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When the buck stops with you, the pressure to make sure everything is running along smoothly with your business can be immense. It can sometimes feel like there isn’t time to take a step back and prioritize or delegate tasks. So, you chip away at your to-do list as best you can- hoping by some miracle it all works out and you can keep everyone happy.
Entrepreneurs, also known as visionaries, often struggle with staying focused on one single business plan or opportunity. When they allow themselves to be derailed they inadvertently prevent themselves from being successful.
Performance indicators are the key to measuring the effectiveness of your property management business. They provide a way for you to track if your company is doing well or not, and if not, they can help you figure out what needs improvement. Tracking KPIs is important because it helps you know if there are any problems with your products, services, processes or systems. This blog post will explain all about performance indicators and why you should be using them in order to improve your business's overall health!
People often feel overwhelmed at work and immediately think they need an executive assistant. However, our experience at Anequim has shown us that sometimes an extra hand in the operations can be better at helping busy CEOs reduce their workload rather than an Executive Assistant.
Our CEO, Gwenn Aspen, was published in the Omaha World-Herald today regarding her attempts at mindfulness and meditation.
In the piece, she muses on the utility of those hot trends, and what tools have proven to be more helpful in improving focus in a world built to distract us.
Whenever an employee, or a vendor, or anyone really, gives me a project update that they are "just waiting on…," it makes me uneasy.
Jeremy and Gwenn dig into time management and their different ways of organizing their days at work, Calendar management, setting aside time for deep thinking, managing interruptions, meeting management, and more are covered in this episode of Bootstrappers.
Many of us have closed our offices and are managing our entire staff from our homes for the first time. One thing that has helped our remote teams stay focused on the day’s tasks is having a daily huddle. Huddles are 5-minute meetings every day at the same time. In the bullet points below I put a few of the topics, and examples we discuss on our daily huddles at our property management company. These kinds of short meetings can help keep everyone on the same page when we are not working at the same office.
You've heard the adage "there's no such thing as a bad idea." Well, and we all know this, it just isn't true. If there really is no such thing as a 'bad idea' how would be express a sentiment that an idea just didn't work out, that it wasn't good, or that it ended up being ruinous? We say it pretty much to get people who would otherwise not feel comfortable going out on a limb to, well, walk out on that limb. We know there is something about the phrase that works logically, but what is it?
After a hot and humid summer, there is nothing better than welcoming in the crisp, cool, and dry air of autumn. It’s also a great time to get your home ready for the upcoming winter.
