Delegate and Elevate: Empowering your team to do the work, so that you can lead
You need a strategy to grow your business. You’re considering hiring a manager. Wrong! Choose to delegate and elevate instead.
Recognize and Stop Business Owner Burnout
Business owner burnout. Are you suffering from it? Learn about the causes, symptoms, and how to relieve the burnout that will damage you and your business.
Stop Overwhelming Yourself: A Leader’s Guide on How to Get Out of Your Own Way
As a creative agency owner, you get busy, right? I mean, it goes with the territory, doesn’t it? But if you don’t learn how to get out of your own way, your business will never grow, and you’ll always be too busy.
What if your dreams came true?
“In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.” ~ Peter Drucker What would happen if your business volume doubled? What if you had twice as many clients?Twice as many projects?Twice as many invoices?Twice as many employees? Does this sound like a dream come true, or a nightmare? I had a coach who…
Do you ever feel overwhelmed?
When listening to business owners, I often hear them talking about feeling overwhelmed. It can feel like you are juggling a million balls a once, client calls, employee needs, cash flow, business development… But it’s not just business stuff; your son’s birthday is coming up, your car needs an oil change, you haven’t been on…
Focus
Here’s a list of things that I’m moving off my plate focus on making progress on my biggest goals: I’m checking the news only once a day, for 30 minutes. I’m saying no to networking requests. I love meeting people, but I need the calendar space. I’m saying no to “coffee,” even with “business friends.”…
How’s your “boss” treating you?
Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks. ~ Lori Greiner How many of these things are true of your “boss”? They set unreasonable deadlines, and then you end up working late trying to meet them. They regularly underestimate the work on your plate. When a client asks…
More perspectives on overcoming adversity
For some business owners, the excitement and passion they have for their business can get stomped out by the administrivia, the grind, and the thankless leadership tasks. Over time, the vision they had for the business they set out to build starts to fade, and they start dreaming about a different business. For some, the…
Are you rearranging your sock drawer?
Have you noticed that when you are facing a big challenge, your productivity plummets? Let me give you some examples. In college, finals week was the time I’d choose to catch up on all my laundry. When I’m about to start a new project, the first thing I need to do is switch my task…
Are you “doing the thing” or leading your business?
As I talked with one of my clients last week, he said something that blew my mind. Mike went to law school as a mid-career switcher. His background is in product development and engineering, but now he owns a law firm. We talked about how things have changed for him during the last few years…