Feb 08 2012

How to Visualize it Done

Randy Joy @ 9:00 am

 

The best emails I get in my business consulting company are those with one word-DONE.  How many times have you waited painfully for someone to complete a task for you?

Next time you ask someone to perform a task, visualize getting an email the next day saying done.  Now that you are dreaming of having it done, make sure that vision comes to fruition.

How?  State your expectations and train those around you to just get it done by being unambiguous about it.  It is always good to be clear about what you expect, in what shape and form and by when you want it done.

Enjoy seeing results now.

And return the courtesy — when you’ve completed something, email back “done” .

Category: Business Consultant,Business Planning,Efficiencies & Cost Saving,Strategic Planning

Feb 07 2012

How to Empower your Team to Make Positive Change

Randy Joy @ 11:00 am

 

As an NYC business consultant, I am asked to help align the team toward the CEOs vision.  Here is how to can rally the troops behind your leadership:

1. Be crystal clear where you want to lead the team

2. Communicate your vision to the team – carefully choose the environment to show you are serious about your decision  and optimistic about the future

3. Take action – quickly show your team you are serious about the change and make things happen

4. Track the change to demonstrate the amount of change after each month, quarter and year.  Progress breeds progress

5. Celebrate those changes

 

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Category: Business Consultant,Leadership,Strategic Planning

Feb 01 2012

3 Keys to Create Business Order out of Chaos

Randy Joy @ 4:00 pm

 

1-Know what order looks like.

2-Accept where your business is today and become more and more consciously aware of what needs to change.

3- Create a  strategy to move one small step closer to order and voraciously implement it daily.

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Category: Business Planning

Jan 24 2012

4 Things a Business Consultant Can See

Randy Joy @ 10:00 pm

 

1-Perception of your business, just by walking in the door.

2-Your value system, just by how she is greeted and how people interact.

3-The heiracherial structure based on where people are seated.

4-CEOs purpose based on what they speak mostly about.

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Category: Business Consultant,Business Planning

Jan 20 2012

5 Goals of an Energetic Business Presentation

Randy Joy @ 10:30 am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have you ever been to a business presentation that put you to sleep?  Where the presenter read from the slides?  Here are the 5 steps to give an energetic presentation that keeps your audience’s attention and interest and leads to a next step:

1. A story to engage your audience

2. An overview of what you intend to share with them with 3 key points

3.  Visual slides to support and dramatize your speech

4.  Gifts you are giving the audience for listening to you

5. A call to action – the next step you want your audience to take

 

 

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Category: Business Planning,Leadership

Jan 18 2012

4 Keys To Making Good Business Decisions

Randy Joy @ 10:00 am

 

CEOs and executives have a lot of responsibilities.  Knowing how these responsibilities fit in the big picture is crucial to make business decisions and prioritize your time.

 

 

 

Therefore the 4 table of contents for any task are these:

1. Purpose – Why is this important?

2. Vision – Where do I want this business decision to lead me>

3. Strategy – How am I going to get to my vision?

4. Commitment – Am I committed to work and empower my team to get there?

 

 

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Category: Business Planning,Strategic Planning

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.

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Category: Business Planning,Clarifying Your Vision

Jan 04 2012

How to Scale Your Business

Randy Joy @ 9:30 am

 

Scalability is the essence of taking what you have and multiplying it.  How can you do more with less?  Technology companies are scalable because they can take one product built by a few and sell the same product time and again to many.

In building a company there are many resources including time, money and labor; the secret is using all resources efficiently to maximize the company’s value.

Next time you need to make a business decision think what is the best resource to use.  Then figure out how to repeat that — it is like a math.  If this resource gains this result, can I somehow find the factor that makes that resource multiply that result.  For example, many supermarkets have lines where customers wait to pay.  Putting various “small ticket” items in view of those lines increases the purchase total of  the same customer who was standing there, for many of them will toss some of those small-ticket items, things they had no intention of buying originally, into their basket.

Look around your business and see what can be added here or there that would use your current operations wisely, while still upping your profits.  This will help you scale your business.

 

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Category: Business Consultant,Optimizing Operations,Strategic Planning

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.

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Category: Business Planning,Optimizing Operations

Dec 16 2011

Growth is a Choice – Summon Success

Randy Joy @ 10:00 am

On my way to work today, I stood there waiting and waiting and then waiting some more for the elevator to come.  This was weird, why wasn’t the elevator coming?  It took a few moments and then I realized — I hadn’t pressed the button.  Elevators will come when summoned, but they can’t read our minds yet.  And, if you don’t press that button, you might wait for that elevator forever.

How often in your  business do you realize you are just waiting instead of proactively making choices and plans?

Growth is a choice.  It doesn’t just happen to you.  This year choose to grow and take action.

Press the right buttons in business to summon success to it.  For it will happen only when you plan to make it happen.

And planning must be done with eye for detail, the who, the what, the why, the when…and the cost of it all.

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Category: Clarifying Your Vision,Strategic Planning
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