6 Essential Pillars of Predictable Growth - Grow Business Now with Bill Ringle

COMING JANUARY 2022

A professional development program for Leaders or Managers with 4 or more direct reports who want to operate as a high performance team in an 8-week program combining strategy, tools, coaching, and self-paced lessons.

Participate as an entire team or company so that you can adopt the same vocabulary, tools, and approaches that will enhance your ability to collaborate, communicate, and execute on a daily basis.

Key Outcomes

Gain control over your time each week.
Bring your team together for meaningful meetings.
Get clarity with giving and accepting assignments.
Meet deadlines more easily.
Understand how your actions contribute to the organization’s priorities each day.
Gain greater responsibility and accountability from team members.
Becoming supportive without infringing on someone else’s work.
Being able to leave work for work time and being able to devote time to family, friends, and outside relationships without feeling guilty.
Getting better at asking for clarifications so you know what your manager or boss is expecting and how it will support the business.
Marketing to grow the business and build the brand rather with confidence rather than muddying the waters.
Dealing with difficult colleagues who are not communicating, responding, or delivering what you requested.
Developing a resilient PMA (positive mental attitude) so that unexpected events or surprising news does not knock you off your game for long because you know the secrets to restoring your focus.

Learning Modules

Each pillar establishes a stronger growth platform for any type of growth initiative or for maximizing your valuation potential.

Use Quarterly Goals Achievement

When you use this process, you establish your top goals to accomplish each quarter for the company overall as well as each team or department. This allows you to solve problems and build capabilities, so that your business operates stronger each quarter and problems within your control do not persist and cause the loss of profit, productivity, morale, or momentum.

Clarify Roles & Responsibilities

Each time a new position is created, you do so strategically, not opportunistically. Each role has a written job description with accountability for producing specific results. At first all job descriptions will need to be reviewed and revised. Over time, individual will review and revise this part of their job descriptions to make them a true reflection of how each contributes.

Operate with a Block Schedule

Having a block schedule that is aligned with your responsibilities and has designated times for meeting as well as doing your top work activities leads to a more productive and satisfying work life. It’s true, you can just “do what’s on your To Do list” but you miss out on the freedom that comes from dedicated work blocks. In addition, without a block schedule on your calendar, you risk falling prey to Parkinson’s law: work expands to fill the time available. Without limits, it is harder to predict how long something will take and therefore harder to know what to expect from your colleagues and direct reports.

Hold Effective Meetings

There are just 5 types of business meetings: planning, problem solving, milestone marking, relevant updating, and development training. Understanding the types and the essential structures that are useful to each will help you lead and hold meetings that people look forward to instead of dread because the purpose is clear and the activities lead to advancing the objectives of the business.

Integrate Cause & Effect Marketing

Marketing is not just the responsibility of those with this word in their title. Each person in a small business has valuable insights and ideas based on customer interactions about how to improve the ways people in the company use messaging and mediums to reach target buyers and then nurture that relationship.

It is crucial to stay focused with this approach, so that you are putting energy and attention on moving prospects into and through the sales pipeline (e.g. talking with someone who was inquired about your work, following up with a request or promise to a customer, deepening your nurture sequence, and so on) and staying out of the “wasting time because we are either scared or unsure of what to do” pipeline (e.g., changing your business name, trying different logo colors based on what you like rather than A/B testing, asking people who are easy to reach, like your Facebook friends, rather than talking with actual buyers or genuine prospects, and so on).

Delegate like a Boss

Delegation is a fundamental activity of managers, supervisors, and team leaders. You need to plan, communicate, ask for commitments, appreciate and encourage delivery of results, and hold people accountable so that they can prioritize and execute appropriately. When delegation is effective, you can see your capabilities as a company, business, or team grow each month and each quarter, enabling you to take on the same challenges with less effort and/or bigger challenges with greater competence and confidence.