Informed Decisions: Leadership Conversations and Q&A with Randall Craig (Video)

How important is executive presence, and how much should it play into your hiring process?

Topics include:

↳ Executive Presence and Local Culture: Do core qualities of executive presence transcend geography?

↳ Executive presence and succession planning

↳ How best to elevate your executive presence

This episode is for leaders in their role as mentors and role models. 

Topics include:

↳ Executive presence as a learnable skill: Can anyone get there or are some personalities better suited?

↳ Executive Presence vs Professionalism

↳ Having Hard Conversations: How do you talk about "executive presence" with your employees?

Gain new perspectives on how to incorporate greater efficiencies into your operations and processes so that your growth will be smoother – and faster.. 

Topics include:

↳ 4DX or alternative frameworks?

↳ Whose “job” is it to resolve inefficiencies?

↳ When head office won’t change… but you want to do something new in your division?

“Work smarter, not harder”, they say – but what does that mean exactly? Especially in growing businesses, leaders know what they know, but don't know what they don’t know…

Topics include:

↳ Is “getting ahead” a myth?

↳ How will AI impact how we work?

↳ How can we prepare for disruption?

Our 2nd segment on how and when to pivot. 

↳ Should organizations buckle down or take more risks when there is uncertainty?

↳ When is an “inspiration to pivot” wise vs a distraction from testing the current business model?

↳ Organizational pivot.... or create a new business?

In business, there is always change, particularly when you are chasing product-market fit. How do we decide to stay the course or look for new opportunity? 

Topics include:

↳ Proactive pivots vs reactive pivots

↳ The role of "weak signals", and how to identify them?

↳ Predicting the future vs creating it

Going deeper into work-life balance for leaders, including frameworks from Randall’s bestseller Personal Balance Sheet.

We continue exploring digital strategy with live website feedback, questions on Google Adwords, and how to scale a tech startup.

We continue with more on delegation as a key skill for leaders of growing organizations.

Topics include:

• Making the decision to do it yourself or delegate to others

• Empowering your team and employee over-reliance

• Developing trust

• Letting go of the outcomes, and more.

This session will address delegation as a lever for business growth. Catch the full episode.

Topics include:

• Proper way of delegating

• Obstacles and the flip side of delegation

• Impact of delegating to managers and employees

• Setting boundaries and expectations, and much more.

New ideas on generating alignment while upskilling your team.

Topics include:

• ROI: Getting the most out of your learning and development budget?

• How to leverage (and improve the impact) of your team’s professional development.

• What is the most efficient and effective approach: external trainer, internal dedicated resource, or other?

More on how to set up an advisory board to successfully support organizational leaders. 

Topics include:

↳ Advisory board compensation: cash, or equity?

↳ Advisory board diversity vs “cohesive” culture?

↳ Building trust between board members (and with the leader).

Many leaders don’t fully take advantage of their Advisory Board… or even know why they should have one.

Topics include:

↳ Key considerations when setting up an advisory board.

↳ Recruitment, engagement, and Setting the meeting agenda?

↳ Keeping it fresh: board succession planning (and how to off-board “stale” advisory board members?

Wrapping up this three-parter on planning impactful conferences with a focus on lessons we can learn from our conference planning efforts. 

Topics for part 3 include:

↳ Reinvent the program anew or rinse and repeat what previously worked?

↳ How do we measure if a conference was a success?

↳ Conference post modems (and what if a conference falls flat…)

Wrapping up with part 3 on creating change that sticks. 

Topics include:

• What is the appropriate timing and method of acknowledging the negative impact of a change?

• Incremental changes vs transformative change?

• Partner Dynamics: How can partners set up their relationship to avoid conflicts and allow for necessary change to roll out?