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Practicing Effective Communication Skills

Jul 19, 2021
2 min

Practicing Effective Communication Skills

Practicing Effective Communication Skills Good communication is something you work at... day in and day out. It is most certainly a practice! Having good communication skills, whether it be peer-to-peer, to employees, to your board of directors, to your customers, strategic partners, and even your personal life, is a KEY component to getting to the next level - and one of the top consistent struggles most leaders & entrepreneurs have. Here are some things to consider ever

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Simon Zryd

Apr 20, 2018
3 min

Your Role as CEO

Photo by CapitalFM What business owner does not have the dream of running their company somewhere from the Caribbean, between a few palm trees and by the turquoise water? But how do you get there? Pulling yourself out of the day-to-day operations of your business is easier said than done. But it has to be done. Making your business less dependent on you has a number of benefits: you can scale your company more quickly if you’re not acting as a bottleneck; you get more time to

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What is Holding Your Company Back from Success?

Simon Zryd

Sep 23, 2017
2 min

What is Holding Your Company Back from Success?

Business Owner, I have a question for you: What is holding your company back from greater success? If you are not 100% sure what those things are, take a minute and focus on at least three circumstances, conditions, things or people preventing your company from achieving greater results. Do you have them clearly identified in your head? Now let’s look at your challenges. It wouldn’t be surprising if all three of your challenges are external to you. Most business owners tend

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Simon Zryd

Aug 24, 2017
3 min

The Urgent Case for Action

In one of my last articles I shared with you a simple process to help facilitate positive change. If you have not read my last post, please read it here. A quick recap: The first step in the process is to accept the reality of your current situation. The second step is to create an Urgent Case For Action. The third step is to clearly identify the habits you are going to change and then the fourth step is to create accountability for your success. Several of my readers asked m

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An Effective Exercise To Transform Your Status Quo

Simon Zryd

Aug 10, 2017
3 min

An Effective Exercise To Transform Your Status Quo

As a coach and consultant I am hired for one bottom line reason – to improve my client’s condition. Obviously the only way that is going to happen is through change. There are very elaborate models on how to facilitate change, for individuals, teams, and organizations. Before you invest a lot of time and energy into these processes I want to share with you a very simple model that you can try for yourself. Photo by Anders Wideskott on Unsplash The process has four steps to it

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Simon Zryd

Aug 21, 2016
3 min

Have More Influence by Be-ing Yourself

When you ask small business owners what it would take for them to make a bigger impact, it’s normal for them to most of them to jump straight to evaluate their skills. For example they may say something like: “I’d have to improve my sales presentation.” “I need to become a better manager.” “I have to get more involved with the financials of my business.” And the list goes on and on... While there is no question that technical skills affect your ability to make a bigger impact

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A Critical Discipline To Control Your Mind

Simon Zryd

Oct 6, 2015
2 min

A Critical Discipline To Control Your Mind

One of your greatest allies when it comes to increasing your productivity is your mind. The tricky part is that your mind can also be your greatest enemy. Often times we just assume that our mind is us, is who we think we are and that we don’t have any control over our thoughts. Even though true mastery of the mind is a life-long journey, there are some simple things you can do to gain more control over your mind. Most of us hold an immense amount of information in our mind.

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Understanding Growth: The 5 Phases to Business Success

Simon Zryd

Sep 8, 2015
3 min

Understanding Growth: The 5 Phases to Business Success

There are many reasons people start a business. Some of us want to be our own boss, some of us want to do what we love, or we might want to create a legacy to pass on to our children. And others are driven by a passion to empower and help people, even create jobs. And there is no question that starting your own business can be scary and intimidating. In every case though when we start a business we intend to eventually reap the benefits of the effort we put into it. The real

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Simon Zryd

Jun 16, 2015
3 min

The Steps To Successfully Onboard New Employees

There are many things we don’t learn in school about how to run a business. One of them is how to effectively bring on a new employees and set them up for success. As your business grows, it will naturally require more people to carry out the work and new skills will be required to handle a wider range of business activities and developing technology. We need to have new employees in place in good time to meet increased demand, and we need to provide opportunities to develop,

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Simon Zryd

May 18, 2015
3 min

The Cost Of Broken Agreements

Great relationships are built on trust and respect. For us business owners, few relationships are as important as the ones among members of our team. While there is a lot of information about how to nurture good relationships, one of the most critical things we can do is to make sure we are keeping the agreements that we make with the people around us. We make agreements every day. Some are big agreements, like promising someone a promotion or a raise. Other agreements might

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Simon Zryd

Apr 27, 2015
3 min

Playing To Win… And What Is Stopping Us From Doing It

Many of the small business owners I speak to are very familiar with a habit of starting a project, but then not finishing it. The common excuses I hear are something like being too busy, not being able to focus or simply a lack of clarity on how to proceed. But what if there is another dynamic at play that might not be so obvious on first sight? There are people who start a new project with every intention to complete it and to do a great job at it. They see the project as th

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Simon Zryd

Jan 19, 2015
3 min

Change Your Habits & Grow Your Business

Last year I have talked a lot about how many business owners get locked into specific patterns of behavior (habits) that produce specific results. Unfortunately, most of the time these aren't the results the business owner was looking for… since those results tend to be a lack of revenue and profits for their business. Over the years I have seen that one of the main problems is the unproductive behavioral patterns the business owner uses daily. These patterns have become ingr

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Achieving Success - The Things We Have to Face (but don't want to...)

