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Other Added - Keeping Your Small Business Focused
While most corporations, big and small, profess to work in partnership with every element of their work force, they only pay it token regard.Yet working in partnership with all, helps all to realize their dreams, and when this happens an enormous amount of energy and intelligence is released. This, in turn, creates smoother, more pr
What does this have to do with starting and running a small business? Well, your small business is like Ollie’s birdhouse. A great idea. Well executed. Necessary. Something that will attract birds (well, customers). Then
Procurement management can be defined as the independent monitoring or tracking of manufacturing processes to purchase order requirements. An implicit assumption of Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) analysis is that the purchase price per unit is constant. In an inflationary period, this assumption is not valid. If the rate of inflation is pre
Anyway, back to Ollie. In this episode, Ollie wanted to build a birdhouse so his birdie friends would have somewhere to go when it rained. He built a fine birdhouse. One any bird would be happy to call home. He was just about to hang it on the tree by his house when a series of friends stopped by to say hello.
All of his friends had suggestions on how to “improve” his birdhouse. One friend said it needed spots of paint, so Ollie added them. Another friend said it needed flowers to make it smell better, so Ollie stuck flowers all over the birdhouse. A third friend said it needed bells to ring and attract birds, so Ollie wrapped a string of tiny bells all around his birdhouse. Finally finished, he proudly hung up his new, improved birdhouse.
Then the storm came. The birds rushed to his birdhouse. But they couldn’t get in, because the door to the house was blocked by bells, flowers, and paint. They flew away. But as the rain fell, something happened. The wind blew away the bells and the flowers. The rain washed away the paint. By the time the storm ended, all that was left was Ollie’s original birdhouse, hanging in the tree. And you know what, the birds loved it! They flew in and around the house, happy as birds can be.
What does this have to do with starting and running a small business? Well, your small business is like Ollie’s birdhouse. A great idea. Well executed. Necessary. Something that will attract birds (well, customers). Then,
The goal of all sales training is not just to teach solid selling principles and techniques, but to actually help participants increase the number of new accounts (products and/or services) they sell and improve their multiple sales ratios. Unfortunately, many sales and service industry professionals gain an intellectual awareness of the m
All of his friends had suggestions on how to “improve” his birdhouse. One friend said it needed spots of paint, so Ollie added them. Another friend said it needed flowers to make it smell better, so Ollie stuck flowers all over the birdhouse. A third friend said it needed bells to ring and attract birds, so Ollie wrapped a string of tiny bells all around his birdhouse. Finally finished, he proudly hung up his new, improved birdhouse.
Then the storm came. The birds rushed to his birdhouse. But they couldn’t get in, because the door to the house was blocked by bells, flowers, and paint. They flew away. But as the rain fell, something happened. The wind blew away the bells and the flowers. The rain washed away the paint. By the time the storm ended, all that was left was Ollie’s original birdhouse, hanging in the tree. And you know what, the birds loved it! They flew in and around the house, happy as birds can be.
What does this have to do with starting and running a small business? Well, your small business is like Ollie’s birdhouse. A great idea. Well executed. Necessary. Something that will attract birds (well, customers). Then
People who are successful negotiators, always have a well thought out strategy before entering into the negotiation, are well prepared, self confident and structure the negotiation, so that they remain in control of the negotiating process.The recommended structure for negotiations is:• Establish the issues being negotiateddhouse. One friend said it needed spots of paint, so Ollie added them. Another friend said it needed flowers to make it smell better, so Ollie stuck flowers all over the birdhouse. A third friend said it needed bells to ring and attract birds, so Ollie wrapped a string of tiny bells all around his birdhouse. Finally finished, he proudly hung up his new, improved birdhouse.
Then the storm came. The birds rushed to his birdhouse. But they couldn’t get in, because the door to the house was blocked by bells, flowers, and paint. They flew away. But as the rain fell, something happened. The wind blew away the bells and the flowers. The rain washed away the paint. By the time the storm ended, all that was left was Ollie’s original birdhouse, hanging in the tree. And you know what, the birds loved it! They flew in and around the house, happy as birds can be.
What does this have to do with starting and running a small business? Well, your small business is like Ollie’s birdhouse. A great idea. Well executed. Necessary. Something that will attract birds (well, customers). Then
Poems and stories can provide powerful metaphors in training, particularly when you are trying to get a motivational point across. If you think about the things you remember from your past education, you will probably note that most of them have come from rhymes or stories of some kind. I mean how did you learn to say your A,B,C's? I bet y
Then the storm came. The birds rushed to his birdhouse. But they couldn’t get in, because the door to the house was blocked by bells, flowers, and paint. They flew away. But as the rain fell, something happened. The wind blew away the bells and the flowers. The rain washed away the paint. By the time the storm ended, all that was left was Ollie’s original birdhouse, hanging in the tree. And you know what, the birds loved it! They flew in and around the house, happy as birds can be.
What does this have to do with starting and running a small business? Well, your small business is like Ollie’s birdhouse. A great idea. Well executed. Necessary. Something that will attract birds (well, customers). Then
A Systems ApproachIn today’s business environment where change is constant, technology is cheap and skill shortages are commonplace, people are the key differentiator between those businesses that succeed and those that don’t. It is little wonder then that the training and development function in an organization plays
What does this have to do with starting and running a small business? Well, your small business is like Ollie’s birdhouse. A great idea. Well executed. Necessary. Something that will attract birds (well, customers). Then, well-meaning people start to give you their advice: “It would be great if you also did this,” or, “Don’t you think you should also sell this?” Before long, your birdhouse is a mess. You can’t see your original business idea because of all the unnecessary stuff that’s been added to it.
Worse yet, your customers can’t connect with your original, great business plan because it’s buried under all the “good” ideas people added for you. One of the guiding principles for a small business needs to be: Do one thing well. Let your customers see what you do well, and they will flock to your business.
The lesson from Ollie is: keep your birdhouse idea uncluttered. Your best customers will come to you because you are the best at one thing. Leave the jack-of-all-trades approach to Walmart and Big Lots. For the rest of us, the best idea is: Keep It Simple!
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