Many of us own a business so that we can maximize our flexibility. While a business can offer that, more often we need to be accountable in order to get to the ultimate goals we have for our business and ourselves. In this video I talk about three ways I think entrepreneurs need to be accountable in their business, so that they can get what they want.
To make sure that your employees are aligned with your goals, you need to constantly and repeatedly communicate with them. Scorecards are a great way to visually communicate progress. As the CEO of your company what you say is amplified many times. Set the tone carefully. At a minimum, you should be communicating with your employees weekly.
It is challenging for business owners, entrepreneurs, and CEOs to keep themselves and their teams pulling in the same direction. The analogy I use is that it is like keeping everyone on a well-defined path. In this video I share on yearly and quarerly goal setting, along with weekly meetings to keep you and your teams on the path while I literally in this video stray off the path.
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The sun was already up at 6:15 am as I ran along the beach in my hometown of Vancouver, BC. My mind was on auto-pilot as I followed the beach along Spanish Banks where I have run, walked, and biked hundreds and hundreds of times. It felt good to just follow the well-worn path that was so familiar to me.
We often follow our own well-trod paths, especially when we are leading others. Many of us have discovered these paths through the pain of hard won experience. We know what works, what doesn’t, and if we follow the path everything will turn out all right.
Everyone around the table looked at each other. There was silence in the room. This was the third time they had met off site as a team to do their strategic planning for the business. Their coach had just asked how they had done on their five goals for the quarter. No one, including the CEO, was willing to own up until Don, one of the young up and coming members of the leadership team, said “we sucked—we didn’t make one of our five goals.”