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Career Limiting Habits, Breathe for Health, Let’s Relax Ad

August 11, 2018 11:19 pm 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 Career Limiting Habits According to a VitalSmarts study, 97% of us have at least one career limiting habit. Whether it be procrastination or temper, the great majority of us (and those who work for you) have one habit that will reduce their likelihood of excelling at work. The major problem is not an inability to change (though none of us like change), it is far more often the fact that the offending party is unaware of the problem. Sure, they might admit but that they “fly off the handle” every now and then, but they have no idea how... View Article

5 1/2 years??, Mindfulness for Strategy, It’s all about the right tools..

August 11, 2018 10:57 pm 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 5 1/2 Years?? Wow. The great folks from the Chamber of Commerce came out to our shop on Monday to honor us as the “Leading Business of the Week.” It is a great honor and we had a great time (see photo below). After I realized that you have to be a Chamber member for 5 years to receive this honor, it struck me. We’ve been in business 5.5 years! Again, wow. I started this business in March of 2011. I got married to my amazing wife in January of 2011, we found out we were pregnant within... View Article

Hiring the Best, How Sprinting and Sitting Both Help, Rules for a Knight!

August 11, 2018 10:45 pm Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and impact 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 People Funnel – Learning from the Best This post is part of a larger effort to help my clients solve the “I can’t find good people” problem. Everyone is struggling to find and keep good people, but a few companies excel at attracting and retaining excellent people. Let’s see what we can learn from them. LinkedIn recently released its Top Attractors List of 2016. A listing of the organizations that are the most sought-after places to work. They created the list based on data collected through LinkedIn and job sites around the world. As you can guess,... View Article

Great Small Workplaces, Add 50 good years to your life?, Very Impressive Baby Seal

August 11, 2018 9:50 pm Published by Curt Fowler

As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and impact 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 People Funnel – Learning from the Best with Under 500 Employees Today we want to look at how smaller firms (less than 500 employees) are winning the talent wars. Inc. Magazine wanted to figure out how the best were attracting and retaining talent so they partnered with Quantum Workplace to audit more than 500 companies to find the 50 most attractive workplaces. Here are the standout lessons that you can implement at your company: Set & Track Goals Visibly – The best workplaces set individual, team, company and department goals and track them visibly. Organizational life is... View Article

Good Boss in Dark Times, Finding Change Makers, Red Dye #40, the November Project

August 11, 2018 10:58 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 Being a Good Boss in Dark Times There seem to be more and more major acts of violence each day. These events can take a huge emotional toll on each of us and none of us are able to leave those emotions at home. As leaders, we need to get better at being a good boss when we or the people on our teams are going through dark times. Here are a few ways to do that, from a great article in HBR. Bring Your Emotions to Work – Suppressing emotions leads to a host... View Article

Authentic Leadership, Food Industry Insights, Reducing Your Family’s Exposure to Harmful Substances

August 11, 2018 10:55 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 Authentic Leadership Bill George coined the phrase in the book he wrote in 2003. Since then, countless authors and researchers have praised the benefits of authentic leadership. Think about leaders you have admired and enjoyed being led by. Where they authentic? Did they admit when they are wrong? When they honestly don’t know the next best step is? Great people love to follow those types of leaders. They engage the entire team in reaching the organizations goals. And isn’t an engaged workforce what we need more of? Another term that mirrors the idea of authentic leadership is Emotional... View Article

Benefits of Excellence, Brain Health, Lessons from Hitler’s Rise

August 11, 2018 10:50 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 Great Management Matters The quality of management accounts for 30% of the differences in productivity according to a global study that has surveyed over 11,000 firms in 34 countries – so far. The results mirrors the data on firms following the Baldridge Performance Excellence methodology. The research shows that a 1 point improvement in a firm’s management score (on a 5 pt scale) results in the following benefits: 71% increase in market share growth 26% higher market capitalization 6% higher productivity 2.3% increase in sales growth And you can get in on the study. Go here to benchmark... View Article

People vs Tasks, Heart Disease in Childhood, Rise of the Robo-Adviser

August 11, 2018 10:15 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 People vs Task Focus One of my favorite books on athletics is “Inside Out Coaching”, by Joe Ehrmann. If you have kids and are considering getting them involved in sports, I highly recommend the book. In it, Joe shows how most kids’ experience in sports is actually detrimental to the development of their character, not positive (think about the outcome obsessed parents or the just the commercials when you are watching sports these days).Instead of taking a Transactional (you deliver us wins, we give you praise) approach to coaching, Joe and his coaches take a Transformational approach.... View Article

Hire 4,000 with Excellence, How Starbucks Hires, Hack Your Health & Productivity, 3 Levels of Knowing

August 11, 2018 9:47 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 Hire 4,000 People – With Excellence – Adobe Systems is the rare Silicon Valley tech company that has managed to stay relevant for more than 30 years. The company employs 14,000 people and has $5 billion in revenue. They also hire about 4,000 people per year! Can you imagine how good you’d get at hiring if you hired 4,000 people per year?? Adobe has also been on the “100 Best Companies to Work For” list 16 times – so they have a great foundation. Jeff Vijungoco has been leading talent acquisition and development at Adobe since 2013 and... View Article

Ali on Branding, The Values – Profit Connection, 14 Low Carb Breakfasts, Hack Your Memories for Success

August 11, 2018 9:44 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 Learning Branding from “the Greatest”– Muhammad Ali was and still is one of the most recognized and iconic figures in sports. He created an incredible brand that caught your attention and never let go. To this day I still cannot resist watching video clips of the man. Ali passed away on June 3rd. Here are 4 great lessons from the champ we can all use in our business branding: Practice – Two ways to look at this. Practice is required to be great at what you do. Average brands are not... View Article

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