Joel Deceuster, Bay Area strategic planning facilitator, California

May 19, 2007

Getting Your Focus On

Filed under: Focus

In the small business ownership world nothing makes you feel more secure and in control than having a plan and following it. Knowing that your employees are aligned around the same set of strategies, objectives and action plans allows you to sleep at night. It creates that “in the zone” feeling that the actions you’re taking matter in a very profound way. Why? Because they come from the best source in town for guiding your business and your team. Your focus comes from you.

I’m spending all my time these days (except when my rose garden beckons) coaching business owners and their management teams to get their focus on. Meaning, drawing out of them everything they know and value to create an annual plan of objectives, strategies and tactics for building and managing their business. In short it’s their pathway to achieving never before imagined results.

It’s something they can hold onto, come back to and connect with when things go haywire. And, they inevitably do. But because their focus is in place they don’t have to give into the chaos and despair that customers or market conditions can often create. They can just get their focus on time after time till they’re in the zone again.

Today I’m launching my new web site dedicated to helping business owners and their management teams collectively create well aligned year long plans for producing the results they’ve always wanted in their business. It’s called, Focus Your Business Now. My experience has shown me that you really can start to feel the results right now if you create your focus and start to take action on it this very day.

You can experience the feeling of “getting your focus on” now by signing up for my free seven part ecourse located on the home page of my Focus Your Business Now site. You’ll soon learn that getting your focus on gets your business on target and on its way to success.