Posts Tagged ‘Vision’
4 Leadership Behaviors That Build High Performance Work Environments
Focusing on the small fixes will not put out the fire. Instead, this approach only takes up your time and leads to your company losing sight of larger, more important issues. Successful companies understand that achieving success is about addressing larger culture issues within the organization. Getting your organizational culture right is what leads to…
Read MoreHow to Communicate Your Company’s Vision to Your Employees
Your vision is exactly that: yours. Not everyone has the luxury of immediately understanding the strategy behind your decisions, but it’s important that your team grasps the deeper meaning behind their work. After all, how is your team supposed to think critically and be innovative if their perception of the work is misaligned? If you’re part…
Read More3 Steps to Stimulate Change and Establish a Clear Purpose
Organizations and people grow, evolve, and change. It’s what we do—and failure to do so over time will find us being followers rather than leaders. Change starts with having a clear purpose. Leaders need to have a clear purpose for change if they want their team to buy in. This is the first step in…
Read MoreLeadership: Sell the Dream, Make the Reality
As a leader, you set the goals, establish the strategies and tactics to get there (with help from others of course) and sell the dream to all of your stakeholders. And that includes potential customers as well as executives and employees. Sometimes growth happens without a leader envisioning it, living it daily, evangelizing it to…
Read MoreHow to Break the $10 Million Ceiling in Your Business
Getting over the $10 million hump in our business has taken some time and has not been an overnight process, as some might think. My company, Star Staffing, has been in business since 1998. I joined the company in 2009 as vice president, and my business partner transitioned from CFO to CEO. We worked tirelessly on repositioning ourselves…
Read MoreSelling the Vision is Easier Than Selling the Product
I’ve never sold a computer or licensed software in my career. I’ve never sold consulting services in my career. Frankly, it’s really difficult selling those things. Take licensed or even SaaS software products. You have to know about things like GUI’s, software architectures, installation, coding, memory utilization, caching, pipelining, and all sorts of little details.…
Read More10 Characteristics of Transformational Leaders
In a previous article, we discussed how leadership impacts your organization’s ability to grow. Now let’s discuss some of the characteristics that leaders need to impact the growth of their organization. There are certain core characteristics the majority of leaders possess. However, there is also an additional set of characteristics that defines transformational leaders—leaders that have…
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