Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2022

Great communication inside the organization and outside is the key to value. The authors agree with my own assessment that there are many ways, both subtle and not so subtle, that you can coach team members on how to communicate their value, what they are capable of, and what you are looking for from them.

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Coach Organization Technical Review Satisfaction 119

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Most of you business professionals that I know have at least thought about or talked about starting their own business, to get more control, make more money, or to get more satisfaction out of their life. You must feel satisfaction. Check out local sources for coaching and assistance. No presence gives you no credibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of the dysfunctions I often see in my coaching and mentoring work with small businesses is team member burnout. T his occurs when an organization imposes narrow constraints on how work is to be done or allows no room for judgment or innovation. Organization acts without fairness and respect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As a result, Amazon has ranked as #1 for customer satisfaction for many years in a row and has grown accordingly. Studies show that a positive team culture in an organization can result in 26 percent fewer mistakes, 22 percent higher productivity, 41 percent lower absenteeism, and 30 percent stronger customer satisfaction.

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Coach Satisfaction Custom Customer 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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Technical Review Organization Coach Satisfaction 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2019

Employee engagement is a measure of emotional commitment, leading to work focus, which translates to productivity, satisfaction and happiness. The goal must be to eliminate organization silos, flatten hierarchies, and empower employees within projects. Coach for productivity, performance, and creativity.

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Company Companies Coach Satisfaction 78

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. Enhance team engagement and business culture. In every business, large or small, there must be no “us versus them.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Unfortunately, work and satisfaction have become an oxymoron in many businesses. Among many other recommendations, they offer some practical tips on how any organization can make their work culture more meaningful and satisfying: Match people to work that stimulates and challenges them. Focus on role enrichment, not more work.

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Tips Satisfaction Training Mentor 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It works at all levels inside an organization, as well as outside the company. Provide and seek coach and advocate relationships. Provide and seek coach and advocate relationships. The best coaches are people who care about you as a person, without any ulterior motives, and intend to inspire you to be the best that you can be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

Inside the organization, it also pays to offer some of your time for coaching and mentoring to less experienced team members, as an entrée to a supportive relationship. Constant attention to work devices, location, and travel is not humanly sustainable without loss of quality, satisfaction, and productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Lack of accountability can permeate an entire organization. Of course, at all levels of an organization or business, there are opportunities for accountability that can make or break your career or your leadership perception in the eyes of others. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Doing so will increase both your personal life accountability, as well as your business satisfaction. This will generate trust, loyalty, and continued accountability within the organization. The goal should always be coaching to solve problems, not blame assignment or negative feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2022

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. When you reach a certain level or role in an organization, it is difficult to find time to spend with inspiring people who can provide you with insights and new perspectives. Save 30 percent of your energy for outside activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

First, you as the leader must be a role model for the actions you desire – including positive communication, active coaching, rewards for results, as well as providing required tools and training. I still see organizations that penalize teams for change requests, and try to live by the old adage of “it’s always been done this way.”

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Metrics 114

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Positive people management elements include good communication skills, building strong teams, finding time for coaching, strong people relationships, and facilitating growth and succession. They look for the use of talent analytics, such as productivity per employee, as well as the practices and attitude toward employee satisfaction.

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Technical Review Organization Coach Satisfaction 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. You need to be a mentor and coach on a regular basis, rather than follow a formal appraisal process that everyone dreads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2023

Here is my list of eight key strategies and tactics, gleaned from my own observations and feedback, which I believe will define you as a trusted leader, and will result in loyal teams to amplify your business initiatives into long-term success and satisfaction: Share your values and expectations to everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2020

Increase you focus on coaching, training, and mentoring. Every one of you entrepreneurs should recognize the stage in your business where your greatest satisfaction can come, not from more growth, but from the opportunity to share what you have learned with those who follow, and may carry your legacy forward.

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Metrics Entrepreneur Coach Satisfaction 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis.

