Accountability
Finish 2020 Strong
As we reach the end of the year, the unforeseen challenges you faced in 2020 may have made your goals more difficult to obtain and you may have had to readjust and shuffle some objectives around. But before you allow the setbacks of 2020 to infect your thoughts with negativity, whether you lead a “team”…
Read MoreDocument Core Processes and Delegate with Confidence
One of the best ways to ensure your business runs efficiently and profitably is to establish standard processes for common and frequently repeated activities, such as purchasing, billing, project scheduling, and tracking, and contact management. It’s not enough to create those processes, however. You also have to document them in writing so that anyone and…
Read MoreSupporting Our Industry Partners
Hopefully you all realize the value of relationships. We are in a relationship business, after all. We develop relationships with our clients, and within the community and with specific referral partners to help promote our business. And we develop relationships with our industry partners. Those relationships with industry partners are particularly highlighted during market weeks…
Read MoreIf You’re Not Accountable, You’ll Reach Your Potential
Photo Credit-Emily Wilson Photography “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” ~Michelangelo What motivates you? Would others describe you as “highly accountable?” Take an honest assessment of your actions – or non-actions –…
Read MoreBe a Connector in Challenging Times
Director of Coaching at Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Challenging times are often the perfect time to really focus on being a connector. It’s a good time to reach out to others and make that personal connection to find out how they are doing and to ask if you can offer any help. Becoming or…
Read MoreA Strong Offense is Your Best Defense in Times of Uncertainty
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis Stevenson When you focus on sharing your courage with others and take the approach of setting up a strong offense for your business you will find your fears tend to recede. Here are a few tips to help you set up your…
Read MoreAre You A Proactive Leader?
In challenging times some people turn those rough times into success and others fail. Successful leaders navigate their teams through stormy seas as well as they do when the seas are calm. That success during unsettled times depends on you being a proactive leader who gets your team moving forward with strength and assurance and…
Read MoreTeach Your Employees To Be Accountable
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching at Gail Doby Coaching & Consulting Do your employees know that you expect them to be accountable? Or do you avoid addressing accountability because you want to avoid confrontation? If you teach your employees to be accountable they will feel more productive and if they are then adding…
Read MoreConfronting Problems Head On
By Drue Lawlor, FASID Director of Coaching at GDCC Solving problems lies at the very heart of doing design. Clients come to us with a set of problems. For whatever reason, their homes or businesses are not working for them, and they want us to make them better. We provide them with design solutions to…
Read MoreWhat Is Your Business Culture Like?
If you were to conduct a 360-degree evaluation of your business, what words would your employees, vendors, service providers, and clients use to describe your firm’s organizational culture? Empowering? Supportive? Welcoming? Responsive? Or, controlling? Micromanaging? Hierarchical? Toxic? When it comes to key interpersonal success factors—such as communication, trust, loyalty, respect—organizational culture trumps policies, pronouncements and…
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