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It’s your best and earliest shot at telling employees and the world what you’re about.
You’ve probably already gotten the message by now that your new company or startup needs a good mission statement. It’s how you pinpoint and communicate the essence of your small business and what it stands for. An effective statement encapsulates what you do, who you do it for and, most of all, why you do it. It can touch on other essential aspects, such as your company’s goals or what differentiates you from the competition, but don’t confuse it with a more goal-focused vision statement. You can find lots of mission-statement templates online, and as helpful as those may (or may not) be, they don’t really explain what you truly need to know, i.e. how do you write an amazing one of your own?
The best mission statements generally meet four criteria:
So how do you go about creating your company’s mission statement? Stick to these five rules of thumb:
1. Address your key stakeholders.
Begin with your audience. In order, the most important stakeholders for your mission statement are:
In spreading the message about what you do, why you do it and who you do it for, your statement needs to speak to each of these groups. Customers want to know what distinguishes your solutions from all the others at their disposal. Employees want to know what you’re about and where they fit into that mission. And partners and investors need to be reassured that you’re really intent on delivering value.
2. State your purpose.
Why did you start this particular business? What drove you to drop all other forms of gainful employment and choose this particular path. That is, what led you to start this specific company or nonprofit organization from scratch? The answer to that question should form the meat of your mission statement. Start by jotting down a few different phrases to describe that overpowering “why,” and be as specific as possible.
Your purpose can be just about anything, but it’s important that it’s authentic to your personal mission and that of your company. You can’t miss the global scope of Google‘s mission statement to “organize the world’s information,” or Tesla’s vow to “accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.” Amazon wants to be the earth’s most “customer-centric” company, while Starbucks aims to “nurture the human spirit.” What drives you and your team? And how would you express that to someone who genuinely wanted to know?
3. Use specific, simple language.
The vague corporate lingo that pervades business culture is wholly out of place when it comes to your mission statement. Instead, look for the right words, which are almost always highly specific, simpler and more colorful than the overused buzzwords we’re all sick of.
If needed, use a thesaurus to pinpoint the precise phrasing that makes your mission statement sing. Read it out loud a few times to friends or other business owners and ask them if it sounds meaningful to them. If they look at you with confused expressions, go back and try again.
4. Infuse it with spirit.
A mission statement should inspire your stakeholders and team members. It should excite the people who are your ideal customers and prospects. If yours is less than motivational, try thinking of it from the perspective of the person listening. Your core audience, as noted above, consists of your customers, employees and investors. What would make each of these groups sit up a little straighter and nod along in enthusiasm? What’s best about your company? What aspirational goals are your team members excited to strive for and achieve?
Try to infuse a bit of that can-do human spirit and energy, and don’t be shy about making bold declarations. One of the best ways to motivate a team is to set a lofty yet attainable goal, then declare it out loud.
5. Don’t needle your statement to death.
A final caveat: While the mission statement is important, and you should spend some time getting it right, it’s sometimes tempting to work it over endlessly until it feels perfect. But by repeatedly revising it, you risk draining its lifeblood. An imperfect but heartfelt and energizing mission statement is far better than one that’s been edited into dry, dusty, uninspiring prose.
At the same time, take enough time to get it right. Sit with it for some time and see how it feels. Ask your key stakeholders how they feel about it, and take their input seriously. And once you’re finally secure with what’s in front of you, share it with the world.
By John Boitnott, VIP contributor, Journalist, Digital Media Consultant and Investor
Business Health
Your Mission statement is going to come from the 6th and 7th chakra of business from your core being. Your business is YOU, Inc. A successful business requires openness to change what needs to be changed, and for inspiration to flow even into the mundane tasks.
6th Chakra: Practicing the Intuition. In building your a business, it is necessary to try and foresee the unknown. The 5th chakra is the center for seeing and knowing what isn’t always apparent to the human eye. It’s connected to our intellect as well as our intuition. The sixth sense or intuition has a huge impact on how we experience success. When we open ourselves to inspired possibilities, we then have clarity in the different facets of our business.
7th Chakra: Invite Divine Influence: When the seventh or crown chakra is healthy, we are connecting the spiritual with the physical. Business decisions reflect our consciousness being, because we are more aware of the connection between our physical reality and our spiritual purpose. We find true meaning in our being and the way we do business. It is very important to realize that the flow of energy is continually moving just like the energy of a business and that you bring your energy to your business, contributing to both its rise and fall.
Working together doesn’t have to be a drag. Here are smart ways to make collaboration effective and fun.
