Grounded Toward Growth

This theory proposes that once you get past the initial upswing, the life cycle of a successful company takes on the form of a sigmoid, or S curve. The S shape represents growth over time—starting out slowly, picking up speed during rapid growth, then tapering off as growth slows. So how do you keep your business growing?   For video with visual aides, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sVN2rd...

What is Executive Coaching? Here, my colleague Grayce Carson and I break it down. Looking for an executive coach? Message me today about joining Vistage. rick.vanasse@vistagechair.com

Join me and author, developer, and instructor, Darrell Mullis to discuss managing your business capital. Darrell delivers programs that help companies who experience that the traditional command and control model is outdated and want to shift their culture and relationships to accommodate increased speed of change, a need for broad based innovation and improved peer-to-peer decision making at ever...

The Leadership Circle is a 360° leadership assessment tool that uncovers underlying habits to help leaders become even better at what they do. In this video, I go over the model proposed by Bob Anderson with my colleague,  Grayce Carson . I use this tool with the  #CEOs  in my Vistage groups, and they've found it incredibly useful. I hope you do too.

Anton Bizzell is an experienced business leader with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. He is also a current member of one of my Chief Executive Advisory Groups. Join us for this discussion of his experience.

Could you use a little M.A.G.I.C. in your business? Vistage does a great job of surveying our members. When asked about the areas they receive the most value, they share these 5 areas: Making better decisions Accountability Growing  Isolation relief  Change management In this episode, my colleague and I discuss each of these areas in depth.

In 1969, Ken Blanchard and Paul Hershey developed Situational Leadership, believing that there is no “one size fits all” leadership style. Instead, you have to adapt your leadership style to each situation meet the needs of your team. In this episode, I explain this model and its benefits to my colleague, Grayce Carson. 

District Manager, Georgia Beglin, will discuss how Insperity works with small to mid-size growing business owners in the MD, DC, Northern VA and PA areas to help their business run better and grow faster. Could this be right for you and your business?

Glynis Harvey is the CEO at American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), and a current member of on of my Vistage groups. 

How do you guide your team to perform to the best of their ability? George Charrier offered his model, Cog's Ladder, to better understand the phases these groups undergo, and how to work towards high performance.

Laurie Barkman is the founder and CEO of SmallDotBig, a strategy advisory firm for business owners to maximize the value of their company anticipating a future ownership transition. https://thebusinesstransitionsherpa.com

One of my current Vistage members, Glen Schuhmacher, sits down to talk about his business and how the group has worked for him over the past two years. 

What are you grateful for? Expressing gratitude daily in a journal is clinically proven to decrease stress and increase joy. We can all certainly use more of that in our lives!

The "9 Levers" are tools I I use to help my CEOs reflect on their performance. I explain how it works to my colleague, Grayce Carson, in this episode.  For a full video with visual accompaniments, visit https://youtu.be/GqYkQiHlMrA

On this episode, I discuss my Grounded Towards Growth motto, and where it came from.  I also go over the two first points I highlight with my CEOs: Getting on the Balcony and managing your "Gremlins."  Featuring Grayce Carson. 

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