Managing

Change 1 Metric And You Can Change It All!

April 23, 2008

What are the 3 top things you measure in your business? Your time? Your income? Your phone calls? Your prospects? Your meetings every week? Give your attention a jolt by adding the following metric to the list: “What single activity brings in the largest portion of my results?” Once you have the answer, grab your [...]

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BUILD YOUR BUSINESS BY THE NUMBERS

April 22, 2008

© 2008 Linda Feinholz I’ve spent a lot of time in meetings during the past two weeks and I found myself noticing opportunities for productivity that my clients kept missing. Each time, I spotted the same missing element: no one was keeping their eye on the numbers. A manufacturer was using two entire days for [...]

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SWITCH ON YOUR BUSINESS’S FAT BURNING MACHINE

April 4, 2008

© 2008 Linda Feinholz. Suppose, for a moment, that building a business was as easy as… Clearing our your distractions Setting your focus Pulling your team together Focusing your attention on your high payoff activities “Well, of course.” You might say. “If it were that easy, no one would be stalled. But it’s never that [...]

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STEP UP AND CREATE YOUR HIGH PAYOFF MEETINGS

April 1, 2008

© 2008 Linda Feinholz. There are times in business when it gets complicated sorting out why a team gets stalled. I’ve had clients who were facing so many competing issues they couldn’t figure out where to start: their strategy, their capabilities, their products or services, and so on. With those companies, we often have to [...]

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USE A HIGH PAYOFF ‘GMS’ TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS?

March 16, 2008

© 2008 Linda Feinholz “Linda, what do you think I should do with this client’s request I got?” My client, Susan knew I wouldn’t just hand her an answer. Yes, I’m famous for having answers for nearly every type of question my clients pose. That’s what a rich full life of diverse work, travel and [...]

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THE HIGH PAYOFF RELATIONSHIP KEY FOR LEADERS

March 10, 2008

© 2008 Linda Feinholz For two days I stayed out of it. I sat watching and listening. That’s what I was supposed to be doing, as a consultant and coach who was sitting in to observe the workings of a team of managers as they conducted their monthly senior management meeting. And boy did I [...]

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ARE YOU MISSING OUT ON THE TRUE POWER OF TEAMS?

February 9, 2008

© 2008 Linda Feinholz. Here’s an interesting fact… According to one of today’s leading authorities on Attention Deficit Disorders, Tellman Knudsen, if you have ADD, you have been programmed since birth to actually NOT be able to do something you really need to do to succeed in life… The thing you have been programmed not [...]

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SHIFT YOUR TO DO LIST TO HIGH PAYOFF TA DAs!

January 26, 2008

© 2008 Linda Feinholz. You’ve got dreams and you’ve got your attention on what it takes to achieve them. You’re ready to roll up your sleeves and eager to start producing massive results. The problem is, you’re dragging. You put in tons of hours, your desk is piled with papers, and no matter how hard [...]

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HIGH PAYOFF QUICK & SIMPLE PLANNING FOR 2008

December 16, 2007

By Linda Feinholz, “Your High Payoff Catalyst” Normally we act. Action is good. But not always. Action with no planning usually means you spend 60 percent of your time off course, off topic, off tack to the goals you say you want to achieve. All for lack of any time spent in ‘planning.’ Many of [...]

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4 WAYS TO SHIFT OUT OF STALL-OUT AND GET YOUR BUSINESS BACK ON TRACK

November 9, 2007

By Linda Feinholz, “Your High Payoff Catalyst” Have you ever had the experience of putting a great plan together and then realizing you’re not making the progress you assumed you would? I’ve been coaching my entrepreneurial and small business clients through that very stall out point for years. I’ve worked in businesses large and small, [...]

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