A quick and concise look at meetings and productivity, and how the two are intertwined. More professionals are spending excessive amounts of time in meetings, racking up hours in the week, both online and in person. A real productivity-killer if not managed well.
High-integrity leaders leave a legacy that’s far-reaching and long-lasting. How far-reaching and long-lasting is your legacy as a leader? “Leaders who take a comprehensive approach to mentoring and insights from subject-matter experts continually outperform their competitor”
Why are employees still joining The Great Resignation? How has the business world globally been impacted by The Great Resignation? What should businesses have comprehended by now? In his article, Gallimore seeks to answer the above questions and a few more challenging ones regarding why employees are still quitting their jobs.
R E M O T E – Key insights into helping leaders keep morale high with online & /hybrid workers. Three Simple ways to motivate your team. Create a remote workforce of enthusiastic collaborators who are excited to log on for the day
Looking for increased employee retention and less turnover? Successful onboarding may be the key. Having a buddy or mentor is also invaluable. It’s not something that just happens – good onboarding requires strategic planning.
“The spirit of the West is an attitude, a mindset that change can bring about a better life” notes Braydan Shaw, president of Burns. The oldest same-family-owned western retail business in the world, Burns, a sixth-generation company that Launched in 1876. A great read, filled with history and a business mindset. “When we have problems, we’re able to lean back on our ancestors and find answers,” he says. “Keeping that history alive and telling those stories helps us have gratitude for the past and put things into perspective.”
What is the value of a high-growth industry? What is a typical response to close a conversation with a customer? Welcome to Part 5 of 10. Top Ten Tip of Week by Dale S Richards. This week we will address: Rifle vs. Shotgun Marketing Approach® How to close a conversation with a customer
Mindset Matters – How to Prepare Your Company for Ongoing Change. Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth one? A Leaders mindset serves as a key determining factor in their ability to face disruption. challenges can be the catalyst for major improvements and success.
While you interact with customers, please ask them “Why do you buy from us?” or “Why do you not buy from our competitors?” Solidify in customers’ minds why they bought from your company.
80/20 – Customer Gold Program® Learn who your top 20 are. Do you know who the top 20% of your customers are? How can you use the 80/20 principle to PROACTIVELY increase your revenue by 10% – 200%? First, you must find out who the top 20% of the customers are.
Three uniquely different approaches used by other leaders to successfully handle challenges that could derail your planning attempts. Some food for thought on how to get started on the road to planning your vision and being successful at it.
Want to increase your leadership skills? By becoming fully engaged with employees you may prevent your “A” team from walking out the door. Knowledge is Power. You must lead by example. Good leaders need to be fully present, engaged, and resourcefully motivated.
Are you ready for the next era of communication? The “evolution of entrepreneurship”. Kind of an outpouring of creativity, and sharing of that creativity in the digital environment. Creative thinking and business trends online, offline, and in-between.
A forward-thinking article that gives some sound advice and guidance to those who want to improve and are curious about developing a broader, and maybe just a little kinder #leadership style to try out. Finding that balance, and being flexible doesn’t mean micromanaging, rather they offer a better term “practice micro-behaviors” instead. Pushing yourself to look at your employees differently. Become more of a listener instead of a teller
A quick article, one that allows the reader space to self-reflect, and gain insight into what attributes they themselves might inspire to excel towards. We all can improve, and learning about the different styles – that’s a step in the right direction. 20 Signs of Leadership Excellence
Is company culture a key to winning the war for top talent? Flexible work & its permanency? Learning to embrace the shifts in workplace culture will be essential as businesses move into 2022.
Do you recognize, and try to avoid, key biases that can damage your decisions? You shouldn’t be basing your decisions solely on how you feel. Optimized decision-making occurs when reliable information such as data, best practices, experience, and knowledge are combined into the process.
Challenge your mindsets, and gain that level of confidence and success-oriented outlook we all want to achieve within ourselves. No matter how skilled you may be, it’s your mindset that will make or break a business.
