August 2017 - Affirm Consulting

Business Growth: Embrace the Process & Operational Awareness

The first video in the #AffirmtheWay Business Growth video series: Small business growth expert, Dennis Hough (Affirm Consulting), highlights the importance of business leaders embracing the process of routinely engaging employees and customers to gain helpful insight into their business. The second half of this video focuses on the importance of ‘operational awareness’ to identify dangers or unsuspecting pitfalls which might impact your company.

Check out our other #AffirmtheWay business growth videos and follow us on social media for additional business tips.

Remember: Dream Big, Embrace the process and ‘Affirm the Way’.

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A Simple Guide to Building an Engaged Team

Building a winning team can sometimes feel like Mission Impossible, but it starts and ends with strong leadership. Winning in business takes the effort of everyone on the team, so employee engagement is at the core to developing a winning team. Here’s a great article on building an engaged team for your business:
#OrganizationalDevelopment #businessteam #AffirmtheWay

Click here to read the entire CustomerThink.com article

Set Realistic Goals

Small business owners tend to overdo it and ultimately burn out. Set realistic goals for yourself and your business, but also take a break from business from time-to-time to mentally reset yourself. Remember, it’s a marathon not a sprint.

Thnx K Brew for the delicious mocha and the perfect break in my busy #TravelTuesday.
#DreamBig #EmbracetheProcess #AffirmtheWay

15 Tactics for Successful Business Negotiations

Small Business Owners: This is a must-read article for any business leader who is considering a partnership, a sizable contract, or moving forward with an exit strategy. There’s much to consider to successfully negotiate a favorable deal, but these 15 business negotiating tips really hit the mark. #AffirmtheWay

Click here to read the entire AllBusiness.com article

15 Useful Management Tips for New C-Level Executives

Just like the old adage “No man is an island”, executive leadership is not a go-it-alone endeavor. Always learning, remaining humble, embracing and empowering those around us, and learning from our mistakes are just a few keys to successfully becoming a profound leader in business today. Here are 15 other helpful tips to becoming an impactful business leader. #AffirmtheWay

Click here to read the entire Huffington Post article

Fish With A Net, Not A Hook: Three Steps To Achieve Massive Business Growth

Small business sales strategies tend to lack magnitude in replacement for clarity, thus dramatically limiting their company’s ability to grow exponentially. What we mean, is that most small businesses focus so intently on ‘how’ their sales-lead process is going to work and then trying to replicate it over and over as quickly as feasibly possible, that they fail to open the aperture of the sales funnel to scale their sales process. Here’s a must-read article for small businesses who are looking to achieve substantial sales growth:

Click here to read the entire Forbes article