Blog Index
Tip of the Week
- 10 Rules for meaningful meetings
- 10 thought-provoking questions to ask other leaders
- 10 Tips to Survive And Thrive In Business Today
- 20 Signs of Leadership Excellence
- 3 Steps to Identify the Right Strategic Goals for Your Company
- 3 strategies to get out of a comfort coma
- 4 leadership trends to watch in 2023
- 4 Strategies Strong Leaders Use to Build Trust in The Workplace
- 4 Things You Should Be Focusing On This Quarter
- 4 tips for sustaining companies’ long-term
- 4 Ways to Lead in the Best and Worst of Times
- 5 things you have to relearn after becoming a CEO coach
- 5 ways email costs your company
- 5 Ways to Develop Leaders Within Your Own Ranks
- 5 ways to focus on the customer to grow your business
- 6 Steps to an Ideal Employee Experience
- 7 common mistakes made by sellers in mergers and acquisitions
- 7 ways to spice up your corporate team retreat
- 80/20 – Customer Gold Program® Learn who your top 20 are.
- Are You a Climber, a Hiker, or a Runner?
- Avoiding the Five myths that can hinder leadership success
- Become a better CEO – 4 ways hobbies can help you
- Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be – 9 Ways to Break Out of Your Shell
- Being a real business leader is more than just echoing the voice of the majority
- Brainstorming Sessions Are Great. What Comes Next Matters Too
- Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team
- Changed forever – Decision Making
- Company Crisis and how to make it through-4 step to know.
- Cultivate innovation in 2021 and 6 key principles for CEOs
- Digital transformation – a matter of survival
- Dream big and define your goals: why visualization is vital to success
- Economic Trends for 2023 and Beyond
- Empowering Middle Managers – 3 Ways
- Entrepreneurial Success – How Aligned are Your Values and Virtues
- Every Entrepreneur Will Face Challenges 14-Ways To Tackle
- Flexibility in Your Leadership Style — Finding the Right Balance
- Good decisions don’t have to be slow ones
- Good Leaders are Good Listeners
- Handle Workplace Stress Today – 4 Ways
- Holding Your Team Accountable with Compassion, Not Fear
- How far-reaching and long-lasting is your legacy as a leader?
- How to Introduce Your Employees to Artificial Intelligence
- How to Optimize Decision Making During Disruption
- In a pandemic the power of CEO peer advisory groups offer timely help
- It’s All in Your Head – How to Shift Your Mindset for Serious Success
- Keep teams focused and positive 5 ways for CEOs
- Keeping sight of your company’s long term vision
- Kindness drives employee engagement
- Leadership in Times of Uncertainty and Turmoil
- Leadership vs. Management: What type of CEO are you?
- Learning from errors – 5 common leadership mistakes CEOs make
- Living and Learning Under Influence
- Look for 6 Key Behaviors – What it takes to lead others
- Looking for positive incentives to help managers regain their mojo
- Mastering conflict resolution in remote teams
- Measuring the Success of Your Corporate Events
- Mindset Matters – How to Prepare Your Company for Ongoing Change
- Past the Crest – Inflation Moves
- Personal Accountability – How to practice it
- Post-pandemic reality – Fiscal Health – Strategic financial insights
80-20 Customer “Gold Program” ®
- 80/20 Customer “Gold Program”® – Business Optimization
- 80/20 Customer “Gold Program”® – Business Optimization
- 80/20 Customer “Gold Program”® – Strategic Proactive vs. Reactive Customer Service
- 80/20 Customer “Gold Program”® PROACTIVELY increase revenue 10%-200%
- 80/20 Customer “Gold Program”®- Performance Improvement
- 80/20 Customer “Gold Program”®- Proactive vs. Reactive Customer Service
- Growing your Business using the 80/20 Customer “Gold Program”®
- Proactive Customer Service using the 80/20 Customer “Gold Program”®
- Strategic Elements Part II: Proactive vs. Reactive Customer Service
Business Valuation
