Tuesday, March 14, 2017

What Is the Purpose of a Team?



The purpose of creating teams is to provide a framework that will increase the ability of employees to participate in planning, problem solving and decision making to better serve customers. Increased participation promotes:

a better understanding of decisions,

more support for and participation in implementation plans,

increased contribution to problem solving and decision making,

more ownership of decisions, processes, and changes, and


more ability and willingness to participate in performance evaluation and improvement.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

7 Things to Outsource Immediately to Scale Your Business



The hallmark of any entrepreneur is the ability to wear multiple hats, juggle dozens of tasks simultaneously and multitask his or her way from startup to consistent income stream.


Ironically, though, multitasking can actually damage your brain and decrease your productivity. Studies are rife with statistics and case studies showing that the human brain lacks the capacity to successfully perform more than one task at one time.

So what’s the solution? Tactic 1 is to grow your business slowly and give yourself the time to exclusively manage single tasks. However, if you’re like me, you love building and running your business and don’t want to scale at such a painfully slow pace.

The other solution, Tactic 2, is to immediately outsource specialized and tedious tasks to free up your time while you simultaneously scale your business. Here are seven ways to get started.