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CREATING A CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

5/3/2023

 
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Great execution is critical to implementing strategy. But a great execution plan falls flat if there isn’t accountability. This is frustrating and costly. But it can be solved.
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I’m proud to share a Gravitas Impact podcast on this topic featuring my colleague Mark Green in New Jersey.

Based on his Gravitas Impact monograph, Creating a Culture of Accountability, he shares guidance born out of the patterns he and our coaching colleagues around the world have identified working with CEOs and leadership teams from a variety of industries.

​In this 30 minute podcast, Mark explains the 3 pillars of accountability: 1) leading by example (there’s more to it than you think), 2) role accountability (how it really works) and 3) process accountability (how to make it happen).
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How can you create a culture of accountability in your company?
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​To find out how to strengthen accountability to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 1, 2, 4 and 7 to check your processes that support accountability. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
Check Your Accountability - Try The Checklist

Turn your flywheel to creat enduring greatness

3/29/2023

 
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In a recent article, I wrote about the three basic elements of a successful strategy. I also mentioned that CEOs and their leadership teams can use other tools and practices to refine their strategy and make it more robust over time.
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Jim Collins’ flywheel concept, from his best-selling book Good to Great, is one of those refinement tools we use with midsize companies.

This Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar by certified coach and colleague Paul Cronin, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, covers how to apply the flywheel concept to strengthen a company’s strategy.

In this 60 minute “under the covers” webinar, Paul explains the flywheel concept in detail and how it connects with the 3 key disciplines outlined in Good to Great, shares some great examples of flywheels (including his own as a coach - which, not coincidentally, is very similar to my own), and describes a  process for discovering and developing your flywheel.
How can you improve your strategy?
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To find out what you can improve in your strategy to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 3 and 6 to check your strategy and customer processes. Complete section 4 to check your execution. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
check your strategy - try the checklist

HOW TO DO EFFECTIVE ANNUAL PLANNING

3/1/2023

 
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As we’re now just passed mid-way through the first quarter, I want to underline the importance of annual planning. 

Whether you don’t yet do annual planning, haven’t yet gotten to it for 2023, or want to improve, this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast by senior emeritus coach, and a mentor of mine, Ron Huntington in Seattle, Washington, goes over how to complete effective, rigorous and productive annual planning.
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In this 30 minute podcast, Ron paints a vivid picture of effective planning by applying his experience as a pilot to the discipline of getting a CEO and leadership team from where they are to their desired destination, as quickly and safely as possible.

The process and perspectives he shares mirror the planning I facilitate and coach leadership teams through annually. It’s a disciplined, rigorous, productive, yet tailored process that gets the whole senior leadership team clear on where they’re going and cohesively aligned and committed to how they’re going to get there.

And as the COVID-19 aftermath continues, having a flight plan to not only survive - if your business has been negatively affected - but to also thrive, and make the best of the opportunities, is critical for organizations.
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Are you ready to grow a great top team, company and life?


​Try our Growth Readiness Self-Assessment to find out where you, your leadership team and company shine and where you could improve in order to grow, improve profitability, consistency and your quality of life.
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PODCAST: Accelerating growth when you can’t afford a CFO

12/21/2022

 
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In our experience, CEOs often don’t pay a lot of attention to the financial optimization of their company, unless their accounting is broken, they have a financial background themselves, or they have a strong CFO at the table.

​In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Dominick Becivenga, former VP with Citibank and current President of A Team Consulting in New York, discusses how small to Mid-Market CEO’s could create financial predictability and a competitive advantage by investing in their financial and accounting technology and strategic talent.
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What can you do to optimize your finances?
To find out what you and your leadership team can do to improve your financial position to more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 5 to check your financial processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR Finances - TRY THE CHECKLIST

PODCAST: Innovation and change in a mid-size company

11/23/2022

 
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As a CEO and owner of a mid-size company works to build and strengthen their organization, several barriers often get in the way.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Sara Castiglioni from Buenos Aires, Ph.D in Leadership & Systemic Innovation, takes us through those barriers to change and innovation, and explains the things CEOs and owners can do to break through.


Note that all the barriers and solutions have to do with people and behaviour, starting with the CEO. This podcast is not for the faint of heart.
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What can you do to evolve your mid-size company?

To find out 
what you and your leadership team could do to innovate and change more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.

CHECK YOUR PROGRESS - TRY THE CHECKLIST

PODCAST: What is reactive selling costing you?

