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RECENT FOCUS August 2008
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Celebrating the Victories
When did you last celebrate a win with your employees?
You’ve just recently won that big contract you’ve been after. You’ve hit your sales target for the quarter (or even the month), your business is humming along and you’re feeling pretty good about it. There’s no better feeling, once having set a goal or a target, than when you actually achieve it . Time to celebrate!
Who do you celebrate with? Your family? Your friends? Maybe you just punch your fist into the air and say a silent “yahoo” to yourself. But the real question is - do you celebrate with the people who helped you achieve your victory?
Don’t miss out the most important people …. your staff, your employees, your people – the ones who helped you achieve that target. Make sure your business has a mechanism for celebration – but only if you want to get maximum employee buy-in. Otherwise, keep it to yourself, don’t let your staff know for fear they’ll ask for a pay rise (or some other reason). But that’s not the kind of culture that breeds a winning team or a winning business.
I’ve heard that the people at 42 Below have an interesting way to celebrate a victory. At their Monday morning team meetings a big win is sometimes announced .... 
anyone can call it – but it has to be a really outstanding victory. The custom is for the shot glasses to come out and be filled with … you guessed it … vodka. What a way to start the working week! (but perfect for the culture of 42 Below). The point is, celebrating with your staff doesn’t have to be a huge thing. It’s just really important that it happens . There’s no prizes for keeping your victories to yourself.
If you don’t already have a method of celebrating the wins with your staff, it might be time to have a serious look at putting one in place and making sure you use it!
What's the problem plans? … (from last month’s newsletter)
Following last months newsletter which talked about the problem with plans …. (basically… inaction!) we’ve put together a great special report on how to tackle this issue, and the demise of the business owner …… the struggle to find enough time to run your business, let alone organise and develop it. If you’d like to read more about this special report click here. Please feel free to request the full version.
Do you know someone who is “stuck” when it comes to implementing their planning? or is overwhelmed by the struggle to find enough time to develop their business? ….. perhaps you could forward this newsletter on to them.
Good old Kiwi ingenuity
Earlier this month we were privileged enough to represent a client, Chris Woudenberg, CPS (NZ) Limited, at the Auckland Export Awards. What an enlightening experience that was - the line-up was impressive! Some huge exporters that we’d never heard of - 
doing fantastically innovative stuff right around the globe. And some smaller companies that equally stunned us with what they were achieving, with one looking to hit the $100million revenue mark within the next 2 years. Wow – that’s some exporting! CPS (NZ) Limited was in fine company.
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