Perhaps you're so burnt out or so excited about your next role that you're ready to run for the door, but slow down, cautions John Quelch. He offers nine tips for leaders who are ready to take the next step in their careers. Even the most loyal, long-serving employee may consider resigning from a...
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5 Keys to Perfecting Your Presentation Delivery in a Hybrid World
If I were to ask you to describe the average hybrid presentation, what words would you use? Clunky? Awkward? Disjointed? Distracting? There’s a good reason for that: Presenting to both in-person and virtual teams is still somewhat new. Sure, years ago we had a few lone rangers who worked from home...
7 Powerful Proactive Responses to Hot Emotion
Proactive people make things happen. Reactive people wait for things to happen. Reactions come with their own punishment. Reactions are spontaneous. Someone pushes you; you push back. You say something that causes harm. Reactions deliver short-term satisfaction and long-term hardship. 7 dangers of...
7 Problems to Pay Attention to for the Biggest Payout With Your Business
No doubt you are working on many challenges daily, but are they the right things for your business? I hear too often from business owners and entrepreneurs that they are bombarded by so many requests and problems, that they have trouble sorting out the daily crises from opportunities with a major...
Difference-Makers for Setting and Achieving Your Goals
As we kick off 2022, many leaders are aiming to get back on track with their professional goals. They’re evaluating their career priorities and yearning for a renewed sense of purpose. When you set goals, you create a vision of what your life or your business could look like. You take control of...
How Good Management Skills Help Entrepreneurs Succeed
The key to success as an entrepreneur is developing good management skills. That’s right, it might seem impossible at first glance, but with a little bit of training and practice, you’ll see that the more time you put into improving your management skills, the better off you will be in the long...
What is Your Criteria for Making Decisions?
We are all in the decision-making business – especially as leaders. In order for us to make effective decisions, we need clear decision criteria. Yet too often, we don’t slow down to consider, we just decide. When you look at the next decision in front of you – do you know what your criterion for...
10 Key Questions to Ask Before Making Any Major Business Decision
Every decision you make in business will have its consequences. While you always want to make decisions that will result in positive outcomes, things don't always go as well as you hoped they would. In this way, it's important for a leader to take the time to think through a potential decision...
Understanding How to Fix Things When They Go Wrong
Each of us has faced at least one event in our lives when things didn’t just go our way. When circumstances end up going “wrong,” it simply means that events unfolded in a way that we weren’t expecting to happen. However, when things don’t go our way, it can cause us to rapidly go into “crisis”...
What ‘Shooting For The Stars’ Actually Means for Business Growth And Sustainability
Even when this CEO didn’t hit all of his objectives, keeping a “go big” mentality helped him get closer to where he wanted to be. It might sound elementary, but our anecdotal evidence shows that companies actively setting big goals typically leads to business growth and sustainability. Of course,...
The Strategy-Analytics Revolution
It’s time to bring advanced analytics into the strategy room—here’s why. Over the past decade, advances in digital analytics have transformed the way businesses operate. From marketing and pricing to customer service and manufacturing, advanced analytics is now central to many corporate functions....
Virtual Background Do’s and Don’ts
With typically in-person meetings largely online these days, it can be difficult to set the stage for a successful meeting. While you can create an ambiance with lighting, music, staging, etc. in person, can that be replicated online? Is a virtual background tacky or useful? We believe that, if...