Three Business Lessons We Can Learn From Pilates

If you have ever taken a Pilates class, and kept up with it for a few weeks, you have probably noticed a significant difference in core strength, flexibility and muscle tone. Apart from training and strengthening the body as a whole there are numerous other health benefits from doing pilates. This article outlines a few business lessons we can learn from Pilates.

Three Business Lessons From Pilates

Strengthen Your Core - The first business lesson we can learn from Pilates is to focus on core strength. What is the core strength of your business? What makes you stand out from your competitors? By building your business around your core competencies, you will stay focused and make greater strides towards acheiving your business vision. If you're able to offer something uniquely good, customers will want to choose your products and will be willing to pay more for them.

Mindtools.com outlines a few simple steps to effectively focus on your core:

1. Brainstorm the factors that are important to your clients.
2. Identify the factors that influence peoples purchase decisions when they're buying products or services like yours.
3. Brainstorm your existing competences and the things you do well and then screen them against the tests of Relevance, Difficulty of Imitation and Breadth of Application, and see if any of the competences you've listed are core competences.
4. For the list of factors that are important to clients, screen them using these tests to see if you could develop these as core competences.
5. Think of the most time-consuming and costly things that you do. If any of these things do not contribute to a core competence, ask yourself if you can outsource them effectively. Read the complete article here.

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Improve Flexibility -According to a Survey on Workplace Flexibility released by WorldatWork, a nonprofit organization that studies HR issues, 98 percent of U.S. employers currently offer at least one workplace flexibility program. The blog article,;Is Your Workplace Flexible? If Not, Yours are Being Left Behind;, highlights that a stronger culture of flexibility was correlated with a lower rate of voluntary turnover, and companies reported that flexibility had positive impacts on their employees; motivation, satisfaction and engagement. Does your workplace provide flexible options for employees? If not, how can you improve flexibility at your workplace?

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