High Growth Blog

Date: August 17th, 2018
Category: Blog | Strategy

The more I facilitate strategic planning meetings, the more I recognise the challenges that business leaders face wanting to create change and a develop a new future for your organisation.  You may understand the importance of strategic planning, but does the rest of your leadership team? If you’re talking to someone who has never done…

Tags: | Strategy Development

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Date: July 21st, 2018
Category: Blog | Leadership

An ability to focus and work deeply for an extended period is the holy grail for productivity. Cal Newport threw down this challenge in his enjoyable book, Deep Work. He defines deep work as: “Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.” He adds “These efforts…

Tags: | time management

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Date: July 12th, 2018
Category: Blog | Leadership

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” If only that were true in business. Carefully-designed “covers“ are essential to attracting potential buyers to commit to purchasing products and services. Covers in business are not just on books. They include everything that acts as an impression (or as I term them:…

Tags: | leadership

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Date: July 7th, 2018
Category: Leadership | Team

Alot of companies say that employees are their most valuable assets, but do not all walk the talk. It takes a lot of time and effort to find, recruit and retain the right people to join your company. It also takes considerable time to onboard and get them to the point that they are making…

Tags: | culture, leadership, recruitment

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Date: July 1st, 2018
Category: Blog | Leadership

Most people do everything to avoid working weekends. Rightly so. Research from Stanford University discovered that people who work more than 55 hours a week get no significant boost from their efforts, regardless of whether they work 56 hours or 80. Other research suggests that occasional overtime isn’t bad, but when longer hours become regular,…

Tags: | productivity, time management

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Date: June 24th, 2018
Category: Blog | Leadership

Good advice is good advice, but it is wrong to say the source of that advice doesn’t matter. So, when seeking advice, what better group of people to listed to that the most successful business leaders? They’re imaginative, fearless, bold, passionate, hard-working people—and they know a thing or two about the most helpful experiences: failure….

Tags: | motivation

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Date: June 16th, 2018
Category: Blog | Leadership

As humans are easily distracted. Smartphones, gossip, social media, endless email, mindless web browsing, too much TV, video games, etc. When done in excess, these activities drain you of energy, productivity and ultimately, fulfilment. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here are five ways to create an environment for greater success and happiness: Avoid…

Tags: | Personal Development, Self Leadership

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Date: May 22nd, 2018
Category: Blog | Leadership

Each of us is entirely unique—from our experiences, to our skillset, to motivates us. However, what’s interesting is how many of us downplay this because we’ve never learned to acknowledge our individual talents. Identifying your Unique Ability and putting language around it so you can articulate your “why” isn’t always easy—it requires looking deeper. Here…

Tags: | Personal Development

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Category: Blog | Strategy Implementation

Delivering new sales revenue is a common theme that comes up with the clients I work with. In fact, I can’t think of a client that has more sales activity than they know what to do with, and most are always looking for ways to build or grow their sales pipeline. There a lot of…

Tags: | sales

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Date: May 18th, 2018
Category: Leadership | Strategy | Strategy Implementation

At the end of all High Growth strategic workshops we allocate time to developing a communication plan on how to share the vision and strategy with the wider team. Communicating your strategic plan and vision just one time is not going to be enough. You need to constantly and consistently engage your team in the…

Tags: | communication, strategy execution

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