Posts Tagged ‘goal setting’
Don’t Be Perfect: Be Valuable. (The Exercise)
Every Tuesday, Tuesday On Your Business gives you ways to spend thirty minutes working on your business instead of in it. Step away from the day-to-day tasks of your work and spend time planning for the future, solving problems, and innovating. Starting today, I’m adding a weekly exercise to these posts and emails. For those…
Read MoreHow to write goals that matter… and that work (3/5) 👆
Last week you worked on the three questions you have to answer to write proper annual goals. But our work here is not done yet. Answering the questions is half the exercise. Now we have to structure those answers so they become more than ideas and hopes. They have to make a plan. Goals that…
Read More3 simple questions to write your best annual goals (2/5) ☝️
What if I told you 90% of senior executives don’t reach their strategic goals annually? That’s what research from The Economist Intelligence Unit has shown. They say it’s because of flawed implementation. But it’s hard to do good work on a goal if the goal is wrong to begin with. Much too often I see…
Read MoreWhy you want to write an annual plan 👉 (1/5)
You want to start work in January knowing what your business will look like in December. And you want everybody who works for you and with you to know it too. It’s easier to plan your actions and strategies if you know where you want to go. Annual planning is a thought process. It involves…
Read MoreFinding the Force: Continuous Improvement and Meeting Goals 🆕 (1/6)
A critical part of business planning is preparing for things to change. The better you can control that change, the easier it will be. How do you control change? Use a mission statement. It’s easy to innovate with a great mission statement. Stay on mission A good mission statement guides your employees. It guides their…
Read MoreWhy you have to write an investor presentation, even without investors 👩🏫
What are you doing this week to work ON your business, even for half an hour? How about starting a new investor presentation? What’s that you say: you don’t have investors? Well, that’s not the point. I want you to write this for you and your business. But isn’t it meant for investors? Yes. In…
Read MoreOperations: part 1 of the 2 sides of business
Because I like numbers, or because I like lists, or maybe because it was lunchtime and I was hungry, I recently came across this 2020 article about the two sides of business. (The PB&J image showed up first). Mainly I like business to be simple. A two-sided object is pretty simple. What are operations I…
Read MoreAre you achieving all of your goals on time?
The next question is: does it matter? What’s most important to you when it comes to achieving your goals? Meeting a deadline Checking a “completed” box Creating new value in your business You probably know where I am going with this: goals aren’t about dates and times. Goals add value to your business. What has…
Read MoreYour business is more than the sum of its parts: the Value of a Self-Sustaining Business 💪
I recently started working with a new client, who first called me because in his words: “I realized I had given myself a job, not built myself a business”. It all started when he considered the option of semi-retirement. And he realized that the most valuable – maybe the only truly valuable – thing in…
Read MoreThe most important line in your job descriptions
There’s one sentence in your job description that matters the most. If you were only allowed to share one line from your job description, this would be the line to share. It’s the line that tells people what to do. And it goes like this: “The purpose of this role is…” A job adds value…
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