10/12/2022

 
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Many organizations spend 100% of their time talking to the 10-20% of customers who are unhappy. This type of fear-based reactive selling costs organizations millions.

What is this REACTIVE selling costing YOUR organization in revenue, time and effectiveness?


In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Alex Goldfayn, author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller
Selling Boldly, walks through his PROACTIVE selling approach to engaging clients and prospects in new, effective ways, from asking “Did You Know” questions to getting referrals.


​The Selling Boldly proactive approach will change how your sales team approaches business.
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What can you do to grow your mid-size company?
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To find out what you and your leadership team could do to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR GROWTH - TRY THE CHECKLIST

PODCAST: Finding your purpose as a CEO

9/14/2022

 
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Simon Sinek has popularized the scientifically proven idea that a company’s purpose, and how much the leaders promote, act and live by that purpose, is one of many key ingredients for building a great culture and workplace. 

​Yet many midsize company owners and CEOs find it difficult to bring their company’s purpose to life and help employees connect to that purpose.


In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Petr Ludwig, author of The End of Procrastination and founder of Procrastination.com and the GrowJob Institute, based in New York, Prague and Dubai, shares how CEOs need to be leaders of the purpose movement in their own lives to inspire others to find their purpose at work.
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​How can you strengthen your leadership?
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To find out how to become a better leader to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 1 and 2 to check your leadership and people processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.

CHECK YOUR LEADERSHIP - TRY THE CHECKLIST

PODCAST: Further increase your return on investment - with Greg Crabtree

8/24/2022

 
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In our webinar earlier this year with Greg Crabtree, speaker, entrepreneur, financial expert and author of Simple Numbers 2.0, he shared what returns entrepreneurs should expect from their business: 5% net profit is survival, 10% is a good business, and 15% is a great business. These numbers are true for about 70% of businesses.

He and his firm have since discovered a financial metric and standard that works for any company, regardless of industry, and that helps CEOs find surefire ways to improve their return on investment.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, Crabtree shares this better metric, the additional levers to improve your return and how, contrary to a lot of financial advice, a business owner’s best investment decision is often not to diversify into other businesses, but rather to reinvest in their current business.

​Greg also shares how his background growing up on a chicken farm to becoming an accountant has led to how strongly he feels about helping entrepreneurs create security for their families.
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How can you improve your company’s return on investment?
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To find out how to increase your return to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 5 to check your profit processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.

CHECK YOUR RETURN - TRY THE CHECKLIST

A CEO’s high productivity tips - PODCAST

7/27/2022

 
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Many CEOs struggle with mastering their own productivity as they encourage a culture of accountability in their organization. They feel constantly busy, overwhelmed and inundated.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Hao Lam, author, coach and CEO of the Best in Class Education Center in Seattle, Washington, shares his own schedule to demonstrate the habits and tools he’s used to monitor and improve his time management skills in both his personal and professional life.


Lam also shares his personal story of escaping Vietnam as a refugee, and finding his passion for providing education worldwide, as outlined in his book
From Bad to Worse to Best in Class.
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How can you and your team become more productive?
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To find out how to improve your productivity to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 4 to check your execution practices. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.

CHECK YOUR PRODUCTIVITY - TRY THE CHECKLIST

A CEO’s journey fostering agility  - PODCAST

6/27/2022

 
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What might have happened for so many companies around the world if they had been prepared, prior to the pandemic, to successfully face the inevitable: that some unforeseeable shift in the world would become a sudden and significant threat or opportunity for their business?

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Patrick Ginn, Founder and CEO of the Ginn Group in Vancouver, Washington, shares his experience building a resilient, aligned and agile company that was able to more easily and successfully navigate the pandemic.

“Nothing could prepare us,” Ginn shared, “But we had already identified through coaching and in our quarterly and annual planning process that at some point, given our industry, a change would happen.”

Ginn worked with a business coach to create a versatile business model and share it with employees to foster a mindset of alignment throughout the company, enabling them to move quickly in response to change.

Listen to hear how the culture of “embracing change” became a Core Value for Ginn Group and for Patrick himself!
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​Listen to part 2 to hear how Ginn is using his business to connect to the community through Ginn Gives.
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How can you build an agile company?
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To find out how to align your team and foster agility to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.

CHECK YOUR AGILITY - TRY THE CHECKLIST

How to Resonate With Your Ideal Customer

6/3/2022

 
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When it comes to reaching new customers, most companies miss the mark by overcomplicating their messaging, making it either too generic or overly technical. And it’s a costly mistake. 

