With technology changing so quickly, and the way we use technology ever-evolving, we are always facing a sense of urgency. It’s weighty. It’s unclear. It becomes a playground for doubt.
Strategic Growth Blog
Top Tips To Make Informed Decisions
What does your company tend to downplay when evaluating an opportunity? We asked that question to our audience, and majority answered that it was a capacity to complete.
Right Opportunity: SWOT Informed Decision-Making
Don’t let change influence the direction of your growth. Just don’t. Don’t do it. (If you chortled just a little, you got it … change is a constant.)
Achieve More: Recognize Self-Imposed Limits
Self-imposed limits are just that: put on you, by you. Situations navigated at different stages of your life create how you navigate the world today.
Identify Your Communication Gap and Make a Choice to Solve It
Communication problems come from shortcuts. The shortcuts we make automatically to be efficient with our time and to be able to do more with the time we have.
Top Tips For Becoming a Better Leader
Our recent questionnaire confirmed what we already knew – there is no single way to lead well. Defining what makes good leadership and a good leader, can not be explained by some mathematical equation. However, most of the time, people agreed that leadership needs to be consistent, and those good leaders have to keep on […]
The Top Tips on Prioritization
Priorities are necessary when we are making decisions. Regardless of size, the options you consider and choose from set the direction of your next steps.
The One Sure Way to Improve Your Leadership
With gobs of information about leadership available on different styles, approaches, and what to do to build your own leadership, leadership seems elusive. On the surface it seems to be hard to grasp. Terry “Starbucker” St. Marie, a guest on the BOLD Business Podcast, uses words like caring, respect, connection, and trust. Our life experience […]
Do The Right Thing at the Right Time, More Often
When you set a short- or long-term goal, you have identified an expected outcome. By the time you complete the goal, does the outcome look anything like you initially planned? The answer was unanimously NO from the 100 people I asked. Every single person said the starting goal looked nothing like the expected ending … […]
Productivity Isn’t About Time Management It’s About Achievement Strategy
When we are driven to get to our goals, we try to do more in the same amount of time and zero in on improving our time management skills. Setting clear goals is also important to building confidence and results. Yet there is a piece that ties both together: Achievement. The capability to achieve is the result of clear goals and an understanding of time management.
What will you NOT compromise influences your decisions
Compromise boils down to being respected and feeling understood. Yet, most of the time, we experience a reaction in our memory or body that is negative when we hear the word. The negative reaction stems from us – when we didn’t really know what we wanted.
Talk About and Share Your Priorities
Prioritizing is a skill with several steps. This is the first in a series of articles that will break down and explore the importance of each step. When we practice conscious prioritization, we see more – hear more – and make better decisions.
Hit a Business Growth Plateau? 5 Insights to Break Through
Do you have the capacity to grow? There are internal and external factors involved to achieve business growth. Finding improvements looks easy when someone comes in and points issues out to you. Think about a symphony. You go, sit down, and the performance begins … without the violins. You immediately know something is up. Afterward, […]
Anticipating Changing Customer Expectations: An Elusive Leadership Skill
If you are like many leaders, you think about customers often and scan for potential tweaks and improvements in processes and products, so consumers continue to choose yours over another solution. Technology advances have set a high bar for all; people expect tools and products that make lives and work easier, quicker and, yes, cheaper. […]
More Growth Requires More Commitment
Who’s in charge of growth strategy at your company? When the answer is anything other than EVERYONE, there is a business problem that requires attention. Doing more with less and dealing with change shapes where there is growth potential. The process to learn where to look for growth may mean “unlearning.” Unlearning what worked in […]
The Spectrum of Character Traits: Genuine Connection
Greg Jameson invited me to join him on his podcast, 20 Minutes of Influence. Our conversation on influence covered two areas: first, the sales side – specifically, getting another person to take action based on what we say or do or suggest; and second, three soft skills necessary to have influence. On the latter topic, […]