Top 10 Critical Business Challenges – Survey Results

Last week I asked more than 1,000 small business leaders across the country to evaluate the importance of Top 10 critical business challengesand over 26% of the people responded! Take a few minutes to find out what leaders identified as their top eight challenges. Do you agree with them?

So what do you think? Did they miss any? Read more

Small Business Accelerator: 3 Breakthrough Strategies To Increase Your Company’s Profit

Today is a big day for you and the future of your business.

I just released my first video in a series of 4 that is going to show you actionable strategies to help you rapidly increase performance and profit in your company – starting TODAY!

This training is taken from my brand new program:

The Small Business Accelerator (SBA)

and contains specific strategies that I’ve never shared in this format before.

In fact, clients invest a lot of money to access this valuable information that I’m giving away for free today.

I’ll tell you more about today’s training video in a second, but if you want to get started and watch it right now, click on the video below:

(Just click here to watch the video right now!)

In This Video You’ll Learn:

1 — To set the “right” objectives for the three most important parts of your business

2 — The most important business metrics that will enable you to achieve your objectives

3 — How to evaluate your personal leadership effectiveness – Do you have what it takes to lead your organization to achieve extraordinary profitability

Special Bonuses ==>

I’m also including valuable bonuses that you can use immediately to help your entire organization.

• The first bonus is a white paper called: Playing To Win — Leading During Uncertain Times, which shows you how to Increase Margins and Boost Employee Morale even during difficult economic conditions like we are in today.

• The second bonus is my Leadership Self Assessment that will quickly show you  how effectively you’re leading your organization.

Make sure you watch this critical training and download all the bonuses immediately! Read more

Trust Leadership: Engage Employees and Skyrocket Performance

“Good-bye, 2010!”

For a year that was supposed to hold such economic promise, it certainly didn’t deliver.

In fact, most small business leaders I talk to still feel the heavy weight of uncertainty and question their ability for growth in this economic recovery.

The way I see it, we have two options:  become paralyzed by circumstances or adapt.

Like you, I’m also a small business owner and entrepreneur so I know the “sit and wait” approach is not even an option!

While there is much to consider in a down economy, let’s boil it down to basics.

Before you do anything else, you need to gauge your trust leadership by asking yourself, “Do my employees trust me and the company’s leaders?”  To assume the answer is “yes” does you no good, so be honest.  Want the truth?  Look closely at your company’s culture.

So how do you know if you’ve developed leadership trust?

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Leadership Self Assessment – Are You the Leader You Think You Are?

You may think you’re a pretty good leader, but if the people you depend on to get the work done are not coming through for you, you have to consider that they might not be the problem. A leadership self assessment may be called for here.

What is a leadership self assessment? Well, when was the last time you checked your own leadership effectiveness pulse? How about your leadership team – your managers and supervisors? Does your leadership team measure up? If not, how exactly do you measure and assess their effectiveness?

The only way to know for sure is to measure and evaluate, and I’ll bet it’s been awhile since you did that. So get a pencil and paper and let’s do a leadership self assessment right now. Read more