Questions to Ask About Your Business

This post shares some questions that you may want to ask yourself about your business.

I attended a seminar last week taught by a nationally known speaker, Steve Lishansky. Steve’s bio from his web site Optimize International states “Steve Lishansky is the founder and President of Optimize International, the successor company to Success Dynamics that he founded as one of the first executive coaching firms in the United States. He is recognized as a leader in the fields of building high-value relationship skills, executive coaching and development, and improving organizational alignment and performance.”

Establishing Value and Priorities for Your Business

I will not divulge Steve’s proprietary information. He encouraged clients to explore these questions:

• What is the most important thing you want to change about your organization?
• How would you measure the success of your changes?
• How much is it worth it to you to make the change?

How would you answer them?

The questions, and more that Lishansky provides, can guide you to exploring how to increase the value of your business. When you determine what is the most important change, you eliminate lesser priority changes and focus on the changes that will give you the best return on investment. Knowing how to measure the results of the change allows you to track improve and the effect of change.

Executive Decision Making

Optimize International describes “The 4 levels of executive decision making

1. Generate clarity about what is present, missing, or needed in the organization and its people.
2. Create focus on what is most important to the organization and, with these high-value outcomes in sight, place attention on what will best close the gap between where we are and where we want to be.
3. Have impact by accomplishing what is most important to the organization.
4. Produce leverage, which comes from creating the environment and opportunities for others to have impact in the organization.”

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