The Open Door Group
Uncommon Sense Consulting & Speaking

New book It's Not That Hard. Just Do This. is a #1 Best Seller
This unique book presents specific, foundational, and practical communication tools that, when conscientiously applied, help eliminate misunderstandings, miscommunication, arguments, and stress from people's lives. While applicable both personally and professionally, for businesses, you'll also create direct improvements in employee engagement, retention, productivity, efficiency, and profitabiltiy.
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VIDEOS TO LEARN BY
This page is dedicated to learning. The videos contained here provide some practical methods to make you and your business more effective, efficient, and profitable. An important point not to be missed is that these methods are largely applicable to your personal life as well as your business. By keeping the concepts in mind when interacting with other people, conversations and determining who will do what by when become much easier. Stay tuned to this page, as new videos are added frequently.
The Vision, The Dream, The Ideal Company
Describes the characteristics of the ideal company. How far is your company from the ideal? How can you move your company to get closer to the ideal?
4 Universal, Foundational Business Principles
Being out of alignment with one or more of four universal, foundational business principles is the root cause for the vast majority of business problems. Find out how to identify when they are in play and how to get back into alignment to drive efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability.
The Root Cause
of Most Problems
Poses the concept that 75% of the time, the root cause of business (or personal) problems is ineffective communication. Fix communication and you fix most everything.
Too Busy Even to
Do Your Job?
A common complaint I hear is you're too busy even to do your job. This video explains some ways to get out of that cycle to regain control of your life. This isn't "time management." This is how to manage your business life.
Assumptions Kill Efficiency and Effectiveness
Assumptions are the silent assassins of effective communication. Learn how to recognize and account for them to increase your effectiveness and efficiency.