No matter if you are meeting with a colleague, client, potential client or staff, sometimes the meetings get off track and you are left wondering what happened. Carol Roth asked 53 business owners, experts, advisers and entrepreneurs (I'm one of them) their best tip for having successful meetings. Media Type: Blog post Benefit of Reading and Applying: Meetings that are productive Read … [Read more...]
Simple Scheduling Tool: When is Good?
Have you ever gotten frustrated trying to schedule a meeting with two or more people? Going back and forth in email can be crazy! Well, I have a quick solution for you. When Is Good? is a great tool to help you figure out when everyone is free for your next meeting or event. Using this tool is really quite simple. Click the grid for all the times that are good for you - you get a link to … [Read more...]
How to Make Sure You Reach Your Goals
One of the best ways to make sure you reach your goals is to have someone who holds you accountable. Do you have that person (or people?) in your life and your business? Whoever it is, you want someone who will let you know when you're getting off track. Someone who can call you on your stuff and hold you to reality. Sometimes that person can be a family member or a friend and sometimes … [Read more...]
Simple Things You Can Delegate to Save Hours in Your Day
Many business owners hold on to too many of their tasks. When this happens, one of two things occurs: burnout or slow growth of the business. They say they can do the task better or don't know what to delegate. Some will argue that they don't have the money to delegate or that they can do it better/faster than someone else.I'm calling GARBAGE!I was that way too at one point in my business. … [Read more...]
4 Reasons Why She is in Love with Asana and Her Team Has Never Been More Productive – App Review and How-To
As I work with clients and talk with colleagues, delegation is often a topic of conversation. I might hear something like: “I know I’ll be stuck at this point if I don’t change something. I just have not found a good system yet.” or “It’s such a pain figuring out how to not have things fall through the cracks.” or “We’re just not getting stuff done. I’ve tried delegating through … [Read more...]
Virtual Assistant or Personal Assistant? What do you think?
The other day I received a question in my group: I'd like to consider virtual assistants or maybe a personal assistant. Who has had luck with these...are some better than others?Thanks,Carol from Nebraska Knowing how to build your team is a critical choice. The other day, I shared some thoughts on different types of people that you could bring into your powerhouse, kick-butt team. I'm going to … [Read more...]
Build A Solid Powerhouse Kick-Butt Team
I'm fortunate to work with amazing people that are doing rock star work with their clients. As a result, their businesses are growing beyond what they can accomplish themselves. When I first talk with them, I hear that they are thrilled that their business is going great, but they are worried that they are losing the very balance that they wanted to have - the reason they started their business … [Read more...]
Things to Consider Before You Delegate
We go to work every day with the intentions of getting things done. Some days that works great, while other days it is not as successful. I wondered, what keeps us from getting things done? So I asked my Facebook group: I would love to know what is YOUR biggest challenge to GETTING IT ALL DONE? I heard: "Determining what and how to outsource, streamlining email process (where I am getting … [Read more...]
Communication: You Don’t Have to Yell To Be Heard – Part 1
Sometimes productivity has to do with systems and processes. I've written about that a lot recently, but often it is about effective communication too. Do you listen to understand are you waiting for an opening to get your point across? If you don't have good ways to communicate in your team or with your clients, the systems and processes fall flat. Today I'll talk about some critical steps … [Read more...]
6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual Teams
The other day a colleague asked my expert panel about our suggestions for tools. The situation: "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them. His team is global, so physical solutions (like white boards and sticky notes on a big wall) will not work for him. Of course, my awesome colleagues came through with … [Read more...]
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