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I’m often asked, ” What advice would you give to anyone who has made the decision to start their own business?”
To that I answer, “You can have the best entrepreneur ideas on the planet, but if you don’t follow the 6 golden rules of entrepreneur success, you’ll never achieve the dreams of which you are capable.”
Here are the key elements to entrepreneur success that all ultra successful entrepreneurs share:
1. Develop a millionaire mindset. Whatever your goals and dreams, know that you can do it. You can absolutely do anything at all the you put your mind to, and don’t ever think otherwise or let anything that others may think have a negative influence on you. Get your mind right. Be relentless in your quest, and and you will achieve your dreams.
2. Have a clear vision of why you are doing what you are doing. Know your “Purpose” in life. Yes, money is fantastic and everyone want as much of it as we can get, but you have to have a purpose other than just financial. When (not if) you get all that money and achieve all your dreams, what are you going to do to give back to society? How are you going to assist others? What are you going to do that will positively impact other people’s lives? If you don’t have that clear vision now, begin to develop it.
3. Become a master marketer. It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have, marketing is the one thing that will make or break you. Once you have perfected the art of marketing you can write your own ticket. You can virtually go into any business you chose|literally do just about anything you enjoy and be successful. Notice I didn’t say internet marketing. Marketing is marketing and off line is just as important as online.
4. Don’t ever stop learning. Learn something new every day that will help you to become a better marketer.
5. Take that marketing know-how and put it into action every day. All the knowledge in the world is useless if you don’t take action. Get out a pen and paper right now and write down 2-4 things you will do today that will get you closer to your goals. Then do them. Do this over and over every day until you have reached your goal, then set a new goal. Get the idea here?
6. Focus, focus, and then focus some more! Stop chasing all the bright shiny objects and devote all your energy to one thing and become the best at it. It doesn’t matter whether you want to open a brick and mortar franchise or eCommerce store, be an online affiliate marketer or a network marketer, a marketing consultant or a seminar speaker. Whatever it is, go ALL IN, or you’re not in at all.
This is the biggest success killer of everybody who decides to follow their entrepreneurial desire. They are unfocused and never commit to one business model. And here’s the deal it really doesn’t matter what business model you choose. It could be as simple as choosing a single product to promote as an affiliate, then all you do daily is market that one product.
Write one blog post about it, write and distribute one article about it, then create and distribute one video about it. Do this for 90 days in a row and watch what happens!
Start everyday with all these things in mind, and end everyday with a plan for the following day.
Be disciplined and be focused. You’ll be shocked at how close you really are to everything you’ve ever wanted!
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If you are called for your yearly meeting and are told that you haven’t scored very high in your key result areas, do not be dumbfounded. This simply means that you have not performed up to the mark in your result areas. You are required to adopt innovative business strategies.
Checking performance
This tool makes it easier to know whether individuals departments or even organizations have performed over certain measurable deliverables or not. You may find that KRAs are not so popular yet, but its awareness has a rising trend. More and more successful entrepreneurs are making use of it.
You may think it to be a performance measurement instrument at a broader level. For instance, while at a macro level, the performance of a whole unit would be KRA of the boss, the actual job might be distributed among the subordinates. Thus the individual targets would be each subordinate’s KRA that can also be measured. So, KRAs always cascade from the top to the bottom. This means that the benchmarks are mutually between the boss and his subordinates.
For example, in a hockey team, the winning of the match would be captain’s KRA, but defending the goals would be that of the goalkeeper, and attacking for making goals the KRA of other team members. Being role specific makes it easy to identify where what went wrong. In this way, identifying KRAs also help the individual’s team and work management style by focusing on the results rather than the activities. By aligning individual roles to the organization’s business or strategic plans, it’s easier to prioritize the various goals and objectives.
Sounds really simple. But behind the simplicity lies a really complicated strategy as our next discussion will reveal. Before one can pinpoint a KRA for each role in an organization, basics like an organizational structure and the role maps for the every employee have to be clearly defined.
Various types of KRAs
There are five types of KRAs that are applicable to companies. These are financial, customer-specific, society-related, employee related and project based. Depending upon the complexity of the role of the team member, he may have more than one key result areas. typically, KRAs capture about 80 percent of a work profile. The remainder is usually devoted to shared areas of responsibility such as helping team members and participating in joint activities. For example. the image of an organization is usually a very senior officer’s KRA, but all employees contribute to it.
The Implementation
It’s here that the HR personnel play an important role by providing the necessary framework for the implementation of the KRAs. The HR ensures that individuals are not saddled with too many KRAs. Further, each KRA is assigned a weightage. This weightage depends upon the performance roles of the employees. While more weightage is given to system development and strategizing at higher positions, those lower in the order are held responsible for actual implementation of the plan.
It is also helpful for HR to judge its own capability. Most companies use an employee’s KRAs to decide on what an employee’s performance-linked incentives will be. Its an opportunity to see whether the employee is constrained by the environment or whether he is simply the wrong person for the job.
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