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Category Archives: Building Your Team

Building Your Team: Hiring Guide for Small Business Owners

Blog, Building Your TeamBy Your Planning PartnersSeptember 3, 2024Leave a comment

As a small business owner, you’ve probably taken on multiple roles, juggling everything from marketing to customer service. But if you truly want to scale, you need a team that can handle some tasks better, faster, and more efficiently than you. I know that’s easier said than done! The fact is, recruiting the right people…

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Build Your Business Accountability Team!

Blog, Building Your Team, Business GrowthBy Your Planning PartnersJuly 25, 2023Leave a comment

As a business owner, it’s critical to stay focused and consistently make the effort to achieve the business results that you want. As your business grows, complexity increases, making it even more challenging to stay on track to meet your goals. For business owners working solo, maintaining the needed laser focus can be arduous. Wearing…

Stop Being the Chief Cook & Bottle Washer!

Blog, Building Your Team, Business Growth, Planning for SuccessBy Your Planning PartnersMarch 28, 2018Leave a comment

Published: March 29th, 2018; By: Judi Hughes There is actually a dictionary definition for Chief Cook & Bottle Washer – ‘A person who is in charge but who also has to attend to the details and menial tasks.’ I looked it up the other day because I was sure that was the position I had…

Focus on Your Critical Success Indicators

Blog, Building Your Team, Business Growth, Financial Management, Planning for SuccessBy Your Planning PartnersMarch 27, 2015Leave a comment

Is there an easy way to manage your business? No! There is no easy way but there is an effective way and that is to manage your Critical Success Indicators (CSI’s). These are the standards of performance that you set for the critical areas of your business and you measure against actual results. CSI’s focus…

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A-Teams Don’t Need Superheroes

Blog, Building Your Team, Management & LeadershipBy Your Planning PartnersJanuary 30, 2015Leave a comment

I have always been puzzled by what an A-Team means. I know it is a term from the military for an elite band of troops that is highly effective at hurting the enemy. But that doesn’t seem to fit in the business world (at least not my business world) and yet we are constantly hearing…

Grow Your Business by Growing Your Team

Blog, Building Your TeamBy Your Planning PartnersSeptember 10, 2014Leave a comment

The previous blog talked about the pitfalls to avoid when building your team. This blog focuses on how to build a great team by finding and hiring those great people. Get the right people onto your bus (as Jim Collins describes it in his book Good to Great) and you have a winning team. Get…

Pitfalls to Avoid When Building Your Team

Blog, Building Your Team, Business GrowthBy Your Planning PartnersAugust 21, 2014Leave a comment

Building your team does have challenges but it also has huge rewards. You will be energized by your team’s successes. Your team will allow you to focus on those things you are really good at while others are doing work they are really good at. Your business will thrive and the capability of your team…

Power of Attitude

Blog, Building Your Team, Business Growth, Management & LeadershipBy Your Planning PartnersJune 18, 2014Leave a comment

Attitude IS everything. Arrive at work feeling positive and upbeat and the day will be wonderful. Arrive with a dread and negative vibes and you know how the day will unfold! Attitude IS infectious. Your attitude affects your team; it spills over to your clients; it drives your actions; it can attract or detract prospects.…

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3 Critical Focuses for 2014

Blog, Building Your Team, Management & Leadership, Planning for SuccessBy Your Planning PartnersDecember 13, 2013

Business owners wear many hats and so it is often difficult to stay focused on the really important things. As 2014 speedily arrives here are the 3 critical things for you to focus on. 1. Yourself Without you the business would not exist and without you the business will not thrive. So focus on yourself:…

Are You a Good Boss?

Blog, Building Your Team, Management & LeadershipBy Your Planning PartnersNovember 19, 2013Leave a comment

I was reading a Maclean’s article called “Really Bad Bosses”when I was stopped in my tracks by the following: “So what does make a great boss? Increasingly, it’s an ability to deliver results by teasing the very best out of employees ‘ without screaming at them” If I read this right the article is suggesting…

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