by admin | Mar 18, 2020 | Leadership, Success
We are in unique and unsettling times. And while the COVID-19 Pandemic creates unique challenges for business owners, we can learn from past challenges. Now is the time for strong leadership. Your employees are looking to you for it. So are your customers and other...
by admin | Mar 10, 2020 | Leadership, Success
We are in the midst of a four-part series on accountability. This week, we look at the third step, following the principles from “The Oz Principle”, by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman. I’ve covered the first two steps, “See...
by admin | Mar 3, 2020 | Business Growth, Leadership, Success
Last week I started a four-part series on accountability. This week, we look at the second step, following the principles from “The Oz Principle”, by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Craig Hickman. “Own it” is possibly the hardest of the four...
by admin | Feb 25, 2020 | Business Growth, Leadership, Success
A topic that comes up regularly with my clients is how to build a culture of accountability in our organizations. Real leaders do not want to have to oversee every aspect of their business. They want to set a direction and have a staff that they can depend on to...
by admin | Feb 18, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership, Success, Training
Emotional Intelligence, or EQ, is defined as the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply emotions to be more collaborative and productive with others. It also has been proven that people with high EQ have better MENTAL HEALTH, higher JOB PERFORMANCE and...
by admin | Feb 11, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership
Winston Churchill once said “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Listening takes courage. Listening makes you vulnerable. It makes you put others first. By listening, you are putting...
by admin | Feb 4, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership, Success
It hit me the other day. I had never noticed the similarity. And I consider myself to be quite linguistic if you will. But seriously, how could I have never noticed? Business and BusYness, are only different by one letter. And I think that subtlely says something. In...
by admin | Jan 28, 2020 | Business Growth, Strategy
This is the fourth of four installments of goal setting ideas for companies that want to do something different this year. I’ve focused primarily on culture-related topics like accountability and toxicity in the previous three. This week I want to give you a...
by admin | Jan 22, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership
This is the third of four articles that I’m publishing this month on goal-setting. But instead of the traditional “revenue and sales numbers” types of goals, I have been focusing on goals to address culture-related topics like resilience and...
by admin | Jan 14, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership, Success
It’s goal-setting time, and many of my clients are still working on finalizing their goals for the year. As I mentioned last week, many of these goals are tied to financial goals for the organization. (And I agree that these are critical). However I am...
by admin | Jan 7, 2020 | Coaching, Strategy, Success
As we start the new year, many companies are working on setting goals. I often work with clients on this. Often these goals are around profit numbers or achieving a certain amount of sales. But as I have been working with a number of companies that are looking to...
by admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Coaching, Success
Here’s an idea that I’ve heard before, but used to think was pure BS. If you want to go fast, slow down. I never believed it. My type-A, High ID style, go for it attitude says drive harder, drive faster. But I have learned a strange fact in the past...