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Startup Ideas Organization Entrepreneur 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” Design your organization for what it needs to win. Traditional” marketing, sales, and product management organizations often lead to mediocrity. Be clear about what you stand for, inside and outside your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

I found some good guidance on this subject in a new book, “ The Leader You Want To Be ,” by Amy Jen Su, a managing partner in an executive coaching and leadership development firm. I get much more satisfaction, and can provide more realistic help, in steering you through specific pricing, organizational, or competitive challenges you face.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2016

No matter how strong your business and technology insights are, you can benefit from input at all levels of the organization, as well as outside experts and customers. When team member solutions work well, everyone wins, while top-down decisions provide minimal satisfaction and learning for the team.

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Coach Satisfaction Organization Activity 64

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2022

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction. Nicole Lipkin, “ What Keeps Leaders Up At Night.”

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Startup Case Study Competition Entrepreneur 118

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Communicate personally and interactively with your constituents, both inside and outside the organization. Apply the same high bar to product quality, employee satisfaction, social responsibilities and customer service. Be a coach, rather than a dictator. Build an organizational culture based on ethics.

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Entrepreneur Training Demand Custom 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

Mission statements tend to be narrow, business oriented statements such as “Be the leader in customer satisfaction.” Design your organization for what it needs to win. Traditional” marketing, sales, and product management organizations often lead to mediocrity. Be clear about what you stand for, inside and outside your company.

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Startup Training Study Custom 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Be willing to work at all organization levels. It also highlights all aspects of required customer service, satisfaction, loyalty and referrals to peers. For example, a marketing project would be the number of leads generated or ad impressions, instead of recommendations for improving the process.

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Services Startup Software Review Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It’s true that gifted visionaries bring many good things to an organization, including big picture ideas, seeing around corners, and a hunter mentality. To compensate, every visionary entrepreneur needs to find a partner who gets great satisfaction from results, and loves the discipline of making things happen on a day-to-day basis.

Startup 82

Startup Ideas Organization Entrepreneur 82

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction. Nicole Lipkin, “ What Keeps Leaders Up At Night.”

Startup 106

Startup Case Study Entrepreneur Competition 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2013

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction. Nicole Lipkin, “ What Keeps Leaders Up At Night.”

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Case Study Competition 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2012

Align the organization to your values and goals. Leading people to do the right thing as a team is one of the most challenging things to teach and coach. Your appreciation of your customers and focus on delivering value to them is a pre-requisite to customer satisfaction, growth, and success. Create winning teamwork.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Satisfaction 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2011

Align the organization to your values and goals. Leading people to do the right thing as a team is one of the most challenging things to teach and coach. Your appreciation of your customers and focus on delivering value to them is a pre-requisite to customer satisfaction, growth, and success. Create winning teamwork.

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Startup Coach Satisfaction Customer 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2017

I advocate his nine deliberate steps for bringing balance between purpose and execution to every organization, including new startups and mature businesses: Define a pragmatic organizational purpose first. If you build an organization that can’t change, you will become extinct. Design a structure flexible enough for change.

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Satisfaction Custom Customer Startup 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

She provides some great guidance, based on coaching experience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, on recognizing and resolving the most troubling management issues for leaders in all stages of an organization: I’m a good leader. Engagement drives performance and satisfaction. Nicole Lipkin, “ What Keeps Leaders Up At Night.”

Startup 93

Startup Case Study Competition Entrepreneur 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2023

Even if you were an “A-Player” in your previous organization (top 10-percent performer, high integrity, exceeds on commitments), you had peers and executives around you to provide coaching and keep you centered. Enhance team engagement and business culture. In every business, large or small, there must be no “us versus them.”

Entrepreneur 85

Entrepreneur Customer Custom Competition 85

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2019

You will then experience satisfaction, instead of increased pressure. When you reach a certain level or role in an organization, it is difficult to find time to spend with inspiring people who can provide you with insights and new perspectives. Save 30 percent of your energy for outside activities.

Class 93

Class Activity Coach Satisfaction 93