Business Excellence - TOP 5 Series

“Being a leader is being able to stand up and actually explained to people where your ethical boundaries are. Because once you explain that you're actually putting yourself out there, that you won’t cross that boundary.” Rael’s Top Five Tips For Leadership Success 1.      Ethics and Integrity – drawing the line in the sand  2.       Vulnerability – showing weakness where necessary  3.       V...

“ I really think that we as sales professionals, we in sales, we talk too much, and don't listen enough.  And I like to tell people that I train and talk with and coach that you should be speaking, speaking about 30 to 35% of the time. And then that allows the prospect to do the majority of the speaking.”  Dave’s Top Five Tips For Sales Professionals 1.    Follow up appropriately 2.    Always...

“I've been able to take this concept, and every single day in some way, improve who and what I am. And over the past 49 plus years, I've made some good progress. And I can't wait to see why I can eventually become over the next 50 to 60 years” Joe’s Top Five Tips For Human Kaizen 1.       Worth IT! 2.       Pearls 3.       Hard 4.       Environment 5.       Choice TIME STAMP SUMMARY...

“Well, the number one tip for me is Get outside and go for a walk or move your body in some fashion. So, when we are able to change our environment, we're actually asking our system to start activating flexibility. And that really allows us to engage in new surroundings, which sparks new thoughts, new ideas, in turn creativity, in our system.”   Mari's Top Five Tips To Spark Creativity 1...

“Okay, I've got my song now recorded, and I've got it, but nobody else knows about it. And so,   the question then is to identify the demographics and geographics of your people that you   want to expose your product to, you know, in my case, it was a list.”   Dave's Top Five Tips For Building a Successful Music Business 1. Create a quality music product (original or cover). 2. Iden...

“I think one of the most important things that boards do is they say no to stuff that doesn't fit and yes to stuff that does.”    Julie’s Top Five Tips For Being a Valuable Board Member 1. Align everything to your company’s core purpose 2. Get informed about your executive leadership team 3. See the company through the eyes of your stakeholders  4. Stop talking about ‘digital transformation’...

“The key to creating a sustainable strategy is understanding that every organisation’s strategies are different. And so, the strategy part of it has to rely on some key building blocks.” Rael's Top Five Top Tips for a Sustainable Strategy  1.       What happened – What is happening – Where to from here  2.       Alignment of leadership personal and business  3.       SW (OT) (PESTEL)  4.     ...

“I've got someone in each of those groups that I have a connection with, who can introduce me to my target market. And the beauty is then that for each of those people, I can refer coaches consultants back to them.” TIME STAMP SUMMARY 00:41 Be clear on your target market 04:52 Find businesses with similar target markets  08:40 Invite them to play 13:24 Motivate them    Where to find Lindsay?...

"What it means is that every business in order to create a rich and robust culture has to define their ethics. And with that, the integrity of the business relative to the society and the environment in which they operate." Rael's Top Five Tips for Creating a Rich and Robust Culture   1.       Ethics and Integrity  2.       Visible Leadership 3.       Openness  4.       Shared Value...

“I encourage people to have a little list of their favourite clever questions printed out on a card and keep it in your pocket. And so, when you go to a networking event, have a list of your favourite questions that you're going to ask.” TIME STAMP SUMMARY 00:24 Focus on the other person 04:41 Ask clever questions 07:58 Keeping that personal touch 14:34 Networking and recommendations    Where...

“He was still standing in direct line of fire when he was risking his life to save mine. Bullets are whizzing around us, but he stabilised me in 10 minutes in the brick line of fire. And in the analysis afterwards, he says he doesn't know how my heart didn't stop. All the textbooks say it should have stopped. The only reason he believed that it didn't stop, was because I had never r...

“We didn't develop a detailed business plan. We said let's get something up and running. And we'll see how customers respond. So, we built a website, that some inventory. We were bootstrapping. So, we had to make two with what we had. The only marketing, we did was to set up a Facebook page.”    TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:52 Planning the next step 03:37 Why it was socks 07:39 How our bus...

“In layman's terms it simply means being able to be more awake and alert, be more relaxed and rested, and being able to see those bigger pictures, see those finer details to fill those bigger pictures, and allow things to happen, more naturally, more organically. And so, you know, usually the top leaders, they're working hard, but they're not working hard, because they're funct...

"And that's how I trained hypnotherapist’s from across the globe. I've trained thousand's of people from all over the world. And what we want to do is we want to make sure that we're actually dealing with the cause and not just the symptoms. So, it is a programme, but even when you look at it, 12 sessions, that's nothing compared to people who come to us for depressio...

“And the current book, which is called do one thing and do one thing deep is about organizations and how we can just be more effective as an organization when we all understand what our purpose is, what the direction is that we are heading, and the part that we play in that.”   “Making sure that they're recognising people who are doing the one thing well and holding others to account who aren...

“ And there's a lot of work still that needs to be done to break down those barriers and reduce the stigma. So, people feel comfortable about talking about the problem acknowledging the problem and having the confidence to go and do something about that because we know that more than 60% of people with incontinence never actually seek help.”                                                   ...

  “Audience journey is basically in any kind of presentation, or conversation or speech. It's the moment by moment, emotional, mental journey that the audience takes, while listening to what you're delivering. So, it's the actual in inner exploration, the path they take from where they are, when they come in, to the conversation, or the presentation or the speech to where they are w...

 “And I tried a number of things to keep the staff that I was employing, engaged and keep them staying working for me for the business longer. And I found over a period of time, what I was doing wasn't working. There was a gap in my skill set. And I didn't know what that gap was. And I remember having a conversation with the HR team at the time and saying, I don't know what I'm...

“I think the biggest challenge is the mental health of our workers or our employees has become really, really important for a whole range of reasons, we are making progress. But I think the biggest challenge is still that we've got a stigma around mental health problems.”    “I think there's always an element of overwork. In the community, there's a difference too, between hard work...

“We will go in and we will look into the business and see how we can translate that in order for your corporate executives to be able to live and breathe the brand.”   “Number one would be what is the product or services that you are selling? Yeah, and number two, which kind of customers are you targeting.” “Appearance, behaviour, communication, the ABCs of image. So, there is no point in you dres...

”So, if you think of a patent, it goes towards an invention. Something that has a functionality, it does something and accomplishes something that would be a patent. A trademark is more on the branding side. When you think of the name of a company, name of a business, a logo, a catchphrase something, it is what the brand is. And then copyrights are going to be more on the creative side. So, if it&...

“And so executive presence remains a mystery to so many people.” “Today, leaders need to be able to show empathy, they need to thank their teams, their team members, and they need to just be patient and listen. And so, there's a whole list of different core competencies that we could talk about. But those are at the top of my list. And decisiveness is another one, being able to make decisions...

“Imagine you're in business. And every day you spend one hour learning a new skill, like how to market or how to communicate or how to write copy. And at the end of the year, you have 365 skills like Photoshop or video under your belt what we get to the bottom line to your competitive this.”  “So, what's your purpose? How much time do you have? And when you're done? What are you hop...

“If you get that wrong, it doesn't matter how fancy the graphics, it doesn't matter how good the presentation, it doesn't matter, you know, where you put it, your target market just won't respond to it.”   “So, the biggest mistake that I see with people killing their marketing campaigns is that they don't give it enough time.”   TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:11 Marketing needs to...

And we do very little in paid advertising, almost no cold outreach. And people come and find us organically. And in the process of sort of figuring out how we're going to position ourselves in places where potential customers would come and find us versus having to chase after customers sort of led to the creation response.”    “Because if you're good at any channel, you can make anythin...