by Lea Strickland | May 19, 2020 | Business Growth, Business Ownership, Change Management, Entrepreneur, Execution, Leadership, Operations, Organizational Change, Results, Small Business, Strategy
Strategic Delegation Podcast by Lea Strickland | Focus on Business Radio https://www.focusresourcesinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/FOB05122020-StrategicDelegation.mp3 We all wish we had more hours in the day. Since that won’t happen, it is critical to make the best...
by Lea Strickland | Sep 14, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Entrepreneur, Execution, Leadership, Operations, Opportunity, Resources, Results
Normally when I am writing about the location of your business, I am focused on the physical or virtual locations of the business. Today I want to focus on the mental or psychological location of your perspective on your business. In working with clients, the success...
by Lea Strickland | Sep 1, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Business Plans, Customer, Customer Relationships, Entrepreneur, Operations, Resources
Does your day start something like this? “How are you today?” “Fine.” This is a typical exchange that occurs for most of us daily. A variation is going to a networking event or business function and “How’s business?” “Fine.” But is your business really FINE?...
by Lea Strickland | Aug 31, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Management, Change Management, Execution, Human Resources, Operations, Resources
How to Motivate Change One of the most basic things we need to understand about change is that it is personal. People must choose to change. People can be influenced to change by external sources (e.g., other people, events); however, for true change to occur and be...
by Lea Strickland | Aug 24, 2016 | Budgets and Financial Tools, Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Ownership, Cash Management, Execution, Leadership, Operations, Resources, Small Business
Internal Controls and Financial Oversight When it comes to growing your business, you can’t afford to not understand the financial perspective of their business. Whether it is the day-to-day performance, budgets, taxes, or other aspects of accounting for your...
by Lea Strickland | Aug 17, 2016 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Execution, Leadership, Operations, Results, Small Business
Many years ago (I won’t say how many), I had a new boss (we’ll call him “Kevin”). He was actually my supervisor’s boss. Kevin had spent most of his career in communication roles (he created presentations and documents to give to the board.) When Kevin came from a part...