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Henri Schauffler, The CEO Coach, has dedicated the last 20 years to helping
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09th May 2008
We all want to have a united team in our company; a high energy positive working environment that fosters high performance and a high level of employee job satisfaction. The big guys call this “culture.” We all need a unified, high energy, high perf...
08th May 2008
Having some challenges getting you sales to close, either in your own sales or that of your team? There’s probably a very clear reason why – you don’t have a simple “step” sales system in place, it is not documented and therefore you cannot tra...
08th May 2008
Are you the great-guy CEO who loves to be loved by all your employees? Do you have an "open door policy?" I have a challenge for you - close it!
Think about it - open door policies are for big businesses that need a strategy to break barriers. Small...
08th May 2008
It's amazing how many people put a statement like the following in their business and/or strategic plan: "The total market for our product is projected to be $1 billion in five years. If we only get 10% of it, we will be a $100 million company in five ye...
08th May 2008
Productivity coaches and the seminars and so on always tell us we should set goals; they always have all kinds of high-minded reasons why it will boost productivity, etc. Wouldn't it be easier and more productive to just get going?
Well, that's sort...
06th May 2008
Today, I want to celebrate you, the small business owner. So please take a step back and allow me to appreciate you…
Our society, especially since 911, celebrates as heroes fire and police men and women and our armed forces men and women - and very ...
01st May 2008
If you're finishing up your business plan and starting to think about presenting the plan to potential investors and lenders, you MUST spend quality time and energy preparing your presentation. The business plan represents you and your company; it doesn'...
29th April 2008
So you’ve decided you need to write a business plan – now what? Where do you start? Here are four quick tips that will help you get going right away. The main thing is to GET STARTED. Here’s how:
A business plan is in essence a creative writi...
28th April 2008
The core of any usable business plan, and also any plan that is created in order to find financing or partners, are the financial projections. Then, most important to those projections are the assumptions used to create these projections.
TIP 1: BE CA...
28th April 2008
So you think you can just go on endlessly “flying by the seat of your pants” with your business? “Sure I can,” you say, “I’ve been working successfully this way since we started!” Yes, but if you want to grow to the next level, you will ne...
27th April 2008
Most small business CEOs have their bookkeeping fairly
well in in order. But, are you using the numbers in
your accounting to make key strategic decisions about
your business?
CASE STUDY
Sally has four stores on one accounting system - ...
25th April 2008
We are always hearing how we should have a business plan, right? But, seriously, what busy street-fighting entrepreneur actually has time to create one of those 1,000 page monstrosities?!
But, you know what? Many of the things that are covered in one...
18th April 2008
Many entrepreneurs are uneasy with the looming recession as reported in the news over and over again every day. If their goal is to instill fear in the hears of Americans, they have succeeded. Have you seen the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) lately? I...
10th April 2008
Aren’t you tired of hearing about all the worries of recession,
depression, economic downturn and the like? Hey – it’s an
overused quote, but, “When the going gets tough, the tough get
going.” This couldn’t be truer for small businesse...
09th April 2008
I'm sure you've heard it before: "If you fail to plan, you plan to
fail..."
But be honest - did you take it seriously? Or, are you always too
"busy doing the work" to plan?
The biggest danger in failing to plan is that your activities will be
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