Tag Archive for: business challenges

Balancing the Three Unavoidable Zones of Business Growth

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Would you like to be able to predict the challenges you will encounter as a business owner, before they happen? There are actually three unavoidable modes every company experiences when it goes through growth: Preparation Zone, the Performance…

Getting Systems and Processes in Place as Company Grows

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Anyone who worked with me or has read my blogs knows how passionate I am about helping business owners create effective processes. Processes are usually not the sexy side of growth - others prefer to talk about buzzworthy concepts of innovation,…

Focusing on Opportunities

The Challenge Defined: As companies grow and add levels of hierarchy, it’s harder to stay agile and creative and to respond quickly to new opportunities. Decision-making is slowed because the stakes are higher. Leadership teams tend to…

Identifying Problems Early in Their Development

The Challenge Defined: As your company becomes more complex, it's harder to detect problems that may be just beneath the surface, creating cracks that could sink your organization. The key for you is to take every negative undercurrent or…

Keeping the Customer Front and Center

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During rapid growth, you may find your business shifting from the desperate search for customers to the desperate search for ways to operate better, faster and cheaper. At this point, it's quite possible to lose sight of why your customers are…

Getting the Full Benefit From Employee Communication

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As the company grows, people within it tend to get held up in their roles without seeing the big picture. You will be surprised how many employees find it difficult to answer two fundamental questions about their workplace:  What business…

Promoting Change Within an Organization

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The Challenge Defined: When it comes to change in organizations, there’s a dynamic called the Builder/Protector Ratio. A Builder mindset is comfortable with risk and they’re not afraid of change or the new challenges that will emerge.…

Retaining Key Employees

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A valued employee may leave your company for any number of reasons. All too often, it happens in a growing company when someone who used to have direct access to you is now separated from you by a manager or director.  There’s a high cost…

The Need for Staff Training

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The Challenge Defined: Is there an intentional training program in place for all employees that is focused on company goals? How much of the budget has been allocated to training?  Training staff on company goals, company issues and company…

Creating Meaningful Core Values

The Challenge Defined: Every organization loves to talk about their “core values.” And I’ve even worked with some companies that seem to live by them … and thrive because of them. I’m a bit of a cynic though, when someone tells…