about the importance of having a unique mark and protecting…
Read MoreIt’s Harder to Sell Within Our Own Companies
Tibor Shanto posed an interesting situation in a LinkedIn discussion: Got an interesting question or scenario for people who work with sales managers, presented by an experienced sales manager and her new company. She was invited to join the company because of her track record in the industry. They wanted her to establish a similar…
Read More8 Strategies for Regularly Reinventing Your Business
Sometimes entrepreneurs are so focused on making change happen for customers that they forget that continually changing themselves and their company is equally important. Some get stuck in a rut and get run over by competitors with new technology, like Eastman Kodak, and others get pushed into a crisis, like Apple did, before they reinvent…
Read MoreWhen Watching Pennies Will Cost You Dollars
Do you ever come across a Facebook post and resulting thread of comments that makes you want to pull your hair out? Of course you do and I want to share a recent one I saw with you. (Don’t worry, it’s not political at all!) A self-employed accountant was having fits with his Windows PC.…
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