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Getting To Your 2012 Business Goals With Economy of Motion and Focused Attention

by Nathaneal on January 10, 2012

Setting business goals is great. In case you haven’t had the chance to watch this video on the three things you need to do before ever setting goals in business or in life.. check it out.

They have a beneficial effect even if you do nothing more than set them and move on with your life.

But in this article & small business training video I am going to show you how to address hard to reach goals that you want to highly increase the chances of getting to in the shortest period of time.

Write a plan:
Your plan doesn’t have to be perfect but you do have to have a plan to reach your goals. If you don’t have a plan yet or your having a hard time making a plan. Many times the plan with have to include some kind of marketing if your business a business. If so click this marketing advice link and ask your biggest question. Then sit in front of your computer with a blank word document and tip your goal at the top of the document. Then list out at least twenty different ways to get to your goal. Do this process daily until you find one idea worth developing into a plan.

Put a deadline on your goal:
When you have a plan, you have an opportunity to guess at what its going to take to fulfill that plan. Having a deadline helps force the plan into completion.

Write your goals down daily along with a summary of your plan:
The more we keep our goals out in front of us the more likely we are to reach them. I recommend doing this first thing in the morning before you start your day.

Create your plan for the day right after you write them down:
This works like gang busters if you are willing to get out of your comfort zone. Plan your day the night before its ok, just make sure you write your goals before you plan your day. When we write our goals and our plan to achieve our goal before your plan our day we are much more likely to include plans to achieve our goals in our plans for the day.

Write your goals at the end of your day then reflect on how they day went:
As a Business Coach I am always trying to figure out how we can minimize the friction between where we are now and the where we want to be. Certain things in our lives we can eliminate because they aren’t congruent with our goals. Other parts of our days we can become more efficient with our actions to reach our goals quicker. The easiest most dependable way to make sure you continually stay on course and optimize your actions to reach your goals is to reflect on your day. Then while reflecting on your day, find ways to improve your daily actions to reach your goals faster and with less effort.

Look for ways to improve the efficiency of the action in your plan.

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3 Massively Important Tips Before Setting Your Business Goals for 2012

by Nathaneal on December 26, 2011

Business Goal Setting for 2012

Hi my name is Nathaneal Mohr. I am a business coach and before we get started into this video & and article that focuses on tips you need to consider before setting your business goals for 2012… I want to make sure you are taking advantage of all the resources here. One of the free resources we get a lot of great feedback on is our webinar on developing a new marketing strategy that works in todays market.

Are you about set your business goals for 2012 then its important to first take a step back and pull as much life experience out of 2011 as possible. This way you can get the greatest results from your strategic planning and goal setting. In this article & video I am going to give you a couple simple tips that you want to think about before planning your business goals setting session for 2012… so you can make better decisions in your goal setting and strategic planning for the following year.

Pre-Business Goal Setting Tip #1

Outline Your Biggest accomplishments. When we outline our accomplishments we put our mind in a more creative and confident state. Our minds start sorting for ways to stay congruent with the kind of person that would have those accomplishments. That’s why the best time to close a sale is right after you close a sale. You are more confident and because of that confidence your mind is in an optimum place to support that confident self image.

So before setting any business goals for 2012 make sure to outline each one of your biggest accomplishments of 2011. Then separate each one of those accomplishments and ask yourself:

1. What are the skills that I have that are responsible for that accomplishments?

2. What are the beliefs I have about myself that are responsible for that accomplishment?

Focus on enhancing those business skills, and stabilizing those beliefs about yourself as you plan your future goals. This is how you are going to take the key aspects responsible for your successes and develop them for continual professional development in 2012. This is one of the questions I ask my clients when I take them through my business coaching process.

Pre-Business Goal Setting Tip #2

Outline your biggest Lessons over the last year: Many times these are going to come from your biggest challenges.

Outline everything that you will do differently if you are in a similar situation over the next year in 2012. Take what your biggest lessons or the things you would do differently… and use them as a foundation to make your decisions about what you goals setting, and what your plans are going to be for achieving those goals that you are setting.

Pre-Business Goal Setting Tip #3

List out the things that your are presently engaged in that if you knew what you know now about them you wouldn’t have started doing them: This could be something in your small business marketing strategy, or someone that you have hired. This could be a vendor you have choose or a client you took on. Whatever it is, commit to stopping it before you make your new goals and plans.

Take Full responsibility for the results you have gotten over the last year.

Now summarize this information and start your goal setting and strategic planning for 2012.

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How to Increase Your Productivity at Work…

by Nathaneal on December 21, 2011

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While You Take The Most Time Off This Holiday Season You Could Possibly Take Off

Hi, is this the first time you have been here? Feel free to take advantage of one of our most popular free trainings on how to increase sales and business profits.

