Business Excellence - TOP 5 Series

"Don't just write a book. Write a book that's going to position you as an authority. So, write with authority. A lot of business professionals write books that are going to boost their credibility. A book is not going to just make you an authority automatically. So, you need to position yourself as a thought leader by integrating your book into your overall strategy, make it part of...

“ The work is never ending. In schools, there's always more work in terms of preparing lessons and being prepared and worrying about students and the support they might or might not be receiving at home as well.”   Steve Francis Top Five Tips For Teacher Well Being 1. Teaching is stressful because it is important work. 2. It isn't a one size fits all solution. 3. Teachers need to make in...

“At the core of it, is the people, a lot of people want to talk about processes and tools, and that's great, but your project probably didn't fail because you used PMI version or Prince two's version, if you had weekly meetings or stand-up meetings. That's probably not why it failed. It's probably because the people were not set up for success from the beginning the whole...

"Writing is not a solo sport.”  Rhea Wessel Top 5 Tips for How to Find a Constant Stream of Story Ideas to Position Yourself As the Go- To Expert in Your Niche  1.  Know your thought leadership niche 2. Frame Your stories 3. Use AI for research and ideation  4. Practice free writing 5. Try Chartifying   TIME STAMP SUMMARY  01:53 Identifying your leadership niche, combining expertise, passion,...

“People get caught up with digital and data and thinking, 'Oh, I've got to game the system. I've got to know the algorithm. But at the end of the day, remember that there's actually a human on the other end."   Brendan Lee Top Five Top Tips For Improving Your Digital Ads Conversion Rates 1.  Know who you are most going to be able to help 2.  Speak specifically to that targ...

“You either grow within or you go without”  TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:20 Taking responsibility for one's life and becoming the hero of their own story. 05:10 The importance of standing for one's greatness and not clinging to limitations. 08:05  Reframing beliefs with positive declarations and taking action to overcome setbacks and achieve greatness. 13:00 Personal development and setting goa...

"If you can stand to have it done to 80% of how you would do it, you can have employees. And if you can't, then you should just stay a solopreneur."   Eden Lovejoy Top Five Tips For Business Management 1.  Is your business running you?  2. Delegation is not abandonment 3. The matrix system for success 4. Clarity drives productivity 5. From overwhelmed to empowered   TIME STAMP SUMMA...

“Persuasion is not limited only to business. It's certainly not only limited solely to sales, and it's not also only limited to simply management in all walks of life, professionals use persuasion. Doctors need to persuade. Lawyers, in particular, need to persuade, and in fact, at home, parents need to persuade.”   Paul Du Toit's Top Five Tips For How You Can Change People’s Minds a...

“We are all living our legacy every moment of every day, choice by choice.” Kat O’Sullivan Top Five Tips For living your legacy on purpose 1. Let go of the doubts that are keeping you from living the life you really want 2. Ask yourself, what if “impossible” is just a story you are telling yourself? 3. When “shift happens” embrace disruption as your BFF 4. Confront limiting labels that can keep yo...

“Whenever we pretend to be something we're not, we're generally not going to be very successful at it. So, you shouldn't try to be the loudest voice in the room. You shouldn't try to be the person who speaks up the most at a meeting, because that's not just who you are as an introvert.” Stacey Chazin Top Five Tips For Introverts To Become Powerful Leaders 1.      Know and...

"You have to be the owner of your business and not the operator, and you need to learn how to duplicate yourself, which means teaching other people to do the kinds of things that you do, so that you're free to work on developing strategy and growing the business." Ral West Top Five Tips For Achieving Business Success While Living Your Dream 1. Organize your business to free up your...

"Most people come to work every day. They want to succeed. They want to be owners. They want to take initiative and somehow management kind of gets in their way of all of that." Scott Morris Top Five Tips For Maximizing Your Direct Reports’ Productivity & Engagement 1. Get on the same side of the table with your directs 2. Slow down to speed up – small things that make a big differen...

"Leadership isn't about perfection—it's about consistent, strategic progress.” Jaclyn Strominger Top Five Tips For Unstoppable Leadership 1.      Vision 2.      Mission 3.      Action 4.      Delegation and team alignment  5.      Measurement and monitoring   TIME STAMP SUMMARY  03:28 Understanding the deeper purpose behind goals 07:29 Creating focused action plans aligned with inte...

