Time is perishable, irreplaceable, and keeps moving forward whether we like it or not. So, how do we make the most of it? By identifying our priorities and using the four-category time management method.
How to manage your time effectively
Coaching your team well is a hallmark of leadership excellence. As a leader, you’re responsible for equipping your people to think differently, meet great challenges and ultimately succeed. But their success will be a hollow victory if they never take ownership of their own development.
Trust might be one of those touchy-feely emotions that takes a back seat in the headlines to things like risk-taking and creativity — and yet trust is what makes a well-run team work together so beautifully.
Quick – what’s more valuable: the ability to juggle conflicting priorities or the confidence to seize a new opportunity? While the question can be debated from every angle, in reality the answer depends on the individual. That’s why business coaching that creates deep, lasting growth must start from a place of empathy.
Stress is difficult to define because it is such a looming emotion. This state of mental tension is an equal opportunity attacker and it can strike an employee at any level of a company to different degrees. In fact, 1 in 5 Americans experience extreme stress, including shaking, heart palpitations and depression, according to The American Institute of Stress. But even the most subtle representations of stress can have a severe impact on productivity.
It’s a lesson oft repeated: “The surest way for an executive to kill himself is to refuse to learn how, and when, and to whom to delegate work,” said James Cash Penney, founder of the J.C. Penney retail chain. Sure, you can hold onto every role and wear every hat in your small business—but doing so severely limits how much that business can grow. Small-business coaching can help leaders effectively delegate. Here are five ways to strengthen this skill so your small business can soar:
Sixty-six percent of small business owners plan to grow their business in the next five years, according to the 2015 Bank of America Small Business Owner Report. Major growth can be a time of great excitement at a company of any size, but it can also usher in a period of tumult for business leaders and employees. Protocols that once fit the organization might no longer work or need to be wholly re-envisioned, the talent pool may be over-stretched or expanding rapidly and feeling disjointed, and strategies that were first created when the company was smaller could prove themselves to be anything but one size fits it.
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Google famously allows employees to devote 20 percent of their workweek to pursuing their own creative projects and endeavors. Some of these unstructured hours have yielded new tools and apps that are now used by millions (Google Maps is but one example). Yet encouraging creativity and leadership development in your coworkers can have real benefits – whether their results are sellable or not. (more…)
The standard business advice to seize every opportunity contains a fatal flaw: It assumes that opportunity will just present itself at some point, and you can passively wait for it to arise. But some of the best and boldest business minds know real opportunities are made, not merely grabbed at.
Small-business owners are the heart and soul of their enterprises. Their actions and outlook directly impact those of their employees and customers. An efficient, confident business owner leads to a more successful small business. When these leaders feel like they’ve done everything in their power to build up their companies and are ready to take their careers to the next level, it’s time to invest in a small-business coach.
How do I standout in today’s marketplace? It’s a fair question and the answer may be found in your strategy. Times & tools have changed, but when serving your clients, the song remains the same: Can Your Business Find You?
Time to Reflect
Growing up as a TV fan in the ‘80s, I was forced to get comfortable with waiting. When my favorite show ended on Tuesday at 9 p.m. (like this one or this one), we were forced to wait 7 long days to see what happened next to the characters we loved. In that forced hiatus,… Read More
2021 Life Planning: Set and Achieve Your Goals [Video]
As 2020 comes to a close, Daniel Harkavy reflects on the year and shares the importance of creating a Life Plan. If this year has left you feeling off-course or adrift, it’s time to review, reflect, and plan.
Bookending Your Day: How to build a better morning and night routine [Video]
Whether you lead at home or work, how you start and end your day plays a significant role in how you show up as a leader, a friend, and a partner. Principal Coach Dan Foster walks you through how to “bookend your day”, highlighting key elements to intentionally include in your morning and night routines… Read More
Fighting a Fixed Mindset
Let’s be honest: 2020 has been a challenging year. That’s not to say there haven’t been moments of triumph and opportunity, but for many of us our mindsets and perspective have been tested like never before. We’ve been forced to re-think our rhythms, routines, priorities and schedules, all while dealing with a tsunami of change… Read More
How Past U.S. Presidents Leveraged Other Perspectives
The need for wise and effective leadership is as great as it’s ever been. 2020 has been a tumultuous year necessitating many quick, yet crucially important decisions. Our sense of normalcy has been turned upside down as fears for our health, safety, loved ones, businesses, and bank accounts continue to rise. And now we are… Read More
The 7 Perspectives Video Series
Part I: Your Decisions & Influence In the first of a three-part video series, Daniel Harkavy explores how your decisions and influence affect everything from promotions to gaining and keeping the trust of your team and peers. Read Video Transcript
Transform your Beliefs to Become a Coaching Leader
Dan Foster, Principal Coach at Building Champions, talks about the importance of transforming our beliefs in the journey to Becoming a Coaching Leader and shares six questions every coaching leader must answer. Watch Dan’s short video to learn how you can transform your beliefs.
My Top 10 Tactical Leadership Changes in 2020
Reimagining Our Strengths and Weaknesses [Video]
Todd Mosetter, Vice President and Executive Coach at Building Champions, talks about strengths and weaknesses. Instead of the traditional way we think of strengths and weaknesses, Todd presents a new way to frame them that can help you destress and reenergize.