The Gallup Orga­ni­za­tion has done a lot of great work over the years on employee engage­ment. My grand­fa­ther used to say “No need to re-invent the wheel”! As impor­tant as inno­va­tion is, how often do you real­ize you already know a solu­tion, model, approach, dis­ci­pline that will solve your prob­lem with out hav­ing to re-invent the wheel?! Just tak­ing the time to look at:

• Plan­ning and it’s Effectiveness
• Processes and their Efficiency
• Peo­ple and their Engagement

will give you a great win­dow into what you need to address in your busi­ness. Now the only ques­tion is “Do you have the courage to address the issues that you find”? I guess this is bad mar­ket­ing on my part. I should be telling you that I know a com­pletely rev­o­lu­tion­ary method­ol­ogy that is a total secret and that it will trans­form your busi­ness while you sleep. Sorry, Snake oil is not in my value propo­si­tion. Most likely your busi­ness is a reflec­tion of you as a person/leader and it’s going to take self inspec­tion, hon­estly, hard work, humil­ity and more to trans­form your busi­ness. That sounds hard doesn’t it? It is, but don’t you think it’s bet­ter than not trans­form­ing and not surviving.

Mak­ing this switch and sus­tain­ing it is founded in hav­ing these three things;

Effec­tive Planning

Effi­cient Processes

Engaged Peo­ple

“You don’t have a busi­ness, you are a busi­ness.” or “Work­ing in your busi­ness not on your busi­ness.” There are many ways to say the same thing but the mes­sage is sim­ple, to be truly suc­cess­ful with your busi­ness (or your part of the busi­ness) you must rise to a level where you’re not just react­ing. Would you like to make the switch?