The clarity of trajectory and specific milestones within the evolving plan will increase your energy of confidence, grow your energy of certainty, and help you share your energy of enthusiasm with every person you meet. These three key energies will move you beyond the self-limiters of shame and vulnerability and increase your success probability.
Spectrum Coaching provides an opportunity for small organizations to either fine-tune what appears to be currently working or to significantly refine the culture of the organization. Our desire and intent is to increase individual excellence, engagement and performance, leading to increased customer satisfaction, employee retention and vendor support, ultimately increasing profitability. The process might include doing […]
Are you so focused on trying to “make” money that you do not recognize the details in the big picture? When you have a narrow focus you exclude many hidden details and miss the many potential low cost opportunities and strategies to improve your business processes, relationships and hidden profits. And by the way, […]
Skills might be physical or mental capabilities that can be as portable as the gift of gab or as complex as listening between the lines when negotiating a truce in an ongoing collision of ideologies. Many people have one or more marketable skills. This availability of skills however is sometimes not enough to get a […]
We do not have to be small business gurus to recognize that the primary strain and stress points of a large number of businesses are everything related to employees. It seems that getting employees on the same page by providing training is one challenge and moving them to adopt the new practice is another. And, […]
THE WORLD DATABASE OF HAPPINESS (YES, THERE IS ONE) SAYS ICELAND IS THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. THAT’S RIGHT, ICELAND. AND YES, I KNOW IT’S COLD AND DARK SIX MONTHS OUT OF THE YEAR. I’M JUST GIVING YOU THE DATA. Do you think it might be a helpful perspective to find out what the secret to their […]
Ancient traveling groups figured out that making a fire from scratch is a bitch, especially after a long walk and everyone is tired and hungry. So leadership delegated this important task to the ember carrier. Talk about an early responsible position, you were responsible for securing a cooking fire and light. You were the […]
Maintaining the Charade Nothing seems to be working as you’d hoped or planned. The valued employees are hard to find and harder to keep. Marketing to get customers is costly and unpredictable and referrals from clients who had seemingly good experiences are rare. You may be barely covering overhead and not paying yourself a salary as planned. Or […]
Reaching Goals does not happen, just because. It requires taking a journey of action steps with timelines and accountability Strategic Processes, connected Successful business efforts involve strategic processes of planning, implementation, testing, and evaluation. Strategic planning is an essential first step in the development of a results-based growth or change system. The plan must […]
Questions that, when answered honestly, will help Identify and clarify your core understandings, as of today. The sub-questions are to get you moving, to help trigger more intensive points. 1. What is your Mission, What is your purpose? Why do you do what you do? Who are we? Who are we becoming? What values do […]
“Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.” – Alan Watts, American philosopher (1915-1973) Many years ago, when I used to travel a lot, conducting training programs around the state, I distinctly remember one of my trips because of the lesson we learned one evening at our hotel. It was our […]
Potential in the Nutrient Value Lets pretend for the next few minutes that you are a Farmer, but instead of growing rabbit food, hogs or cows, you are growing your business. Really. I am talking about bib overalls, tractors pulling a variety of machinery for tilling, seeding, fertilizing, pest control, weed control, harvesting, shipping and […]
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