Archive For: Business Management
Analysis Paralysis, Or Just Plain Fear?
December 8, 2009 by Charly Leetham
Filed under Business Management
Are you experiencing Analysis Paralysis or avoidance issues in your business? This is something that I have seen with many businesses – you can get so involved with analyzing everything, that you forget you are in business to achieve something – like making money and helping your clients.
Of course, you could just be avoiding doing something – and that has the same impact as analysis paralysis.
Analysis Paralyisis occurs when you become obsessed with knowing EVERYTHING there is to know about something. When you get caught in this trap, you spend all your time analysing, and no time doing – and this is not healthy. Read more
Website: http://askcharlyleetham.com/
Profile: Charly Leetham is an Online Business Implementation Expert and Small Business Coach. She is dedicated to bringing useful and free information to new small businesses to aid in their success. With many years experience in managing business for employers and herself, Charly shares her many experiences and insights with readers.
Business Building With Children In Hand!
October 19, 2009 by Charly Leetham
Filed under Business Development, Business Management
There is no doubt about it, starting a business is a daunting thing – but starting a business when you have toddlers in hand in even more daunting.
The sheer idea of trying to break your time down into manageable chunks so that you can look after your little ones during the day and create a successful business is mind boggling for many – but without a doubt, Moms (and Dads) all over the world are doing it.
My children are now teenagers, but I remember the challenges we faced trying to run our businesses when they were little – balancing the need for some pretty long hours at times, with spending time with the kids and allowing time for ourselves. Sometimes we weren’t so succesful about it, soemtimes we were. Read more
Website: http://askcharlyleetham.com/
Profile: Charly Leetham is an Online Business Implementation Expert and Small Business Coach. She is dedicated to bringing useful and free information to new small businesses to aid in their success. With many years experience in managing business for employers and herself, Charly shares her many experiences and insights with readers.
Manage To Own – Franchise Training and Bakers Delight
September 16, 2009 by Charly Leetham
Filed under Business Management, Franchising
Starting a small business can be very, very daunting. There is a lot of information that a Small Business Owner needs to have, including but not limited to, personnel management, financial management, stock ordering and OH&S requirements, as well as having sufficient capital to fund the business through the start up and lean times.
Certainly, most first time business owners will not have a fraction of the skills they need to run a business and there really is no substitute for the learning that occurs with experience however, that learning often comes at a high price.
A JOB is a safe option and some of the bigger companies, retail or food service chains, have a complete managerial program for their staff. They will train you to become a manager – so that you learn the system, you breathe the system – and then they let you loose to manage the system.
Unfortunately, for small business owners this option really doesn’t exist – it is highly unusual for anyone to provide you with on the job training for your business. The Small Business owner is required to invest (often heavily) in their business and deal with what comes – without having a support framework to turn to. Read more
Website: http://askcharlyleetham.com/
Profile: Charly Leetham is an Online Business Implementation Expert and Small Business Coach. She is dedicated to bringing useful and free information to new small businesses to aid in their success. With many years experience in managing business for employers and herself, Charly shares her many experiences and insights with readers.
Reclaiming Your Power In Business
August 19, 2009 by Charly Leetham
Filed under Business Management
Have you lost your power in business? No, I don’t mean “are you weak in business”…. Listening to Jenny Leather, a Melbourne born and bred Mother of 3, on the Stretch Your Mind And Body Talk today, I wondered how many of us have let go of our power, or put our power in the hands of others.
Jenny is a successful property investor who found that the old adage “It’s easy to make your first million, it’s not so easy to keep it” is true.
When Jenny and husband first experienced wealth generation, they handed the management of that money over to someone else. This was not necessarily the best thing to do – and Jenny shared that it was like handing over you power to someone else. Read more
Website: http://askcharlyleetham.com/
Profile: Charly Leetham is an Online Business Implementation Expert and Small Business Coach. She is dedicated to bringing useful and free information to new small businesses to aid in their success. With many years experience in managing business for employers and herself, Charly shares her many experiences and insights with readers.
Be The General Of Your Army
August 12, 2009 by Charly Leetham
Filed under Business Management
It is very easy for a business person to become so ‘bogged down’ with doing everything for their business, that they lose focus on ensuring that they do the important things that will ensure success.
Now this has several effects – the main one being that we rarely get anything done WELL. We’ll get things done – but we are typically so strung out that we just do whatever we can to finish the job. The other thing that seems to happen is that we are tired and ill – a lot!
For those business people fortunate enough to have staff and contractors – trying to be the soliders instead of the general only annoys them – because we end up doing their job instead of ours. Read more
Website: http://askcharlyleetham.com/
Profile: Charly Leetham is an Online Business Implementation Expert and Small Business Coach. She is dedicated to bringing useful and free information to new small businesses to aid in their success. With many years experience in managing business for employers and herself, Charly shares her many experiences and insights with readers.