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, David Mann, keynote speaker, trainer, professional actor/director/storyteller and founder of the Simple Message, describes how to tell the right story, communicate value and engage your ideal customer’s emotions.

Too often, businesses lose opportunities and profits by leading with their product or service, who they are or what’s unique about them.

​Focusing instead on simple messaging that speaks to solving the customer's problem, and executing that message across marketing channels that engage your ideal customers, leads to increased brand engagement, trust and loyalty. And above all it will differentiate your brand in a way that truly resonates.
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How can you resonate with your ideal customer?
To find out how to connect with your best type of customer to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 6 to check your company’s customer processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR MESSAGING - TRY THE CHECKLIST

Aligning systems to deliver on your brand

5/25/2022

 
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Systemization around branding and operations is a big missing link in many organizations. The disconnect occurs when Marketing sets an expectation and there are no standard operating procedures systematized throughout the customer's journey, aligning the experience with the expectation.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar and podcast, Brandon Dempsey, Author of Shut Up and Go, and Co-founder of St. Louis marketing company, goBRANDgo!, describes how the systemization of a brand creates cohesion and connects customers with the company.

​The Systems Attribute within the 7 Attributes of Agile Growth® framework is a key differentiator for Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches. Many mid-market companies don’t focus on Systems, and yet Systems are critical to scaling efficiently and profitably.
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How can you build systems to deliver on your brand?
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To find out how to strengthen your systems to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 7 to check your company’s talent processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR SYSTEMS - TRY THE CHECKLIST

A CEO’s journey building a high performing team

4/23/2022

 
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There are many keys to successful execution…priorities, alignment, measurement, lean principles, and more. However, the most critical element is having the right high-performing leadership team around the CEO/President of the company. Bar none.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Sean Knutsen, CEO & Co-Founder of Boveda in Minnesota, talks about his experience successfully building High Performance Leadership Teams.

​Boveda Inc. is the leading producer of 2-way humidity control solutions for a variety of moisture-sensitive products, including cigars and cannabis.


Becoming the global leader in any category doesn’t happen overnight. Becoming the global leader in a category that didn’t even exist is even harder. But that’s what Boveda did and continues to do since 1997.
How can you build a high performance leadership team?
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To find out how to develop a great top team to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Find out how your leadership team is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR TEAM - TRY THE CHECKLIST

Solve the People Problem with Jay Niblick

3/14/2022

 
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Whenever I start working with a CEO and their executive team, they realize very quickly that most of their efforts to strengthen their company ultimately hinge on people.

Their efforts to manage things, to move things forward, to change things, to improve things… these all need more than things. They need great people.

They’ve known this. They believe this. But somehow, they’ve never put it at the top list. And yet, it gets in the way of progress every time.

​In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, Jay Niblick, founder and CEO of Innermetrix and co-founder of WizeHire, walks through the key elements of the People Problem, and how to address it successfully within your business.

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How can you solve your people problem?
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To find out how to strengthen your people to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 2 to check your company’s people processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR PEOPLE - TRY THE CHECKLIST

Measure the Success of Your Sales Team with Mike Carroll

2/20/2022

 
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In my experience, CEOs are often leery of hiring a leader to take over sales, even though it will free up the CEO to work more on building the business. 

The issue they state is often that they’re concerned the lifeblood of the company will slow down or go sideways. The root issue is that they don’t really know how they’ll keep tabs on the sales leader, ie. what metrics to track.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, Mike Carroll, founder and managing partner of Intelligent Conversations, shares his insights into how best to measure your sales team’s success.

Subscribe to Gravitas Impact podcast: Android
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How can you grow your company’s sales?
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To find out how to increase your sales to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR GROWTH - TRY THE CHECKLIST

Systemize to Create Time, Accuracy & Scalability - Webinar

1/25/2022

 
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I’ve met many CEOs and business owners who’ve said they need to get their business processes down on paper to make the business less person-dependent. Yet, too often, the effort gets put off.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches recorded webinar, David Jenyns, serial entrepreneur and author of Systemology, discusses the simple methods he discovered to get employees to turn their knowledge into processes in order to create consistency, efficiency and scalability across a company.

David shares the Systemology approach and dispels the following common myths that cause leaders to put off documenting processes:
  • It’s important but not truly urgent. 
  • It’s a complex and time consuming process.
  • Lean and 6 Sigma are the best way to capture processes in every situation, including small to midsize companies.
  • In some businesses, processes can’t be standardized and mapped out.
  • Leaders have to be the ones to map out processes that employees will then follow.​

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How can you develop systems in your company?
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​To find out how to develop systems to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 7 to check your systems. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.

