Ledership

Another great week of reading and learning!  This week the focus was on leadership and the different ways we can be leaders.  I realized that I am definitely lacking in leadership experience in my life and that is probably due to me being shy most of my life and choosing to turn away from leadership opportunities.  This is unfortunately and limiting because I feel I have much to offer and would be a very fair and logical leader.  I do run my produce co-op twice a month and that takes a degree of leadership but it doesn’t give me much in the way of workplace problems to have dealt with.  I do a lot of teaching whether it be substitute teaching or seminary teaching and I guess that requires some leadership as well.  Just not the kind I think about when we are talking about business leadership.  This makes me realize that I will need to find a way to get this experience to further my career or start my business.

I want to be the type of leader that brings out the best in those I am over.  I want to not only see the potential in everyone, but be able to convey that potential to them so they can see it as well.  From this will come the motivation that they need to do the task at hand in the best way possible.  I think this would be ideal.

$100 project report

Another great week for my business!  I came up with a plan that worked out really well.  I chose one day to bake this past week.  I had a couple orders that I needed to fill, so I chose one day and then posted on Facebook that I would be baking on Tuesday so let me know what you wanted.  I also said I would be making a delivery to the school I substitute at so if anyone wanted to meet me there or anyone working there wanted to order just to let me know.  No delivery fee since I was already going.  I had a bunch of orders come in from that one post.

So far my total sales have been $142.50 with a cost of $53 for a net profit of $89.50.

I had a learning experience this week.  One lady had ordered a cake and some gluten free cookies to be delivered on Friday which was the day I was working.  Then a couple days before she messaged me to hold off on her order because she was ordering it to feed the teachers for a teacher luncheon and even though she knew mine would taste better it would cost her too much to get enough for everyone.  At first I was frustrated by this, but I thought about everything I had learned and how best I could handle this situation.  I messaged her back and offered to make the cake as a donation to the teacher’s luncheon.  That was only a cost of $3.50 to my business but it left her feeling great and the teachers got to taste my cake!  I think it was a win!  I also was asked to donate to a raffled off basket by the PTO.  They get donated items from area businesses and put it together in a basket that they raffle off as a fundraiser.  They then put the businesses name in their programs throughout the year.  I plan to make up a picture that has all my products with the prices on one side and then on the back will be a voucher for the winner to call me and order any two of my items for free.  This is a good investment for marketing, plus I am donating to a good cause!