Meetings and Listening

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Webinar with David Cohn

One of the most challenging aspects to owners and managers is finding the time for meetings and making them productive and effective.
Please join David, owner of David Cohn & Associates as he discusses the importance of meetings and how to make them effective. David is a “Collaborative Catalyst” for successful succession planning and implementation for closely held and family businesses. David Cohn has a lifetime of experience being a resource for families, associations and other business advisors in the succession planning process.

In this webinar, David will teach you how to run better meetings where employees look forward to attending, feel good when the meeting is over, feel that it was productive, and feel like it was one of the best meetings that they have ever attended.

Never Quit

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Article by Henry Goudreau

Last week while doing my coaching calls; I suddenly realized that I was hearing the
identical problems from my clients. The irony was;they weren’t the same size businesses. One
was in a few hundred thousand dollars in Sales, while the other was in multi-million dollars in
Sales. They were both stressed out, overwhelmed and ready to call it quits.

Show One. Do One. Teach One.

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Article by Constructus International

Often we are frustrated when an employee forgets about, avoids, or improperly uses a process that we have told them about or asked them to use. “We know we told them once”, shouldn’t they get it? Often we label or judge them as lazy, incompetent or at worst stupid. Sometimes it is lack of commitment or poor attention to detail by our employees, but frequent occurrences or occurrences from multiple team members should be a red flag warning to management that “we” need to do something different.

Business Plan Part 2

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Article by Tom Dedin

Many times entrepreneurs set out to start their own business. Excited and passionate about what they do and ready to conquer the market, they really have not taken the time to plan properly. This means that the business in which they are about to invest and to assume many risks will start on a “flimsy” foundation. I see it every day in the construction world. An employee says to himself, “I would like to own my own business and make the big money and be independent….” So they head out starting their own business only to find that running a sustainable business not only takes the knowledge of the trade, but the knowledge of some fundamental business skills as well.

Business Plan Part 1

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Article by Tom Dedin

Many times entrepreneurs set out to start their own business. Excited and passionate about what they do and ready to conquer the market, they really have not taken the time to plan properly. This means that the business in which they are about to invest and to assume many risks will start on a “flimsy” foundation. I see it every day in the construction world. An employee says to himself, “I would like to own my own business and make the big money and be independent….” So they head out starting their own business only to find that running a sustainable business not only takes the knowledge of the trade, but the knowledge of some fundamental business skills as well.

Make Easier Decisions

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Article by Henry Goudreau

How often have you tossed and turned with an important decision but failed to act because you felt like your feet were locked in cement, at night it feels as though your backbone is chewing on your stomach, you don’t decide, you worry, you delay important decision making even though this one failure to decide will adversely your life and business?