- (NYSE:IBM) Valuation Review & Update – EBITDA Yield & Profitability
- 101 Business Valuation Basics
- An Explanation of the Lack of Marketability Discount
- Business Valuation Basics Washington CPA Tiffany Couch
- Errors made in business valuations – what you need to know
- How Often Do You Need A Business Valuation
- How to Use Your Valuation Report
- Meaningful Ways You Can Help Ukraine
- Mindset Matters – How to Prepare Your Company for Ongoing Change
- Productivity Pyramid® Goals, Coaching, Accountability, and Rewards
- Quick Basics of Corporate Valuation Services
- Quick Tips for More Productive Meetings
- Simple Ideas to Improve the Value of Your Business
- Taking the Complexity out of Business Valuation
- The complexity of Equity Warrants Valuations
- The Importance of Proper Management For Any Small Businesses
- The trends that will impact small businesses in the New Year
- Understanding Preferred Stock in Your Growing Business
- Why Independent Business Valuation Services are Important
- Why Independent Business Valuation Services are Important
Business Valuation Methods
- An explanation of the Lack of Marketability Discount
- Calculating the Cost of Capital
- Common Valuation Errors
- Determining the Valuation of Stock Options in your Business for 2019
- Flaws and Errors in the Rules of Thumb Cost of Capital
- Historical numbers do not necessarily reflect the future
- How to Calculate Cost of Capital
- Keys to Evaluating Valuation Services Providers
- Know Your Competition – Market and Value Advantage
- Multiple – Complex Valuation Models
- Predicting Company Value
- Quick Guide to Business Valuation Methods
- Quick Guide to Business Valuation Methods
- Rules for Minority Discount in Business Valuations
- Techniques To Allow Potential Funders To See The Objectives And Details
- Understand Preferred Stock in a Growing Business
- Valuation & Negotiation Skills
- Valuation Metrics -Performance Dashboard
- What is the Company Specific Cost of Capital
- Why would you need a Business Valuation?
Business Valuation Services
- Business Planning & Funding | Begin with a Business Valuation
- Business Valuation Services Get You More Money for Your Business
- Can Business Valuation Services Get You More Money for Your Business
- Can Business Valuation Services Get You More Money for Your Business?
- Determining the Valuation of Stock Options in your Business
- Different Types of asset valuation services
- Help your Business Sell by Providing Buyers with the Valuation Answers
- How valuation services can help you sell your business
- How Valuation Services Can Lower the Stress of Selling Your Business
- Importance of Independent Valuation Services
- Importance of Independent Valuation Services
- Improve Value & Performance with a Business Valuation
- Keys to Evaluating Valuation Service Providers
- Should I hold off on my business certified valuation because of Covid 19?
- The complexity of Equity Warrants Valuations
- Three Things to Focus On Before You Put Your Business Up For Sale
- Tips To Pick the Right Valuation Service Provider
- Using Risk Management To Make Your Business Stand Out
- Valuation Principles and How to Increase Value
- Values of Public vs. Private Companies must Consider the Marketability Discount
- Why Business Valuation Services are Important
Financial Principles
- Build Value for High Exit
- Elements to Increase Your Company Value – Financially
- Financial Dashboards And Why You Need Them
- Increase Your Company Value Financially
- Keys to Performance Metrics -Graphical Dashboard
- Part III – Elements to Increase Your Company Value – Financially
- Part V – Elements to Increase Your Company Value – Financially
Humanitarian
- 390 Billion in Charity – Where did all this come from
- After Hurricane Matthew: Employee Volunteer Programs
- An outside-the-box approach to workplace wellness – Mental Health
- Are We Prepared? What have we Learned from Covid-19?
