Business Plan by Post-it Note Business plans are a good thing thing to do for your business, but the majority end up to be just a bunch of wishes and dreams because they lack the most important ingredient; ACTION. Here is something that costs 2 cents and will help you put your plan into action:…
Research out of Stamford University earlier this year showed that productivity declines quickly after working for more than 50 hours per week and declines even faster after the 55 hour mark. I suspect that they just tested office workers in big companies, rather than owners of small businesses. Long hours seem to come with the…
This month I started another semi-group “coaching” program for 2015, called the Construction Business MasterClass, at my office in Albany. Participants are into the first “Your Foundations” diagnostic phase and already seeing the benefits of coming on-board. I knew from my experience that participants would receive tremendous value in the 3-way analysis that is conducted on…
Running a trade business (or any business for that matter) can be likened to running a 4 x 100m relay race. When everything runs smoothly and the baton is passed from hand-to-hand seamlessly, it is a pleasure to behold. Drop the baton at some critical stage and all the good work done to date is…
Unlikely that you spend as much time as me in the office, but if you do and find it hard to stay focused on the task at hand, try this technique. I call it 50:15 and it may help you become way more effective. Rather than trying to sit there for hours until the job…
Today (Saturday) I spend 4 hours with my business coach, Taki Moore, while he was visiting Auckland. Yes, I am a business coach and I have a business coach too. I am always looking to up my game and improve the service that I can offer my clients. Part of that improvement comes from self learning,…
Made any New Year resolutions this month? By any chance were they the same ones you set last year, because they were the ones you didn’t quite reach the year before? Are you wasting your time with New Year resolutions and are they just pipe dreams that won’t make it past February? If you are…
Despite recent advances in construction, such as pre-nailed frames, nail guns, lasers, etc., the basic method of nailing timber together to build a house hasn’t changed a lot. Prepare for a quantum leap in construction however. It won’t happen next year, but it will happen in the not too distant future and will make the…
So it is late November, 2014. The year is fast drawing to a close and 2015 is just around the corner. A chance for a fresh start and to really achieve better results than last year. So what are you going to do different in 2015 that will actually make a change in your situation…
You have a great sales person. They close a high percentage of deals and you rely on them to keep your production machine fed. Your company literature, website and other staff talk about core vales of “honesty” and “integrity”. Your star sales person uses bribes and back-handers to land some of the deals. What do you…