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.
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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.
What You Will Not Compromise
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: How does what you will not compromise impact what you prioritize? Host: Jess Dewell What You Will Hear: What will […]
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.
The Changing Capacity of Your Team
What we do to anticipate the changing needs of our business includes the brainpower and skills of the people working with you. How do we know what our team, organization, culture, business… needs to look like in the future?
Business Book Must Reads
Books expand perspective. What you read influences how you look at daily situations as well as unexpected problems, and enhances the ability and desire to be more inquisitive.
Effective Systems (LIVE)
Starting the conversation… Are systems for one are as powerful as system for many? How do you measure the effectiveness of your systems over time? Host: Jess Dewell Guest: Dr. Ingrid Pyka What You Will Hear: Talk about the issues at hand, know what systems are in place, or not. How much do you about […]
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. […]
Podcasting, #BizapaloozaChat + Voice Of Bold Business Radio
My friend and colleague, Ivana Taylor, asked me to stop by her weekly DIY Marketer Twitter #BizapalooaChat to talk about the experience of building and using podcasts as part of the Red Direction business model. I am a continual student of podcasting – a learning viewpoint Ivana thought would bring an interesting view to her DIY […]
Three Skills To Leverage in Team Building
For the last several years, businesses have spent tremendous energy and resources on efficiency. Tightening up processes, removing actions lacking returns, and even combining responsibilities into fewer roles. The big question is what to do in an always-changing market where we are overloaded, and often have more than our job – specifically, the people looking […]