Is your leadership team meeting your expectations?

If it is – Congratulations - keep up the good work!

If it is not – we can help.

We know the small-business challenges:

• lack of time: everyone talks about being too busy to handle current work let alone something new
• lack of accountability: deadlines pass and goals are not achieved
• communication difficulties: there’s lots of talk…and too much of it is confused and negative
• lack of customer connection: something is getting lost between good intentions and delivery…and client satisfaction could be much better

We have small-business solutions:

• simple tools and straightforward methods, designed to improve the way leaders communicate with one another, make decisions, and take the actions that deliver results
• mentoring and group guidance, designed to support, educate, and energize leaders and the people on their leadership teams

We offer new approaches to problem-solving. We specialize in solving people problems and process problems. We do this by concentrating on:

Talents – People generally only have a vague understanding of their talents. A couple of quick 1-on-1 sessions can identify Talents and create the Talent-Opportunity-Knowledge-Skills pattern that is proven to improve both motivation and performance of tasks.

Communication – There are 4 key communication areas:

1. General Communication: for accountability and results
2. Idea & Innovation Communication: to promote changes for the better
3. Resolving Disputes: clarifying interests and expectations
4. Client Communications: from marketing to getting profitable deals done

We offer support in these 4 communication areas.

There are Task Donors: those are the people who delegate tasks.

There are Task Recipients: those are the people who receive those delegated tasks. 

Task Transplants involve compatibility...if compatibility is not present then the transplant is rejected.

How might we test for Task-Transplant compatibility?

If we are a donor of tasks we can ask ourselves questions like:

• Do I understand the various consequences of the assignment I am about to delegate?
• Have I properly sold the task?

If we are a recipient of tasks we can ask ourselves questions like:

• Do I understand the various aspects of the assignment I am about to receive/accept?
• Have I bought the task?

And, donors and recipients together can discuss answers to questions like:

• Do we both really understand the importance and urgency of the situation?
• Have we considered the other Task Dimensions?
• Have we communicated fully?

Task transplants succeed when the donors and recipients communicate fully, test for reasonableness, and test for task-transplant compatibility.

The 80/20 Rule... also known as The Pareto Principle

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.^[1][2]

Business-management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population; he developed the principle by observing that 20% of the pea pods in his garden contained 80% of the peas.^[2]

It is a common rule of thumb in business; e.g., "80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients". Mathematically, the 80-20 rule is roughly followed by a power law distribution (also known as a Pareto distribution) for a particular set of parameters, and many natural phenomenon have been shown empirically to exhibit such a distribution.^[3]

The Pareto principle is only tangentially related to Pareto efficiency, which was also introduced by the same economist. Pareto developed both concepts in the context of the distribution of income and wealth among the population.

Source: Wikipedia

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