Punching Through Your Growth Ceiling
by Chris Cloud
Continuing on the theme of ‘maximizing BAM success factors’ we have invited guest authors to highlight what they consider key factors contributing to success and growth for BAM practitioners. Business consultant Chris Cloud shares this mini-series on how to break through your growth ceiling.
In the first post we discussed what a growth ceiling is, and how to identify whether or not you are at one. In these second post we’ll cover proven strategies for growing past your ceiling.
The following advice has been gleaned from years of studying how people break past their growth ceiling, from personal experience, and from helping dozens of executive teams identify and break through their ceilings.
Working ON the business, not just IN it
Warren Buffet says his managers should spend 80% of their time working on becoming better leaders and thinking about how they will grow their business. How much time do you spend focused on growing in these areas? Most missional small business owners spend next to zero amount of time working ON the business or on their leadership, because they are too overwhelmed working IN the business. We have to find a way to rise above, if we are ever going to break past our growth ceilings.
We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. – Archilochus
Reminder: There’s hidden grace available if we’re willing to step out.
Isolate the Problem
Once you have committed time to work ON the business, the first step is to isolate the specific area where you are plateauing. Read more