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Linda Feinholz's Articles Entrepreneur Small Business Self Improvement Marketing Management Service Business Display Category|Title|Newest|Oldest "Lather. Rinse. Repeat" Set the Stage for High Payoff Problem-Solving You can't make headway on solving disagreements when everyone is fixated on the events leading up to the meeting to solve them. Take a lesson from shampoo manufacturers. Get the entire story told, in the utmost detail, until you've said it all. Not in discussion, not in dialogue. Here are the High Payoff steps to use. 1 Simple Action to Boost Your HIGH Payoff Life In our busy, busy lives, have we forgotten some of the simple courtesies? Do you regularly greet people you come into contact with a Hello? Maybe it's time to stop and pay more attention to the simple courtesy of greeting people. 3 Business Productivity Lessons From The Yoga Mat Learn these 3 productivity-boosting lessons we can all use to create High Payoff results in our business. 3 High Payoff Tricks to Get Your Decisions Made! Still Stuck? Not making any progress on that To Do haunting you from the top of your list? Feel like the same ideas over and over? This sure gets in the way of coming up with new approaches to situations that are stalled. In fact, the end result of that 'helpful' mental activity is that we often give the available options no attention at all. Let's change your frame of reference. 3 Steps To Break Through Overwhelm! Every once in a while, things simply pile up. So much so that you're unable to make a decision. I have 3 simple steps for getting out of overwhelm. I share them here with you so you'll have them in your back pocket. 5 Fresh Steps Will Help You Graduate to HIGH Payoff Activities! If you're like most people who are running a business, as an owner, an executive or an independent professional you get so immersed in the doing you miss your own graduations. Graduations? What do you mean by graduations? Recognition for advancement in your business lives. A High Payoff Tip That Expands Your Chances of Success Stuck with a particular point of view about how best to proceed? Stuck with your 'knowing' based on many years experience in the industry. You may be stuck Avoid The Action! Trap Learn From the Private Equity Experts Although private investors are often looking at their three to five year exit strategy, it's a perspective that keeps attention on how every effort is increasing or diverting the value of the business. Every decision, every choice, is deliberately aligned with that objective. Regardless of whether you're an independent professional, or owner of a business, here's a High Payoff model for your own management. Bring Your Passion to Work What do you do with your passion? Too many of the business owners I work with have buried their passion under the idea that business is driven by practicality and force. Not only do they bury their passion from their own view. They've also hidden it from those around them who can be inspired by it. Build Your Business by the Numbers No one is keeping their eye on the numbers. They have missed the hidden element that really magnetizes results: Measuring. Discover how measuring the value of the activity so that you'll know if the investment of time, energy, resources, political capital and so on was worth it. Bust OUT of "Stuck!" 3 Steps That Release Your Breaks! Do you find yourself full of new ideas, things being pushed to the back burner, decisions not getting made? Do you feel a sense of overwhelm to the point of inaction? Many times we are bombarded by more information, more ideas and more opportunity than we can follow through on - that's success! Check out my 3-step process to bust out of being stalled and overwhelmed. Bust Out of "Stuck" 3 Steps That Keep you On Track Get a handle on the tug of war for your attention, or your future is at risk! You will always be bombarded by more information, more ideas and more opportunity than you can follow through on - that's success! As you keep your attention focused, you'll retain control over your attention and find each item is dealt with much faster than you had anticipated. In turn, you'll find the sensations of overwhelm and being 'stuck' will be gone! Change Your Results - It's All In The Labels You Use The results you're getting may due to the personal identity you're fiercely and proudly holding on to. This High Payoff technique can easily shift you, your identity and your results in one sentence. Coming Up Dry On The "Vision" Thing I focus exclusively on consulting to and coaching business owners and professionals who have a vision they're trying to accomplish...and are fed up with feeling stalled. I find that too many of my clients get out of bed in the morning thinking about their To Dos and not about their Vision. Are you too busy focusing on your To Dos rather than your vision? Cut Through Habits And Transform Your Business Set aside time every week to get your thinking stirred up. Linda shares 3 ways you can use 5, 10 and 15-minute increments to release the sparks to boost your results. Does Your Business Represent Who You Are NOW? Often times we find that the business model we're using now has changed significantly from what we started with. Does your current model reflect what the market is seeking? Does it reflect who your clients are now? Get High Payoff Results When You Burst Your "Certainty" Bubble Have you ever had the experience of being absolutely positively completely certain about something? Your idea, your opinion, your experience - all telling you that you 'know'? EVERYONE is susceptible to being absolutely certain. "Widen Your View" and expand your options with this High Payoff Technique. Get Your Productivity Boosted By Eliminating 'Upsets' One of the most overlooked reasons for breakdowns in personal and business productivity is "right behind your eyes!" Your mind is in a fog because of all the assumptions and convictions that are chattering away, having their own conversation. They're blocking your ability to listen with an open mind, think analytically about the information you have or need to get, and develop targeted solutions. Get Your Slipped Plans Back On Track Have you ever had one of those days where nothing seemed to go right? When