Insights from a top business coach on how you may be disrupting your growth and profits. Howard m Shore is the founder of Activate Group a premier business acceleration firm.
Could you unconsciously cause yourself and others to climb the wrong mountains? You are doing it far more often than you realize. Many leaders enjoy and love to solve problems. When they see them, they want to solve them. The more problems solved the more accomplished one may feel. However, what if the problems you solved are the wrong ones? Or worse, they are really speed bumps taking you away from the climbing the right mountains.
Do not confuse your ability to earn wealth with good decision making.
Is your structure evolving with the growth of your company? Is your structure properly designed to support both your internal and external strategy? In other
As a Business Coach, I have worked with many organizations and seen the differences between the companies that produce success and those that flounder. Most will never be innovative, transformational, or trailblazers. However, all can have extraordinary growth in revenue and profits. One of the most critical keys to your success is your leadership philosophy around Talent.
Many leaders complain that they hate to go to meetings because they are non-productive. It is common to find that decisions taken at meetings do
How to Increase the Value of Your Business Is selling your business a future consideration? If you are like many business owners, you know you
As a business coach in Miami, I find that many companies fail to achieve their growth goals because they are unable to staff key positions with the right people. Typically, business owners will blame this on talent pool issues, administrative issues, or place the entire burden on the human resource person. However, the real issue is related to strategy. Failure to choose and properly execute the right strategy costs companies a lot of money. The cost of hiring new employees is not readily apparent when looking at your financial statements.
I’ve had the opportunity to work with many amazing clients over my decades of coaching businesses and their executives, and I’ve been able to learn and confirm many eye-opening things about what made them great.
Too many young companies are too eager to dive in head first, without first considering where they are going and what they hope to accomplish.
Does your business operate at peak business performance? Have you built a business model that delivers high net profit and is scalable? Are you wondering
Do you Have a Time Management Issue? You cannot manage time itself, but you can manage yourself and how you choose to use your time.
The trademarks of a great operation are how well its leader and team use time and set priorities. Too often people confuse activity with productivity.
Setting Business Priorities Setting business priorities starts with a plan. A good plan creates focus, sets goals, creates alignment throughout your organization, and provides a
Frustrated by your organization’s performance. Tired of underperforming, failing to achieve objectives, challenged to achieve positive cash flow, can’t put your finger on why all this was happening. Leaders Get Out of Your Own Way, a good leadership operating system makes all these problems go away. Poor leadership was the cause and everything else was effect!
Even the most successful leaders and entrepreneurs can have holes, or leaks, in their business model or strategies. That means that there are components of
Many organizations set goals and fail to reach them. Others achieve some of their goals by accident. There are some leaders that question whether setting
When leveraged properly, metrics lead to propelling your business forward. Business metrics development and review is an essential skill that all leaders must master.
If you can’t fill positions fast enough, have too many underperformers, it is an internal problem, not external. Put the best talent at your biggest problem. And engage all employees to be part of the solution.
After observing thousands of leaders in companies from startups to over $20B in revenue and helping create over $1 Billion in business value, I noticed
A client asked me to observe his weekly leadership team meeting and it was one of the worst meetings I had attended in a long time. Every leader in the room should have been upset because they essentially wasted 90 minutes. More concerning was the fact that leadership rated it a great meeting.
Might you and your leaders unconsciously fall into the same traps as my client? After all, the agenda and process for the meeting is common practice and is prescribed by EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) Implementers all around the world. The problem was not the process or EOS, it was the way it was being implemented. Let’s dissect what happened and then discuss what should happen in every weekly meeting.
How does growing your business 20% sound to you? How does it sound to do that consistently every year? Over the years, one of the things I’ve discovered in working with companies large and small is that organizations that exemplify sustained superior performance have a remarkable culture.
How does growing your business 20% sound to you? How does it sound to do that consistently every year? Over the years, one of the things I’ve discovered in working with companies large and small is that organizations that exemplify sustained superior performance have a remarkable culture.
Recently, I facilitated a meeting for one of the most innovative companies I work with. The leadership team is one of the smartest I have
While people have been impacted by globalization, technology, and other circumstances, achieving business success has not changed. Over time, you will need to discuss changing
The CEO of one of my Business Coaching clients, let’s call him Joe, was very highly strung when I first met him. He was saddled
Have you ever been frustrated because a colleague had failed to follow through on a critical priority? You are not alone. I have concluded that
Recently a client sent me an email with a curious question: “What is coming that I do not see?” All leaders have asked this question
Is your business taking you on the ride of your business life? Feel like an astronaut during liftoff? Maybe, unlike so many businesses in 2020,
What did 2020 look like for your business? More so, how do you think it’s looking for 2021? Do you feel like your business is
For most business owners, 2020 was a year filled with the unexpected. Perhaps you’re one of the fortunate businesses whose products were in great demand
If you want to improve teamwork and performance in your organization you have to look at the four core elements to driving team performance: relationships, goals, roles, and rules.
Has your business been severely affected by the 2020 recession? Did you lose your largest customer, one that produced over 30% of your revenue alone?
Do you feel like your business has lost momentum or is in a slide that you can’t stop? Not sure what to do? Chances are,
In my 30 years working with CEOs and executive teams, I’ve found five phases that a company is typically in. And while years like 2020
You may be focusing on the wrong indicators in your company. Your revenue may be growing, your profit margins good, and your net profit plentiful,
