ActionCOACH Southern Indiana

BLOG

LATEST ARTICLES

Effective Change for Business Growth

If I had to choose one word to describe the last few years, it would be disruptive.  The nature of a disruption does give us an opportunity for at least one thing – Change.  The word we kept hearing was pivot: the need to shift our focus, products, delivery methods,

Read More »

We’re Not Done Yet

Have you given up the goals and plans you had at the start of the year? It’s not too late. The year is winding down, but we’re not done yet! Every quarter, including Q4, you should be creating a 90-Day Business Plan. It’s a chance to get re-focused on your

Read More »

How to be a Great Delegator

As we grow our businesses, we need to grow our teams, and with that growth comes both excitement and fear.  One of the most common growth challenges I hear about is that owners/leaders struggle with delegation, and if they can’t get their team to do what they ask, they might

Read More »

Logical vs. Emotional Communicators: Bridging the Gap

Growing businesses often face the challenge of inter-personal communications amongst team members as they add staff to help deliver more and better products and services. As you add staff, you should be mixing personality and communication styles to round out your team, yet this can often lead to challenges if

Read More »

Moving from Doing it All to Leading it All

Many of us started businesses that required us to do the work that generated the bulk of the revenues of our companies.  At some point, we then became the bottleneck in our businesses, as we only had so much capacity.  At this point we added team, and often we began

Read More »

How to Hold Employees Accountable

I have been asked multiple times, by frustrated business owners, how to hold people accountable for their work. It is one of the biggest challenges, yet one of the most misunderstood concepts in the business world. When I started asking people what they thought about the issue, I heard a

Read More »

Don’t Let Change Scare You

Back in 2015 I made a massive change in my business – going back out on my own after 3 years with a great partner, leasing a space three times bigger than I needed at the time, and opening a satellite office.  This was a change that had been on

Read More »

Understanding Money in Your Business

When I talk to business owners about finances, the vast majority never talk about anything other than their revenues or sales figures. The same goes with goal setting; most prefer to focus on sales/revenue targets. While obviously revenues are important, that is only one form of the money in your

Read More »

Structuring for Growth

Growing a business takes hard work, self-discipline, good team, good customers, leadership, and little bit of luck every now and then. Growing a business in a sustainable manner – by that I mean sustainable growth with profitability – takes structure as well. In every type of business, there comes a

Read More »

Business Succession

When was the last time you thought about what would happen to your business if you weren’t there any longer? Was it when your plane had a rough landing, or when you had that close call on the interstate? When it happened, what ran through your mind as your biggest

Read More »

3.5 Steps to Planning For Success

We all know that setting goals and planning are an important part of success in running a business, but it’s easy to get off track.  We make Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) that we never reach, and in general we do things like budget and set modest goals that we

Read More »

Get Your Free Coaching Session Today

Share your story with us during your Free 90-minute Session. Discover you are not alone. Our actionable, systematic solutions will lead business leaders out of chaos and stagnation. We respect your privacy. Your information will not be shared or sold.

Location

Follow Us

Join our mailing list for valuable business tips.