If you play basketball with a ping pong ball, you're in trouble. Same is true if you play ping pong with a basketball, except you might break something! Too many leaders feel stuck these days. Part of being stuck is not knowing what to do with the equipment you have, the tools to utilize, or the team to empower. Today, let's chat about applying the right rules and strategies for the actual business game you're playing. 

When we get to a certain age, or something happens with our health, we are told it's time to get a checkup. If you're a leader or an executive, you're told to get an executive checkup. 

When it's time to grow your business, it's due time that you have a different kind of executive checkup! One that encompasses the areas of your business that have not been performing at possible potential. 

Join me for this bonus episode where I discuss what we can learn for business and leadership from  Socrates' statement of, "A life unexamined is not worth living". 

We are in the days of leadership where everyone gets a ribbon. Mediocrity is being accepted, and sometimes rewarded, at unprecedented levels. If you're cool with this, that's fine, skip this episode! If you want to check yourself and your team and build greatness, let's talk about doing away with mediocrity today. 

Ever feel like the winds always against you? Sometimes we can get super tired of pushing all the time. What if we're thinking about resistance wrong and it's actually here to serve us? Can you grow a muscle without working it out? What if your leadership ability grows from a place most people try to avoid? Let's embrace resistance and use it as the effective tool it's meant to be. 

Ever wonder why some people never seem to get what they want? What about you and your team? Does it seem like sometimes you do get what you want and sometimes it seems virtually impossible? Let's open the conversation and finally answer the question regarding this moving target topic. Let's make the decision to change how we go about it and finally get what we all want. 

Ever feel like you're on a crazy treasure hunt with your team? You're leading through the mountains and can't seem to find exactly what you're looking for. Are you looking in the right places? Do you empower your followers effectively? Is the map you're following correct? I've got a great story for you about this today!

Ever wake up from a dream and actually not want to be awake because you want to see how it ends?

Most of the time when I wake up from a dream, it’s a really weird dream or a not so pleasant dream experience and I feel extremely grateful to be “out of that false reality”. I’m happy to roll over, realize that was just a dream and get back to sleep.

What about when you wake up and want to keep dreaming though?

I recently had this happen to me where I was so engulfed in what was going on in my dream, when I first woke up and from a groggy state began to realize it was just a dream, I literally wanted to go back to sleep in order to continue on and finish the experience that was playing out.

Join me in this episode where we'll connect the dots between what you dream about at night and how to create the dream you want during your life!

The challenge is do we focus our managers on hitting the goal today, or make sure we hit the budgeted goal in the future!

How much time do you split between now and future focus? What is too much, what is not enough? Let's have that conversation right now! 

Constructive Criticism...

Really? Let me tell you something that you suck at but I'll try to make you feel good about it while I'm saying it?

Stop the madness, set yourself free, let's break down Team Member Communication today!

Why did you become a leader? Why should your team keep following your lead? When you get crystal clear about how why you're doing what you're doing, the business game changes forever. 

Get connected to your true purpose and enjoy the increased results from much more impact.