Leveraging Speaking Engagements: Fueling Business Growth through Conference Presentations

In the dynamic landscape of business growth, industry and business conferences stand as fertile grounds for propelling your brand and fostering substantial growth opportunities. Speaking engagements within your domain of expertise aren’t just podium moments; they’re strategic investments in your business’s expansion. Here are key ways how speaking at industry conferences can significantly grow your […]

Why you can be an Extraordinary Leader

What does it take to be an extraordinary leader?   Are they born with it or made? When it comes to leadership, most people concentrate on what you do.   That is only half of it.   It starts with your “Why”.   You have to know your “why” because what you do is not meaningful without it. To […]

Growth Mindset – Foundation to Building a Stronger Team Culture

Why a growth mindset methodology would be considered as a foundation to building a stronger team culture?  The reality is there really never was a foundation to begin with all at anyway.   Many small to large businesses would cite traditional leadership and a talented staff that work effectively together.  Fact is that since there was […]

Does Influence Work Best to Build Your Business?

Have you ever truly assessed why you do what you do in business?  Does your business and audience align with your core values and beliefs? While there are people who truly know this about themselves, there are many that do not and go through the motions looking for shortcuts to generate revenue.  Many do not […]

Develop & Execute Your Value Proposition

Developing a value proposition takes some time and patience. A real value proposition is more than a catchy tagline. For it to have impact, you have to know your customer and your business both from intellectual and emotional intelligence. In addition, you have to understand how your product or service aligns to your audience. So […]

The Secret to Accelerating Your Business for Success

We operate our businesses in a world of automation, systems, and now artificial intelligence.   While this is necessary today as strategies to do business, we cannot continue to assume this will sustain it long term without considering mindset.  Now, we are not talking just mindset here but actually growth mindset. There is growth and fixed […]

What Influences Communication?

Communication can be defined as a process of conveying a particular message by one person to the other. It is primarily a mutual conversation done between two people or groups.  It is a critical function in organizations, from the very small to the very large.   Even one-to-one communications can be fraught with challenges and misunderstandings. […]

EQ – The Missing Ingredient to Building a Successful Workplace

Emotional intelligence is the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.  It is often referred to as EQ, and while the concept has been around for many years, it really only came into play to the masses in the 1990s.  We as a society […]

Six Habits of Highly Empathetic Business Leaders

In today’s business world, it seems to get more polarized and divisive each year.   It is a lack of communication that creates this divide and often prevents companies to play at higher level, the sustainable way. Empathy is powerful and can have profound effects how an organization or small business can elevate their business to […]

What Really Works When it Comes to Sales Incentives

At some point, organizations or businesses of any size have to evaluate if their sales incentive programs are really working to improve their bottom line.  The monetary value of incentives has traditionally been used to spark motivation and create competition among sales staff or channel partners to succeed.   While some self-motivated sales people are sparked […]