Simon Zryd

Nov 3, 2014
4 min

Achieving Success - The Things We Have to Face (but don't want to...)

As we are heading towards the end of the year we naturally start to take inventory of what we have accomplished this year. Some of us might be really happy with our results, others might find themselves in almost the same place they did 12 months ago. We wonder, what does it really take to have a breakthrough in our business? What does it take to bring it to the next level. The usual answers are, generating more leads, converting more of those leads or increase efficiencies..

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How To Have A Breakthrough When You Want To Give Up

Simon Zryd

Oct 27, 2014
3 min

How To Have A Breakthrough When You Want To Give Up

Every successful person I have ever met had to battle the feeling of wanting to give up. The reality is that someone who wants to build a successful business has to be prepared to tolerate a great deal of difficulty. Building a successful business is a challenging task, and at times it requires everything we’ve got. So how does one tolerate and overcome the challenges and adversities? It comes back to one thing: Desire. We tolerate everything that is coming our way because of

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Why A Business Coach Is A Great Investment

Simon Zryd

Jun 24, 2014
4 min

Why A Business Coach Is A Great Investment

Many businesses are started with a pure desire to do something good, to help people, in a new way, to provide services or products that help people. Often times entrepreneurs have a great vision and now want to put it to the test. But at times this exciting journey can be difficult, challenging and even lonely. To make sure that your vision becomes reality we need experts around us who make sure that we as individuals, and our business, is reaching its full potential. One of

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Simon Zryd

Jun 9, 2014
3 min

Three Good Reasons To Take A Vacation

Planning for my "start of the summer vacation" I had no idea how important that vacation would turn out to be. I spent one week in the beautiful Utah National Parks (Arches, Canyonlands and Zion), explored nature and took a break from everything. For so many of us it’s easy to get caught up in the hamster wheel of running a small business. But, although it may seem impossible or even like a waste of time, it’s important to take a break and let our body and mind completely rel

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How Are Your Communication Breakdowns Hurting Your Bottom Line?

Simon Zryd

Apr 22, 2014
3 min

How Are Your Communication Breakdowns Hurting Your Bottom Line?

One of the biggest frustration that we as small business owners have (or anyone in a leadership position for that matter) is that we are not always able to get our team to execute tasks the way we would like them to do. Depending on the circumstances this can have a direct impact on the bottom line of our business. For example we ask on of our employees to address a concern of one of our longstanding customers, but our employee does not follow the instructions that were given

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What Non-Negotiables Define Your Culture Statement?

Simon Zryd

Apr 14, 2014
3 min

What Non-Negotiables Define Your Culture Statement?

As business owners we have a lot of responsibility. Not only do we need our business to be successful and profitable to provide for our family, and ourselves but we also have a responsibility toward the welfare of our employees, the community and the environment. One thing that I am observing when coaching my clients is that a stronger distinction between the company’s interests and the personal interests of the owner needs to be established. Ultimately, for the company to be

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How to Harvest The Power Of Creative Thinking

Simon Zryd

Mar 10, 2014
4 min

How to Harvest The Power Of Creative Thinking

To be the best leaders in our business possible, and for that matter the best leaders of our lives, we need to constantly grow and learn new things. A powerful tool that we all use, even though we might not be consciously aware of it is creative thinking. Within the framework of personal growth, creative thinking is all about finding new and better ways to do the things we currently do. In my last post I wrote about a process that can help us start thinking about how to incre

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Simon Zryd

Feb 24, 2014
3 min

What I Learned About Making Excuses

Isn’t it interesting that even though we all know that making excuses is detrimental to our success, we still make them every day? Some of us are aware that we make them, some of us not yet. A big part of the journey to success is to change the habit of making excuses. Two things that all excuses have in common are that they keep us from doing and achieving what we truly want. They also have a tendency to expand in every aspect of our lives. If we start making excuses in one

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How A Purpose Statement Can Help You Be More Productive

Simon Zryd

Feb 10, 2014
3 min

How A Purpose Statement Can Help You Be More Productive

Every successful business is based on a vision and a core purpose. As business owner you have long imagined the growth and expansion of your business before it actually occurs in reality. New entrepreneurs often start their business because they have a vision for how that business can serve a higher purpose. The business becomes a vehicle to express and serve that higher purpose. We know that making money is essential to our business – if we do not run a profitable business,

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More Confidence - Where Could Your Business Be?

Simon Zryd

Feb 10, 2014
4 min

More Confidence - Where Could Your Business Be?

As entrepreneurs, one of the biggest battles we fight every day is the battle against fear. Yes, there are the daily challenges of improving our systems, developing new marketing strategies or expanding our products or services. All these things are important, no question. But are they really the challenges that are holding our company back right now? In my almost five years of coaching I have seen many times that what is truly holding a business back is actually not tangibl

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