Teamwork is essential to success, but it isn’t always easy to get right. Excessive meetings, a lack of direction, and outside distractions can put a drag on even the most compelling projects. The best teams know that good collaboration takes planning, communication, and motivation.
One group that knows a thing or two about fostering collaboration is the team behind monday.com. A highly visual workflow platform for teams, monday.com helps different teams work together to manage numerous projects at the same time. We interviewed monday.com head of communications, Leah Walters, to uncover three smart ways to get the most productivity and enjoyment out of your next project:
1. Plan visually.
Teams are more likely to succeed when they can see their progress. Looking toward the end goal, break the project down into stages that are more digestible to allow your collaborators to forge ahead, Walters says. Use tools that visualize deadlines, status updates and completed tasks so it’s easy for your team to stay on track. “There are so many platforms out there that are really hard to get your team to actually use,” Walters says, but finding a tool that’s fun and helpful can make all the difference. Software solutions like monday.com use color coding to organize goals and deadlines, reducing the need for meetings to check on progress. The platform acts as a hub, showing you the status of multiple projects at a glance, and customizable building blocks let you plan in the style that makes the most sense for your workflow.
2. Prioritize transparency.
Keeping teammates in the dark can stall a project. By sharing the same information with every member of the team, it shows each person that they are essential to decision making and gives team members the ability to execute on their own. “Transparency and trust empower your people. When team members have all the information it allows them to take their ideas and run with them,” Walters says. On monday.com, transparency is the default. While managers have the option to create private boards and special permissions, all team members start with the same view. That means each person can track their own progress and see where coworkers stand with their assignments. “The platform is built to make you a better manager because it removes a lot of the friction from the process,” she says. It allows team members to see when managers have viewed their tasks, eliminating the need to constantly check up on your team.
3. Celebrate the small wins.
Sometimes, our largest goals can seem intangible and unattainable. But breaking them up into smaller tasks can make every step of the process feel like a victory. Don’t wait until the final stages are complete to praise your team for their work, Walters says. Take time to appreciate little milestones. With monday.com, the small stuff can be automated. The platform includes functions that will perform mundane tasks for you—like sending confirmation emails and synchronizing scheduling—and can be customized for your team’s specific needs. Integration with tools like Slack and Google Suite makes it possible to automate your workflow from concept to delivery, so you can spend more time tackling the tasks that matter and celebrating your progress. Celebrations can mean applause in the office for reaching a goal or something as simple as sending a gif or animation as assignments are finished. When using monday.com, whenever you mark a task as “done,” little bits of confetti shoot up on the screen. It’s a small recognition, but it can boost morale and enhance collaboration by bringing a little joy to each assignment.
“Celebrating and acknowledging when the team completes a task or hits a goal really creates a happy environment where people want to work harder,” Walters says.
By Entrepreneur Partner Studio Staff
Business Chakra Points
1. Plan visually: 6th chakra:
It is most important when building your business you must try a foresee the unknown, The sixth chakra “third eye” is the center for seeing or visualizing and knowing what isn’t always apparent to the two physical eyes.
2. Prioritizing Transparency: 5th chakra:
Communication and transparency is vital to your business success. The 5th chakra is the center of expressing purpose. The clearer you are with your purpose, the easier it is to communicate it in an honest way.
3. Celebrate the small wins: 4th chakra:
A healthy 4th chakra in your business will show up in your relationships. A successful business is going to be all about successful relationships. Success is cultivated by creating an environment between employees and management.
For growth that lasts, you need to be willing to slow down — even when your finances are telling you to hurry up!
Go for speed. Build out fast. Scale like lightning. It’s the playbook for hypergrowth.
But for growth that lasts, you also need to take time to do the important things right. When it counts the most — don’t rush.
The startups I’ve worked with often faced severe financial pressures. Their principals went without salaries. They maxed out their credit cards. Despite these enormous strains, the most successful still focused on building for both the present and the future. They took time to balance science with art — the science of finding enough money for the short term, and the art of creating a great company for the long term.
For a company that has a limited runway, the present is most important. Surviving the month, the week, the day can overshadow everything. But companies that sustain rapid growth don’t sacrifice the future for the present. They find ways to lay out both their short-term and long-term goals, ensuring that everyone working on the project understands where they’re heading and their ultimate destination.
Here are four ways companies of any size can aim to create rapid growth, by taking time to do the right things right.
1. Connect passion to purpose.
Companies that accelerate over the long haul give their people a reason to come to work as humans, not just technicians.
