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Manage your management

Submitted by hokwo on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 00:57

Monday, June 24, 2013

How do you manage your business as a whole? How do you manage your employees? How do you manage yourself? Spend time to analyze your management techniques. What are you doing well. What areas do you need to focus attention on. Do you have any challenges managing certain members of your staff? How is your entire management team and process? Change places and contemplate things from an employee perspective. Are you listening to your staff when they voice concerns or are you just pretending that you are. Do you have an open door policy to show your staff that you care and that you are not only accessible, but reasonable? How do customers see the management of your establishment?

Evaluate your management.

Area of improvement

Submitted by hokwo on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 20:37

Monday, April 29, 2013

Choose one area in your business process that you need to improve. Do your staff need more specific training in an area that impacts performance? How would remarkable improvement make a difference. How would even just a slight improvement help. Do you have an area that you need to polish your skills on. Are there areas for your sales channel or customer service to improve whereby benefiting the customer experience. There’s always something that needs improvement, even the best athletes still practice on areas they are weak on to improve their all-around game. Focusing on improvement alone alerts your mind to work harder to get better and stronger at it.

Focus on improvement.

Identify new channels

Submitted by hokwo on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 13:37

Monday, March 25, 2013

Assign someone in your staff to identify new marketing channels. It could be a strategy you tried before, but didn’t work out. Maybe it was bad timing, bad luck or you didn’t stick with it long enough. It’s common for some businesses to abandon certain marketing strategies too early before it’s hard an opportunity to really work. These days patience and time is needed to allow marketing to work, provided you’ve done your homework of course and are targeting the right channels. Spend some time identifying new channels either where you can reach your ideal customer profiles or an entirely new arena that shows some potential, perhaps some untapped market ready to be plucked.

Identify new marketing channels.

Insight

Submitted by hokwo on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 17:48

Monday, February 25, 2013

Take time out today to contemplate a problem that’s been troubling you for a while. Get it off your mind by solving it once and for all. Find the time to brainstorm for ideas and possible solutions followed by targeted research to input more data into your mind so the subconscious can go to work and try and solve it for you. You walk around all day long with the most effective and amazing problem solver known to all mankind, your brain, even supercomputers still can’t match it. If you’ve had a problem and it’s been on your mind for a while, take these extra steps to finally get it out via new information for your brain to factor in and analyze. That’s what your brain lives for, give it some good work.

Input new data.

New resources

Submitted by hokwo on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 03:54

Monday, January 14, 2013

Make time to scout for new resources today. Additional revenue generating sources in places you may have not considered yet. Have you made the leap into social media yet? If not, no worries, you are certainly not alone in that respect. If you don’t feel comfortable jumping straight in the deep end, then just proceed cautiously. Explore several avenues that can allow you to slowly test the waters. The curiosity to try something new will stimulate your brain cells. Remember the world is changing day by day and new companies that offer cost-effective strategies to maximize social media are constantly popping up.

Seek new resources.

Love

Submitted by hokwo on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 07:31

Monday, December 3, 2012

Hopefully you haven’t been working yourself to death lately. Don’t forget human beings weren’t designed to be working machines, we are love machines. Do something you love today, whatever thing you can imagine that you really love and perhaps haven’t done in a while. Give yourself a treat today and make it count, especially if it’s been a while. Boost your adrenalin, the power of love has been responsible for the most remarkable accomplishments in our universe. Also do your best to ensure you still have much love for your business. Do whatever takes to stay in love with what you do, that will always ensure higher likelihood for sustainability and peak performance.

Do something you love today.

Help

Submitted by hokwo on Sun, 11/04/2012 - 06:35

Monday, November 5, 2012

Make it a point to go out of your way and help somebody today. Whether your employee, customer or friend, even a stranger, help somebody. Not only is it an act that sends positive energy vibes in your universe, it will make you feel better as well. Helping somebody just like giving vastly increases your heart’s capacity to send rich oxygenated blood around your body. Knowing that you helped somebody gives you power and increased brain performance as you see the big picture. Being in business is more than business itself, it’s empowerment knowing you can help others not just through the solutions or service you provide, but through the kindness of your heart.

Donate help.

Buy Time

Submitted by hokwo on Sun, 10/14/2012 - 03:53

Monday, October 15, 2012

Buy time today through increased awareness and peak performance. Learn to master time through advanced planning and preparation. Mastery of time leads to effective decision making. The mind works best under calm and composure. Lack of time leads to a stressful work environment. It will deplete energy levels and hamper performance. Master your time to help your business run smoother as well as allow you more free time. Isn’t it wonderful how learning to master your time will buy you more time. How many times have you rushed through a process and the quality waned when slightly more advanced preparation would have saved the day and the end result.

How can you buy time today?

Impact

Submitted by hokwo on Sun, 09/30/2012 - 02:32

Monday, October 1, 2012

Where can you make a meaningful impact on your business today? Is there some channel that’s not performing or delivering like it should. Can you impact a particular employee with a pep talk or some extra motivation? Realize your power to control events around you. Impact your organization and impact your staff, of course importantly, impact your customers. Enrich their lives with value and customer service. Impact them by putting a smile on their face and show you mean it. Impact your business to make an impact on your community. A small impact can quadruple into a huge impact for you, your staff and clientele.

Make an impact today.

Accomplish

Submitted by hokwo on Sun, 09/16/2012 - 06:42

Monday, September 17, 2012

What extra task can you accomplish that you don’t normally do? What extra task can you motivate your staff to perform today that they don’t ordinarily do? There’s always that specific task you’ve been meaning to get to, but time always seem to run out on you. Firmly apply your mind immediately to accomplish that task today. Somehow, some way, you are going to complete that task today or take a meaningful stab at it. No more procrastination, define a time that you can get to it and accomplish it. Keep on pushing yourself and encouraging your staff to accomplish and not to procrastinate especially on things you know will benefit your business, whether it’s that extra article or blog post, get it done.

Accomplish that task you’ve been delaying today.