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Too many business owners are struggling to find success because they lack a formal plan, hurting the health, wealth and happiness of themselves, their family, and the families of their employees.
The consultants of American Management Services work with owners to develop and implement a formal plan that grows the business and promotes human flourishing.
With a formal plan, owners can thrive in the success of their business, creating wealth and opportunities for all.
This TH-cam channel is dedicated to sharing guidance and resources for any business owner, or aspiring entrepreneur, who has a desire to plan, develop, and build a business that will last from one generation to the next.
The consultants of American Management Services work with owners to develop and implement a formal plan that grows the business and promotes human flourishing.
With a formal plan, owners can thrive in the success of their business, creating wealth and opportunities for all.
This TH-cam channel is dedicated to sharing guidance and resources for any business owner, or aspiring entrepreneur, who has a desire to plan, develop, and build a business that will last from one generation to the next.
How Can You Manage Your Time As a Business Owner?
Learn more about the services we provide for businesses across the country by visiting www.AmServ.com
How Do You Manage Your Time as a Business Owner?
Whether you manage six people or 56 people, your time is your most valuable resource as a business owner. How you allocate it directly impacts your company's success. So, how do you decide where to focus your efforts?
Start by Identifying Your Priorities
Take a moment to list your top ten tasks or deliverables. These things you do provide the most value to your business. Maybe it's generating sales, creating estimates, or coaching your employees. Whatever they are, rank them in order of importance.
The 80/20 Rule in Action
Once you've identified your top ten priorities, focus 80% of your time on the top two or three. These are your high-impact activities that drive results and make the most significant difference. The remaining 20% of your time can be spent on lower-priority tasks. This is the classic 80/20 rule, and it's especially critical for business owners.
For example:
If your top priority is coaching your employees, dedicate most of your time to mentoring and developing them.
If your highest value comes from planning and strategizing, make that your focus.
Avoid Functional Roles
Owners often fall into the trap of doing the work themselves-writing estimates, managing day-to-day tasks, or solving minor problems. While it's sometimes necessary, it's not where your time is best spent. Your role should center on oversight, teaching, mentoring, and setting the direction for your business.
When you take on functional roles, you lose time that could be spent developing your team. Instead, focus on teaching others how to handle these tasks effectively, so you can step back and concentrate on the bigger picture.
Lead by Example
When you prioritize your time, you set an example for your team. They'll see the value in focusing on what matters most, and it will become a teaching opportunity for everyone in your organization. Your time matters-make sure you're using it wisely.
Creating a "Bible" of your top priorities and focusing disproportionately on the most impactful ones’ll ensure your business is positioned for growth while empowering your team to succeed.
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American Management Services, Inc. was founded in 1986 by George Cloutier, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Having focused his MBA thesis on delivering profits to small business, Cloutier sought to revolutionize business management practices, and founded American Management Services to do just that.
The company was originally started with one employee and $42,000 in capital. Today, American Management Services has over 120 full-time employees; seasoned executives who are dedicated to the immediate improvement of cash flow, profitability, and growth for our clients.
As the leading provider of implementation-based profit management and cash management services, the American Management Services’ teamwork directly with owners to implement the necessary changes that grow sales, profits, and cash flow.
Through our unique system of Pre-Determined Profits™, these consulting services, commonly available to only the largest companies, are exclusively offered to small and mid-sized privately held companies with annual revenues ranging from $3 million to $500 million.
If you are looking for a better solution to improving your company’s sales, profit or cash-flow, American Management Services is more than just another consulting business. We provide RESULTS NOT REPORTS™.
How Do You Manage Your Time as a Business Owner?
Whether you manage six people or 56 people, your time is your most valuable resource as a business owner. How you allocate it directly impacts your company's success. So, how do you decide where to focus your efforts?
Start by Identifying Your Priorities
Take a moment to list your top ten tasks or deliverables. These things you do provide the most value to your business. Maybe it's generating sales, creating estimates, or coaching your employees. Whatever they are, rank them in order of importance.
The 80/20 Rule in Action
Once you've identified your top ten priorities, focus 80% of your time on the top two or three. These are your high-impact activities that drive results and make the most significant difference. The remaining 20% of your time can be spent on lower-priority tasks. This is the classic 80/20 rule, and it's especially critical for business owners.
For example:
If your top priority is coaching your employees, dedicate most of your time to mentoring and developing them.
If your highest value comes from planning and strategizing, make that your focus.
Avoid Functional Roles
Owners often fall into the trap of doing the work themselves-writing estimates, managing day-to-day tasks, or solving minor problems. While it's sometimes necessary, it's not where your time is best spent. Your role should center on oversight, teaching, mentoring, and setting the direction for your business.
