Take Flight – Business Growth Strategies with Business Coach Dan Holstein

Do you find that your quarterly planning sessions aren't as productive as you hoped they would be?

These planning sessions with your leadership team should be focused, engaging, productive and lead to concrete actions steps to move your business forward over the next quarter.

Ideally, everyone should leave the session with clarity of action and confidence in achieving your goals.

If your quarterly planning sessions don't leave you and your leadership team ready to kick butt, check out this week’s video - I’m going to share with you an effective quarterly planning agenda that will help your team leave your quarterly meetings energized, focused, ready to take action to achieve your priorities.

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Business owners and leaders alike have the whole world on their shoulders and are sometimes unable to take better care of themselves. You are depended on by everyone, especially your team, but you're only human and also need unwinding from time to time.
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Life can get pretty hectic and overwhelming, and that's alright. But you need to make sure to take time to relax and refill your fuel tank so that you can tackle all the challenges along the way with strength and confidence. I'm not saying you need to stop everything that you're doing, because that's easier said than done. I'm saying you need to introduce unwinding into your usual work schedule.

You can look for many support groups online who are happy to help. But at the end of the day, you need to be mindful and take better care of your physical and mental health because no one else will do that for you.

I'll walk you through why this is important and share more insights on this topic in the video. Just remember that you can take better care of your team only when you learn to value your own care first.

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Have you and your leadership team ever found yourselves unable to make informed decisions because you don't have the correct data? An effective business dashboard can solve that problem when it comes to business decisions. In this video, I go over what a dashboard is and how it can help your company grow.

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Essentially, a dashboard is a series of numbers that's going to tell you at a glance how you're doing in all the different functional areas of your business. Much like in sports where you have a scoreboard that tells everyone the score between the teams, everyone in your organization needs to know your "business score".

Now, not everyone needs to know every single number, but they do need to know those that will allow them to make informed decisions within their functional area.

For customer service reps, their business dashboard could tell them how many people they’ve served on a particular day. For the marketing department, it could show how many leads they generated with their marketing efforts.

But be aware that there can be challenges with a dashboard if you try to track so much data, that it can become meaningless. Whittle it down to just the key, critical numbers that tell the story of what's been happening. This is important in key business decisions because you need to be able to understand trends to be able to make informed decisions effectively and quickly.

With a properly executed business dashboard, you and your business can get back on track if you’re off course, or accelerate your results if you’re headed in the right direction.

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Are you attracting all the best clients to your business?
The ones that are profitable, that you really enjoy working with, and that are easy to deal with?
And specifically that are in your Target Market? 

Listen to today's episode for a strategy on how to help your Target Market find and recognize you as the very best provider of your product or service.

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Have you ever had a quarter where you and your leadership team set goals that you were excited about achieving - but then lost focus along the way?

If you are like most CEOs of high growth companies, you've had this happen at some point.

This can occur because we haven't determined a measurement we can use to check against to know when we are on or off track.

This measurement is your Critical Number. And every business has one.

In this week’s video, I’m going to share with you three keys to getting laser-focused on your Critical Number - the number one metric your company needs to focus on achieving in order to nail your goals this quarter.

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Today we dig into two behaviours that can keep us stuck and prevent us achieving the abundance we all want in our lives.

See if you ever get sidelined and stuck because of these two behaviours - and how to get unstuck, and creating the business and life you want.

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Does your company have a clear Strategic Priority that everyone is focused on? Or are you and your leadership team too busy putting out fires and reacting day-to-day to move your business forward?

If we don't have clearly defined priorities, its easy to get stuck in the weeds and lose our forward momentum.

In this week’s video, I’ll show you how to determine what your number one priority should be, so that you can have laser like focus and keep your business scaling!

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Do you happen to have a stack of partially completed projects and initiatives?
Do you start a lot, but only finish some of the time?
Do you ever wish your team would just execute better and get things done?

If these situations sound familiar, you maybe falling victim to a leadership behaviour that is guaranteed to kill your execution and poison your company culture.

Check out this week's podcast to learn what this nasty behaviour is, and what to do about it.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - What is the behaviour that's damaging your company culture?
00:49 - How is your inconsistent behaviour affecting your company culture?
01:44 - Why is it important for you to be consistent with your execution?
01:54 - Why should you assign someone to be responsible for the execution?
02:13 - Why do you need a framework?
02:38 - Why is delegation important?

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As a CEO, are you continuously pulled in a lot of different directions in the day-to-day operations of your company? Are you feeling like there’s no end to the demands on your time?

This is often caused by your greatest strength: being able to bite off more than you can chew, chewing like crazy, and saying yes to every opportunity to help grow your business.

However, as you grow, your greatest strength can become your greatest weakness, and cost you time, money, and create a lot of frustration.

In this week’s video, I’ll help clarify what your role as the CEO is, and where your focus should be in your company. I'll show you how to transition from day-to-day busyness to a more strategic leadership role, so your business can continue to grow.

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Have you ever had a day where you’re really busy and at the end of the day you think:
“wow…I got nothing done. I was just reacting all day to interruptions and disruptions!”

Watch the video for three powerful strategies to eliminate interruptions and disruptions so you can get your time back, and get more done, in less time, so you can continue to grow and scale your enterprise.

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