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Articles by Linda Feinholz
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.
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?
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.
Boost Your Productivity By Clearing Those Shelves!
I know that it's always a challenge to fit in all the activities you dream of for building your business. With so many things going on, who has time to 'give your all' to growing your 'company'? We don't just have To Do lists occupying our attention, books, papers, binders, and files often divert our attention. Things we treasure often create distracting whispers in our mind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 entrée or your professional services.
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.
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.
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
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Solving The Catch-22 Of Your Business Model
Days that go to Hell In A Hand-basket days offer us 2 choices: Choice Number 1 - Lose our heads and run around like... a chicken without a head. Choice Number 2 - Step back and sort it out. The quicker you shift from Choice 1 to Choice 2, the faster you'll have your attention back on track.
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.
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.
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?