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Home Business Opportunity - The Importance of Ongoing Process Improvement
To improve your overall business strategies, you should look at integrating process improvements to optimize every aspect of your business operation.

How Organized is Your Business? Part 2
Yesterday I asked you how organized your business was. Did you consider your answer? Today I'll share a thought on how you can move yourself to a business more organized. Write Your Processes Down!
Organized Business! How Organized is Yours?
According to the Small Business Administration small businesses make up more than 99.7 percent of all employees. Add to that the latest figures that show small businesses create 75% of the net new jobs in our economy and you can see how important small businesses are. Small Business Owners have a very challenging job. Many small business owners go into an industry because it matches their passion or is something that they are really good at. What many start up business owners do not realize is that it takes a LOT more than being good in a particular industry to successfully run a business.

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Strategic Advice For Giving Feedback From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
One of the most critical activities of a coach, mentor, supervisor or anyone that oversees the work of others is to provide feedback to let them know, in a timely and ongoing way, how they are performing. People committed to continuous improvement welcome the opportunity to discuss their strengths and areas for improvement in their performance. Feedback must encourage self-reflection& raise self-awareness. Traditionally, formal feedback is planned as part of a performance appraisal and includes an assessment of how the person is progressing toward meeting his or her goals. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach has some advice for those of you that do performance reviews and also offers ten (10) tips to help you achieve a productive and powerful feedback system with people you coach, mentor and/or supervise.

Goals Will Guide You to Success
If you want to be successful in life, you need to set goals for yourself. Work hard to accomplish everything you have dreamed. Analyze your weaknesses, and the areas that need improvement. You can achieve any goal if you create a plan and work hard enough.
Tactics For Keeping Score On Your Business
How To Analyze and Report Sales and Profit Generating Activity. Whether you are a solopreneur, manage a team or are responsible for the whole organization. Tracking wins and loses is not good enough in sales or any performance area of the business for that matter. A methodical, yet meaningful tracking of results can reveal important areas of needed improvement as well as successes that need to be replicated.
The importance of coaching
Everybody who is busy working with their own business, needs fresh opinions from people that can objectively look at their work and identify the areas that need improvement as well as their strengths. One way to get that kind of input is to use various coaching services. This kind of service can emphasize your awareness of how to become a more effective business person.
Becoming Happily Discontented
To begin a journey of improvement in all areas of your life you must first accept your current situation. Please note: ACCEPTANCE not RESIGNATION. To resign yourself to your current situation means that you have determined that there is no hope for improvement. To accept it means that you acknowledge that this is your starting point.

Drucker, Culture, and Safety
The Safety Culture Index is compiled from a 41-question survey that will help managers assess just how effective their workplace culture really is at preventing accidents. It helps managers to zero-in on, and implement improvement plans against the specific areas that require attention to reduce culture-spawned safety risks.
Michael Scott, Motivation, and Just Listening
Performance Improvement too often gets pigeon-holed as either an HR or operational function. While there is a wealth of sales and marketing literature available, the fact remains that sales is the lifeblood of any business, and marketing is the vital strategic connection for business growth. Not providing performance management resources in these areas is simply not an option.

Change Management Can Lead to Rigidity and Resistance to Change
Beware of formal organization improvement or "change management" (an oxymoron) plans. Like strategic plans, organization improvement or change management plans can reduce an organization's effectiveness. They can lead to rigidity, bureaucracy, and resistance to change. This sounds like an argument against planning. It's not. We have found that constant and ongoing personal, team, and organization improvement planning is vital. But too many "change management" and improvement plans are built on the same faulty premise as strategic planning - that there is a right path, which can be determined in advance and then implemented. We often hear managers declare that they have the right strategic or improvement plan, but the reason things aren't going according to plan is because of "execution problems." This is a deadly assumption.
Process Management Pathways and Pitfalls (Part Two)
Make sure all your process improvement activities are clearly and tightly linked to your strategic imperatives. Each effort should also have highly focused and specific improvement goals (that are an aggressive, major stretch) and measurements. Establish feedback and follow-up steps for each process management and improvement team.

Why Most Change Programs and Improvement Initiatives Fail
Many team and organization change and improvement efforts are lost or badly bewildered. Decades of studies have consistently shown that 50-70 percent are failing. There are as many reasons that improvement endeavors lose their way, as there are people, teams, and organizations trying to improve.
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