Doing a S.W.O.T. Analysis for Your Company
Call in the S.W.O.T. team! This simple but powerful exercise can help you assess the current state of your business and plan for the future.
Call in the S.W.O.T. team! This simple but powerful exercise can help you assess the current state of your business and plan for the future.
Can you increase productivity by using fewer rules? Try placing more responsibility on your employees and let them manage themselves.
Creative ideas are the result of effort. Your effort to create the free-flowing atmosphere that stimulates your employees to reach into themselves for a brilliant solution to that nagging problem. Your success depends on their creative juices, so make sure you’ve designed your business to release them.
Letting your staff see into your financial books gives them a sense of ownership in your company. They’ll think and act like entrepreneurs, innovating more freely and allocating resources more sensibly.
Studies reveal that verbal communication conveys only 7% of a typical message’s meaning, while nonverbal cues convey 93%. Are you listening completely? Are you being heard completely?
Clear and effective writing is vital to entrepreneurs. If your company’s literature is well-crafted, readers will see you and your company as focused and efficient. Poorly thought out and hastily written messages, on the other, could cost you business and confuse your staff.
How do you make decisions? The key to good decision making is knowing your goals; nail down your objectives first, and then select the options that will achieve them.
If your motto is "Don’t do today what you can put off until tomorrow," you may be putting too much stress on your business. You need just twenty-one days and a strategy to kick one procrastinating habit.
When you need to make a point, tell a story. Stories make connections for your listeners between context and content — attaching facts to a story makes them much easier to remember.
What kind of leader are you? Taking a self-assessment test can reveal a lot about how you deal with others, how you make decisions and what your strengths and weaknesses are.