- Boy Scouts – Leaders of Tomorrow
- Charity Begins At Home – When the Last Horn Blows
- Coffee, a soup line, and friendly conversation
- Collaboration and Teamwork – Mr. Harutos Zen Garden
- Common Sense – Work and the Professional Volunteer
- Connected – Internships for Teens
- Cool Technology Trends in Business – the Digital Mesh
- Edible Leftover Food Waste
- Foster Care Teens Who Are Aging Out – How Businesses and Individuals Can Help
- Helping Hands – Volunteers Reaching Out After Hurricane Florence
- Homelessness in America
- Housing in America & the Chronic Homeless
- How Will Your Company Give Back This Holiday Season
- Humanitarian Giving
- Improving Memory Power | A 3-Step Technique
- Keeping The Christmas Traditions Alive
- Last Minute Holiday Giving – Round it up
- Make January work for you – 4 ways
- Meaningful Ways You Can Help Ukraine
- Random Acts of Kindness
- Relief Efforts for California fire Evacuees – How you can help
- Sports and Recreational Charities
- Syria’s Children – How You Can Help
- Teacher Classroom Supply Lists and how your Business can help
- The Humanitarian Volunteer Is You!
- The Importance of Giving Responsibly
- There is no Perfect Age to Begin to Volunteer
- US Puerto Rico: Still Desperately Needing Aid
- Volunteering – Concerned with Promoting Human Welfare
- Volunteering – Giving Back and Why it Matters
- Volunteering – Stepping Outside your Comfort Zone
- Water – A Human Right
Optimization
- 4 ways CEO leadership is changing
- Accounts Receivable and Payable Cash Flow Optimization
- Business Operations Optimization Concepts
- Cash Flow – The Matrix
- Contribution Margin is a Magic Wand for Optimization
- Contribution Margin vs. Gross Margin
- Elements to Increase Value Part VI
- Employee Coaching Accountability and Rewards -Not Annual Critic
- Finding Value in Entrepreneurial Effective Management
- Graphical Representation Of Cash Flow
- How CEOs overcome being stuck in the weeds
- Improve Employee Hiring Retention & Productivity
- Improve Productivity Through Delegation
- Improve the value of your business
- Optimize Product Pricing/Profits
- Part IV Increase Company Value
- Performance Dashboards
- Real World Examples using Dashboards
- Reoccurring or Recurring Revenue
- Revenue and how to increase it 2x – 4x
- Rolling 12 Month Graphs
- Simple Ideas to Improve the Value of Your Business
- Skills and Optimization Methods
- Systems vs. Tribal Knowledge
- The Importance of Proper Management for Small Businesses
- Transiting from CEO to Retirement
- Tribal Knowledge vs. Systems
- Valuation & Optimization – Productivity Pyramid
- Why Do Customers Buy From You?
Productivity Pyramid ®
- Business Financial Principles and the Productivity Pyramid ®
- Coaching Concepts and Practice Session
- Coaching, Team Work, and The Productivity Pyramid ®
- Cultures That Create a Climate for Change Are More Innovative – featured in the AMA Winter 2022
- Employee Performance-Productivity Monthly Coaching
- Goals, Coaching, Accountability & Rewards, Productivity Pyramid ®
- Improving Employee Retention – Productivity Pyramid ® can help
- Performance Enhancement Concepts
- Proactively Going After Customers – Productivity Pyramid ®
- Productivity Pyramid ® Holding On To Your A Performers
- Productivity Pyramid ® Revenue and Profits
- Productivity Pyramid ® – Business Fundamentals with Dale Richards
- Productivity Pyramid ® – Employee Coaching Techniques
- Productivity Pyramid ® & Valuation Principles
- Productivity Pyramid ® and Systems
- Productivity Pyramid ® increases profits and value for companies
- Productivity Pyramid ®and Expert Business Optimization Concepts
- Productivity Pyramid® Goals, Coaching, Accountability and Rewards
- Productivity Pyramid® To Improve Performance
- The Productivity Pyramid ® – Coaching and Team Work
- What are some typical Company Goals?
Rifle vs Shot gun Marketing ®
ABOUT DALE S. RICHARDS:
Dale S. Richards specializes in management, marketing, operation optimization & business valuation consulting and is a 30+ year turnaround expert. He has implemented success concepts into results in 150+ companies. Dale is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) with NACVA, Eight-Year Vistage Chair & International Speaker.
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