Posts in Business Demon
How to Run Your Business When You're Not Around

So, how can you make your business run without you while you nip off for a well-deserved break for a day… a week… or even a few months? Maybe you want more work-life balance. Or perhaps you want to scale it or explore new personal or professional opportunities. Would your beloved business still thrive, would it merely survive, or would it undergo a disastrous failure?

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The Power of Teams

One of the areas that we concentrate on when helping business owners triple their business is the skill of building dynamic, power teams. They are essential to cope with the extra workload that you’re going to be taking on.

It is a team where the members trust each another, who all work towards a common goal, who hold one another accountable for making things happen and support each other where they can. It was Kurt Lewin, a social psychologist and change management expert from the early 1940s, that is credited with coining the term "group dynamics” and it’s these behaviours the are reflected in the dynamic power team. Further research has found that when these teams are working together, its members are nearly twice as creative as an average team, making them a great asset for any company.

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Don’t Open that Box!

She kept talking for a good while longer and all the time I was listening, it was becoming more apparent that she was a perfectionist, a stickler for detail and wanted her team to be the same. She was suffering from the Business Demon, Niggler, and it had really burrowed into her brain. She was fussing over petty details, becoming uncomfortable with her team, which led her to getting annoyed with them, and her anxiety levels were climbing higher and higher.

Niggler was having a great time inside her head.

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