Article:  How To Systemize Your Business:  The Second Step To Strategic Systemization.  The second step to systemizing your business is all about understanding where you need to be in your business for you achieve your goals and visions you have set.  Its about working out what you want to be different from where you are now.  What you are trying to create in this phase is an ideal future state of your business.    Click Here To Read More

Article:  How To Systemize Your Business:  The First Step To Strategic Systemization.  What does systemizing your business really mean? Lots of people talk about it, and lots of people say they want it, but do they really know what it truly means? Well, in this article I'm going to break it down in terms of what it really means and then explain to you the first step that needs to happen to be well on your way to creating a streamlined, efficient business operation.  Click Here To Read More

Article:  How Effective Are Your Systems And Can You Even Tell? It is one thing to have processes in place, and it is quite another to actually know if they are effective or not.  See, all too often processes are developed and documented and then  filed away and never referred to again.  As a result, over time the process gets diluted and we start developing habits in the way we do certain things and it may actually be in total contradiction to the way the process is supposed to work.  Click Here To Read More

Article:  How To Evaluate What's Working In Your Business And What's Not.  Have you ever been so caught up in what you’re doing in your business that your actually wondering if it is even working?  I know I have.  That seems to be the joy of small business.  You’re constantly giving attention here and there, attending to this while trying to prevent that, basically fire-fighting all the time and as a result things are never really completed or achieved as you would have hoped, and results are sketchy at best.  Click Here To Read More

Article:  Turn Your Business Problems Into Solutions.  Have You ever wondered why so many small business owners seem to effortlessly sail through hiccups, roadblocks and even storms?  Here’s the secret – they have a Masters in Business Mechanics.  They have become so adept at understanding the intracacies of how their business operates, with out seemingly even being there.  How do they do it?  

How have they gone from moving their current business to their ideal business and from taking the employee out of them and replacing it with the owner in them.  Essentially they have transitioned from being operational and tactical “doers” to entrepreneurial “thinkers” who lead the way for their business to grow and prosper. I’m going to outline a process for you that will take your business from its current state of chaos, inconsistency and unpredictability to a state of control, calm and order.  Its called the “5 Step Situation Reframe Technique".  Click Here To Read More

Article:  Small Business Improvement – The Problem, The Solution, the Promise, The Process.  When you’re in business is so important to understand the problem you are solving for your target market, and not just any old problem you think that they might have, but the absolute number 1 problem that they are experiencing.  Once you can safely say that you know what the number 1 problem is that you are solving for your target market, you need to be able to provide a solution to that problem.  How you provide the solution to that problem becomes your core message to who you are serving, and this is true regardless of whether or not you are a services based business or a business that sells products.  You simply must have a core message that is your promise to your market.  Click To Read More

Article:  How To Prepare An Effective Job Description So That Your Hire The Right Person Every Time.  So many small business owners seem to struggle with the people side of managing their business so in this article I thought I would focus on how to prepare a job description in preparation for hiring a new person, whether that person be an employee or a contractor. 

First of all, what is a job description?  Well, a job description is a document that contains specific information about a job, what it is, who it reports to, how it is performed, including any responsibilities, and also a description of the ideal person for the job.  Click Here To Read More

Article: The Number One Problem That Causes Good People To Do Poor Work.  Have you ever wondered why nothing is ever done the way that you want it, and that your people can never seem to get it right even though it seems like you have told them a million times how to do something?  Well, the problem is not that your people are not listening, and its not that they are ignoring you.  Nine times  out of ten they actually want to produce the results and outcomes that would satisfy you, but the problem is that unless you have written documented work procedures for “how things are done around here” where your employees or contractors can follow step by step, and be clear on what the expected outcome is, then you are never going to get the same results.  Click Here To Read More