CHECK YOUR SYSTEMS - TRY THE CHECKLIST

Increase your Return on Investment Capital with Greg Crabtree

1/17/2022

 
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In our work with CEOs and their leadership teams, we often find business owners’ expectations of their returns from their business are too low… too low for the health and sustainability of their business, too low to support their growth aspirations and too low relative to what they’ve invested in the business.

​In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, Greg Crabtree, speaker, entrepreneur, financial expert and author of Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!, outlines what returns entrepreneurs should expect from their investment capital, and how they can increase their return on that investment.
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How can you improve your company’s profitability?
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​To find out how to increase your bottom line to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 5 to check your profit processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR PROFIT - TRY THE CHECKLIST

Liz Wiseman on Impact Players

12/14/2021

 
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Why is it that some leaders can be counted on in critical situations and others can’t? What are the key characteristics of these A-players and what makes them different from their peers?


In working with CEOs and business owners, this is one of the early conversations we have: “Who are your A-players and how can you tell they’re performing at that level? And what are the behaviors to look for and cultivate in your other leaders to get them to that same level (or decide to part ways)?”

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches recorded webinar, Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers, discusses her key findings on these questions in her new best-selling book Impact Players.

Based on a study of 170 top contributors, Wiseman identifies the mindsets that prevent otherwise smart, capable people from contributing to their full potential and the five practices that differentiate Impact Players:

​• While others do their job, Impact Players figure out the real job to be done.
• While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.
• While others escalate problems, Impact Players move things across the finish line.
• While others attempt to minimize change, Impact Players are learning and adapting to change.
• While others add to the load, Impact Players make heavy demands feel lighter.

Wiseman makes clear that these practices—and the right mindset—can help any employee contribute at their fullest and shows leaders how they can raise the level of play for everyone on the team.
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​How can
you develop Impact Players in your company?

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To find out how to develop A-player talent to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 2 to check your talent processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.

CHECK YOUR TALENT - TRY THE CHECKLIST

six Steps to Hire A-Players

11/30/2021

 
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As Jim Collins outlined in the book Good To Great, we know that great companies start with having great  people. And yet, finding and selecting great people remains elusive to many growing companies, their CEOs and leaders.

In our work with these folks, we recommend the Top Grading process to drastically increase the odds of hiring A-players, which we define as being both highly productive and a great fit with our values. 


In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, Michelle LaVallee, Gravitas Impact Alumni and Topgrading Champion, who has conducted over a thousand Topgrading Interviews across multiple industries worldwide, shares the top 6 ways in which to increase your chances of hiring an A-Player and decrease the risk of hiring other candidates.


During this Topgrading overview, Michelle reviews best practices that include:
  • Conducting Quarterly Talent Reviews
  • Using Job Scorecards effectively
  • Recognizing A Player patterns during interviews
  • Spotting B/C Player “Red Flag” patterns
  • Recruiting from A Player Networks
  • Using Tandem Interviews to increase hiring success by 25%
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How can you improve the people element in your company?
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To find out how to get your people right to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 2 to check your people processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR PEOPLE - TRY THE CHECKLIST

THE ADVICE TRAP with Michael Bungay Stanier

11/16/2021

 
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At the core of growing a thriving company is growing the people within it. In fact, one of the main constraints to growth is new and existing leaders, managers and employees not learning fast enough to get the work done right to delight customers and keep them coming back.

However, in our work with CEOs and their leadership teams, we often find that they struggle with how to coach their people to learn and grow. One of the most common mistakes is being the chief problem solver. 

They solve the problems employees bring them and therefore encourage employees to not think for themselves or grow their skills and abilities. This also causes employees to lack confidence and be less engaged, productive and effective. Ultimately, it also exhausts the leader and prevents them from working on the business.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, Michael Bungay Stanier, best-selling author of the Coaching Habit shares the key points from his latest book, The Advice Trap, to help CEOs, owners and leaders grow their people to grow their companies by addressing their own urge to give advice.
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How can you improve people development in your company?
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​To find out how to develop people to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 2 to check your talent development processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.​
CHECK YOUR COACHING - TRY THE CHECKLIST

Cash: The Fuel for Your Economic Engine

10/19/2021

 
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It’s often worthwhile for CEOs and executive teams of mid-size companies to take a hard look at ways to directly and quickly improve profitability and cash flow. This can complement the more proactive and holistic performance enhancing work they need to do on their strategy, people and execution.

