Apply the Problem Solvent to your toughest challenges.
Michael Van Horn
#3 in the series.
The bigger you get, the harder it can be to grow yet further. This is the “paradox of growth” for small businesses. It hits every kind of business: consultants and personal practitioners, professional service firms, retail stores, general contractors, small manufacturers. It hits fledgling businesses and long-established businesses, and businesses ranging in size from one person up to a hundred or more employees.
This workbook lays out an approach to tackle any barrier to growing your business with exercises to help you apply it to common situations.
What drives you crazy about growing your business? What gets in the way of achieving your long-term business objectives?
Where are you going? How can you anchor yourself in your long-term goals to overcome your barriers?
What do you love doing? What are you best at? What will people pay well for? Where do these three overlap for you?
How to shift from a culture of smallness to a culture of growth and profitability.
The five elements needed to overcome any barrier to growth.
Where you should focus your time and energy to pursue your long-term objectives. How to leverage your effort. How to leverage your creativity.
How do your management practices, habits, attitudes, and beliefs get in the way of achieving your objectives and overcoming your barriers to growth?
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What is the highest skilled person you could bring in to free you up to focus on tasks needed to grow your business? How can you help your people do a better job for you?
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What skills do you need to upgrade to grow your company?
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Where does your growing business need better systems? How can you get the “secret knowledge” out of your head?
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What changes in your workplace, equipment, and materials will improve productivity and effectiveness and reduce stress and errors?
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Apply the Problem Solvent to your toughest challenges.
From the workbook
Build trust & real relationships.
Turn leads into loyal customers.
Build trust and stay top-of-mind.
