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5 Compelling Reasons to Choose a Wellness Opportunity
I actually have two separate online businesses -
Selling wellness products and
Selling digital information products (eBooks)
Because I can look at things from both perspectives, I often tend to compare the two businesses from...
How to Establish Your Authority
“Leaders are born, not made” – do you think this is true? I think one can learn to act as if he or she was born a leader. I’m thinking of my young friend Mark who told me his boss had told him, “The only reason I haven’t made you a manager is that...
How to Kill Your Business in Two easy Steps
How to Kill Your Business in Two Easy Steps By Monty J. Sharp, Certified Comprehensive Coach http://www.workteamcoaching.com Every calling is great when greatly pursued. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) Learning From Failure Here’s a...
The Key to High Productivity is Energy Management
One of the issues most often raised by my clients is better time management. People have tried prioritizing tasks, blocking out parts of their day for certain tasks, implementing new systems and getting better at delegation. While all of those...
Zero-based budgeting - start fresh, achieve more!
Every year, good business executives develop a budget. Peek into the planning sessions and operating mode of any well-run company and you will find a strong budgetary process at work. Simply put, a budget is a financial tool -- sort of a...
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Don’t Shrink – RETHINK!
Now is the time to pull together and think creatively about our businesses. When times are easy, unfortunately, we often lose the edge to monitor performance, to question out-dated procedures and unnecessary expenses. Maintenance items slip when we’re busy “filling orders”. This might be anything from physical maintenance to reconnecting with clients, to exploring new opportunities for growth, to taking classes for improvement and enrichment.
Consider brainstorming some of these questions:
What would happen if we had a product that was 180 degrees different from today? (Example: A hospital with low census went from finding ways to get sick people in the door to finding ways to get well people in the door! They re-created their unused physical space into a wellness center and found lots of takers!)
What if we blew up the business and started all over? What would we get rid of because it is extraneous, irrelevant or an unnecessary expense?
(Example: How many people really READ that report? Does it have to be so immense? What’s the bottom line here? )
Have we put people in positions where they play to their strengths? Talk, talk, talk and figure out where is the match.
(Example: One employee is great with web research, web design, and staying up on the competition. She’s lousy on the phone. Right now,
she’s willing to cut back and work half-time from her house with a company-supplied computer and cable modem.)
If your job opened up today, would you get it? Are you consistently producing great results, solving problems and finding more efficient ways of doing things?
(Example: Take on a project no one wants and make it work. Can you persuade people to get onboard and achieve a goal? Now, that’s leadership—a quality that is in GREAT demand and therefore, recession-proof.)
Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, is an international speaker, author and seminar leader. Her book ‘Work for A Living and Still Be Free to Live’ is also the title of one of her most popular and upbeat programs on Work/Life Balance. For more information on Eileen and her presentations, please call 949-496-8640 or visit her web site at http://www.eileenmcdargh.com.
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About the Author
Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, is an international speaker, author and seminar leader. Her book ‘Work for A Living and Still Be Free to Live’ is also the title of one of her most popular and upbeat programs on Work/Life Balance. For more information on Eileen and her presentations, please call 949-496-8640 or visit her web site at http://www.eileenmcdargh.com.
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