Twenty Tips for 2020
Twenty tips to help you become a better leader in 2020 and beyond!
Keep Your Business Plan on Track - Episode 12
Do you spend hours developing a business plan at the end of the year? Many CEOs and leadership teams have the best of intentions with these plans but chances are they will end up on a shelf. By February the tyranny of the urgent likely made your business plan a distant memory. In this episode Lou Quinto and Craig P. Anderson will show you how to keep your business plan on track so you can run your business instead of your business running you.
Read MoreMaking Leadership Team Meetings Effective - Episode 11
The leadership team meeting is the most expensive meeting in your organization and so much of business success relies on those meetings being effective. How do you define the purpose of the meeting? How do you keep it focused? Finally, how do you make it effective and efficient for all the attendees? Craig P. Anderson and Lou Quinto will answer all these questions in this episode.
Read MoreAvoid Death by Meeting - Episode 10
When was the last time you had a good meeting? What was it like? What made it work? Craig P. Anderson and Lou Quinto break it down for you. They’ll cover how to make your meetings more effective by creating written agendas, following meeting rules and facilitating them intentionally. If you follow these rules you will avoid death by meeting and use them toe grow your business faster instead.
Read MoreClarifying Company Mission and Vision
When business owners clarify company mission and vision businesses will experience faster growth, better employee engagement and greater financial returns. How can leaders effectively communicate mission and vision? In this episode Lou Quinto and Craig P. Anderson provide crucial information on how to define mission and vision, keep them in front of your team and get your employees to align with them.
Read MoreGetting a Return on Your Traiing Investment - Episode 8
The global corporate training market is valued at 367 billion dollars. What is the ROI on that investment? In this episode Craig P. Anderson and Lou Quinto break down how to maximize the return of the corporate training budget. Business owners will learn how to increase employee awareness of training, positioning employees for training success and how to incorporate accountability in your training programs.
Read MoreHow Businesses Make Bad Decisions - Episode 7
Why do business decisions go wrong? Lou Quinto and Craig P. Anderson break down the mistakes business excecutives make that drives poor decision making, In this episode you will learn what drives poor business decisions and what processes leaders can put in place to avoid them.
Read MoreImprove Business Decision Making - Episode 6
Making better business decisions is crucial to the success of small and large businesses. Lou Quinto and Craig P. Anderson break down the keys to improving your company’s decision making. Start with developing and prioritizing the criteria you will use for the decision, then gather the facts that align with your criteria and finally make sure you involve the right stakeholders.
Read MoreEpisode 5 - The Benefits of Workplace Collaboration
Collaboration takes intention and effort. Business owners and CEOs want to know that effort has a payoff. In this episode, we talk about the benefits of collaboration, which include better problem solving, improved communications, and increased employee proficiencies.
Read MoreEpisode 4 - Collaboration
Business leaders and CEOs say they want more collaboration in the workforce. How do you achieve it? Business teams that collaborate will drive better, more inclusive results. In this episode, Craig P. Anderson and Lou Quinto cover three keys to collaboration: communication, visualize and acknowledge. Plus, a Vanilla Ice reference!
Read MoreEpisode 3 - Improve your communication
A vital role of the business leader is the communicator. How you communicate your message is at least as important as the message you want to communicate. In today’s episode, Lou and I cover how to improve your communication as a leader.
Read MoreEpisode 2 - The Care and Feeding of Millenials
The Millennial Generation, or as well call them, the next generation of leaders is a topic of much discussion. How can leaders most effectively manage this generation? Today, we will break this issue down in three areas. First, is everything you hear about millennials, true? Second, to understand millennials, we need to understand their perspective. Third, what changes you can make in your organization to work most effectively with Millenials.
Read MoreEpisode 1 - Coaching
In episode 1, Craig P. Anderson and Lou Quinto discuss how leaders can become more effective coaches. Many leaders focus on effectively managing people, but rarely do they take the time to coach them. The guys will break this down into three areas for viewers to focus on. First, coaching is a full-time job. Second, make sure to observe before providing feedback. Third, learn how to ask good questions instead of initially providing answers.
Read MorePromo 2 - Our backgrounds and show format
How will Lou and Craig’s backgrounds add value to our viewers who want to become better leaders? And what format will they follow so busy CEOs and Business Owners can find value?
Read MoreLearn more about your hosts!
Craig and Lou discuss the experiences that shaped their careers and leadership styles.
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