Grounded Toward Growth

What is Executive Coaching?

What is Executive Coaching? Here, my colleague Grayce Carson and I break it down. Looking for an executive coach? Message me today about joining Vistage.
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How’s Your Financial Acumen?

Join me and author, developer, and instructor, Darrell Mullis to discuss managing your business capital.Darrell delivers programs that help companies who experience that the traditional command and control model is outdated and want to shift their culture and relationships to accommodate increased speed of change, a need for broad based innovation and improved peer-to-peer decision making at every level.He is the co-author of The Accounting Game and provide programs in business and financial acumen to improve strategic decision making. These programs give participants gaming activities, in which, for example, they create financial statements similar to their own company's and 'experience' the financial principles that have often been confusing and obscure to them.Darrell's specialties are:1. Financial literacy programs for managers, sales professionals, individual contributors2. Communication and culture programs for leadership and operating teams3. Train-the-Trainer programs in communication or finance4. Web-based financial training

The Leadership Circle

The Leadership Circle is a 360° leadership assessment tool that uncovers underlying habits to help leaders become even better at what they do. In this video, I go over the model proposed by Bob Anderson with my colleague, Grayce Carson.I use this tool with the #CEOs in my Vistage groups, and they've found it incredibly useful. I hope you do too.

Anton C. Bizzell, MD on Vistage

Anton Bizzell is an experienced business leader with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. He is also a current member of one of my Chief Executive Advisory Groups. Join us for this discussion of his experience.

Where Do Members Find the Most Value in Vistage?

Could you use a little M.A.G.I.C. in your business? Vistage does a great job of surveying our members. When asked about the areas they receive the most value, they share these 5 areas:
Making better decisions
Accountability
Growing 
Isolation relief 
Change management
In this episode, my colleague and I discuss each of these areas in depth.

Situational Leadership

In 1969, Ken Blanchard and Paul Hershey developed Situational Leadership, believing that there is no “one size fits all” leadership style. Instead, you have to adapt your leadership style to each situation meet the needs of your team.
In this episode, I explain this model and its benefits to my colleague, Grayce Carson. 

Is a Professional Employment Organization (PEO) Right for You?

District Manager, Georgia Beglin, will discuss how Insperity works with small to mid-size growing business owners in the MD, DC, Northern VA and PA areas to help their business run better and grow faster.Could this be right for you and your business?

CEO Glynis Harvey on Vistage

Glynis Harvey is the CEO at American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), and a current member of on of my Vistage groups. 

Striving for High Performance

How do you guide your team to perform to the best of their ability? George Charrier offered his model, Cog's Ladder, to better understand the phases these groups undergo, and how to work towards high performance.

Laurie Barkman on Strategic Business Transition Planning

Laurie Barkman is the founder and CEO of SmallDotBig, a strategy advisory firm for business owners to maximize the value of their company anticipating a future ownership transition.
https://thebusinesstransitionsherpa.com