Does your leadership team get caught up when discussing “people issues”, those discussions about problems with employees that seem to just eat up valuable planning or meeting time without accomplishing anything? While it’s important to discuss these types of issues with your leadership team, business coaches urge team members to use a more constructive way of solving those people issues, as they can really be a drain on the business over time.

Once a business coach has helped a leadership team define goals and priorities and create a clear vision for the future, they next look at all of the possible obstacles that could prevent the business from being successful in their efforts to achieve those goals. Even the most successful organizations have “issues” from time to time: those problems or obstacles that could prevent future growth and development and limit your overall success. The key is to identify your potential problems and by bringing them out into the open by placing them on an Issues List.

One of the most important outcomes of effective business coaching is to teach business owners and leadership teams how to gain Traction in their business through the regular development of goals and priorities that are constantly being reviewed and refined. Traction in a business isn’t just about increasing sales or developing a bigger customer base. Leadership teams gain traction by narrowing their focus to just the most important priorities for the next 90 days. In the world of EOS business coaching, we call these priorities your “Quarterly Rocks”.

In today’s fast paced world, it’s important for business owners and leadership teams to always be a few steps ahead of the game. Even though a great deal can change in a business over three years, business coaches recommend taking the time to create a vivid picture of what your business will look like the business in three years. Why? A 3-Year Picture helps leadership teams accomplish the following:

Business goal settings tips are now available from EOS Worldwide®, the creator of the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) recently announced. A new blog post from EOS Founder Gino Wickman offers helpful business goal setting tips designed to help businesses of all shapes and sizes meet their goals. In the latest post to the blog, which offers free business leadership development resources for small to mid-size business owners, Wickman describes how having a clear goal-setting strategy is the best way to create accountability and reduce complexity among leadership teams.