ATTENTION:
CEOs with 161 - 500 Employees!
Visionary Leadership:
How to Recapture the Entrepreneurial Spirit with 161 – 500 Employees
What a view. From where you sit, as the CEO of an organization with 161 - 500 employees, you have the right to be proud.
In Visionary Leadership: How to Recapture the Entrepreneurial Spirit with 161 – 500 Employees, you’ll immediately find three important areas of focus:
- Clear out mediocre players by asking 6 critical questions
- Create a culture of entrepreneurs by encouraging people to always look for ways to improve
- Question everything and always be willing to See, Think, Transfer and Perform
How many of us ever sit back and simply bask in the pleasure of being successful? If you are like most CEOs, you spend very little time in reflection of where you have come from - you move quickly on to your next challenge, your next successful endeavor.
Because of your size, your company has started to form layers of bureaucracy that quickly impede performance and growth.
Visionary Leadership is full of helpful tips and tactics that:
- Provide specific steps to improve critical processes, reduce waste and dig deeper into effective solutions
- Explores 8 issues a leadership team should be discussing weekly
- Uncovers the 5 non-negotiable rules that will identify the root cause of issues in order to find solutions that stick
Respect and trust are the cornerstones of an effective team. Visionary Leadership explores critical issues that should be discussed often with the leadership team.
If you are a company with 161 to 500 employees then you NEED Laurie's Stage 7 Book today.
Questions such as:
- How do we encourage our managers to interact and support their team?
- Do our key indicators help us uncover problems before they occur?
- How well do we set expectations and manage to those expectations?
- Does each employee understand his or her impact on profitability?
Your focus should be on creating a future vision for your company which should include succession planning and in Visionary Leadership you’ll learn about 5 critical steps to succession planning. Read about a Stage 7 company that made the difficult transition from the CEO/Founder stepping aside to bringing on the first non-family member to steer the company forward.
Find solutions to your top 5 challenges:
- Weak product/service development or differentiation in the marketplace
- Profits are inadequate to grow the company
- Too slow getting new products/services to market
- Need for an improved profit design
- The marketplace and your customers change too quickly
The leaders and managers need to engage their teams with a strong performance-based plan and track key indicators that highlight what’s going well and more importantly, what isn’t. Challenge all of your assumptions as they relate to your vision, mission, your customer needs and products/services. Don’t allow your managers to simply rehash old issues and ignore outdated processes.
“As a CEO who has been at the helm since Stage 1, (today a Stage 7 company) understanding and awareness are the keys to success for a growing business and expanding leadership team. I have found that pushing the leadership team, including myself, to visit and review the 7 Stages of Growth on a consistent basis keeps us in alignment. I have never encountered a more valuable tool in terms of concisely summarizing the needs of an organization as it grows.”
Your focus on leadership development will pay off in spades as your requirements for stronger decision-making and targeted problem-solving become more and more critical.
Your goal is to create a visionary company that displays remarkable resilience and has the ability to bounce back from adversity. It’s critical that a CEO in Stage 7 truly believes that their people are at the crux of their success.
Spend time communicating the vision, the strategic plan, and your desire to maintain the entrepreneurial spirit of the company that got you where you are today. And then make sure you are 'walking your talk.'
I had the privledge of meeting and having a wonderful conversation with Zig Ziglar in 2011. I'm Laurie Taylor, author, speaker and trainer. I love helping business owners manage the chaos of growing their business. My book series on the 7 Stages of Growth are based on my own experiences and the critical concepts that are unique to the 7 Stages of Growth.
Stage 7 reveals if all the groundwork you’ve laid in previous stages of growth has paid off. If you are the founder, your journey from Stage 1 to Stage 6 has been fraught with challenges. Your response to those challenges is what elevates you from a mediocre company to a company that has the traction to exceed all expectations.
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