A New Direction

We All Will Experience Imposter Syndrome, but How do We get Through it? Imposter syndrome is real.  You may be reading this right now and realize that you have some parts of your life you are living as an imposter. Most often we think of “imposter syndrome” in our work.  When we have taken a task, and we believe we are not qualified or competent to do the job. But imposter syndrome is...

Timeless Hacks for Every Leader Are you a high-level leader? Or are you an aspiring leader? Are you a CEO, Owner or founder? If this sounds like you then one thing, we all know for sure is…is that leadership is hard. While there may not be any shortcuts to being a great leader, there are some small hacks that can make you a more effective in your leadership. In fact, it may come down to your...

Level Up Your Career, Improve Your Speaking Abilities The A-HA! Method If you want to be a more effective leader, you need to improve your speaking effectiveness. If you want to be a more effective sales person, you need to improve your speaking effectiveness. If you want your meetings to be more effective, you need to improve your speaking effectiveness. The fact is the more effectively you are s...

Need a Career Change?  Or Just a Tune-Up? Here are some career questions you need to think about: Does your job offer you a sense of purpose? Do you feel compelled to pursue another career? You find it hard to go to work because you’re not a fan of the company you work for? Does your company align with your values? Do you feel valued by your employer? Is your compensation commensurate with y...

What Can You Control and Influence in an Ever Changing World The fact is we live in a world that is ever changing. If you think that somehow you can just disappear and avoid and hope that you will be able to survive it you would be mistaken.  So how do we cope? Knowing what you can control and what you can influence becomes paramount if you are going to thrive in today’s volatile uncertain w...

Do You Inspire Your Buyers? We are all in sales. We are all being sold to. What makes you want to buy? What are the factors that go into the sales process that influence you? What are the things that stop you from your purchase? You may have sat through a presentation only to wonder, “well where do we go from here”? It all pretty uninspiring, isn’t it? If you are in sales, B2B or...

Put the “I” in Team…Positive Influence Most all of us have heard the saying there is no “I” in team. Well, the reality is there is no “we” either. But maybe if we saw the “I” as “Influence” we may have a different perspective. Because we all have influence, and since you are part of a team members who also are “influencers&#82...

6 Behavioral Communication Behaviors to Change Your Life and Business We all know the importance of communication. And communication is often talked about in books and articles. But what if you were given the keys to set of proven communication strategies that actually will make a difference? On this episode of A New Direction, Professors and Co-Authors Julien Mirivel and Alexander Lyon talk about...

Creating Habits that Will Change Your Life, Your Business, and Your Career When we think of the word “habits”, typically we jump to the negative. We may think of all the bad habits we need to get rid of… However, when if we were to rethink the word “habit” we may be able to stretch our mind to the idea of good or positive habits. And by creating those habits we can ac...

The Ultimate Guide to Power and Influence There is no doubt that successful people have power and influence. If you want to be more successful, then power and influence need to be part of the equation. True, in the hands of the wrong people those to things can be dangerous, but in the hands of the right people can make the world a better place for everyone. And on this episode of A New Direction b...

Make Sure When It Comes to Your Business the Price is Right If there is one thing that can keep your business from success is price. Set the price too high and you price yourself out of the market. Set your price too low and you will not make enough profit. And what if you are just starting a business. How do you get your pricing right? What are the top considerations to consider? What about the p...

It’s Time to Live in Daily Awareness Friends lets be honest with each other. We truly live in a VUCA world. Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous world. You don’t have to read too far in your newspaper, or watch the news casts to see that our world is not what most of us grew up in. This raises the question for all of us: What are we doing to make sure we are ready for the volatility...

SPECIAL MISSION: Leadership Principles from the War in Israel Major General (ret) John Gronski Having spent a few days in Israel during the Hamas/Israel conflict I had a different and unique experience. The news media, as typical does not tell the whole story, or they focus on only on a particular aspect of the war and only look at what they believe is important eliminating extremely important det...

Why Your Business Needs a Chief of Staff Interesting isn’t it that U.S. Presidents have a Chief of Staff (COS)? If you are like most people we take the title for granted and really do not think about what they do. Is it really a necessary position? The short answer is…Yes! Then why don’t businesses have a Chief of Staff? Well, in fact,, some do. But many of not most do not. Proba...

The Art and Science of Building Relationships that Lead to Success in Life and Business What do B2B and B2C have in common? People are the ones who make the decisions. Often there is an erroneous belief that competence, a good product, and professionalism is the most important aspects of business. However, the research suggests something different. And that is that relationships are what drive sal...

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...