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Purpose, Time Wasters, Read Like a Billionaire, Meditation in Schools??

May 25, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

I hope you’re having a great week. As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace (and build a better life!). Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! Let’s get started! Business Purpose – Good for Your People & Your Business – In this great article, Dan Pontefract shares how to skyrocket employee engagement by helping them find their purpose – in life and in their role in the company. Of course your company has to find its purpose before it can help employees find theirs! Dan shares that employees can have 3 types of mindsets: Job Mindset – “I am here to do a task and get a paycheck.” Career Mindset – “I am focused on growing my salary, title and power.”... View Article

Make Better Decisions Faster, Checklists That Get Results, Feeling Overwhelmed?, How Our Bodies Fight Infections

May 19, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace (and build a better life!). Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! Let’s get started! Business Make Better Decisions Faster – Great 7-point checklist to help you and your people make better decisions. Adapted from “A Checklist for Making Faster, Better Decisions” by Erik Larson. Setting goals is inspirational, but making great decisions is what gets goals accomplished. Studies show that effective decision making practices increase the number of good decisions a team makes by 6x and cuts failure rates in half. Those kind of results make the effort worth it. Help your team make better decisions so your organization can reach your goals by using this checklist. Write down five company goals that... View Article

Digital Marketing Best Practices, Implementing the Ultimate Question, Exercising with Kids, 5 Minute Humor Break

May 11, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace (and build a better life!). Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! Let’s get started! Business What the Best Marketers Do – Marketing spending used to be such a black hole. It was close to impossible to measure effectiveness and make quick pivots based on feedback. Digital is changing all of that. According to recent Bain research here are what the best marketers are doing. Spend 2x more on digital marketing Spend 2x less on TV 3x more likely to use test results to change campaigns 50% more likely to have digital marketing expertise in house 2x more likely to own creative activities Implement the Ultimate Question – The “Ultimate Question” and the update... View Article

Going Mobile is a Requirement, Listening to Your Customers, 15 Power Phrases, Life Without Limbs

May 4, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace (and build a better life!). Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! Let’s get started! Business Banks Must Be Great at Mobile – Check out the following stats according to new research by Bain. All businesses are trying to keep up with the “Amazon Effect” where consumers demand information on the status of, if not their actual purchases immediately from anywhere. This is happening in all industries. How will your business keep up? 50% of consumers would miss their phone more than their wallet (80% in China and South Korea). Apps are 33% more likely to delight customers than branch locations. A branch visit is 2.3x more likely to annoy customers. Customers who use... View Article

The Power of Influencers, The Humble Checklist, Chasing Your “Musts”, U2’s Bono Discusses the Book of Psalms

April 27, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace (and build a better life!). Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! Let’s get started! Business The Power of Influencer Marketing – I’ve been told for years that networking with people that know you is far less effective in producing actual revenue as networking with people who know people that know you. Translation – when someone who knows you recommends you to someone that might need your goods or services you are much more likely to make sales. Why? 2 Reasons. 1 – You were probably referred with a purpose (the person has a need) and as someone who is an expert that can probably help them with their need. 2 – You didn’t... View Article

What is the ROI of your training? How Starbucks Trains, Cut Alzheimer’s Risk by 50%!, What old people do for fun

April 20, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace (and build a better life!). Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! Let’s get started! Business Don’t Trust Unanimous Decisions– It is called the Pardox of Unanimity. As results become closer to unanimous the reliability of the results actually decrease. Next time your entire team quickly agrees to a solution expect that decision might be too easy to be true. You can reach consensus but great decisions require testing from opposing views. You should expect and encourage opposition. For example – under ancient Jewish law, if a suspect on trial was unanimously found guilty by all judges, the suspect was acquitted. It sounds counterintuitive, but the legislators at the time had noticed that unanimous... View Article

What is the ROI of your training? How Starbucks Trains, Cut Alzheimer’s Risk by 50%!, What old people do for fun

April 13, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace (and build a better life!). Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! Let’s get started! Business 4 Levels of Training Effectiveness – Training your team is not cheap. It costs money to provide the training and it costs even more in opportunity cost when your people are not producing. How do you know your training is worth that cost? Evaluate and improve your training using the 4 Levels of Training developed by Donald Kilpatrick – Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Society for Training and Development. The 4 levels are (in order of return on investment): 1 – Reaction – How did your trainees respond to the training?... View Article

How do You Define Success? Work Less Accomplish More; You Need Sun Exposure; There is Always a Bigger Boat!

April 6, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace. Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! Let’s get started! Business Redefine Success – Success in life does not equal success in business. If you think that you need to spend time learning from people who have succeeded wonderfully in business but failed at home or in their faith. Here is a review of 12 people that should have “had it all” but were miserable. Sad stories. Define success on your own terms and learn from those who have gone down the wrong paths in search of happiness. Work Less, Accomplish More – As you step back and define success inside and outside of your business and career, you will find that work (+ thinking... View Article

Lead through Disappointment, Surprising Stats on Distracted Driving, Beautiful Practical Joke!

March 30, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As always, we know that as a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace. Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! So, here we go! Business Lead With the Right EGO – Bad or “Edge God Out” ego occurs when we rely solely on ourselves as the source of knowledge. This results in pride and fear. Fear being what I believe to be the cause of almost all poor behavior on earth. Think about it. Isn’t fear at the root of most of our poor actions? Good EGO, “Exalt God Only”, occurs when we acknowledge God as our source and lead with humility. Great article by the folks at Lead Like Jesus. Click here to read. Leading Through Disappointment – If you want... View Article

Build a Championship Team, The Dying Art of Conversation, Environmental Toxins?

March 23, 2016 10:00 am Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace. Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that! So, here we go! Business How To Build a Championship Team – Tony Dungy is one of my favorite coaches of all time. I am not a Pro Football fan at all – my football watching is done on Saturdays, but I love what this guy stands for. He has also produced outstanding results. Togetherness + Sacrifice. Great 1 minute video or blog post. Your choice. Click here to watch. The #1 Best Exercise for Your Team – As a leader, your job is to help your team achieve their goals and ambitions while they help you achieve yours. If you’ve hired the right people, this mutual... View Article

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