Have you been using employee motivation methods to your best advantage? If not…well, here’s your chance!

In this short video I’ll discuss some ways you can enhance the performance of your workers by increasing their loyalty to both you and your business.

Action Steps:

1. Watch this video and consider whether you’ve taken every measure to improve loyalty between your employees and your business. These should include:
• Improving employee skills and knowledge
• Making you workers feel part of a cause
• Paying fair wages
• Creating a foundation for office friendships
2.  On this page, please leave any specific suggestions you may have on ways to improve employee loyalty. Thanks!

Principles:

1. Employees need regular, varied opportunities to grow professionally.
2. The emotional life of your workers is an important of their financial well-being.
3. The most successful businesses also function as positive social settings.

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There are many steps you can take to avoid this problem, if you budget your time wisely.

In this brief video I’ll explain how to best arrange your schedule so a work vacation is as fun and relaxing as it should be.

Action Steps:

1. Think about your past vacations. Then watch this video while asking yourself if shaping your schedule could have made you more productive – before, during and after your vacations. If so, then just follow these tips to be more productive:
• Commit to vacation
• Move processing schedule
• Allow for power down time
• Allow for power up time
• Take along a gathering point
2. Please share any suggestions or questions on this page.

Principles to Learn:

1. Vacations are critical to your success in both the short and long term, but they must be properly planned.
2. Processing time should never be skipped, only moved.
3. It’s inevitable that great ideas will come, even on vacation. Having a gathering point handy will help you clear your mind and enjoy your vacation more.

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Yet you may be shocked to learn how many small business owners aren’t tracking critical numbers. (Or maybe you won’t be shocked? Maybe you’re one of them?)

In this brief video I’ll present some of the best yardsticks for gauging your business performance.

Action Steps:

1. Watch this video and ask yourself: Do I regularly review numbers to track my business performance? Here are the three most critical numbers to get a firm grasp on your bottom line:
• Count the cash on hand
• Figure your monthly net profit
• Calculate your salary
2. Determine what two other Most Valuable Indicators (MVIs) you want to track to measure your business performance.
3. On this page, please share the two MVIs you created. Also, feel free to ask any questions on this page.

Principles:

1. Most Valuable Indicators, or MVIs, are the five numbers small businesses should track on at least a monthly basis.
2. Cash on hand is the lifeblood of your company. Cash really is king.
3. Net profit numbers are most useful when compared to the prior year’s performance.
4. Your business should pay you well. You are the Most Valuable Employee you have.

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There are many low-cost, massive-benefit opportunities to dodge wastefulness and increase productivity. You just need to know where to look.

In this short, straightforward video I’ll describe how anyone can fully exploit these neglected resources.

Action Steps:

1. Watch this video and ask yourself if you are surrounded by time liabilities. If so, follow these guidelines to maximize your efficiency:
1. Have all the tools you need
2. Maintain all your tools in good working order
3. Work with the best tools you can afford
4. Keep necessary tools within arm’s reach
2. Share your favorite time assets or worst time liabilities in the comments section below.

Principles to Learn:

1. Time liabilities cause you to waste time unnecessarily or spend more time than necessary in Less Valuable Activities (LVAs).
2. Keeping your tools ship-shape avoids unnecessary and costly downtime of specialized repairs or replacement.
3. Purchasing the best tools you can reasonably afford is an investment, not an expense.
4. Having your tools nearby reduces the need to switchtask in your workplace.

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But let’s be honest: would you really want to hire an employee with exactly your skills and traits?

In this brief video, I’ll explain why not only is cloning yourself something to avoid, but also give you a five-step action plan to find a better solution for getting more done in your business.

Action Steps:

1. Watch this video and ask yourself: “On a scale of 0-10, how well am I doing with hiring employees that complement me?”
2. Before you set out to hire “another you,” follow these five steps to identify someone who complements you:
1. List all of the activities you perform.
2. Assign a dollar-per-hour value to each one of these activities, i.e. how much would it cost you to perform these activities as well as you can.
3. Rank the activities according to their dollar-per-hour cost.
4. Identify the top two Most Valuable Activities (MVAs). These are the ones on which you want to focus YOUR time.
5. Identify the three or four Least Valuable Activities (LVAs). These will begin the job description of the ideal complementary employee.
3. Embrace the principle of “I need an employee who complements me” instead of “I need another me”.
4. Share your perspective or ask questions on this page.

Principles:

1. Employees who complement you are better for the business than employees who are just like you.
2. The dollar-per-hour value that you assign to each activity is how much you would have to pay someone else per hour to do that task in your behalf.
3. Every activity you perform has a value-per-hour, and can be replaced.
4. By delegating Least Valuable Activities (LVAs) to employees, you’ll be free to spend more time on your Most Valuable Activities (MVAs).

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