Take Flight – Business Growth Strategies with Business Coach Dan Holstein

Do you find that your quarterly planning sessions aren't as productive as you hoped they would be? These planning sessions with your leadership team should be focused, engaging, productive and lead to concrete actions steps to move your business forward over the next quarter. Ideally, everyone should leave the session with clarity of action and confidence in achieving your goals. If your quar...

Business owners and leaders alike have the whole world on their shoulders and are sometimes unable to take better care of themselves. You are depended on by everyone, especially your team, but you're only human and also need unwinding from time to time. -- 👍If you liked this content, SUBSCRIBE for more! -- Life can get pretty hectic and overwhelming, and that's alright. But you need to...

Have you and your leadership team ever found yourselves unable to make informed decisions because you don't have the correct data? An effective business dashboard can solve that problem when it comes to business decisions. In this video, I go over what a dashboard is and how it can help your company grow. 💥 Be sure to SUBSCRIBE for more tips to help your business take flight! Essentially, a...

Are you attracting all the best clients to your business? The ones that are profitable, that you really enjoy working with, and that are easy to deal with? And specifically that are in your Target Market?  Listen to today's episode for a strategy on how to help your Target Market find and recognize you as the very best provider of your product or service. Connect with me on LinkedIn Watch eac...

Have you ever had a quarter where you and your leadership team set goals that you were excited about achieving - but then lost focus along the way? If you are like most CEOs of high growth companies, you've had this happen at some point. This can occur because we haven't determined a measurement we can use to check against to know when we are on or off track. This measurement is your Cri...

Today we dig into two behaviours that can keep us stuck and prevent us achieving the abundance we all want in our lives. See if you ever get sidelined and stuck because of these two behaviours - and how to get unstuck, and creating the business and life you want. Connect with me on LinkedIn Watch episodes on our YouTube Channel Schedule a Discovery Call with me www.kaizenperformance.com

Does your company have a clear Strategic Priority that everyone is focused on? Or are you and your leadership team too busy putting out fires and reacting day-to-day to move your business forward? If we don't have clearly defined priorities, its easy to get stuck in the weeds and lose our forward momentum. In this week’s video, I’ll show you how to determine what your number one priority shou...

Do you happen to have a stack of partially completed projects and initiatives? Do you start a lot, but only finish some of the time? Do you ever wish your team would just execute better and get things done? If these situations sound familiar, you maybe falling victim to a leadership behaviour that is guaranteed to kill your execution and poison your company culture. Check out this week's podc...

As a CEO, are you continuously pulled in a lot of different directions in the day-to-day operations of your company? Are you feeling like there’s no end to the demands on your time? This is often caused by your greatest strength: being able to bite off more than you can chew, chewing like crazy, and saying yes to every opportunity to help grow your business. However, as you grow, your greatest str...

Have you ever had a day where you’re really busy and at the end of the day you think: “wow…I got nothing done. I was just reacting all day to interruptions and disruptions!” Watch the video for three powerful strategies to eliminate interruptions and disruptions so you can get your time back, and get more done, in less time, so you can continue to grow and scale your enterprise. Connect with me on...

"I’m working really hard, but I’m still not where I think I should be!” Does that ring a bell? I think we all should on ourselves from time to time! But it's really not a helpful thing to do, in fact - that comparison mindset can sap your energy and slow your progress. In this week’s video , I share with you a strategy to help bring a little more calm, reduce some of that ' should&a...

What's YOUR definition of wealth? Does it equate to your money in the bank, your invested assets, or your discretionary time? Everyone has a different take on wealth but we can all agree that wealth doesn't always mean your monetary savings or the amount of property you've accumulated. Wealth can be a lot of things like freedom, health, and time. I want to share some not-so-common d...

Is there something that you're not feeling confident in getting started on? What's holding you back? Confidence comes from knowing what to do in a given situation, and most of all, believing that taking that action is going to lead to a successful outcome. But what happens if you don't know what to do? What if a little bit of fear keeps you from taking any action at all? This week I...

Often business owners hire without having an adequate candidate pool – if they find one seemingly decent person, they jump the gun. It’s incredibly important that we get the right people on our team and if we get it wrong, it’s expensive, time consuming, distracting and frustrating. This week’s video is about having a robust hiring process for attracting candidates, so you always have options, and...

In July of 1983, an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel at 41,000 ft, and had to glide down to safety. The chances of a successful outcome were slim to none, but in the end, and against all odds, they landed safely. So how does a near air disaster relate to your business and cash flow understanding? In this episode, I will tell you a short (true) story to help you understand the importance of knowin...

Have you ever started on an initiative, invested time and energy into it, not seen immediate results and gave up on it - only to restart it again a little while later? I think we've all done this at one point or another. The challenge with being in a state of starting and stopping is that we never achieve momentum - and the rewards that come with it. In this week's episode, I share the r...

I’ve been thinking about competency and the path to getting really good at something. There’s a pattern: We start most things thinking they’ll be easy to master, until we get started and realize it’s harder than we thought. We might even be tempted to give up! In this week's video , I’m going to take you through the four stages we all go through as we master new things. This is helpful for bu...

In my interview with Erika MacKay, owner of Niche for Design, we discuss how workspace design can promote productivity, well-being and belonging.  Their customized approach to understand a business's needs, how their team functions, and what their preferences are, enable them to create workspaces where people feel a sense of connection, enjoy coming to the office, and are able to be effective...

Is feeling sluggish and tired having an impact on your business?   In this candid interview, Zach describes how he was successful as a Financial Planner, and had everything that should have made him happy, but he wasn’t. He was, in fact, pretty miserable. And that discontent got him fired.   Being fired became the door which ultimately led to him founding FITT Forge, a gym that is a community of b...

In the current business climate, with so much change going on, it's important to maintain a balanced mindset. In this week's video, I am excited to interview sales trainer, author and my very first business coach - Jamie Cunningham. Jamie walks us through his strategies to keep balanced, find the gold nuggets of growth by embracing discomfort, and how to move our businesses forward confi...

As a business owner, you're in the business of solving problems and that's a given. But is dealing with challenges a negative experience for you? Or do you see it as an opportunity to learn? As strange as it may seem, you want to be in difficult situations. When the water gets turbulent, you've made progress. It means you're on the right path, and that you're growing. Tryi...

Does your marketing pass the 'So What?' test? You may not have heard of this test, but you are using it every day when you decide whether or not to pay attention to someone else's marketing. If your marketing doesn't pass the test, then the time, effort, energy and money you put into it is being wasted. In this week's episode, we discuss you how to pass the 'So What?&...

In this fifth and final video in my series on how to improve your sales, I take a look at the after sales follow up. You see, following up with customers is critical even when you’ve already made the sale. While you may be tempted to think your job is over, there's more to the sales process. Specifically, you want to get your customer engaged in whatever the next steps are. Do they need to se...

For this fourth video in my mini series on how to improve your sales, I share how you can structure a sales meeting. When having conversations with customers, it’s important to make the most out of your time together. With the right structure, you can make all of your sales conversations more effective for everyone involved. The effective structure that I like to use for every meeting is TAO: Time...

Today, to continue my mini series on how to improve your sales, we specifically look into 3 TIPS on how to improve your sales process and increase business. To have an effective sales process, you'll want it to be consistent and replicable. And we cover exactly how you can achieve that in this video. You may not exactly be conscious about it but you already have a sales process. It just actua...