How Unwavering Attention Grows Your Business

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ~ Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee may have been a successful and renowned martial artist but perhaps unknown to him, his lessons in that beautiful trade of his apply squarely in our everyday business lives. It is difficult if not impossible to get any business problem solved if you are unable to direct your focus on the problem and how to solve it.

To succeed in any venture, you must be able concentrate fully on it and what it takes to achieve it. Sadly and very pathetically, most people have no idea of the giant capacity they can immediately command when they focus all of our resources on mastering just one vital aspect of their business lives. That is the magic of focus. If you want to add more power to your business life, you must be able to concentrate all your energies on a limited set of targets involving the growth of your business. That is what brings about favorable results more easily. It is human nature somehow to become exactly what you focus on most of the time. It is for that reason business gurus always advise their mentees to always endeavor to concentrate their thoughts fully on any business they have at hand at any particular point in time. As Alexander Graham Bell likes to say, “The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." So it is in all aspects of our business lives. Take my advice, to get it done, you must fully concentrate on it and concentrate you must unless you want to remain stagnated where you currently are. I believe you can do better, but do you? Just find your focus and you will.

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”

Small Business Solution: Don’t Handle All Performance Issues Same Way

As a small business owner, there is no other way you can measure progress without being able to track your performance. As the business grows, it is inevitable that your workforce will grow along too. As your team grows, you might opt to create a Human Resources department to deal with hiring and other employment related issues. That is a direct and logical way to go in expanding but handling all performance issues in the same way is not advisable. Issues relating directly to employee performance are very sensitive and should be handled differently. If not well handled, you risk hurting employee feelings thereby experiencing even more issues that could impact their work performance.

Granted that your HR department is responsible for employee performance issues, it is not advisable to send all matters relating to employee performance to your HR department. You get better and quicker results by empowering team leaders to speak directly and right away with associates who are experiencing performance issues. This is because many workers always feel that all poor performance matters referred to the HR department involve disciplinary measures. Having your managers or team leaders speak with them directly to see if they need any help always allays such fears. Showing them some support outside the HR department can often help workers more than going right to some form of generic disciplinary action which many HR departments are notorious for.