Legendary Leaders: For Female Business Leaders

I don’t know about you, but I regularly hear that I need to create a niche and focus in on a specific customer group, i.e., be a specialist. Sound familiar? While this is true in creating our offer and our advertising, many times entrepreneurs will become so focused on their offer, they lose sight of the fact that they are trying to create a business. If we want to be business owners and not just...

In this 5 episode mini-series centered on bad advice for entrepreneurs, this first episode is about bad advice #1: Listen to all advice.  Remember that while we need to seek input and listen to our customers, criticism is going to come faster than praise.  Instead of letting that derail you, step back and realize who this advice is coming from; your "no" customer.  The bulk of peopl...

How often do you thank others and is it enough?  At the beginning of my pharmacist career, I learned two valuable lessons, 1. that most people do not appreciate others enough and 2. that I was not going to be one of those people.  My challenge for you in this episode is to evaluate your appreciation methods for your team, peers, direct reports, customers, etc.  What expectations hav...

Creating a culture of accountability does not mean that we are each individually responsible for ourselves or our own actions alone. It means we accept responsibility for the people we hire, work with, serve, and support. It means we give them feedback and receive feedback. We are invested in each other and in our collective success.

When you hear of business success or a failure, it’s easy to have a knee-jerk reaction and add that new goal or eliminate that goal from your list. But before you change your 3-5 goals for the year, study those scenarios diligently. Learn the similarities and differences in those businesses versus your business. Learn how they executed the program, their leadership styles, their timelines, overall...

Do you ask for input from your team or inner circle before delivering a presentation or pitch? Getting different perspectives strengthens your message and will allow you to be more emotionally intelligent in those conversations.

How do you present business performance metrics and improvements in your organization? Listen to this episode to hear some best practices on the simple but effective way to present business performance metrics and improvements. Overall, the best method is to create a routine in order to have complete understanding across the team. Talk about actuals, targets, performance to the target, why the per...

I love the word “resilient.” It invokes images of confidence, winning, overcoming, and battling in my mind. In order to be successful in the business world, you must be resilient. Each day you have to wake up with the right mindset, knowing who you are, what your business stands for, and what you need to accomplish. On the days you just want to stay in bed or let the doubters win, those are the da...

Perfectionism is the downfall of a large number of amazing female leaders. Why? Because it paralyzes us from taking action. The most important step you can take each day in your business is taking action. So, what is holding you back? What are you trying to perfect before you move forward?

When looking at your calendar for the week, what can you delegate, automate, or eliminate this week and beyond? Have you taken the time recently to make adjustments in order to allow you to spend the time doing what only you can do and what fulfills you? If not, now is the time.

Preparing for your week allows you to ensure you maintain your morning routine, helps you keep control over your calendar, and ensures you are most productive. Do you have a day each week set aside to allow you to prepare for the upcoming events? Do you review your calendar and make adjustments accordingly? How do you prepare for your week ahead?

Take a few minutes today to create your three to five go-to statements regarding your business/leadership.  Why?  Because all of us consistently find ourselves being asked the same questions about one or both of those topics.  In each individual conversation, we typically convey that message in a different way each time.  Sometimes we do exceptionally well and our answer is on point.  Other times...

You are empowered to establish your own definition of balance for your life. Stop letting the world define this for you! Once you have defined it for yourself (there is no wrong answer), you can then be aware of when you are too far to the left or too far to the right of your defined balance, and therefore get yourself back on track.

Defining what your company is and is not is critical in making your target customer feel as though you are speaking directly to them. But how do you do that? To start, it is by defining your values, hiring for attributes over experience, and establishing your brand.

Finding your strengths helps you ensure you are focusing on giving your gifts to the world vs. trying to improve upon your weaknesses. When we look at the world through the lens of “sharing strengths,” we start to look for leaders we can add to our team for a position of hiring for strengths vs experience.

What are the key attributes of a leader? What do I look for when I am hiring anyone, no matter their role or position?

We all go through periods of self-doubt as we run our businesses. But self-doubt is like an obnoxious roommate, and as such, you have to kick her out! In today’s episode, we are focusing on identifying the behaviors we display when we are doubting ourselves so we can quickly identify that roommate, and kick her out. No longer do we let her linger and derail us, but we quickly find her hiding in ou...

What 5 things come to mind when you think about all of the amazing opportunities your business has afforded you? Let’s be grateful for the life we get to live as business leaders!

Think about who and how you influence and realize that yes, you truly are a leader of others.

You have two months of 2020 under your belt. How is your business tracking relative to your milestone goals?

Do you know your purpose and you're why? Knowing those two pieces of information will help you as you arrive at various crossroads and periods of overwhelm.

We are essentially 2 months into the year. How much have you already learned?

Of course, you are, be it business, people, life, or all of the above. But are you doubting yourself right now?

How do you onboard a new leader or employee? I focus on 5 components: level setting, training, shadowing, small projects, and touch bases.

When starting or growing your business, you can feel overwhelmed. Avoid the desire to stop learning during those times. Remember that learning and implementing are two different actions.