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Accountability in Business: Establishing Your Individual Rocks

In the last two videos, we talked about setting our company rocks, our 90-day objectives that are going keep us on track to meet our one-year goal. We took those company rocks and we split them out amongst the different leadership team members, and we gave each person...

Accountability in Business: Establishing Your Company Rocks

In the last video, we talked about about how important it is to take our one-year objectives and bring them back to what we need to accomplish in the next 90 days. Today, we're looking at two ways to approach that. The first is, what do we want to accomplish as a...

Accountability: The 90 Day Action Plan For Your Business

In previous videos we talked about the importance of knowing where we want to be three years from now, and then scaling it back to what do we need to do in the next 12 months to get there. We're looking at the accountability key here and how important it is to be able...

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The Future of Employee Medical Benefits

Employee medical insurance benefits often complicate things for small business owners, and that fact is unlikely to change. Recent developments in the employee medical benefit arena offer some good news, some bad news, and some options yet to become available. You...

Business and Ideas for Starting or Buying

This article on is on getting into business and ideas on whether it is better to start a business, buy a business, or acquire a franchise business opportunity. My article on finding profitable business opportunities goes into much more depth. Start a business from the...

Small Business Optimism on the Rise?

Optimism about the economy is on the upswing, according to recent surveys. Big indexes are reading well - with high holiday sales, record cyber sales, and reduced unemployment. But, really - just how do small business owners feel? A recent survey of small business...

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3 Bad Habits That Can Kill Your New Business Venture

Starting your own business? You'll be faced with a wide variety of bad habits to conquer. Many of these result from simple human nature. You'll be full of a desire to do all the work that you can, you won't want to hear about any bad news, and, most likely, your ego...

Timing the Decision to Fire

Employees often fire themselves. Setting aside the employee who deserves to be terminated for cause –theft, sexual harassment, drunkenness, and so on – small business owners are often stressed about when to determine an employee has no future. Behavior issues...

10 Tips to Help You Fire an Employee

Small business owners occasionally have an obligation - in the law, in good business practice, and in good faith - to fire employees. There is no simple way to fire an employee - no way to do it without emotion or lasting memories. Plan the event: Decide where, when,...

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The 6-Step Marketing Strategy: Defining What You Really Sell

Today we're looking at defining what we really sell. It's not so much the product or service that we provide to our customer, but it's something else. What is it? It tends to be a result or an outcome. Perhaps it's a solution or an experience, an emotion or a feeling,...

The 6-Step Marketing Strategy: Defining Your Target Market

Today we are going to talk about how to identify your target market or ideal customer. One of the exercises that's useful to do is to try to create an avatar of your ideal customer. If you think about it, an avatar is creating a pretend person that...

Get Focused: 6 Steps to a Solid Marketing Strategy

I want to give you a little introduction to marketing strategy. We'll go through six additional videos that will get more in-depth on our overall marketing strategy, so this will simply be an overview. #1 Let's first touch on our target market and understanding who...

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Back to the Beginning: Why Leadership and Management Start With YOU

In just about every business, people are the best resource, and often the most difficult. We're going to take a look at how to develop a really great team, starting with the basics. The most fundamental thing to creating a really great team is YOU. You as the...

20 Key Character Traits Your Employees Must Have

Alertness Resourcefulness Orderliness Respectfulness Attentiveness Hospitality Thriftiness Initiative Diligence Responsibility Thoroughness Punctuality Flexibility Dependability Creativity Decisiveness Determination Persuasiveness Patience Loyalty By Steven...

Employee Recruitment: Character Matters

Recruiting employees is not that hard. Finding the absolute best employees, well that is another story. Seems the old standards of character are hard to find in our culture today. Any employer would be blessed to hire employees of high integrity, work ethic, diligence...

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Transformation Testimonials | Beer + Showing Up

Beer Assisted Speech When I was in college I had a huge fear of public speaking. Every time I signed up for a new class if I saw there was a speech requirement I’d immediately drop the class. No way was I going to stand up there an stumble through it. I had a mental...

The Four Fundamentals of Good Management: Taking Action

Today we're looking at the second part of our four post series on the fundamentals of management. We are going to talk about taking action. By taking action, we're talking about two things: #1 Have The Conversation The first step to taking action is...

Transformation Testimonials | Booming Management

Many years ago I was hired to help guide a business through a significant period of growth. This was before I could articulate the 7 Timeless Keys to Business Mastery. The company had less than 10 employees but was poised to grow to over 50 within 2 years. The...

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The Four Aspects of Good Leadership: How to Work on Your Business

This is the first of a series of four posts that focus on the four fundamentals of great leadership. The first aspect that we will cover here is learning how to work on your business. You've probably heard it a million times, "You have to take time to work on...

A Constant State of Recruitment: How to Find The Right People for Your Business

Today, we're talking about how to find the right people in your organization. In the previous video, I talked about the fact that people aren't your greatest resource. The RIGHT people are your greatest resource. We need to make sure we get the right...

How to Identify The Core Character of Your Business

Let's continue our talk about how to develop a really great team. In our previous two videos, we talked about how important it is that YOU are the right person and that you have the prerequisites to good leadership and good management. Now...

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Accountability in Business: Establishing Your Individual Rocks

In the last two videos, we talked about setting our company rocks, our 90-day objectives that are going keep us on track to meet our one-year goal. We took those company rocks and we split them out amongst the different leadership team members, and we gave each person...

Accountability in Business: Establishing Your Company Rocks

In the last video, we talked about about how important it is to take our one-year objectives and bring them back to what we need to accomplish in the next 90 days. Today, we're looking at two ways to approach that. The first is, what do we want to accomplish as a...

Accountability: The 90 Day Action Plan For Your Business

In previous videos we talked about the importance of knowing where we want to be three years from now, and then scaling it back to what do we need to do in the next 12 months to get there. We're looking at the accountability key here and how important it is to be able...

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The Four Aspects of Good Leadership: How to Work on Your Business

The Four Aspects of Good Leadership: How to Work on Your Business

This is the first of a series of four posts that focus on the four fundamentals of great leadership. The first aspect that we will cover here is learning how to work on your business. You've probably heard it a million times, "You have to take time to work on...

A Constant State of Recruitment: How to Find The Right People for Your Business

A Constant State of Recruitment: How to Find The Right People for Your Business

Today, we're talking about how to find the right people in your organization. In the previous video, I talked about the fact that people aren't your greatest resource. The RIGHT people are your greatest resource. We need to make sure we get the right...

How to Identify The Core Character of Your Business

How to Identify The Core Character of Your Business

Let's continue our talk about how to develop a really great team. In our previous two videos, we talked about how important it is that YOU are the right person and that you have the prerequisites to good leadership and good management. Now...

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Accountability in Business: Establishing Your Individual Rocks

In the last two videos, we talked about setting our company rocks, our 90-day objectives that are going keep us on track to meet our one-year goal. We took those company rocks and we split them out amongst the different leadership team members, and we gave each person...

Accountability in Business: Establishing Your Company Rocks

In the last video, we talked about about how important it is to take our one-year objectives and bring them back to what we need to accomplish in the next 90 days. Today, we're looking at two ways to approach that. The first is, what do we want to accomplish as a...

Accountability: The 90 Day Action Plan For Your Business

In previous videos we talked about the importance of knowing where we want to be three years from now, and then scaling it back to what do we need to do in the next 12 months to get there. We're looking at the accountability key here and how important it is to be able...

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