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Business Tips :                               SYSTEMS Check out the diagram to the left. Systems are just that. It is a way to organize thinking, action, and results in a process. That is a system. When you think of a system, you should think of putting something on autopilot. Putting someone on speed dial is a system. Setting your alarm is a system. Anything that makes your life easier, more efficient, and at the same time takes into account your relationships becomes a system. We like systems at our companies. Why? It’s because it becomes available for anyone to step in and continue the legacy that we have created. No one is irreplaceable. Not me, our management, our staff, administration, no one. We are all dispensable and technically so are our lives.   How many times have you looked at a calendar and thought, where has time gone? Remember though, what you bring to a system is your competence...

Business Tips : MANAGEMENT Management and leadership are often mentioned in the same sentence. However, leadership is looking forward with vision, dreams, and specific traits. It is important to separate the two terms. Management is looking at current results and determining the best way to move forward. Management is about building leadership in the company. To be a good manager, one must be constantly learning in order to take the business to the next level. The law of the lid says that a business can only rise to the level of leadership that those leaders have attained. Let’s talk about those levels – 1.       Learner – just getting started, “how to steps” 2.       Performer – has some time on the water, can do the task, getting better and better 3.       Orchestrator – can count on them, delegates and teaches how to do task while still doing it themselves, gets more done with the help of others ...

Business Tips : INFLUENCE The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself John Maxwell says “Leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.” So the question becomes, how can I gain influence? You can either borrow it or earn it. In most cases leaders borrow it before they earn it. That’s the way it has been in my life. As a young man, no one trusted me, no one believed me, and the circle of influence that I was running in didn’t lead to any borrowing of it…..no one had any. So when it came to influencing others that had more influence than I, I had to use someone else’s. A couple notes - borrowed influence cannot be shared, it’s like a bank note and it is owned by the lender. However, earned influence is like money in the bank you can spend. I go on this way to describe to you the power of influence. An influencer enlarges people, they help them navigate, they connect, empower, and they reprodu...

Business Tips : EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE When emotional intelligence first appeared as a buzz phrase in 1995, it made us aware of the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time . This obviously shook up the psychologist’s balance of what “SMART” means. The capacity to be aware of, control and express one's emotions and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically is one definition. Another…. “Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.” It’s made up of 4 skills: ·          Self-Awareness  is your ability to accurately perceive your emotions and stay aware of them as they happen. ·          Self-Management  is your ability to use awareness of your emotions ...

Business Tips : LEADERSHIP       Leadership is both an art and a science. It is an art in which we develop the character within ourselves to become someone of influence. The science of leadership is the theory and exacting methods that prove to work in our ability to discipline and hone ourselves into a person of leadership.       Within the subject of leadership we often talk about character, task, and relationship as a three legged stool in the measurement in our ability to support and stabilize our leadership strength. Where one of these variables fall short, so does the structural integrity of the stool and our leadership ability. We can spend much time on each of these, but suffice it to say that if we honestly measure these in our lives it can determine failure modes that are causing us pain. It can also help us course correct our journey. How are our character traits, ability to perform tasks, and the relationships that we...

Business Tips : INTEGRITY It’s the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Consistency - honesty - and truthfulness or accuracy of one’s actions I have this on my wall to remind me every day of what I try to do. I’m nowhere near perfect. ·          Do not promise more than they can deliver. ·          Stands in the authority God has given them. ·          Consistently contributes something positive to the world. ·          Accepts the idea that  to whom much has been given much is expected . ·          Allows God and trusted others to correct their path. ·          Follows through on agreed upon tasks. ·          Acknowledges God as their leader...