“If we are bold enough to consider the spaces where we step in crap, there are equal number of advertunity openings for us to see a way out.” Nathan Andres Top Five Tips For Building Authentic Resilience 1. Facing Reality,  2. Using Energy,  3. Building Authenticity,  4. Leading with Love (the anchors of the REAL model) and using 5. Advertunity.   TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:37  The concept of the &quot...

“The opposite of trauma responses or the opposite of being stuck in a toxic stress loop, is agency, having the ability to make a choice.” Christy Gibson Top Five Tips For Emotional Regulation 1. Notice  2. Connect to Breath and Body  3. Iffirmations 4. Lenses  5. Flexibility    TIME STAMP SUMMARY  01:34  Noticing your nervous system (overactive vs. underactive states) 04:21  Connecting through gro...

“Saving Face is not a culturally specific necessity. Saving Face is universal to human beings. If you want somebody to say and do something that was not originally their idea, I would argue that helping them save face and protect their self-image is at least 85% of the battle”.  Michael Reddington Top Five Tips For Obtaining Every Day Confessions In Your Business Conversations  1. Help people save...

“Success equals value, the amount of value something has multiplied by leverage. And leverage is how you either magnify or multiply the value.”   Mike Handcock Top Tips For Building  Any Business To A Global Business Level 1.  Clarity 2.  Market Understanding 3.  Partnerships 4.  Build a Killer Team 5.  Plan Your Exit Strategy TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:26 Understanding the rules of the business 07:10...

“Operating in the world of what really is possible. What do I really think I can achieve? But then, once he had set his mind on it, yes, this is something doable. This is something I firmly believe I can do, then obviously, unexpected obstacles always arise. But he refused to be defeated by one.”   Talmage Boston Top Five Tips For World Leaders 1. Integrity/credibility  2. Consensus building to ef...

“Cool heads and warm hearts is a balance for rational thinking and compassion.” Rhonda Parker Taylor Top Five Tips To Embrace Emotional Intelligence in Leadership  1.      Pause Before You Proceed 2.      Empathy Unlocks Clarity 3.      Feel First, Act Wisely 4.      Separate Signal from Noise 5.      Decisions Rooted in Values TIME STAMP SUMMARY  01:34  Emphasizes pausing, empathy, feeling first,...

“What you don't change, you choose.”   Carol Kabaale Top Five Tips For Running Purpose Driven Facebook Ad Campaigns That Convert  1. Have a Tried and Tested Offer 2. Craft Effective Messaging 3. Define a Clear Campaign Purpose 4. Manage Advertising Budgets Wisely 5. Invest in Yourself   TIME STAMP SUMMARY 03:05 The importance of validating an offer 05:14 How to create authentic, personal-soun...

“If all of our success is what happens right here, in the here and now, I feel like we're just going to miss out on what is to come, have hope through these challenging circumstances.” Link Forester Top Five Tips For Finding Joy and Purpose Through The Twists and Turns in Life 1. Focus on Relationships 2. Be a Steward not an Owner 3. Have Absolutes 4. Eternal World View 5. Be quick to Forgive...

"You have to have a very disciplined approach to stakeholder management to actually to successfully sunset old features and deprecate them as part of a replatforming exercise.” Katie Tamblin Top Five Tips For Replacing Old Software 1.  Define the vision up front and align the stakeholders around that vision 2. Get the data right 3. Design, execute, check what you are building every step of th...

“We are the centre of our world, and that whatever we do, our world is going to reflect. So therefore, it my world, we need to look at our world and see how it is.”   Jill Robin Payne Top Five Tips For Swiping Right On Connection In The Digital Age 1.      Find fun and have a win-win mindset. 2.      Timing and position are important in conversations. 3.      Be aware of speed and language differe...

“So if you pause and just get curious and say, Wait a minute, what's happening in my body? I'm feeling tense. I feel like I even want to fight like, maybe verbally. Some people might want to fight physically. But if you could pause in that moment and just notice what's happening and even ask yourself, like, who's like, what's happening here? Who's here.”   Seth Kopald...

“You have value right now. They are valuable right now, not when they get a degree, not after they take a class. They are valuable right now. And it is building that confidence, that entrepreneurial confidence, to not wait for someone to tell you when you have value, you have value.”   Glen Dunzweiler Top Five Tips For Students  1. Know that you have value.  2.  Know that you are good enough RIGHT...