Randy Joy & Co.

Jan 16 2012

4 Steps to Actualize Your Vision

Randy Joy @ 4:00 am

How is it that some great leaders have visions that outlast even them?! Think of the great visionary Martin Luther King. He had a dream that has put our President into office. Think Ghandi. He had a vision of a place he never saw — modern day India. Now, as for you, if you have a vision, here are the four components that actualize visions and can have that vision become even greater than its dreamer.

Here is how to achieve great results:

1. Know why you want to achieve that vision.

2. Know what it looks like when it is all done. Be crystal clear how it looks and feels with a painted picture in your mind.

3. Think through the steps to get you there

4. Be 100% committed to achieving your vision.

Tags: Business Vision, Dreamers, Martin Luther King, the dream continues, Visions outlast its drafters

Category: Business Planning,Clarifying Your Vision

Jan 03 2012

3 Steps to Gain Control of Your Business

Randy Joy @ 10:00 am

CEO’s time, financial resources and employees are limited. A leader is only stellar, if he can lead his team and manage his resources to achieve a result. As a business grows, CEOs and owners find it hard to maintain the same control of their business as they did when it was smaller.

The key to gain control of your business is to:

1. Understand and document how your business works in every department. These Operating Manuals will help you decide how you want things to run versus how they are currently being run.

2. Create a strong business structure including a vision where the company is headed, values that the team is modeling, and incentivize the team so that everyone is going in the same direction.

3. Create measurable tracking statistics. Schedule meetings to review and analyze the data to ensure the company as a whole is moving in the right direction.

Tags: Adding Incentives for Employees, Assessing Corporate Gains, Expert Business Consulting, Gaining Control of Your Business, Human Resources, making sure your business runs smoothly, operating manuals

Category: Business Planning,Optimizing Operations

Jul 06 2011

The Fight

Randy Joy @ 10:00 am

It was all about a big, cardboard box. The two young children were playing with it when the question arose, whose was it. Forgotten was play and the fight began. ”It’s mine.” “No, mine“. Luckily, their mother was in relax mode that day, and she wisely stayed an objective observer. “You do realize you’re fighting over a cardboard box, right?” she asked.

The box was not the issue at this point, it was about winning the fight, which is why the fighting continued. So the mother intelligently distracted her children, “Dinner time.” She helped each child disconnect from the stakes and get on with life, off to the dinner table.

Don’t think we all grow up. Even in the business world, within your company, you might have to play the part of the intelligent interloper betwixt fighting parties, and you must stay the objective outsider.

The next time you see your employees fighting over a petty thing remember to point out how meaningless the stakes are in the fight. Yet, true learning will come when they too are relaxed and calm and can see the pettiness in the realm of the big picture. At the moment, in the heat of the argument, try to distract and refocus your team.

Remember it’s not about who is right, but about doing what’s right with wisdom.

Tags: Big Picture, Building a Team, Fighting in Workplace, Mediating Work Fights, objective outsider, Refocus Employees

Category: Business Planning,Leadership