those days occur, we have choices in how we'll react. Walk through one such day with me and let's see what options we have. High Payoff Lessons from Delos, The Captain and Art Have you ever found yourself doing the 'pivot dance.' You know the one. You have the ball of one foot anchored to the ground as the other foot circles around it. You start to step forward, pause, turn back, pause, waver back and forth as you try to decide where you meant to go. Competing thoughts overload your brain until you have to stand still and laugh! Are you doing the 'pivot dance with your business? High Payoff Results Need a High Payoff Vision Are you finding your progress stalled? The starting point for creating productive, profitable business efforts is the same for mega corporations, family owned businesses, professional service firms, or technology start-ups. It depends upon the clarity of your Vision. And how well you communicate it. How to Avoid the "Poof, Gone!" Syndrome - Use Systems That Work For YOU To be successful in business, you must have systems in place. There are lots of systems 'guaranteed' to work for you—everything from cute little cards that go in your shirt pocket, sophisticated computer systems that 'ding' to remind you of your next item on your calendar, and enormous expensive 'organizers' that every single thought, meeting and commitment are captured in. Is It Time To "Reset" Your Business? When is 'too much to do' finally enough? I mean enough to have you reach out and slap your personal and business 'reset' button? Do you ever feel like you're buried under overwhelm? Sometimes prioritizing the to do list isn't what needs to be done. Is Your Business Waiting For a Quake? If you haven't ever experienced an earthquake before, 20 seconds of the earth trembling beneath your feet can shake up your life! Sometimes it takes shocking external events in our lives to help us refocus on what's important. Make Antoni Gaudi's Secret to Success Your Own! One of my favorite times in my consulting and coaching is when a light bulb goes off and the person I'm working with has an 'ah ha!' moment and spots a new opportunity. It often takes some real in depth probing to uncover the high payoff idea that no one else has spotted. 90% of the time those ideas come your own personal passions and interests. Managing Out-of-Hand To Do Lists - These 5 Steps Get Ideas Into ACTION! There's nothing so marvelous as being able to look back at the end of a day, a week, a month or a year and see everything that's been achieved! I don't mean crossed off of a list, but rather put on a 'done' list that lets you appreciate what's been accomplished. Highly successful people use repeatable techniques that systematically move ideas off of lists and into action. You can use them too. Perk Up Your Business with a 'Persistence Review' The common element everywhere in life and in business seems to be Persistence. Many of our business endeavors require deliberate attention in order to achieve the tasks of the goals we've set. That attention leads to taking specific actions that achieve the overall Vision itself. I'm going to share my Top 5 Tips for Using High Payoff Persistence. Seizing Opportunities - 3 Keys to Setting Yourself Up For Success As you look at last year, do you ever feel like there wasn't enough time in the day? Did entire afternoons...and sometimes days...slip by without your even noticing? Were you "too" busy? And when you look ahead this year, does it feel like you might relive that? Step Up And Create Your High Payoff Meetings Are you facing so many competing issues that you can't figure out where to start: strategy, capabilities, products or services, and so on? Here are 3 quick tips to make your meetings more effective and productive, immediately. Switch On Your Business's Fat Burning Machine Are you one of the many business owners and professionals feeling buried by all you need to accomplish? Imagine building a business as easily as clearing your distractions, setting your focus, pulling your team together, and focusing your attention on your high payoff activities. Switch On Your Marketing Innovation Machine Four steps to both drive new activities through from first idea to completion, and also provide checkpoints that ensure you won't get stuck along the way. It works for marketing a new entree or your professional services. The Perfect Argument - The True Secret to Winning! Here's a High Payoff technique you may never have thought of to shake up your thinking and boost your results. These 5 Steps Get "Low Payoff" Out of Your Life We each face the same issue when we're immersed in a topic or a challenge: We get lost in a forest of low payoff ideas that show up and lose sight of the High Payoff choices right in front of us. Successful leaders and managers don't escape from running into low pay-off opportunities, they're just very effective at keeping their attention on the High Payoff activities that will get them to the results they're set on. Time To Boost Business With A Fresh Conversation Do you feel that many of your conversations are..."reruns?" And have you given any thought to how that pattern is helping or stifling your business growth? Do you find yourself spending time with the same people in the same environments, read the same type of books...Year after year. Meeting after meeting. There's nothing wrong with that...unless you never create the space for 'new' conversations. Up With The "P" Word! Use High Payoff Procrastination Today! Procrastination is an outward signal that the approach you are taking on a task may in fact be getting in the way of finding solutions. Instead of wasting hours, use it as a technique for leveraging the rest of your mind's ability to join in and solve things- sometimes much faster than expected. Why Your Customer Service Is Going Off Track I've noticed a recent trend--everyone is sprinting to prove they're making changes in their business's productivity. They are often going down an unfocused track that will not yield them the results they are looking for. You may be caught in the same sense of urgency. Let's look at some steps that will get you focused at the right pace so that you get the full results you're hoping for to grow your business.	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