Posts Tagged ‘business planning’
Don’t Be Perfect: Be Valuable. (The Exercise)
Every Tuesday, Tuesday On Your Business gives you ways to spend thirty minutes working on your business instead of in it. Step away from the day-to-day tasks of your work and spend time planning for the future, solving problems, and innovating. Starting today, I’m adding a weekly exercise to these posts and emails. For those…
Read MoreWhat you now know about… Everything 😀
Your business does not exist in isolation. You now know some of the most common service providers you’ll work with in your business. Most importantly, you know that working with any service provider always comes down to one thing: That one thing. Know one thing Your business service provider wants to know one thing: what…
Read MoreWhat you still don’t know about… Contracts 🗂️
A few weeks ago we found that the scope of your work is the most important thing in your contracts. In a conversation following that post, a new question arose: once I’ve written one contract, I can copy and paste my scope into all the standard templates, right? Wrong. “Contracts are not all the same,…
Read MoreWhat you don’t know about… Video Marketing 📽️
Visual communication has been around for a long time. Hieroglyphics, cave paintings, and ancient carvings were around long before alphabets. Today we use video: on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and whatever new platform will be all the rage by the time this post goes live in a few hours. So I sat down with Mohua Thakurta,…
Read MoreThe best way to make your employees happy (5/5) 🙌
Has it been a long week? Did last week’s cliffhanger leave you in an agony of suspense? Well, the wait is over. Today let’s cover the second part of your employee meeting. Annual Plan communication You’ve got everyone together to roll out your annual plan. But the whole point is that they are part of…
Read MoreSharing is caring: how to present your annual plan to the whole company (4/5) 🤝
We are talking about writing goals for your business. But you don’t have to. You could also make it up as you go along. You could choose not to write any goals, not to build a plan for the year, and wake up each day seeing which way the wind carries you. You could. It…
Read MoreHow to write goals that matter… and that work (3/5) 👆
Last week you worked on the three questions you have to answer to write proper annual goals. But our work here is not done yet. Answering the questions is half the exercise. Now we have to structure those answers so they become more than ideas and hopes. They have to make a plan. Goals that…
Read More3 simple questions to write your best annual goals (2/5) ☝️
What if I told you 90% of senior executives don’t reach their strategic goals annually? That’s what research from The Economist Intelligence Unit has shown. They say it’s because of flawed implementation. But it’s hard to do good work on a goal if the goal is wrong to begin with. Much too often I see…
Read MoreWhy you want to write an annual plan 👉 (1/5)
You want to start work in January knowing what your business will look like in December. And you want everybody who works for you and with you to know it too. It’s easier to plan your actions and strategies if you know where you want to go. Annual planning is a thought process. It involves…
Read MoreThe magic happens inside the box: innovate to grow your business 🔄(6/6)
Innovation. The magic, as we have seen, happens inside the box. Innovation works best when it uses tools already available, allowing adaptation and evolution over time. Just like Shakespeare changed existing words to create new ones, let your business change existing ideas to create new success. Innovation is internal Your employees are your greatest innovation…
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