Renaud

As a leader you need to look at how you are behaving these days. It’s normal to be concerned with just about everything but you also need to look at what you do on a daily basis to keep you focused.

Difficult times require you to sharpen your own skills. Take classes, read books and network with others in your industry so you can learn from them.

In one minute during my last networking meeting, a Marketing Director of a Global hotel chain gave me his top tip that they were implementing. They were proactively calling corporate customers to reduce the corporate ‘per night’ rate - even before customers were calling. That provided me with me inspiration, a new idea for my web site and a reminder that ‘you need to get out of the office and talk to people” that is, networking.

Get involved in your Business association and make sure you are on top of your game. Look for joint venture opportunities.

Make yourself more efficient by outsourcing services that consume your valuable time. For example, if you are doing the bookkeeping for your business, hand that off to someone else so you can have more time to focus on what you do best. Determine your priorities. Where should you be spending your time? What can you do to make your company bigger, better and stronger? Leave the worrying to your competitors and instead seek out opportunities and stay positive.

When you put the right energy and focus into your business-despite the economy-the results can extraordinary.