2021
12 Smart Ways A Business Can Stand Out In A Saturated Market
The opportunity to be innovative, transformative, and bold will help with timely and relevant service offerings and stand out from the crowd. If you are utilizing new technology, a unique way to make yourself and your business visible is by targeting your audience with daily posts on LinkedIn. This is the quickest way to gain needed traction and value-based attention.
15 Ways To Keep Company Culture Intact When Key Leaders Depart
It’s important to engage and communicate both with the leader(s) departing from the organization and the ones staying to keep the organizational culture intact despite any changes. When we create a healthy environment of sharing and learning, we can discover the root cause of someone’s departure, as well as opportunities to improve and stabilize core cultural elements, by gaining the support of the team and leadership.
Key Topics To Kick Off ESG-Centered Conversations With The C-Suite
A starting point for the conversation would be, “Taking your corporate ESG into consideration, what is your key objective for 2022?” It is essential to understand not only the organizational nomenclature, but also what the leaders have already implemented and what they wish to add to meet their success criteria and complement their organizational social responsibility efforts.
12 Coaching Strategies For Handling Clients Who Won’t Follow Through
Human behaviors such as arrogance are often expressed due to internal emotional issues. Understanding the triggers and root causes of a client’s behavior can make all the difference for them and help them to come around through increased self-awareness. Only then can they be helped in a meaningful way. The key is not to take their behavior personally and to seek to understand by asking relevant questions to discover more.
How To Discover And Unlock Your Legacy DNA
Have you ever wondered what makes other people more successful, impactful, influential? With over 7.9 billion people globally, we have a tremendous shortage of exceptional leaders, especially legacy leaders. But the more significant questions are, why is that, and how we can remedy this deficit?
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In my book, The World Messenger: From Fear to Greatness: Business, Sports and Life Lessons, I share a path forward from fear to greatness, including discovering your dream, purpose, mission, vision and, ultimately, your legacy. A stepping stone on the path to greatness, the legacy!
10 Ways To Decide Whether To Tweak Or Eliminate Underperforming Products
This is an excellent opportunity to conduct a key performance indicator analysis to discover the root cause of why the service or product is underperforming before making any decisions. Gaining a better understanding of how initial projections were made in the first place and the key issues related to current customer expectations, industry trends and competition will lead to the best decision.
How To Discover Your Organizational And Leadership DNA
Nothing can move in the right direction without dividends of trust accumulated and demonstrated consistently over the years. Sadly, that is also one of the most depleted ingredients within organizational DNA today! Why? We are missing responsible leadership capable of navigating and awaking dormant cultures resisting much-needed change while operating with high ethical standards. As a result, we see painful evidence of how it affects their biggest asset — their people.
12 Mistakes Marketers Commonly Make In Corporate Social Ad Strategies
Large corporations make a common marketing mistake, especially during current events, due to the gap in understanding ever-changing customer demands. Because of this, companies are driving ineffective ad strategies that are not tracked well and aren’t producing desired results. The need to close that gap is at an all-time high and offers a great opportunity to adjust accordingly.
14 Things Business Owners Wish They Knew Before Getting Started
Despite being fairly knowledgeable about what it takes to run a successful business, I was not focused on diversifying my service and client portfolios as much as I should have been. The most recent effects of the pandemic and global economic shift forced my colleagues and I to look at things from a new perspective. Having conversations with veterans in the business allowed me to pivot in new ways while positioning myself for success.
How To Inspire And Transform Your Business Talent In 2021
The more we know where we and our business stand in talent experience, skill and engagement, operating efficiency and thought leadership, the more successful we will be. Our ability to have thought-provoking, engaging, inclusive, intellectual, individualized and diverse conversations are some of the best ways to accomplish that.
12 Creative Ways To Sustain The Energy You Need To Reach Your Goals
It is essential when setting up a new goal to calculate needing more time and anticipate that extra effort will be required in addition to specialized support. This not only will ensure that the new goal gets accomplished, but will also maintain momentum in the process. By preparing for a marathon, it will help you ensure consistency while preserving energy over a long period of time.
15 Steps To Take To Stay Cool When You’re Upset At Work
When things get heated too quickly, we have an excellent opportunity not only to pause but also to rewind. The rewind tactic is one of the best because it not only forces you to slow down, but also ensures that you can develop a shared understanding of what just happened by asking a question. This way, you can defuse the situation and get more information and time to cool off before you respond calmly.
12 Unique Well-Being Initiatives That Can Positively Impact Employees’ Lives
With so much data and supporting evidence, we need to institute a customized mental health and wellness program to support talent across the organization. Companies focused not only on creating improved, robust mental health services but also on tailoring them to each individual are increasing more than just overall well-being and engagement. They are also increasing performance and retention. Win-win!
