Facing uncertainty can be challenging – being a business owner facing uncertainty is tougher. Red Direction helps you [fast track and] grow your business – authentically, pragmatically, and resiliently. Start your journey HERE! Starting the conversation: The ability of your company to engage in rapid change comes from the capacity to be prepared, adaptable, and […]
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UNCHARTED: Overcome Uncertainty with Erik Holmberg
Facing uncertainty can be challenging – being a business owner facing uncertainty is tougher. Red Direction helps you [fast track and] grow your business – authentically, pragmatically, and resiliently. Start your journey HERE! Starting the conversation: What do you do when filled with fear and must move forward? Taking time to do the work is […]
UNCHARTED: Decision Making Framework with Jeff Bermant
Facing uncertainty can be challenging – being a business owner facing uncertainty is tougher. Red Direction helps you [fast track and] grow your business – authentically, pragmatically, and resiliently. Start your journey HERE! Starting the conversation: What am I going to do about it? Use a framework for decision making to ask good questions to […]
Be Ready for Change with the Right KPIs
Business readiness requires thoughtfulness surrounding how to bring business strategy into everyday actions. This article touches upon necessary milestones that connect strategy and action in a way that is useful for preparing and planning.
UNCHARTED: Cash Flow Metrics with Andrew Podner
Facing uncertainty can be challenging – being a business owner facing uncertainty is tougher. Red Direction helps you [fast track and] grow your business – authentically, pragmatically, and resiliently. Start your journey HERE! Starting the conversation: Knowing the acceptable range of key cash flow metrics for business health and longevity allows you to pick a […]
UNCHARTED: Business Plan Flow with Jenn Olson
Facing uncertainty can be challenging – being a business owner facing uncertainty is tougher. Red Direction helps you [fast track and] grow your business – authentically, pragmatically, and resiliently. Start your journey HERE! Starting the conversation: You choose what your days look like, so give yourself grace when something new makes you question your business […]
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.
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 … […]
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.
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. […]
Weave Value Into Your Business Growth
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.15″] Let’s face it, our companies experience ongoing challenge and change. We might have different business paths, maybe even goals (apart from profitability). Also, we would all like to remove frustration, reignite stalled projects, and get faster results along the way. In fact, businesses with a clearly-outlined and useful plan are consistently, […]
Grab Chaos By The Hand … and LEAD! (Appearance on the Breaking Free Show)
It’s easy to expect and demand results from our hard work. It’s more difficult to recognize that putting attention and energy into a new skill will take a lot of time. Time we don’t have. Time we choose to use chasing low hanging fruit – the things that are easy and obvious and are measurable. […]
LEAD Model for Better-Decision Making and Problem-Solving
Owning a business, running a department, doing the best we can is a constant challenge. Not that our pants are on fire all the time, but that there is always something that diverts our attention, demands our time, and competes with the activities that are the main and best use of our time. Every business […]