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.
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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.
Assess Real Opportunity
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 often does your organization assess its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in order to understand the current business […]
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event February 18, 2020
schedule 01:03:39
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.)
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.
Recognize Risk and Realize Value (LIVE)
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 do we evaluate risk to better understand the full potential of an opportunity? Host: Jess Dewell Guest: Martin […]
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. […]
Common Thinking is that Problems are a Weakness. But, they are not. (Appearance on The Daily Helping)
I listen. I ask and observe what people are not saying and what words come out of their mouth. That’s the core of my interview with Dr. Richard on The Daily Helping. From the very first question, I was sharing my knowledge … yet I had not realized the parallels between that information and the […]