Business Issues

I became familiar with 'the learning organization, and more specifically the 'systemic systems' of business through strategist Peter Senge who authored, The Fifth Discipline. Learning organizations, as defined by Senge are, organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire and where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspirations are set, and where people are continually learning to see the whole, together as a group.

Strategist Peter Senge author of, The Fifth Discipline, is where my foundation of "systemic systems" and "learning organization" began. Learning organizations, as defined by Senge are, organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire and where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured.

Tune in today, Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 8am and 2pm PT on www.awoptalk247.com to listen to the Ask Christina First Radio Show where I will be discussing Senge's teaching on systemic systems.

Systemic systems serve businesses by improving them and increasing productivity. Some systemic systems are the purpose of pride and preferences. This week on the radio show I continue last week's topic on using systemic systems to improve your business.

Tune in today, Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 8 am and 2 pm PST to listen to the Ask Christina First Radio Show on www.awoptalk247.com

What does it mean to be a leader in your company? Over the next few weeks I will be discussing a topic that involves the systems that affect and keep your business flowing. Author Peter Sange provides a great example of a systemic system and just how much it can affect your business in his book, The Fifth Discipline. 

He uses an example of a beer that was featured in a music video, the beer was seen by thousands of people, and sales and demand for that beer shot up. The store owners increase their orders of the beer and distributors work to meet the demand.

Over the next few weeks I will be discussing a topic that involves the systems that affect and keep your business flowing. Author Peter Sange provides a great example of a systemic system and just how much it can affect your business in his book, The Fifth Discipline. 

Tune in today, Thursday, July 4, 2019 at 8 am and 2 pm PST to listen to the Ask Christina First Radio Show on www.awoptalk247.com

Time management isn’t actually about managing time; the purpose of it is to actually manage tasks. It’s about making the time to get the things done that need to happen so that you can get to the things your business needs from you. Most good-hearted business owners misuse their time, they see not spending time on tasks as not being personal, not being friendly, or being too limited.

But, as an owner and leader, time management is in your jurisdiction; it’s a backbone to you being a good leader. Managing your time is you being responsible to your sub-contractors and to your employees. Because it is essential that you give them feedback, and that you delegate, managing your time allows you to do that.

Each work day, as entrepreneurs, we get up in the morning with a plan for our day. Every day that plan and list of things to do gets hijacked and before we know it out of our eight things to do only four get done and that repeats every day. The urgency of your client isn’t always your urgency.

When you get a phone call from an upset client figure out when you can respond; don’t respond out of panic or when you only have a few minutes. Their urgency should not automatically become your urgency; keep your cool. When the emergency comes up, consider how important the client and the issue is to your business. If it’s not really important to your business, put it off for a few hours and focus on the things that actually are urgent and important for your business right now.

It happens every week-- you’re at your desk, or walking down the hallway at work and suddenly you’re stopped. Your time and work has been hijacked by someone else and now you will spend anywhere from the next 15 mins to 2 hours putting out a client or employee’s urgent fire.

Urgent is in the moment, it’s the thing that is up in front of you that you respond to because it has an immediate time pressure or the person presenting it to you needs a response right away. Things that are important have to be done, they just don’t have to be done right now, like going through your inventory, going to a networking event, and bookkeeping so that you can get paid.

Time management is the process of putting things into your calendar and getting them done in a timely fashion. Time management is also about file and task management. Do you ever feel overworked or that your to-do list is longer than the amount of time in which you have to get it all done? I am one of those people who has too many things sitting unfiled on my desk and that adds to my feeling of overwhelm.

This week on my radio show I will be using David Allen Coe's time management system to talk about the managing of your tasks and files. I will also get into how to delegate projects as well as what on your list of to-do's should and shouldn't be assigned due dates.

Tune in today, Thursday, May 23, 2019, at 8 AM and 2 PM PST on www.awoptalk247.com to listen to the Ask Christina First Radio Show.