TIP OF THE WEEK comes from David Finkel, author of the 4 Things You Should Be Focusing On This Quarter. In his article, he illustrates just how dangerous complacency can be. It’s a powerful wake-up call for anyone in business that can create a sense of urgency when you fail to plan.
Listening to others is important. You need to fine-tune your guiding values and morals and become an expert in relevant areas. Make sure everyone knows your expertise. How important is your personal leadership? Do you know how to set your own direction and make decisions quickly? Being a real business leader is more than just echoing the voice of the majority
Reese’s ideas are imaginative and highly useful. They provide us with ideas for setting a better direction and vision of where we want our company to be. It gives us a process to help make better decisions. He does warn, however, “that new leaders come into companies and want to copy and paste winning strategies from past experience, without first listening to the insights and feedback of customers and existing employees”.
With these seven steps, you and your team can create exponential value from ideas, grow an innovation economy, and master idea management. According to Baiya, your ideas are ready for action and you can master idea management—and, in turn, master successful innovation. By the end of the article, you’re left with the belief that change is possible on any level, and brainstorming helps process, capture, and evaluate ideas critical for company growth.
Do you allow your employees to help determine where the team is headed? Marcel examines leadership, and what it takes to lead others. He provides readers with 6 key behaviors to look for. When dealing with an organization’s most appreciable asset (people), Marcel notes the importance of identifying and developing high-performing employees. Business leaders need to understand how employees feel, and then determine a good strategy to navigate the demands of the future.
In their article 4 ways hobbies can help you become a better CEO, Vistage Staff touches on the life-balance aspect of living. Rather than a distraction, having a hobby can make you “feel happier, more fulfilled and less burned out”.
…having a hobby can make you “feel happier, more fulfilled and less burned out”
Business strategy: Why we need to think like scientists he notes that In the formation of strategy, CEOs should think like scientists”!
We all understand that we need to use data to make informed decisions. Emmer lists 8 data points and methods for evaluating those decision-making processes. He briefly describes the 8 data points and what those points might mean for your business
This week’s article Diversity gains importance as a strategy for CEOs, comes from Joe Galvin. Joe is the Chief Research Officer for Vistage Worldwide. In his article, he discusses the importance of Diversity and Inclusion (D & I), and how to use that as a recruiting strategy for your business.
Joe suggests looking over your strategic plans and re-evaluating your goals or objectives when it comes to diversity and inclusion.
This week’s TIP OF WEEK comes from Mary Ellen Sheehy. In her article Fiscal Health: Strategic financial insights for the post-pandemic reality Mary Ellen Sheehy, Senior Vice President of Member Programs and Alliances of Vistage, had this to say about the Fiscal Health Conference held this year. Fiscal Health challenged Vistage members to “Stop protecting the past, and start inventing the future. (And do it faster than the competition.)”
“Stop protecting the past, and start inventing the future (And do it faster than the competition)”
Do you have those days when it feels like others only listen until they hear a break in the conversation – where they can jump in and start talking? Did they really hear what you said, or did they have something already pre-prepared to turn the conversation in another direction? In a meeting do others attempt to twist your words by inserting something that isn’t even on track with what you were attempting to say? Happens more than you know. Some only hear their own thoughts already answering your question before you’ve had the chance to get your message fully across.jump in and start talking? Did they really hear what you said, or did they have something already pre-prepared to turn the conversation in another direction?
This week’s tip of the week is a fun and positive read. To Become Your Best Self, Study Your Successes. By Laura Morgan Roberts a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Emily D. Heaphy, an Assistant Professor of Management at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Brianna Barker Caza an Associate Professor of Management in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In their article, Robert’s, Heaphy, and Caza present ways to help others look for positive situations or events describing moments when they were at their best.
What decision-making trends are you following? What works for you?
This week’s TIP of the WEEK comes from Marc Emmer is President of Optimize Inc., and a frequent contributor to the Vistage Research Center, Forbes, and Inc.com. In his article How decision making has changed forever, he goes over the evolving methodology of distributed work. Be that working from home part-time, quarter time, coming into a hot-spot desk periodically or working with a team on challenging tasks. Depending on which distributed work environment you select, know that it requires strategy by senior management.
