Build Your Business To Stay Small, Tom Root, Pt 01

Growing Your Business While Staying Small

Join me for the next four episodes as I speak with Tom Root, Managing Partner, Zingmerman’s Mail Order. Also continuous improvement leader and creator of a business maker space called Maker Works in Ann Arbor, MI. 

This is where it all started, as a small deli, now it’s 12 businesses.

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Biz Deep Dive 10 Bottom Line Change

ZingTrain shares in this 10 webinar replay how they have created a system to facilitate change in their organization. This system makes sure it’s in alignment with the great vision and purpose, gives it a process to test, implement, and communicate to the team/community. Continue reading Biz Deep Dive 10 Bottom Line Change

Biz Deep Dive 9 Effective Performance Reviews

What? For real? Most of the time, I believe most of think “effective” and “performance review” don’t belong together. The team at ZingTrain share, through this webinar, their thoughts on ways to improve on this procedure that both managers and their employees dread. Continue reading Biz Deep Dive 9 Effective Performance Reviews

Biz Deep Dive 8 So You’ve Identified a Problem…

Now what? Even if you have a great team, there are times when issues come up that disrupt what you’re trying to achieve together. In this 8th ZingTrain webinar replay, the crew covers how you can work through these problems. Continue reading Biz Deep Dive 8 So You’ve Identified a Problem…

Business Deep Dive 6 and 7 Building a Great Team

This post continues our ZingTrain webinar replays. This is the beginning of the 2nd series that I’ve called, Building a Great Team.

The first recording has a crazy echo and we won’t replay it here. The 2nd webinar is called 8 Terrific Tips to Tune up Your Team. If you find your team is experiencing the following, then you need to listen for some great ideas to help solve them:

  • Productivity is down
  • Energy seems flat
  • Interpersonal tension is up
  • “Fun” isn’t a word you’d use to describe coming to work

Go to the Business Deep Dive page to see a list of all the series and the show replays under each of them. If you click on the links provided you will find slides and ZingTrain notes. Continue reading Business Deep Dive 6 and 7 Building a Great Team