Critics, or valuable feedback?

If people that don’t like you are saying it, ignore it.

If people that are full of envy and jealousy are saying it, ignore them too.

If people who have no clue and don’t know what they are talking about are saying it, ignore them too.

If a person who criticizes all the time says it, pay little attention.

If people you respect say it, listen.

If good people who are normally quiet are saying it, listen.

If many quality people are saying it, you probably should have been listening a long time ago.

Simple Strategies Win!

It’s hard to execute a complex plan.  Great leaders are great simplifiers who can cut through information and confusion and offer a solution that everyone can understand.

Do you process complexity and put out simplicity?

Leader – "Dealer in hope"

“A leader is a dealer in hope” – Napoleon Bonaparte

Do your people feel that tomorrow will be better than today under your leadership and ideas?

Overwhelm – too many files open

If you have too many unfinished things, unresolved issues, decisions left undecided, tasks you think you have to do but haven’t, you will feel overwhelmed.

Write them all down on a list.  Then cross out the ones that really don’t have to be done at all.  Then decide which can be delegated – get people to help you.  Then decide which ones can wait.  Then decide which are most important for you to do.  Then pick one – ONE, that has to be done right now.  

Forget the rest at the moment, and focus on the ONE most important thing.  

You got this!

If you had to hire every one of them over again…

…would you? Think about each one. Knowing what you now know, would you hire them over again?

If the answer is no on any one, why do you keep them?

Like attracts like

High quality employees are attracted to high quality leaders.

Low quality employees are attracted to places that will accept them and not ask them to change.

How do you look and sound to others?  What is your reputation?

Multi-tasking = more mistake

Research shows that wen your trying to multi task you increase the error rate by 50%.

So don’t try to do two thing at once, because you;ll wind up making a lot of mistakes.  

Do one thing at a time.  Focus your attention and do it well.  You’ll feel better too!

Eat with your team

Bring lunch in, or order in for a group…but sit with your team members and eat together.  You’ll form great relationships and learn a lot.  

Eat with your team today!

Re-commit (and "Invictus" is here!)

When entrepreneurs start a business, we throw ourselves all in. But over time, through challenge and resistance, we can kind of settle in and become a bit complacent.

“Me, complacent? Are you kidding? I’m the owner, the leader, I love this business…” 

Think about it. Is it time to re-commit?

Holes in the filter

Think about an employee who is underperforming, doesn’t fit, or isn’t working out in some way. Now think about when you hired them. Did you interview them 3 times? Were they interviewed at different places? Were they interviewed by different people in your company and did you meet afterwards to get a consensus? Did you check their skills and did you check their background/references?

Ok, so who’s really responsible for this employee underperforming?

What will you do differently next time?