Informed Decisions: Leadership Conversations and Q&A with Randall Craig (Video)
You know your business better than anyone: your strategy, priorities, and business risks. But you don’t know what you don’t know. To help you make better informed high-stakes decisions, INFORMED DECISIONS shares new ideas, been-there-before advice, and sometimes, a reality check. Each episode focuses on one pressing leadership or strategy topic. In 30-60 minutes, gain strategic perspective, along with practical (and tactical) ideas that can help. Informed Decisions with Randall Craig is not “just another podcast” – go behind the scenes and listen in for yourself what it’s like working with a proven business growth coach, serial entrepreneur, and Hall of Fame speaker.
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Your organization has a strategic plan, and presumably it includes the people who will carry it out. But are they as motivated and engaged as they could be? Is everyone in your organization truly aligned on your longer-term goals? And beyond the leadership and the high potentials, do you have a culture of delegation and succession planning?
Topics include:
↳ Employee engagement statistics are low across the board (hovering ...
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↳ Do's and don’ts CEOs should be self-aware of at their corporate offsites
↳ What kinds of one-on-one conversations should the CEO be having with team members at the offsite?
↳ How should a CEO react to a team member’s negative, rude, or otherwise anti-social behavior?
How we show up as leaders is always top of mind for us as part of how we coach leaders and leadership teams. The focus of this session is specifically how to show up at a leadership retreat because it’s a high-investment event where leaders can’t get the exposure from other team’s retreats, as they are behind closed doors. So we’ll tell you how it’s done!
Topics include:
↳ The impact of CEO as f...
More for marketing leaders, aspiring marketing leaders.
Topics include:
↳ CMO role in setting business strategy
↳ The CEO / CMO relationship
↳ AI Innovation for CMOs
A session for CMOs and anyone on the marketing team: how to remain relevant, career plan, and continue to make an impact in a time of significant change?
Topics include:
↳ CMOs as executors vs CMOs as executives
↳ Career paths for CMOs?
↳ And why is it that marketers are often the butt of the joke… is it deserved?
Continuing the conversation with more on board performance: board compensation, board composition, the role of board consultants, the interplay with CEO performance, and much more.
Topics include:
↳ How can board member compensation be structured to incentivize board performance?
↳ If the board has identified that the CEO is underperforming, what role has the board played in their underperformance?
↳ What would a 1, 3, and 5 year ...
💥Board Governance, Board Development Part 1
Hello board members! This leadership session recording is being share for you! What is your board doing as a whole to keep your governance skills sharp, and your minds ready to identify your next opportunities? Let’s talk about how to build more effective boards with practical thinking on board governance and board development.
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↳ What are the formal avenues ...
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↳ When leadership team members are resistant to new ideas and feedback: can pre-retreat coaching for inflexible leaders help retreat outcomes?
↳ How do you handle retreat participants who take a long time to come around to ideas?
↳ How can we get everyone on the team to understand and sync up with the organizational strategy?
💥Making change stick: Post-retreat momentum and accountability Part 1
There’s the retreat that comes and goes, and then there is everything that has to be done afterwards. Let’s talk about how to integrate the ideas and ahas from the retreat into your organization’s culture and processes post retreat.
Topics include:
↳ Best practices to create post-retreat accountability
↳ Post-retreat accountability issue...
💥Beyond Numbers: Business Leadership for CFOs Part 2
Finishing up our recommendations to CFOs who are career planning, or succession planning. As always, the meta program here is learning how to think like a leader, and the concepts discussed are applicable to senior leaders in any role.
Topics include:
↳ How to get the experiences to be an expert and influential CFO
↳ Opportunities for collaboration between CFO and marketi...
This session is for CFOs planning their next career moves, however the career strategy tips discussed here are applicable to any senior leader looking to reflect on their next career move, or succession planning for their organization.
Topics include:
↳ The lifecycle of CFO: Average CFO tenure, and what can a CFO expect from their career
↳ Managing the CEO/CFO relationship
↳ Removing barriers that prevent CFOs from operating...
💥Leadership Retreats: Mistakes to Avoid Part 2💥
Learn from the mistakes of others and have your most productive leadership retreats yet. Stand on the shoulders of our best leadership retreat suggestions.
Topics include:
↳ Using an internal facilitator vs an external facilitator
↳ What leaders need to change about their perspective on leadership retreats?
↳ The impact of alcohol on retreat success: Should drinking be part ...
💥Leadership Retreats: Mistakes to Avoid Part 1
For a deeper dive into how to plan and structure your executive offsites and team development for max impact, we are sharing here the recording of our very popular opening-the-kimono knowledge share Q&A session on leadership retreats mistakes to avoid.
Topics include:
↳ Corporate Values: Being strategic to highlight and reinforce desired corporate values and behaviors into...
💥Who's Running Your Company: Achieving High Employee Engagement Part 2
Closing out this important topic on the core leadership skill of engaging our employees. We are all moving at high speed; let’s take this half hour to try to get into the heads of our employees to help them do their best for you and your organization, and vice versa.
Topics include:
↳ How does an eager, motivated, capable, resourceful new employee...
💥Who's Running Your Company?: Achieving High Employee Engagement Part 1
Understanding how to develop a loyal, diligent, and high-performing team is a key leadership skill… and yet, all the stats point to the same thing: Employees have become disengaged from their work in record numbers. If this is true at your shop… who’s running your company??
Topics include:
↳ Is 100% employee engagement even possible...
💥Succession Planning: Future-Proofing Your Organization: Part 2
In part 2 on this topic, we close up talking about the tight connection between employee engagement and succession planning, as well as personal brand development of key employees as part of succession strategies.
Topics include:
↳ How long does it take to bring someone up to the executive level?
↳ When boards succession plans: How to get boards on side?
↳ Per...
💥Succession Planning: Future-Proofing Your Organization: Part 1
Even if an AI bot is your planned successor, any succession plan is better than no succession plan. Succession planning should not be scary; it’s good for business. In this two-parter, we share key considerations for successful succession planning.
Topics include:
↳ Normalizing succession planning when leaders may feel replaceable.
↳ Fear of “putti...
💥Member Value, Non-Dues Revenue, and New Association Business Models: Part 3
This part 3 wraps up our conversation for association and nonprofit staff by tackling the tensions that exist in the industry: saturated markets, attitudes towards sponsorships, the new member vs long-time member experience gap, and more.
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↳ Associations often offer perks to new members, but what about their existing loyal members? ...
💥Member Value, Non-Dues Revenue, and New Association Business Models: Part 2
In this part 2 we reach deep to ask the existential question: Is transformation in the association space really possible? What would it take to see a new business model? And are there really new ways to drive non-dues revenue?
Topics include:
↳ Is transformation possible for association given the current culture?
↳ How can we persuade current asso...
💥Member Value, Non-Dues Revenue, and New Association Business Models: Part 1
This one is for our clients and colleagues in the association and not for profit space, but the conversation around value to clients and being brave enough to change the status quo remains relevant across industries. There was so much to talk about this became 3 episodes!
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↳ Why don’t we see more significant “transformat...
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