When you take on functional roles, you lose time that could be spent developing your team. Instead, focus on teaching others how to handle these tasks effectively, so you can step back and concentrate on the bigger picture.
Lead by Example
When you prioritize your time, you set an example for your team. They'll see the value in focusing on what matters most, and it will become a teaching opportunity for everyone in your organization. Your time matters-make sure you're using it wisely.
Creating a "Bible" of your top priorities and focusing disproportionately on the most impactful ones’ll ensure your business is positioned for growth while empowering your team to succeed.
Connect with Us:
📞 Call us anytime: 800-743-0410
🌐 Visit our website: amserv.com
📺 Like, Share, and Subscribe for more valuable insights!
Follow Amserv on Social:
🖥️ LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/company/american-management-services-inc
📱 Facebook - amservbiz
💻 Connect with Lou Mosca on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/loumosca/
Sign up for our newsletter at www.amserv.com
American Management Services, Inc. was founded in 1986 by George Cloutier, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Having focused his MBA thesis on delivering profits to small business, Cloutier sought to revolutionize business management practices, and founded American Management Services to do just that.
The company was originally started with one employee and $42,000 in capital. Today, American Management Services has over 120 full-time employees; seasoned executives who are dedicated to the immediate improvement of cash flow, profitability, and growth for our clients.
As the leading provider of implementation-based profit management and cash management services, the American Management Services’ teamwork directly with owners to implement the necessary changes that grow sales, profits, and cash flow.
Through our unique system of Pre-Determined Profits™, these consulting services, commonly available to only the largest companies, are exclusively offered to small and mid-sized privately held companies with annual revenues ranging from $3 million to $500 million.
If you are looking for a better solution to improving your company’s sales, profit or cash-flow, American Management Services is more than just another consulting business. We provide RESULTS NOT REPORTS™.
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If I was told I owed mine for past training that made the company more money …. The devil in me would climb up on his desk drop my pants and proceed to release my bowels on his paperwork and computer….. While the civilized human would probably tell him in a polite and calm manner that he has failed at his own job and burden a bridge….. than shit on his desk….
when a key employee leaves, the lock to success is closed.
Hire me, I got a degree and an impressive work history
Well, there’s a lot here that needs further explaining. The employee worked for 8 years before getting some sort of “training”? Why? How did that happen? I don’t know what sort of “training” was involved but it seems that there was some sort of problem … possibly one that cropped up with the required agreement prior to training or in the training itself.
Sounds like your client is not to bright and his employee made the right call to leave. On a personal note not every employee leaves because we are unhappy or dissatisfied sometimes we just get stale and need a change my previous employer of 20 years really struggled to come to terms with that but it's only business
Yea this might have something to do with why they guy quit in the first place :) A boss I know seems to take the view that hiring people for as little as possible, give them no training so you don't loose anything when they leave, is the way to go... the way to run down a business and go broke IMO. Many bosses simply don't seem to understand the most valuable asset their business has is the people working for them, and like any asset, it needs regular maintenance and looking after to keep it performing. That doesn't mean pay everyone HUGE sums of money it means treating your people the way you would like to be treated and not as a disposal tool that you expect to break, or go elsewhere, right from the day you get it. That's called planning for failure I believe, which many bosses seem to do and see it as forward successful thinking. Anyway just IMO and I'm no expert.
lol, sounds like such a great guy and place to work?!? No wonder the dude thought about it twice and still said piece the F out! 😂
Wow, It's all about the greedy company and not about how much of there life the employee invested so the company owner can live like a king and the employee can barley scrape by.
Had this happen at a place I was a manager at. 2 people quit, after some substantial training. One was forced to pay it back; the other, who was the boss' brother-in-law, was not! Utter hypocrisy ... that no one forgot.
I'm a contractor and I made all of the other businesses in my area very angry at me. I treated and paid my employees the best out of anyone else in my region, by a large margin. The results were, that everyone wanted to work for me. Many of the other contractors were angry because I was affecting their revenue streams. I could have cared less, they had it coming. Many contractors give a man a fish. I don't, I teach a man to fish, so that he can feed his progeny. Thats the difference between them and I.
I never have been, nor ever will be manipulated. If you attempt to manipulate me, you have made an immediate enemy. Zero Tolerance. I am truly free, my rights come from God not from men. I answer to no one, but Him. So many men have lost out on the fruits of my labor, because they attempted to subjugate or exploit them. There's a sucker born every second, and I'm not one of them. The best part is that I don't exploit others. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.
"What happens if we train them really well and they Leave?".... Well what happens if we don't train them at all and they stay.......
We have a key employee at work but he's only important because of how bad the manager is.
Is this for real? Are you serious? Any company trying to actually charge an employee for leaving should be divested and the owner put in prison. Since employment in the US is currently in a slave owner VS slave situation to begin with, I'd say that people just showing up to work should be considered a miracle
Your client sucks. You need to fire him!