13 Ways For Companies To Successfully Recover From Bad Press
Dealing with bad press is a huge lesson for everyone involved in the organization, but more importantly, it can be a morale booster when done right. When we learn from situations through honest and transparent conversation, we can better understand what occurred and why. Only then can we work on the organization’s future state and seize the tremendous opportunity to strengthen internal relationships.
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15 Effective Ways To Transition From Team Member To Manager
Leading your former peers is an excellent opportunity to maintain a close personal relationship with them and gain their support by asking for their honest feedback and participation. This shows that you value them and their opinions and will support them going forward. As a result, it will help you build your credibility as a new boss and earn the team’s approval.
12 Ways For Organizations To Leverage Experiential Learning Opportunities
Experiential learning, especially for adults, is the key factor in fostering leadership excellence. It is often mistakenly thought of as an activity only, but in reality, it is one of the four key elements, which also include reflection, conceptualization and application. However, it is most importantly reflected in the four Fs—facts, feelings, findings and futures—which are essential to exceptional leadership and decision making.
How To Handle A Client Leaving: 13 Valuable Lessons
I strongly believe that things always happen for a reason. I discovered that my client had a pattern of using and abusing people (besides me) with expectations of working 80-plus hours a week, resulting in high talent turnaround. Also, he was using our network and relationships with false promise. When I questioned his and his partners specific behaviors, it resulted in their quick departure.
Seven Ways Job Seekers Can Find The Right Recruiter
Are you getting the results that you are looking for during the biggest economic downturn? Most likely not. Therefore, in the current, highly competitive job market, it is more important than ever to have an informational interview with a recruiter. Knowledge is power and can save you so much time, especially as the majority of jobs are not posted online. Who knows you is the new game!
Changing Paths Mid-Career? 12 Ways To Find A New Direction
Through the self-discovery process with my clients, I focus on their strengths, passions, desires, values, goals and motivations. After completing that process, we typically work on finding companies and roles that strongly align with those traits. Then, we outline the path forward, ranging from informational interviews to specific positions and much more, to increase their chances of landing a “dream job.”
13 Effective Tactics For Creating Offline Brand Exposure
With the current restrictions in mind, one of the best ways to create offline exposure with customers is to mail personal notes with small personal touches that will make them feel appreciated. Great examples would be gift cards or flash drives loaded with resources that are specifically valuable to them and their business. Nothing captures people’s attention and loyalty as much as making them valued and remembered will.
14 Mistakes Leaders Make That Set A Bad Example For Team Members
One of the leaders I worked with interrupted his co-worker during her presentation by taking abrupt control of the room and conversation. The worst part was that the mood in the room shifted, creating an undesired outcome. This was a huge learning opportunity for this leader and his team moving forward, especially in the use of power and leadership and communication style.
Why Emotional And Social Intelligence Are Must-Have Leadership Traits
EQ, or emotional quotient, is an individual's capability to recognize emotions and feelings, both their own and others'. You develop EQ by experiencing, understanding and labeling different feelings. It also involves using emotional information to guide your thinking and behavior. The key is to adjust our emotions to adapt to the environment that we are in at any given time, as reflected daily in our behaviors.
13 Ways To Discover And Realign Priorities Around Personal Values
Regardless of the reasons why values get lost or out of alignment with priorities, having periodic assessments and real conversations with the client and/or leadership team helps tremendously to realign their values with their mission. The proactive approach is most desirable, especially after the organization's rapid growth or M&A. Paying attention to the first sign of the misalignment is the best policy.
14 Signs That Tell Owners It’s Time To Pivot Their Business
Based on my clients and my experiences, there are many reasons to pivot in the business, especially in the current economy. The key is to know why and how, especially when you hit a plateau with a highly demanding product or service or when there is a little response from the marketplace. Pay close attention to data, trends and competition, as these are some early indicators. – Izabela Lundberg, Legacy Leaders Institute
14 Strategies To Keep A Growing Startup’s ‘A-Players’ On Board
To keep A-players in your organization, it is essential to know what attracted them to it in the first place. As the company grows, they do too; so knowing what keeps them motivated, engaged, committed and loyal to the organization and the C-suite is a must. Keeping a pulse on their needs by having trusted conversations will ensure their longevity with the company. – Izabela Lundberg, Legacy Leaders Institute
13 Ways To Ease Into A Job Hunt While Still Employed
Scheduling and blocking specific times for your job search each day is essential. Plan your weekends well so that you can do more when you are free from your regular job. And make sure to utilize LinkedIn and network with others virtually as much as possible. It will help you to stay focused and optimistic. Game on! – Izabela Lundberg, Legacy Leaders Institute
Want To Know How CEO Style Impacts Hiring? Here Are 9 Ways.
CEOs who develop a guiding, overarching philosophy about how they add the best value to the organization and its culture will create tremendous success and buzz about the company from its internal stakeholders. They will then attract high-quality, committed talent. It is all about how they show up daily through their leadership, reputation and integrity. Otherwise, their success will diminish. -