7 Reasons You Aren't Growing

Growth, everyone wants it but many struggle to actually achieve it. Below are 7 reasons your organization isn't growing as fast as you would like:

You don't review your goals.
Goal setting for many is an annual event, and quite frankly you haven't looked at your goals since you originally wrote them. Goals need to be reviewed, and someone needs to "own" them.

You don't have a plan to obtain your goals.
You set goals but you didn't "really” think through how you were going to accomplish them. It was as if the stars would align at the end of the year, or the end of the quarter, and poof your goals would be hit! Goals are only as good as the plan you have in place to achieve them.

You love to micro-manage.
So, you like to be in control of things? If you don't allow your people to do their job and you have to have your hands in every deal or conversation, you aren't going to grow. You are only one person.

You don't have a handle on your key metrics.
Sure, you know your cash basis and what's in the pipeline, but what are your true key metrics? Metrics that you can be tracking on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly basis that will enable you to make key strategic decisions regarding your business.

You don't foster failure.
Life should be full of failures. Failing helps us learn, it makes us smarter. You need to embrace your people failing, heck you should be celebrating your people failing because they are becoming more valuable employees.

You're holding on to a bad hire.
This is a tough one for people. Hiring and firing can be a rollercoaster of emotions. If you are holding on hope that someone is going to change after you have established an accountability & growth plan, and they aren’t changing their behaviors, you need to cut bait.

You aren't holding people accountable, including yourself.
Everyone loves to throw around the word “accountability”, but few actually hold themselves or their employees to strict, tangible metrics that they have to meet on a daily basis. Nobody likes to be held accountable but, imagine the possibilities of your organization if you did hold everyone accountable and they actually hit all of their performance metrics.

Growth can be difficult. It forces us to view our own inefficiencies and ourselves through a mirror. For some, it won’t work and they won’t be a part of your organization for long. Others will thrive under your new found structure. Your people will grow, you’ll be a smarter organization with tangible metrics that will help drive the decisions you make as a company, and ultimately you will grow!

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