My First job I quit and moved for a pretty small raise. They weren't able to match it at the time, had to "call the fixed operations director" because all raises.were frozen while the guy found ways to trim fat and destroy the dealership morale. My boss, who I w as fairly close with said "do you know how much we've invested in you(training)?" Four $4 an hour I would have probably never left. LMFAO.
The employee has way more invested in themself than some company who believes they're entitled. Obviously the manager doesn't understand how modern day capitalism works. lol
Clawback fees for bs training? What a scumbag.
Heads Up brother we go to work for pay if you're offered 5 to 10k more elsewhere with the same work load you would be stupid to stay there is no loyalty from employers if things get tight they have no trouble laying off yet expect loyalty back I think employers thinking hasn't changed for decades but the new generation of workers have it used to be if you're not happy you can leave stand over bullshit now the shoes on the other foot and the employees respond with the same attitude and they cry pay is first priority job satisfaction second
I can see why the guy decided to walk. Vindictive cock sucker has made 100-1000%+ on every dollar the fuck has paid this guy In a calm voice, looking straight into its eyes: “ go ahead , sue me, and I’ll spend the two dollars on your stupid ass”
You hire someone the next day for cheaper. Carry on.
And small business owners wondera why no one wants to work for them. It's time for workers to unite and take capitalism back from these greedy evil tyrants.
He will find his "employment contract" is not worth the paper it's printed on.
Seems like your buddy is the a hole and is probably why the person is leaving
Give them a little at a time until they work their way up to minimum wage then inflate the economy repeat every twenty years or so u will never have to worry about obesity guarantee no weight gain
We won’t be getting any bright ideas dreams were extinguished since adolescence
I dare not speak up for my rights I don’t want to lose my privileges!!!
My privileges are far more important than rights any dummy knows that
"What to do to keep the key employee happy?" is the right question to ask here.
Employers can always find a replacement. No one is expendable.
With or without it has never been a reliance for me on any other human being for my well being I’m self sufficient and productive I’m the necessary ingredient at leech I’m honest I’m not a sucker
Harassing him about his personal passwords is not how to get him back.
Glad to hear this response. As previously said by others, nobody offered a sit down to understand why..don't blame the person for leaving.
If your business hinges on a particular person, you're running it wrong. It's probably the reason they're leaving in the first place.
No company should have “key employees”. The whole point of management and division of labor is to deskill the workforce so that anyone is replaceable with process and procedure.
Surely the first question is ‘why do you want to leave’…I think 9 times out of 10 it’s a lack of recognition and reward with pay increase.
When you tell me, I am a dime a dozen employee. I am leaving the company! Also I can’t make more than $20.00per.hr.
Vindictiveness exposed, employee obviously made the right choice.
This country was built on slave labor. Businesses succeed by adopting this same philosophy.
When I quit a particular job, I gave them the required 1 months notice period. 2 weeks into that period I secured a job at another company. I still stayed at the current job for the remaining required 2 weeks but the manager was hassling me saying 'I want you to tell your new employer that you can't start there until we find a suitable replacement' Of course I departed after the required 1 month period but it indicates what sort of manager that person was. I should mention that both our previous jobs were military. I was enlisted Airforce and he was an Officer in Navy. I think he thought we were still in military and what he says, goes.
He had a valid reason to leave his job: to repay his education or threatening with it. When you know it is time to leave you know and follow your gut!
i had quit in the past. Owner and managers never asked me how i felt, never trying to understand how Things goes... So I kept everything for myself and then leave... There was no communication.
Ask: "WHY"? Something is broke.
You CERTAINLY will be working for Grupo Bimbo
Remember to actually PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES ON TIME, whatever the amount may be…Something that Grupo Bimbo struggles with sometimes.
The inevitable outcome of EVERY facility that Grupo Bimbo buys
It’s unless it’s a co op it’s a dictatorship.
If an employee gains a better opportunity, be that more money or better location or better benefits package, offer to match if you can. If you can't, wish them well in the future and move on. Bosses like this ahole soon gain a reputation and have a hard time finding AND retaining good people. And good people are becoming harder and harder to find these days.
Answer: Stop being an a§§hole. If you lost your best enployee, it means he was treated badly and you are a fool. And a bad manager. Yay.
Not to mention the fact that it is competely illegal in every US State to hold employees financially responsible for the cost of training dispensed toward the betterment of the company.
Left to their own devices most employees stay. Just don't screw them over. But please don't ever say it's not about the money. Money is litarally the point of working.
First, get right with God. His guidance is perfect. Second, management is not leadership.
The company probably claimed tax deductions for training and educational expenses. However, the 10 years he put in the company probably gave the company more than enough money back.