I’ve seen many young companies whose whip-smart founders expected their ideas to deliver magical transformations — but when the money ran out, and their ideas hadn’t changed the world, disenchantment set in quickly. Other companies, however, could power through the funding gaps, energized by their sense of mission.
To keep accelerating through the challenges of early growth, people need to have a larger goal in sight, one that’s been defined and communicated from the outset. Building a new business is exciting, but what’s truly rewarding is knowing that when you reach your destination, you’ll have changed lives for the better.
It takes time to bring passion to purpose, to look beyond the immediate and connect with a larger human mission. When you do, you’ll have a foundation that’s strong enough to rally teams past the early days, through good times and bad.
2. Find the fast followers.
All the speed in the world won’t get it done if you’re not speeding with the right people.
The cult video “Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy” makes this case perfectly. It opens with one man dancing wildly on a hill at a concert. Soon he’s joined by another, then two, then dozens of people pile on and dance. In a few minutes the “lone nut in the field” changes from an eccentric outlier into the leader of a movement.
Hyper-growth runs on the same principle. An audacious hero (or lone nut) can start with an idea, but it’s the fast followers who accelerate. It’s the group of people who pick up the cause, who join the dance, that makes the difference between a company that can’t sustain the pressures of growth, and one that keeps growing.
But despite what “dancing guy” suggests, the right fast followers generally won’t materialize on a hillside.
How do you find these people? Take time to observe and even more time to hire. The teams that can grow together are grounded in a shared sense of creative possibility, and you can’t rush finding and building them.
3. Bring your inner artist to work.
I remember how my father, a carpenter, could turn a block of wood into shapes that would amaze the nine-year-old me. One block became a boat, another a horse — they were forms and figures only he could find in the wood. His passion for his craft lasted a lifetime.
Sustaining growth needs artistry. Again and again, I’ve seen young companies step back from the pressures of day-to-day business and re-think what they’re doing one more time. You may not be able to take your foot off the gas, but you can simultaneously continually look for fresh insights and approaches.
People who bring artistry to their work, like my father, are the ones who can push their tools to create something that’s built to last. They’ll be able to keep a young company moving forward when money gets short and times get rough, as they always do.
4. Wait for the right investors.
Venture capital loves a moon shot. It’s all about turbocharging, the next big thing, and being a unicorn. What’s missing is how important patient capital can be to long-term success. Just because you’re offered a check doesn’t mean you should cash it.
Imagine telling a young company today that it takes 15 years to break even. That’s what Amazon needed, now largely forgotten. Founded in 1994, the company didn’t turn a profit until 2001 and historically was in the red until 2009.
Young companies in the hunt for funding generally have little financial leverage. Saying yes to the first investor is hard to resist, but if it’s the wrong fit, you can tether people to unrealistic demands, and set a young company up for disappointment.
In fact, investors come in all shapes and sizes. Patient investors know there’s more than one way to succeed. For many young companies, it’s better to scramble and keep the lights on as best you can, while taking time to find partners with the right expectation and time horizons.
Of course, speed is essential for growth. But when it matters most, it’s just as important not to rush.
As much as possible, young companies need to balance the narrative of hyper-growth, and its expectation to “move fast and break things,” with the equally important counter-narrative: “Build things that last.”
It takes time to connect with a larger purpose, find the right fast followers, unlock your full creativity, and choose your partners wisely. Many may feel they don’t have that luxury, but if you find the right mix, the secret sauce of art and science together, you can keep the day-to-day operation moving while still taking time to build for the future.
For growth that endures, it’s the best time spent of all.
By Boe Hartman, Guest Writer, CIO of GS Bank
Business Health
The 4 Ways to Start and Know your Business’s Growth
1. Connect to Purpose: 4th chakra: (love and compassion) A successful business is going to be all about a successful relationships. Success is cultivated when you create an environment between your employees and management, or the company and its clients, that is free of constant criticism, abuse or rejection.
2. Find the Fast Followers: 3rd chakra: (honor one another) Here you claim your power without diminishing the power of others. You act from a place that is free of shame or guilt while choosing to be free of blame and avoiding adopting a victim mentality.
3. Bring your Inner Artist With You: 6th chakra: (surrender personal will to divine will) In building your business, it is necessary to try and foresee the unknown. The (3rd eye) is the center for seeing and knowing what isn’t always apparent to the human eye.
4. Wait for the right investors: 7th chakra: (live in the present moment) Business decisions reflect our consciousness being, because we are more aware of the connection between our physical reality and our spiritual purpose.
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