Keeping high performers engaged at work not only maximizes productivity, but also drives revenue up. I won’t bore you with the research, but studies show that a single top achiever can deliver as much productivity as up to four average employees. In the heart of every small business, …
Chris Lema
Do you know your focus toggle?
I couldn’t get my camera to focus by pressing the shutter button down half-way. It has always worked in the past. I didn’t understand what had happened. I started with checking the modes – was I in a different mode than normal? Nope. Then I went to the…
Choosing a Pricing Strategy
This week I’m headed to WordCamp US (#WCUS) and will see folks that I haven’t seen in a couple of years. I stepped away from a full time focus on WordPress about 18 months ago, and I’m excited to circle back and see so many friends in a…
Motivational Segmentation
The other day I wrote an ebook about motivational segmentation. It wasn’t called that, because, seriously, who would choose to read something with that title. Instead, I called the eBook, Grow Your Coaching Practice 8X With One Single Sales Strategy. But what I shared in that free…
Grow Profits in 2023
If you’re looking to grow profits next year, you’ve likely already made your plans for the new year. I get that. And it’s the last days of this year, so you’ve stopped reading blogs. I get that too. But there’s a good chance that while you’ve used one…
How To Navigate The Lean Years
Things are Going to Get Tough Instead of writing a post about the upcoming (or already here)” recession, ” I thought I would go a bit broader and talk about how to navigate the lean years. Businesses of all sorts go into this time under a lot of stress. Let’s…
Premature Optimization is a Timing Mistake
In the end, your success or failure is a combination of what you control (your decision making) and what you don’t (timing). Most people aren’t really great at decision making. But that’s something you can get better at. So let’s move to the harder dynamic that we…
When The Wrong People Quit
The Trend of Quiet Quitting You’ve likely heard of quiet quitting – the dynamic where people don’t actually leave your company. Instead, they simply stop working as hard. They skate. They put in the absolutely minimum amount of work to feel good about collecting their pay. Suddenly, this…
The Case for Pruning
There are two things I know about pruning. Now, you should know that I actually shouldn’t use the word “ know” as if I’m a master gardener. I’m not. It’s probably more accurate to say that I read this on Wikipedia and learned two things. But the reason I…
Do you really need a coach?
Do you really need a coach? Business coaching is a great way to accelerate past predictable challenges you may not be able to see. It’s also a fantastic way to get the accountability you need to help drive a culture of execution. Not everyone knows I’ve been running…
Creating a “How to work with me” Guide
Not Everyone Knows How To Work With You When you’re adding new people to your team, they’re stepping into a team dynamic and starting to work with a bunch of people they have no history with. In other words, they don’t know how to work with you in…
Self-Service is the Name of the Game
A Guy Walks into a Fast-Food Joint… Sometime in the early 1990’s I walked into a fast-food restaurant (Taco Bell) to see an ordering kiosk. This is long before we saw these kinds of touchscreens in fast-food chains (Taco Bell, McDonalds, etc.) in the last five years. It…
Want Different Results? Change The Game
A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to co-work together in San Diego – a house on the beach. It was an idea my friend Justin created, called BeachPress. We rented a house with tons of rooms, right on the sand, and invited everyone to…
Changing Things Up
Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research lab. It’s where I started working on…