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If you are like most small business owners and leaders, you have too much on your plate. You are constantly juggling priorities. After all, your company, employees, family and, sometimes it feels like, the whole world is depending on you. To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling in “IF” – “It is tough to keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you”. So what is a person to do?

Some of our EOS clients confuse the terms Core Process and Proven Process.

If the company you work in is like most, you are frustrated with constant interruptions to your meetings. In days gone by, it was interruptions by secretaries (remember those?) and phones. But we live in a more insidious time now – electronic interruption and expectation. Because we all carry our smart phones with us, everyone expects that if they phone, email or text us, we will answer immediately. It’s a vicious circle. Because we have those devices – we feel we have to respond. If we do respond, we reinforce the expectation.

A colleague of mine, Rich Lukesh, is an HR Professional who runs a business called Your Part Time HR Manager (www.yourparttimehrmanager.com) which is an On-Site and On-Call HR Services business. He writes an excellent blog with thoughtful suggestions for business owners and the HR Professionals who support them. One of his recent blog posts is called Stay Interviews: A Great Tool For Employee Retention – you can find it here.

Solving issues is hard work. Straight forward, but hard.