Inflection Point Moment

Do the Work that Energizes You!

Working with your opposite allows you to stay in your natural role as a Visionary or Integrator™ while enjoying the benefits of both intuitive and systems-focused leadership. Jeff & Rhonda will share their own experiences as a visionary and an integrator working together on Inflection Point Moments as an example of how intuitive and systems-focused leaders can work together successfully – even...

Visionaries and Integrators™ bring different, but equally valuable gifts to the table. A business needs both the vision and the action to be successful. You rarely find that in one person. Most of us are good at one or the other, and when you try to be both, it’s exhausting and ineffective. There’s no reason to get burned out trying to do it all—the other side exists!

What does it mean to invite your team members into the right role and then equip them to do their best work? Do they need to have specific tools? Do they need additional training? Equip, empower, and release them to do what they do best. Then get out of the way because they're going to do much better than you are in that area! Are you ready to let go?

What’s the difference between being a boss and being a leader? Just the question can make you laugh – or cry, depending on your experiences with leaders (or not) in your work experience. Join us to unpack the difference – and learn WHY it’s so important to lead your team instead of being bossy.

As we return from our Summer Break and Open Season 3 of Inflection Point Moments, join us to explore the value of Relationship Management, the final domain of Emotional Intelligence. Using an example from Rhonda’s life, we’ll explore the value of each of the five competencies of Relationship Management.

Self-management is being intentional about how you show up with your emotions. When you have emotional self-control, you respond to situations instead of reacting. You can choose your response to your emotions because you see options through adaptability, achievement orientation, and positive outlook. Creating a culture where emotions are legitimate frees us up to see new opportunities and lean in...

Margin gives you the freedom and space to manage your emotions and find ways to achieve your goals in your current circumstances. It is easy to be flooded by your emotions. One way to combat this is creating margin in your calendar. Margin allows you to stay grounded and emotions won’t overwhelm you as easily.

You are in charge and driving the bus, not your emotions - emotions are just indicators. They are clues you need to notice, not a cause for immediate action. When you manage your emotions and practice seeing situations from more than one perspective, it strengthens your adaptability muscle and will help you discover new and better ways of doing things.

You are a business owner. Most likely you had to overcome fear to be a business owner. But does hidden fear underlie your decisions? Being aware of your emotions is one thing. Knowing what to do with them is another. Emotional self-management is key to harnessing your emotions for business and personal growth. Join us as we explore the HOW of harnessing your emotions, so you and your team can go f...

Using the RULER approach can help you and your team become more emotionally self-aware. As a leader, you need to make your business a safe place to process emotions by setting a positive example. Your team will know and remember if you consistently and thoughtfully respond rather than react in the moment.

As a leader, you need a safe place to process your emotions. Vomiting them on your team is NOT the way to process them! Your “Corner 4” people build you up, give honest feedback, and help you grow to your highest potential. They are the people you should go to with your emotions and figure out a way forward. Be fully present, ready to listen to their perspective, and open to learning from the situ...

Exploring what precipitated an emotion can help us understand what got us to where we are. Sometimes we don’t immediately know what caused us to feel a certain way or we develop a story that strays from the truth. Asking what questions, not why questions, will help you be objective, future-focused, and empowered to identify what caused our emotion and act on your new insights.

Learn to recognize and name your emotions. Stop suppressing your emotions and pushing them down. You need to feel them to recognize them. That doesn’t mean you have to act on every emotion you experience. It means you must acknowledge and identify them. Look beyond the three emotions people are generally able to identify. Don’t just say you’re mad. What kind of mad are you? If you’re sad, are you...

While business acumen is critical for success, emotional intelligence can tip the scale for you from scratching out a living as a small business owner to thriving as you grow your business. Connecting and creating alignment around your business WHY motivates your team to achieve the company vision.

For small business owners, EQ relates to the “soft skills” side of business. It’s so much more than being nice, which is a common misconception about emotional intelligence. It’s the way we understand ourselves and how we deal with our emotions while leading.

Taking on emotional Intelligence may feel overwhelming, especially if you’re a very transactional leader. But taking small steps towards improving your self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management skills will put you on the right track. Are you willing to do the work?

“True leaders have an awareness of their emotional wake.”

Your success level goes up when you’re focused on the work in your current stage of business. Join us to talk about making your life easier by focusing on the right things for your stage of business.

What markers are you seeing in your stage of business? If you get out of your space, don’t be afraid to go back into the stage of business where you need to be. Like moving up a ladder, you've got to have the foundation of level one before you can move on to level two.

Find people who can speak into you about where you are in your business growth. We all need to have other people come alongside us to support us in the parts of the business that we are not strong in. They can give you honest feedback and walk with you when it’s time to transition from one stage of business to another.

Understanding the different stages of business—startup, growth, scale, and mature—will put you on the best path forward and make your life easier. A realistic understanding of the stage of business you’re in helps you stay focused on what you need to be doing now.

There’s an old saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. We choose far together. Your ability to sustain your growth and momentum as a business owner is going to last a lot longer with the right business community. What does going far together look like?

When it comes to unpaid business communities, sometimes you get what you pay for. Likewise, a small business owner may get lost in the crowd among big corporate accounts in the wrong paid community. The Inflection Point Hub is just the right size for small-but-mighty businesses looking to grow.

You deserve a community that fits your needs and to be surrounded by people who build you up, give honest feedback, and help you grow to your highest potential. You are not joining a group to fill a slot and fit into their box.