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Effective branding includes everything that influences the opinions of consumers about you, your product, or your service. The ability to be authentic and humanize your brand provides a critical connection to your customers—one that engenders loyalty and increases sales. Your brand is your most important asset. Fact: Everyone has an existing brand, whether intentional or…
Join our CEO Book Club on Tuesday February 7 at noon EST (on Zoom) to discuss the book “The Motive” by Patrick Lencioni. What is the essence of your job as a CEO? In his recent book “The Motive” best-selling author Patrick Lencioni analyzes reward-centered leadership as opposed to responsibility-centered leadership, and from there derives…
Learn How to Control the World’s Perception of You and Your Company. Nathalie Nahai author of “Business Unusual” click here to learn more and participate: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nathalie-nahai-author-of-business-unusual-tickets-510198275777
Here’s the hard truth about leadership: it either forces you to get stronger or slowly destroys your life. There is no in-between. This is why taking care of yourself as a leader is so critical. This is exactly what we will discuss at our interactive FREE CEO workshop on Tuesday, January 10 at noon EST….
The end of the year is drawing to a close, and CFOs everywhere have their sights set on 2023 — making it a perfect time to fine-tune organizational strategy and business operations. To ensure their companies are well-positioned for success in the new year, C-suite leaders must think big picture yet also focus on the…
Date: January 6, 2022 Start Time: 12 p.m. EST End Time: 1 p.m. EST Platform: Zoom Questions: Chat Tickets: Scott Miller For busy professionals and lifelong learners seeking practical strategies for reaching new heights, Master Mentors distills 30 essential learnings from Seth Godin, Susan Cain, Trent Shelton, General Stanley McChrystal, and other top business minds and thought leaders of our…
Put People and Purpose as your business Priorities and Profits will follow. Business success, more than ever, is about building and supporting a positive, profitable culture, which is a hard asset; and culture comes down to communication. How companies talk to and with their employees, and all stakeholders for that matter, is the ultimate expression…
Succession planning considerations enter into discussions that I have with business owners when discussing their interest in conducting an executive search to find a CEO to run their company. For instance: As a business owner are you worn down and tired from all the extra effort and attention that you have had to spend on…
How Shareholder Primacy has Broken Business! Meet Ed Chambliss author “A One-Legged Stool” Click here to participate in Friday’s The Best Business Minds and talk to Ed: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/are-shareholders-most-important-ed-chambliss-author-a-one-legged-stool-tickets-490972831957
“So far I have been a great CEO, but I am not sure that I am the best person to take my company to the next level,” confided this CEO of a fast-growing company. It looked like his recipe for success didn’t work anymore: he was constantly fighting fires and couldn’t streamline his operations. He was trying…
Last month we discussed the natural propensities of the different types of salespeople and how some salespeople benefit from additional training or support – for example, Appointment Setting services that maximize the effectiveness of a sales team full of “Closers.” If you recall, we highlighted the three traditional types of salespeople: Hunters – Those who…
Does your B2B Sales Team need help generating leads? There are many different types of B2B Sales teams. Direct Sales, Field Sales, Territory Sales, Indirect Sales, Channel Sales, Solution Sales, National Accounts, Global Accounts, etc. Most sales organizations create segments based on a few distinguishing client characteristics that delineate customer types so that sales teams…
As the end of the year quickly approaches, many sales leaders are beginning to develop Sales Plans for next year, but it is also essential to benchmark Sales Compensation Plans to help your business reach sales goals. A well-structured Compensation Plan can increase employee performance by 44%. Validating both will ensure you can attract and…
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, most companies moved their teams out of the traditional workspace, transitioning to remote work and online collaboration. Ever since, business and HR leaders have wrestled with the tension between work-from-home perks, including greater flexibility and lower overhead, with potential downsides. Foremost among those downsides? The assumption that remote…
Is Your Business Prepared for Battle? – BAS Market Insight Volume 5 Published on December 7, 2022 “The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemies not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact…
Here are ten ways to increase the value of your business: 1. Stop chasing revenue. A bigger company is not necessarily a more valuable one if the extra sales come from products and services that are too reliant on the business owner to deliver them. 2. Start surveying your customers. It’s a fast and…
Learn How to Maximize Performance from Navy SEAL Rich Diviney author “The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance” click here to meet and speak with the author: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-navy-seal-rich-diviney-author-the-attribute-optimizing-performance-tickets-481361193287
Are you satisfied with your 2022 growth? If so: congratulations! If you want to accelerate growth in 2023 though, and make it less painful / stressful for you, you will need a different approach. This is exactly the point of our upcoming CEO Growth Workshop on Tuesday December 6 at noon EST on the topic: “How…
Program produced by XPX South Florida. This is XPX South Florida’s final installment of a six-part “Lunch and Learn” series where they explore the exit planning strategies to be employed by a middle market company from the attorney’s perspective. Featured are three seasoned attorneys from South Florida who describe the various obstacles they have overcome…
There are quite a few executive search firms in the Boston area and other regions as well. But, you wonder, which is the best? And, how do you know it is the best? What determines that? I’ve had these questions presented to me regularly, after all, I run an executive search firm. As a matter…
Date: December 2, 2022 Start Time: 12 p.m. EST End Time: 1 p.m. EST Platform: Zoom Questions: Chat Click Here to Get a Free Ticket: Peter Desberg and Jeffey Davis A clinical psychologist and writer/producer share secrets to overcoming presentation anxiety and crafting the perfect “award-winning” pitch – no matter what industry you work in! From impromptu elevator pitches to…
Program produced by XPX Atlanta. The Hard Realities of Exit and How We Can Fix It Advisors – we have work to do! To repeat: only 4% of businesses actually sell. In this important November XPX Program, we will review and discuss the reasons for that abysmally small number. More important, in true XPX fashion,…
Date: November 22, 2022 Start Time: 12 p.m. EST End Time: 1 p.m. EST Platform: Zoom Questions: Chat Click Here Zoom Link: Neil Malhotra Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are rising forces. As the extent of the world’s systemic challenges becomes clear—from climate change to income inequality to food security to healthcare and beyond—more and more of the best…
By David DeMuth Manufacturers can’t afford to wait any longer. For two years, CFOs and controllers have managed supply-chain disruptions and labor shortages, as well as surging prices. Typically, these developments could require most manufacturers to raise prices to survive. In Q4 of 2022, there is a looming recession. The generally accepted definition of a…
Do we have a recession now – or will we have a recession soon? It is not certain, but very likely to happen in the coming months. The R word is scary and it starts changes in economic behavior. Recessions are a normal part of the business cycle, painful but necessary. Let’s think about the…