July 10, 2020

Greatest Hits of This Week’s Virtual Conversations

Greatest Hits of This Week’s Virtual Conversations The most fascinating questions and juicy bits of useful insights come in the last 10 minutes of the web conference meeting.   The feelings come out and the questions that each has politely held back start boiling over.   This is the moment where many on the […]
July 5, 2020

Rx for Change Management Fever: Cool Off in A Public Fountain of Knowledge

Rx for Change Management Fever: Cool Off in A Public Fountain of Knowledge The frequency and intensity of business conversations dialed up to high in the past five months.  Nearly all are virtual, with conference calls and screen-sharing, face-featuring sessions occurring most often.  Emotions are high and so are demands for brilliant skills […]
July 2, 2020

Networking is the Skill That Pays the Bills

Networking is the Skill That Pays the Bills. Introvert or extrovert has nothing to do with it. Better questions will always provide more out of life than lazy questions. That hit me between the eyes as I participated in a Zoom session with 140 leaders of professions, industries, associations and standards creators.  […]
June 24, 2020

What Is The #1 Reason Anyone Chooses Your Certification?

What Is The #1 Reason Anyone Chooses Your Certification?    Hint:  It’s not your test or competency model. As sick as you are of staying-in-shelter, take a moment to learn the most important business lesson of your life.  What is home?  It’s where you are safest. Now look at the profession or […]
June 15, 2020

Crystal Ball Conundrum

Crystal Ball Conundrum Lessons Learned on the Front Lines of Tough Choices   Put 25 CEOs from different associations, each representing a profession or industry unlike each other, in one Zoom call and you quickly see how much alike they are. This happened earlier this month.  Near the end of the session, […]
May 30, 2020

Tracks and Traction on Your Better Chart–The Ultimate Guide for Recharting Your Business Path (Step 5)

Last installment in 5-part series on Rediscovering Your Business Model Tracks and Traction on Your Better Chart What have you learned, discovered and felt since the day you stepped into this five-week sprint in April to rechart your business path?  Did you feel confident, yet curious, about the guidance offered?  Did you […]
May 19, 2020

Sift, Sort, Find the Diamonds–The Ultimate Guide for Recharting Your Business Path (Step 4)

Installment 4 in 5-part series on Rediscovering Your Business Model Sift, Sort, Find the Diamonds The last time things got this bumpy and concerning for the leaders of professions and industries was 2008.  What I remember from that was the national economy took a dive in many industries and unemployment went higher […]
May 13, 2020

Search for Options—Not Answers. The Ultimate Guide for Recharting Your Business Path (Step 3)

Installment 3 in 5-part series on Rediscovering Your Business Model Are you feeling the wind in your hair as we pick up speed and get into this week’s installment–Creating Images of Possibility? Did you find your way and find your voice in Installments One and Two?  Brilliant!  Or maybe, you just got […]
May 7, 2020

Framing & Better Questions. The Ultimate Guide for Recharting Your Business Path (Step 2)

Installment 2 in 5-part series on Rediscovering Your Business Model What Can You Possibly Learn in this 2nd Installment of the 5-part series? Framing is for decision making, investing, problem solving and therapy. Questions are the raw materials for framing.  Better and even better questions make your purpose and value clearer to […]