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Defining Common Goals with Your Power Team

June 29th, 2008

Working with team members is sometimes not an easy task. If it were, then more people would be on Power Teams. The problem most teams run into is the fact that they have not defined any common goals. If you want to increase your business by fifty percent and the other team members only want ten percent, you have not taken on the right members. When you can align your goals, the group will function much better. You only need to define one goal at first and test it to make sure that everyone is on board. After you have completed at least one project together, you can add more goals. Do not get too carried away with setting goals as this is a loose arrangement and not a corporation.

What ever you decide to do, spend a minimal amount of time setting the goals. Goals will make the difference between getting where you want to go and getting somewhere. Save your time to do the work and make customers happy. If you can meet with your team members over the phone in the space of ten minutes then you will save commute time plus gas. The more business you can conduct in this way with your team members, the better.

The common goal for everyone in the group is to make a profit, no more and no less. If it were any different, you would no longer have members in your team. Once you are established, you can go beyond your basic goals and further define how much growth you would like.

Bette Daoust, Ph.D. is a speaker, author (over 170 books, articles, and publications), and consultant. She has provided marketing, sales, business development and training expertise for companies such as Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Varian Medical Systems, Accenture, Avaya, Cisco Systems to name a few. Dr. Daoust has also done extensive work with small businesses in developing their marketing, training, and operational plans. You may contact Dr. Daoust at BizMechanix.com. You may also view her latest publications at BlueprintBooks.com Dr. Daoust also writes for the National Networker theNationalNetworker.com

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