A New Direction

A Pathway to Dealing with Mistakes that Will Lead to Success Be honest. How does your business deal with mistakes? Do you punish people for making mistakes? Do you take them behind the verbal woodshed and berate them for their error? If you are like most businesses, there is no room for mistakes. You calculate mistakes as costly. They eat your profits. They cannot be tolerated. And the only correc...

From Worrier to Warrior We all face challenges in life. Some are personal and some are professional. Whether you are facing a divorce, death of a loved one, a financial crisis, or your business is flailing and failing. Life can confront us with challenges. How do you handle challenges? Are you a nuclear reactor that explodes and blows up everyone around you? Or perhaps you ignore it and hope it go...

10 Life Strategies to Make Every Day the Best Day Ever There is one thing that affects your work more than any other thing. Do you know what that is? If you answered your boss, you would be incorrect. If you answered your job, you would be incorrect. The one that affects your work positively or negatively is…wait for it…YOU! The fact of the matter is YOU have the power to change your e...

How to Communicate with People That Don’t Agree with YOU or Who Don’t Think Like YOU Whether in business or your personal life, it doesn’t take long to realize you are going to come in contact with people who don’t think like you do. And when that happens issues are most likely will occur. The fact of the matter is none of us think exactly the same. And sometimes the differ...

Feeling Stuck Maybe It’s Time to Think Like an Archeologist and Jump Start Your Career What do an archeologist and finding your career have in common? Turns out quite a bit. Like an archaeologist you are going to have to have a vision for your career. You are going to have to create your own map. You are going to have to dig and find artifacts (like your strengths, interests, gifts, and abil...

How is Leadership When You are in a Crisis? At some point or another ever business will find themselves in a crisis. Whether that is from inside the organization, such as a leadership change or mismanagement.  Other times it can be a surprise, where all of a sudden an outside circumstance such as COVID puts pressure on the business to make changes to survive. And sometimes mergers can happen that...

The Family Flywheel: The Secret Business Principles Successful Families Use to Create Sustained Wealth and Happiness I have read and heard it said, “there are no business problems, there are only personal problems that infiltrate your business.” Stop and think about it for a moment. As I have come to learn from personal experience and through coaching many clients…”if your...

4 Types of Leaders and Becoming a Positive Influence Leader Let’s be honest. Success does not happen in isolation. In fact, if we look back there has been someone or many people that have had a positive influence on where you are today. It could have been a parent, teacher, coach, consultant, manager, supervisor, or perhaps a rale model you have never met that you took on some qualities and...

The Fastest Way to Profitability is Pricing Pricing your product or service can be a challenge. Often times businesses will spend tremendous amounts of money trying to price right only to go with a gut feeling about the right price. What is more most of the research on right pricing focuses on learning from their current customers and fails to address the question or the answer as to why prospecti...

Raising Your Conflict-IQ and Making a Bigger Impact on Your Business. Conflict is all around us. You don’t have to look for it, because it will find you. And successful leaders today are going to have to skills to deal with it. If you don’t have very good skills in conflict your company will not achieve success, lose productivity and instead it will implode because of it. We have all h...

Are You in a Rut in Your Life and Work? Are you going through the motions of life? Have you been checking all the boxes you were told to achieve? Do find it seems so meaningless? Does it seem that what you thought looked like financial freedom and bliss has become a job jail, bound by golden handcuffs? How’s your family life? Or do you even have one? How about your fitness? Finances? How&#82...

Sales is a Mindset, And that Mindset Starts with What You Believe About Yourself and the Taking the Right Actions If you are interested in sales or consider yourself a veteran of the profession, the question of being successful is ever illusive. The fact is you are only as good as your last sale, and no matter how many sales you close yesterday has no guarantees if you will sell anything today or...

How to Develop Your Brand and Become a Brand Renegade In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, establishing a strong brand has become more crucial than ever before. It serves as the foundation upon which a company’s success is built. Whether you’re launching a startup, a small business, or an entrepreneurial venture, understanding the power of branding can be the...

Building a Team is Not Easy, and It Must Be Intentional If you have ever tried to build a team from the ground up, then you know first hand the difficulties and challenges you can face.  And in today’s business environment building a team can even be more challenging as more and more teams are some combination of remote and in office a “hybrid” if you will.  What are the principl...

Using Better Communication to Overcome Conflict in Every Area of Our Life and Business We live in a world of a communication divide. Just turn on or read the news and we read how there is conflict. One side says something they believe in the other side digs in their heels and shout back what they believe in. No matter where we turn what we really here is “they are wrong” and “we...

Leave Your Job and Create a Career with Purpose You are at a party or event on a Sunday afternoon. You are enjoying the company around you. It is filled with laughter and enjoyment. Then the party starts to wind down. People are leaving and then it hits you… You have work on Monday. But the truth is you are dreading Monday. Sure, you are good at your job. The money is good, but you really do...

How to Get Real Accountability in Your Teams: Conscious Accountability We all say we want accountability. But the truth is the way that accountability is practiced is more transactional that relational. We often use power and threats to ensure accountability. Hold on. Stop. Think for a second is that really accountability or is that some form of external rewards and punishments for getting people...

Making Remote Work Really Work In the Workplace Remote work is here to stay. More and more employees have a desire to WFH (Work From Home) since the pandemic practically forced employers to at the very least have had to adopt at the very least hybrid remote work conditions. Still, many employers have struggled with the idea of remote work and was more some have difficulty in making remote work&#82...

Relationships are difficult, but they don’t have to be as difficult as we make them. It doesn’t matter what type of relationship you are in.  Personal relationships, business relationships, they all get complicated from time to time.  And for most of us we get confused as to why.  What is more we seem to get stuck and we cannot seem to find a way to undo the tangled relationship mess t...

Are You Looking for a New Career?  Ready. Set. Get Hired! If you take a look at what is reported you would think getting a career position is easy. Well if you are one of those searching to get hired, you and I both know that it isn’t as easy as the statistics want to make it out to be. The fact is since the pandemic hiring has been more selective and tricky. But also more business are also...

How Leaders Keep Their Employees Engaged and Productive Let’s be honest. We have seen more and more employees simply quit the workplace. Other employees are just doing enough to get a paycheck and disappear otherwise known as the “quiet quitter”. Research has demonstrated clearly that employee quitting costs companies across the U.S. between $450 and $500 Billion annually. What c...

How to Take Any Idea and Make it Successful in 5 Steps There is no doubt that when it comes to starting a business or just a business idea, there are many challenges. The one we concern ourselves the most is money. However, before you think about money have you considered who will buy your product or service? How do you get people to know about your business before you business even begins? The fa...

Taking an Underdog “Challenger Brand” to Greater Success Everyone loves the underdog. We want to see the team who seemingly have no chance against the giants win. The same is true for business. Perhaps you are a business that is not the industry leader, referred to a “challenger brand”. Do you still have a chance? The answer is absolutely! Who are “challenger brands&#...

Are You in a Financial Peace of Mind? Let’s be honest…really honest…we all have either been or are currently concerned about money. We are regularly asking ourselves, “how do I get more of it”, or “am I going to have to live on when I get older?”  And the truth is when it comes to money we often do not have much financial peace. Money is one of those issue...

When It Comes to Success in Life and Business… It’s About Your Relationships! We all have heard the saying, “it’s not what you know, but who you know”. And let’s be honest the relationships we make are critically important to our personally lives, but most assuredly our professional lives. But what do you do when you find it difficult to create new relationships...