However, we find this is an area many CEOs and their teams want to hand off to their CFO or controller. In reality, this is the work that every leader and manager in the company needs to do. Because that’s who actually drives revenue increases, efficiency gains and cost reductions in the operation.


​In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, my colleague and author Jeff Redmon, in Wisconsin, shares case studies of how CEOs and their teams increased cash flow and profitability throughout their organizations.
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How can you improve profitability and cash flow in your company?
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To find out how to increase profit and cash to to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 5 to check your profit and cash flow improvement processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR CASH PROCESSES - TRY THE CHECKLIST

A President’s Journey with Strategy

10/5/2021

 
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Most CEOs, presidents and owners I talk to know they need a strategy to guide the business forward. Yet most find it challenging to develop a solid strategy and in a way that gets their whole leadership team aligned around it.

In my 17 years experience working with leaders and their senior teams, the biggest mistake is treating strategy development as a one-time event rather than an ongoing process.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Mark Bishop, director and general manager of Active Healthcare in Auckland, New Zealand, discusses how the Bishops' family business enjoyed significant improvements in growth, profitability and fun through the process of Radical Alignment to a Core Strategy.

​Mark is joined by his Gravitas Impact Premium Coach, Leigh Paulden, also in Auckland, to share his perspective on Active Healthcare’s strategy development process.

How can
you develop a great strategy for your company?

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To find out how to build a great strategy to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 3 to check your strategy processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
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The Five Critical Roles of a CEO

9/15/2021

 
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With the CEOs we work with, we often have them take a hard look at what roles they need to delegate to focus less on the day-to-day and more on growing their company. These can include functions like marketing, sales, finance, accounting, operations, human resource, information technology.

However, they are then faced with the question of what their role should be instead.


​In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, my colleague and author Brad Giles, in Perth, Australia, uncovers the five roles a CEO must play for their mid-size company to consistently achieve great results.
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How can you grow a thriving company?
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To find out what to focus on to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR GROWTH - TRY THE CHECKLIST

How to Delegate Responsibilities as a Leader

8/25/2021

 
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Every CEO and entrepreneur I’ve met and worked with has faced the challenge of having to delegate some of their activities in order to grow their company.

Often, they have to hand off things they do very well that allowed their company to get to where it is. And they can feel hesitant, and even reluctant, to do that.

Yet, we find this to be a critical action for CEOs and owners of mid-size companies to create the time and space to focus more on leading their company and their people.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches podcast, senior executive coach John Felkins, outside Nashville, Tennessee, shares a process we use to help CEOs and owners of mid-size companies identify activities they can and need to delegate and to transition those activities successfully, while growing others.
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How can you develop others to take on more?

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To find out how to develop your people to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 2 to check your talent development processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR DEVELOPMENT - TRY THE CHECKLIST

A President’s Journey of Success

7/28/2021

 
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If you were a CEO or business owner coming out of a severe industry downturn, or facing an eventual surge in demand, how would you invigorate your midsize company to truly take advantage of the opportunity?

Add to that, you’re in an industry where creating a sustainable competitive advantage is nearly impossible, because most anything you do can be copied.

In this Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches webinar, Andy Warren, former President of award-winning Maracay Homes in Phoenix, Arizona, shares his decade-long tenure of working through these challenges and building a top-performing company, focusing on culture, people, and clarity. 

Andy is joined by his Gravitas Impact Premium Coach, Keith Cupp, to share parallel insights into Maracay’s “not so secret, secrets of success”
How can you build a great culture in your company?
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To find out how to build a great culture to grow more easily, quickly and profitability, AND enjoy the ride, try our complimentary Agile Growth Checklist. This self-service questionnaire takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You'll receive the checklist with your responses immediately. Within 24 hours, you'll receive a compiled report highlighting areas to improve. Complete section 1, 2 and 4 to check your culture processes. Or complete all 7 sections to find out how your company is doing in each of the 7 areas needed to produce more rapid, profitable and sustainable growth. This report is complementary and involves no obligation.
CHECK YOUR CULTURE - TRY THE CHECKLIST
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What systems, processes and practices can you and your top team strengthen to grow a great company? 
The complimentary Agile Growth Checklist enables you to self-assess your top team and company in the critical areas for scaling up and agile growth: Leadership, Talent, Strategy, Execution, Profit, Customer and Systems.

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Complete the checklist to identify the practices you and your top team can strengthen to produce:​
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