It doesn’t matter if you are a entrepreneur, small business owner, or executive…a lot of us want to take time off during the holidays. But then at the same time, when we take time off we risk hurting our bottom line. In this business coaching article I am going to show you how to prioritize your activities so you can increase your productivity and take the maximum amount of time off without losing momentum with your business activities.

Create a Specific Time Off Goal
Believe it or not the first step in increasing your productivity at work is to decide how much time you want to take off and schedule it in your calender. Stay true to your calender like taking this time off was another appointment. The best way to do that, if you have a hard time disconnecting from work is to schedule time with other people. This way you will be expected to be somewhere that you can’t work.

Outline your Work Productivity Goal & Give Each Productivity Goal a Hierarchy
Your next step in increasing your productivity at work is to create a results goal so you can become very focused with the time you dedicate to work. If you have more than one business results goal, put them in order of priority. And do your best to work single minded on the most important goal until it is complete. This is an opportunity to really test your ability to choose activities that are going to give you the highest result for the time you are giving yourself to work. Really focus on the ten percent of the activities that give you ninety percent of your business results.

Compare Your Productivity Goal Against Your Time Off Goal
Make sure that your business results goal and your time off goal are congruent. At the risk of sounding like your business coach…this isn’t the time to stress yourself out. It’s the time to be effective and enjoy the holidays.

Action Steps on Your Work Productivity Goals
Take the list of your goals for increasing your work productivity, or your single business goal, and create an action plan to achieve those work productivity goals. Put those action steps into your calender. Keep asking yourself as your write this plan, “Am I being as efficient with my time as possible?” When you make work productivity plans with a question at the top of your mind it forces your mind to sort through the world with the question. This will help make sure you stay on track and are more effective with the actions you take.

And make sure you have a great holiday session. Results will come if you focus on the most profitable objectives. And those objectives will get done quickly when you focus on efficiency.

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Customer & Client Loyalty, Retention Through Satisfaction

by Nathaneal on December 19, 2011

Mastering the Management of Buying from Your Company

Hi, If this is the First Time Here Take advantage of our Free Online Training that focuses on How to Increase Business Profits and Sales

One of the things I like to use is a personal customer & client experience checklist. This checklist can be used by large or small businesses. It can be a reference point for a business owner, middle management or an employee to understand how well they are progressing in the areas of loyalty & retention through the satisfaction of their customer or client base.

All you have to do is find creative ways to positively insert these retention check points into your customer experience and you will be sure to increase customer satisfaction, loyalty as well as increase referrals and positive online publishing.

Customer & Client Satisfaction, Retention, and Loyalty Step 1.

Make buying from you as easy as possible.
Find ways to keep your customers from having to think, do research or search out to make a decisions. Do everything you can to take out any mental struggle there is for buying from you.

Here are a couple example ideas to help you start making the purchasing from you as easy as possible.

Whether it be on your website or in a physical store make finding things easy. You can do this by minimizing distractions and being ready to provide guidance to the location of the product or service that will best suite the needs of your customers.

Find creative ways to provide the information that your customers need to make a buying decision with you. Are your customers price shopping? Have a way to meet the prices of any of your competitors. Are their constant objections? Can you answer the objections your customers have about buying from you?

Customer & Client Satisfaction, Retention, and Loyalty Step 2.

Make buying from you as pleasant as possible. Where in making buying from you as easy as possible is addressing the mental aspects of your customers buying experience. Making the buying experience as pleasant as possible address the emotional needs for high customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty.

How can you make the experience of buying from you more pleasant? Another way to ask this question is Make going above and beyond your normal customer service experience?

Can you upgrade the experience so your customers feel like they are some how VIP? Can you have a company culture of friendliness. The Disney organization has really mastered integrating friendliness into their experience like McDanolds has integrated the up-sell.

Customer & Client Satisfaction, Retention, and Loyalty Step 3.

Check the satisfaction of every customer when possible
Continual feedback is critical for ongoing business growth. Every business interaction is a two way conversation in today’s world of business. Everything from your marketing, product development, sales process to customer service, needs to be a complete the loop of conversation.

How can you get the feedback you need to improve so you can provide the experience you need to deepen customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty?

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Your Action Steps:
How can you make buying from you easier than it is now?

How can you make the buying experience more pleasant?

How can you get the feedback to create the ultimate experience for you customer?

Don’t say anything. Test your creativity. Your number one asset in your business is going to be your creativity.

