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Ethics and Trust at Work, Beating Arthritis

August 11, 2018 9:40 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 Why We Are Unethical at Work – Why do people, even people who care about being honest, make questionable ethical decisions? In light of the misdeeds by Volkswagen and Mitsubishi, it is clear that this is a problem that leaders must address. What are we doing that encourages this type of behavior? This study shows that we fail to learn from past unethical decisions because our subconscious “forgets” past misdeeds. It does this for the same reason it buries other bad experiences – to protect our self-image. We like to see ourselves as good and honest people and... View Article

Become an Influencer, Master WillPower, Surprising Key to Health, If God wants a thing to succeed…

August 11, 2018 9:37 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 Become an Influencer – There are a lot of self-proclaimed experts these days, but titles don’t matter. Influence does. Influence is how you help the world. It opens doors that were shut. Here are 5 Steps to Become an Influencer from a great article in Entrepreneur Magazine: Enable Others to Call You an Expert – Provide solutions to problems in your niche. If you provide real solutions, your expertise will be rapidly shared. Make Your Solutions Quick! – Digital induced attention deficit disorder is rampant. No one has the patience for long winded solutions. Provide value quick. Deliver... View Article

Creativity, Discipline, Health Myths, Fun Video Marketing!

August 11, 2018 9:35 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 Does Your Business Need More Creative Solutions to Problems? Most do. Charles Kettering (amazing inventor, engineer & businessman) stated that “a problem well stated is a problem half-solved.” Warren Berger in his book, “A More Beautiful Question,” proposes a simple three-part system to help create better problem statements which will lead to more creative solutions. Here are the three questions he recommends when attacking a problem. Why? – Asking why we do something a particular way or why a problem continues to occur is the starting point for understanding the situation. It gets all of the facts... View Article

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

August 11, 2018 9:33 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

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

August 11, 2018 9:30 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

Digital Marketing Best Practices, Implementing the Ultimate Question, Exercising with Kids

August 11, 2018 9:27 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 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... View Article

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

August 11, 2018 9:01 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

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

August 11, 2018 7:14 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 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.” Purpose Mindset – “I am living... View Article

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

August 11, 2018 7:11 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

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

August 11, 2018 7:09 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... View Article

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