The Rock Every Business Should Be Built On for Success Today and Into the Future Laying out the foundation for your business’s goals, as well as the principles that guide those goals, is an essential part of business planning. Making clear statements helps provide clarity to your customers and employees and provides a map for guiding your business toward success. Developing thoughtful mission, vision, and value (MV&V) statements are a key part of your strategic plan for your business to …
How To Improve Your Company’s Leadership Performance and Increase Productivity
Effective leadership is absolutely essential to your company’s performance and success. Great natural leaders aren’t always easy to find. Fortunately, with guidance, most people can learn to become good leaders. There are many defining characteristics of a good leader. Determining which characteristics your employees naturally possess and which may require additional skill building are key to identifying which areas you need to focus on with a particular employee. The 360° Workplace …
Why Leadership Coaching Is Vital for Optimizing Company Performance
Big corporations invest millions of dollars every year into leadership coaching and development for their employees. But why? If you hire and train the right people for the job, shouldn’t they naturally evolve into leaders for a business? Leadership comes naturally to some people, but for most, leadership is a learned skill. Providing employees with leadership coaching helps companies develop better managers and leaders by teaching those with fewer leadership skills the ropes of …
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How to Get Rid of Excuses
Let’s be honest; we all make excuses. Excuses are a defense mechanism we use to justify our actions and rationalize our behavior. Sometimes our excuses are healthy and even necessary when we need to set boundaries and take a break. However, excuses can become toxic. Making a habit of using excuses to pardon our bad decisions or procrastination can lead us down a path of irresponsibility. To be successful, you need to own each decision you make. Empower yourself by making deliberate and …
Sales and Business Leadership is Like Parenting
In many ways, leading a business is like being a parent. After all, many of us think of our businesses like our children. We birth an idea and nurture it based on our values and ideals, and (hopefully) we watch that business grow into something successful. Running a business is a full-time plus job, and so is parenting. We pour countless hours and immeasurable energy into building a successful business. We manage emergencies and have to ensure all the ducks are in a row so that …
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An Attitude of Gratitude
I was reading an article the other day and the author, Nataly Kogan, posed the question “Are you chasing your “Big Happy”?” She went on to say that “One of the many things I learned while chasing The Big Happy was that even though a lot of satisfaction and pride comes with achievement, happiness does not. In fact, the chase of this idealized non-existent state of happiness left me depressed and exhausted. The answer I found in every article and book and research paper I read was this: …