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Tip #1336 - Support New Ideas Amongst Your Team
Each
team member will feel empowered by the opportunity to not only implement day to
day tasks, but as well as suggest new ideas and make them a reality. Give
people a chance to take initiative and you will be amazed by their ability to
create brilliant ideas.
Lean
Tip #1337 - Give Challenging Tasks
People
can't grow if they are constantly doing what they have always done. Let them
develop new skills by giving challenging tasks. At the same time make sure the
tasks are reachable and in the frames of the person's interests.
Lean
Tip #1338 - Give Employees Opportunities to Grow
If
people know that everything is going to be the same way all the time, they will
definitely lose the motivation to put their maximum efforts in work. They
should be sure that the devotion and hard work will lead to new personal and
professional achievements.
Lean
Tip #1339 - Give Employees as Much Support as You Can
Even
if people in your organization are self-disciplined and creative enough for
finding solutions to various problems, anyway they are always in need of your
guidance. Support them as much as you can, and they will be inspired to do the
same for you and for the organization.
Lean
Tip #1340 - Celebrate Each Success
Even
the smallest achievements are worth being celebrated. The road to success
consists of thousand small steps. Glorify each and every goal achieved. Show to
your team that all of you made one more important step forward.
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Tip #1341 - Set Descriptive Business Goals
What
the mind can’t visualize, the mind can’t achieve. Thoughts are things and the
more time you spend describing and visualizing your goals, the better your
chances will be to actually reaching them.
How
does this work?
Grab
a piece of paper and visualize your goals. This might sound silly to some
people, but there is real power in visualization. Take the time to thoroughly
visualize and describe your goals in as great detail as you can. Use an entire
sheet of paper to define just what your life will be like when you achieve that
goal.
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Tip #1342 - Set Achievable Business Goals
This
doesn’t mean you can’t set lofty business goals, especially in the long term.
This means you should set goals that you truly believe you can achieve. Regardless
of what that goal is, ensure that you at least have a chance in achieving it.
This
doesn’t mean you have to know just how you’re going to get there every step of
the way. The founder of any successful startup can tell you that they never
could have imagined all the steps that would have been necessary to get to
where they are today.
Setting
achievable business goals simply means that you believe in yourself
wholeheartedly enough to see that goal through. It means that you’ll do
whatever it takes to get there.
Lean
Tip #1343 - Set Time-Focused Business Goals
Always
set time-focused business goals. You can’t simply set a goal with no time
element involved, or even an obscure one. No matter what your business goal
might be, you have to set a clear date on when you’ll achieve it. This will
help to add some perspective as you reach towards your goals.
Lean
Tip #1344 - Create Goal Milestones
Milestones
are a great way to help create some stepping stones as you work your way
towards achieving your business goals.
But
what are milestones exactly?
Well,
think about it this way. Let’s say you’ve set the business goal to become the
top salesman in your company within 18 months. In order to do that, you’ll need
to hit some milestones first.
So,
what are some milestones you could create along the way?
For
example, you could create a quarterly goal to contact a certain number of
people or reach a certain dollar amount in sales. You could also set these as
monthly goals, weekly goals, or even daily goals, that we could otherwise call
milestones.
What’s
important is to create milestones that will help you move in the right
direction and ultimately see you achieving your business goals in the long
term.
Lean
Tip #1345 - Make a Plan and Act on It
In
order to achieve any business goal, we need a plan and we need to act on that
plan. The plan is our roadmap towards our goals. How are you going to reach
your business goals?
This
isn’t something abstract or arbitrary exercise that’s done in the mind and
tucked away in your mental filing cabinet. This is something that requires true
mental fortitude, and that’s written out and planned in a meticulous fashion.
Whatever
your business goals might be, the only way to achieve the ones that we set for
ourselves, it to have some sort of plan that we act upon.
Of
course, daily massive action is required once we do have our plan. Plan and
act. Recycle and repeat. That’s the way to achieve your business goals.
Lean
Tip #1346 - Track and Analyze your Goals
Reaching
our business goals is next to impossible when we don’t have a system to track
and analyze. Find a way to track your results on a daily basis, and create a
spreadsheet.
By
tracking and analyzing, you can also help to ensure that your plan is working
in your favor. What are you doing on a daily basis that’s helping you to move
closer to your goals? Are you moving further away?
Setup
some metric and system for tracking and analyzing your progress towards your
goals. You simply can’t achieve your goals without tracking and analyzing your
efforts.
Lean
Tip #1347 - Adjust Your Plan When Needed
Although
we might set a plan to achieve our business goals at the outset, and act on
that plan, when we track and analyze our progress, and we see that we’re not
getting the results we’re after, we have to adjust our plans.
Think
about it this way. A plane is traveling from LAX to JFK. That plane has a plan
to reach its goals. In general, it knows the overall speed, direction, and
cruising altitude it wants to travel at.
However,
along the way, things might arise. For example, the plane might experience
turbulence at 33,000 feet, forcing it to climb higher or sink lower. The plane
might also need to avoid a storm system, causing it to change directions to
make its way around it.
Of
course, the plane has to adjust its plan to arrive at JFK, but it doesn’t
change its goal of arriving there. Similarly, you should adjust your plan when
needed.
Lean
Tip #1348 - Focus on Key Habits
The
instillation of key habits are a great way for us to achieve our business
goals.
Key
habits help in the formation of other good habits. When we focus on good
habits, other good habits simply fall into place.
For
example, working out for 30 minutes per day is considered a key habit. When
someone works out for 30 minutes every day, they’re more inclined to eat right,
drink plenty of water, and take their vitamins. Why? Because working out is a
key habit.
Similarly,
in business, there are plenty of key habits. Find the right habits and focus on
those, and watch as other good habits that will help you reach your business
goals, fall into place.
Lean
Tip #1349 - Leverage the 80/20 Rule
The
80/20 rule, or the Pareto principle, says that 80% of the results comes from
20% of the efforts. Anything that we measure, we’ll find that 80% of our
results are coming from 20% of the work that’s put in.
Find
the 20% of your efforts that are producing the 80% of your results, and amplify
them. To do this, you have ensure that you track and analyze all of the time
that you spend on your work-related efforts throughout the day.
Learn
to harness this principle, and watch as all the business goals that you set for
yourself ultimately materialize as you slowly but surely achieve career
success.
Lean
Tip #1350 - Create Profound Reasons for Goals
Do
you have deep and profound reasons for wanting to achieve the business goals
that you set for yourself? I’m not talking about superficial reasons. I’m
talking about meaningful reasons.
What’s
going to actually help you here is developing profound and meaningful reasons.
Time,
security, freedom, contribution, and family are some of the deeper and more
profound reasons we could set to help achieve our business goals.
Put
some real thought and effort into why you’ve set the business goals for
yourself that you’ve set. If you want to actually achieve them, make sure you
associate a strong-enough reason to doing so.
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