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Are You Squeezing For Profit or Reinvesting For Growth?
When I first sit down with business owners, I immediately try and get a feel how they approach business. Sometimes it’s very clearly evident in how they speak and as I see their vision and approach toward the future of their organization. Other times, it’s hard to...
How Can Brand Equity Bring ROI to Your Business?
Once your brand is established, it will have a direct correlation to your profitability. Brand equity can be developed organically through natural growth. This would typically be via positive sharing word-of-mouth from current and past customers. This is why...
Why Committed Teams Struggle to Achieve Results
In working with dozens of leadership teams around the country as a Certified EOS Implementer®, I see teams that absolutely crush it and also teams that chase their tails in circles trying to get somewhere. One of the most common situations I walk into, however, is the...
Wondering If You Truly Have a High Performer?
Business owners, managers and leaders approach our team at The Greenhouse frequently about the people issues they have within their organizations. One of the most common questions they are commonly wondering as they analyze a team member is if they truly have a...
What Drives Patrick Metzger, CEO/Founder at The Greenhouse
Read about and learn more about The Greenhouse and CEO/Founder Patrick Metzger on pg 50 of the January/February issue of The Bridge, put out by the Fargo-Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce. READ ARTICLE
One Overlooked Metric That Could Transform Your Company’s Value
You know gross margin impacts your profit, but have you considered the impact it has on the value of your company? When assessing your company’s value, acquirers and investors will often scrutinize your gross margin. Gross margin is the difference between a company’s...
4 Questions You Should be Asking In Your Employee Reviews
4 Questions You Should be Asking In Your Employee Reviews Patrick Metzger, CEO & Founder at The Greenhouse I recently spoke with a leader within a company that was telling me about how his son was doing in his first real professional role. He stated that some of...
Master Your Onboarding With Gradual Release Technique
I did it over and over, every single day for over a decade. Present on the board and teach exactly how to do it. Walking through step by step and explaining along the way my thought processes, tricks to remember and the big why behind it. Then, I many times would pass...
7 Powerful Phrases You Should Be Using With Your Employees
In working with leadership teams around the country, I have the luxury of seeing how many leaders and their management teams approach the concept of leadership. With that, I frequently see a few consistent themes among those organizations that struggle in particular...
How To Get More From Your Team Meeting Using Fist to Five
In working with multiple organization teams over the past few years, I see ALLLLLL kinds of team meeting dynamics. Teams that can't address tough issues. Teams that resent each other. Teams that can't communicate quickly, or at all for that matter. In order to create...
How to Build a Keynote Talk
Back in my former life as a teacher, I remember all the speakers and presenters that came and went. They would come in at the beginning of the year to bring in the next greatest and latest concept in education. Maybe it was a rehashed disciplinary technique. Sometimes...
Top 10 Reasons Your Small Business Should Outsource HR
Patrick Metzger, CEO & Founder at The Greenhouse As a business coach, helping small to medium-sized businesses around the nation grow and scale is my passion. One of the most glaring and neglected functions I consistently see within organizations that prevents...
More Than Just Luck: Strategic Planning
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Dakota Business Lending of Fargo, ND, to talk through what makes an effective strategic plan. Check out the interview below: Whether you own a business or are looking at starting one, there has probably come a time...
Moving from Talent Management to Growth Management
You probably find yourself frequently wishing you had the resources and ability to just snap your fingers and, magically, dozens of high qualified resumes would be streaming across your desk for that big key leadership position you’ve been meaning to fill. And of...
FMWF Chamber & EOS® with Patrick Metzger
Read the FMWF Chamber of Commerce Bridge article about how Patrick Metzger helps deliver EOS to companies around the nation to help them execute at a higher level in order to get more from their businesses. Click HERE
Connect Booster’s Secret to Growth and Scalability
How do some businesses grow and scale so quickly?! I recently had the privilege of being on the ConnectBooster podcast, Confessions of an IT Business Owner, with President Ryan Goodman. We discussed through the benefits of implementing EOS - The Entrepreneurial...
The Journey Toward the Business Harvest
Growing up in a small, rural North Dakota town, agriculture was and still is the lifeblood of the community and state. I frequently think about how as in business, a great harvest, or business success, is the culmination of multiple factors. On the plains of the...
EOS Interview With Scott Hennen of AM1100 The Flag
Scott Hennen and I sat down together on the What's On Your Mind Show on AM1100 The Flag on December 31, 2020, to walk through the free 90-Minute Meeting consultation we provide to businesses interested in elevating their organization and to discuss the importance of...
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