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Comfort Zone Video With Quotes Worth Sharing

by Nathaneal on December 8, 2011

Comfort Zone Quotes Worth Sharing

The Comfort Zone is a dangerous place and in this video I am going to cover many of the quotes that have influenced my life.

The action that forces you to leave your comfort zone is when you have a goal of something you want to do, be or have that is a great advancement for you personally and/or professionally.

We usually dream and fantasize on the video screen of our minds about what it would be like to do, be or have that advancement… whatever it might be.

Then we go through the logical next step of making plans to achieve it.

Trying to be one of the best motivational business speakers I have mentioned before that.. When your start to walk through your plans you will eventually get to a place where one of the action steps is very, very uncomfortable. It’s because we have to leave our comfort zone in order to complete the action steps I am about to quote.

Maybe you have to think a little bit more, or develop a new skill to get around an obstacle. Maybe that uncomfortable action step is just difficult challenge and its takes developing some new beliefs about your self to overcome it.

Many times leaving your comfort zone presents itself as an action step; that you really don’t understand how you are going to accomplish successfully.

And if you try or keep trying to complete that action step you might end up proving to yourself or someone else that you aren’t perfect… And your might be quoted as a failure.

Comfort Zone and the path you choose

My business coaches have said.. You will choose one of three paths when you face that powerfully emotional, physiological and even possibly physical discomfort…Called leaving your comfort zone.

You will either decide the goal you originally quoted isn’t worth it departing from your comfort zone and immediately give up on it. You might give yourself an excuse that usually has something to do with your external circumstances. Stuff like, your to old, to young, the economy is bad, you have kids, you don’t have enough start up capital.

Or maybe you wont just through in the towel. Because maybe you don’t see yourself as a quitter but you still don’t want to face the pain of leaving your comfort zone. If that’s the case you might decide to do that uncomfortable action step later. You artfully procrastinate until everything is perfect.

But the trick is that everything will never be perfect. So our goal just gets put on the shelf until so much time is gone by that its just to late and you move into step into the first path of giving up.

Or you acknowledge your fears, you accept the vastness of your potential and you recognize the areas that you have to advance in to overcome that uncomfortable business challenge. Then take the action steps until you get to the other side of the result that you want.

The Great thing is as long as your still breathing you can step off of one of the first two paths and onto the third path.

Because when you commit to walking through that uncomfortable action step we step into the place where our personal evolution starts to really take place.

The real reason your unconscious mind came up with that amazing thing you want to, do, be or have… is because there is a part of yourself, that has the desire for that personal evolutionary process that only takes place in that expanding opportunity that of those moments that reference as getting out of your comfort zone.

So I want to encourage you to look for the uncomfortable action step in your plan. And dive into them looking for the areas you have to grow in to accomplish what you have put before you.

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Employee Training Video Course to Enhance the Development of Your Team

by Nathaneal on December 7, 2011

This employee development Business Blog Article is for Business Owners and Managers that want to help their team grow from the inside out. I have a few ideas that I have learned from raising my kids and from building teams in the past that I believe you will find helpful in the professional development of your staff.

Employee Training Experiment Inspired By My 4 Year Old

This concept for training and developing employees started a few months ago… when I noticed my four year old daughter was trying things, experimenting with developmental ideas as well as have misunderstandings that I had as a child. Many of these misunderstanding had to do with how they approached the activity of doing something, how much they believed in themselves around accomplishing a specific task and or an attitude they had about an experience.

Now once I started looking for and tracking some of the challenges I had at their development I started to notice a ton of very rewarding opportunities to teach and to help them evolve much faster than I did at their age. But there was also a simple method that I used to get them to actually want to learn with me.

Always trying to be one of the best business coaches… the first thing I thought of was how… most of my employees are doing things that I had a level of experience with. So what I started to do is use the same development model I used to teach my kids on them..

Employee Training and Development with a simple conversation

My first step in my employee development and training process was to ask them about the challenges that I had when I was in their place.

And If they had similar challenges I would make sure they knew I was interested in them and how they handled them. I lead with questions and interest first because it seemed to make it a safe place to talk about their challenges.

What I then did is ask them what they thought was the solution. It was the natural course of the conversation but it also seemed to put them in the mode of solving the problem. My next step was to provided what I thought might help my employee. But because I did that last they seemed to be much more open to my experience and much more likely to consistently model what I taught them.

I am telling you this because to master your business of isn’t one skill. Its one hundred thousand little lessons that come from years of your own professional development. And one way you can increase the efficiency, effectiveness and profit of your employees is to help train them with your experience. But most of your employees just don’t consciously know what they don’t know about your business. So I want encourage you to find ways to help them want to learn from you…then find ways to teach your employees so they can reach their potential in our business and for your business.

Are you up to the challenge?

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