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Cultural cows and cakes could close you!
Tagged with: culture, employee engagement, leadership, sacredcows, facingchallenge
Posted in Business Growth, business strategy, change management, Company Culture, Decision Making, Engagement, leadership, Strategic Planning
Posted in Business Growth, business strategy, change management, Company Culture, Decision Making, Engagement, leadership, Strategic Planning
Demands For Greater Marketing ROI
According to McKinsey research, (June 2021) 78 percent of CEOs are now banking on marketing leaders to drive growth, as more and more company results suggest that those companies who continued to invest in marketing throughout the pandemic performed better…
Tagged with: marketingplans, marketingstrategy, returnoninvestment, ROI
Posted in Brand Management, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Strategic Planning, The Boardroom
Posted in Brand Management, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Strategic Planning, The Boardroom
Essential advice from non-essential business owners.
In a world that has been turned upside down we need leadership and purpose. What is one person’s non-essential is another person’s essential. In this context, try explaining to a small business owner that their business (and for many their…
Tagged with: #community, #covid19, #nonessential, #peergroups
Posted in leadership, Purpose, Strategic Planning, Values
Posted in leadership, Purpose, Strategic Planning, Values
Do you want great questions or great answers?
At first glance, coaching and mentoring may seem to be the same thing and are often transposed in our thinking as they are both techniques requiring similar skills to drive behavioural change, yet the process and the outcomes are quite…
Slogans Attract, Stories Engage, Sales pay Bills.
Tagged with: Bounceback, Covid19, payingthebills
Posted in Business Growth, Marketing, SALES, Strategic Planning
Posted in Business Growth, Marketing, SALES, Strategic Planning
Summer refresh your business relevance
Whether you choose a staycation or an overseas escape, it’s never been as important as it is, at this moment in time to take a break from work, the home office, furlough, the job search and the general negative impact…
Tagged with: #constantpurpose, #refresh, #relevance, Business Planning, Covid19, Sales Growth, STRATEGY
Posted in Brand Management, leadership, Planning, Proposition, Purpose, Strategic Planning, Values
Posted in Brand Management, leadership, Planning, Proposition, Purpose, Strategic Planning, Values
Key questions every Boardroom needs to answer ASAP
Even high performing, strategically sound businesses, that have been run extremely well over the pre-covid years, are having to reassess their futures. Some will become stronger, some will recover, and some will cease, but there is one thing for certain,…
Tagged with: Boardrooms, Business Planning, coronavirus, Covid19, leadership, Senior Managers, Skills for business growth, STRATEGY
Posted in Annual Plan, business strategy, leadership, Strategic Planning, The Boardroom
Posted in Annual Plan, business strategy, leadership, Strategic Planning, The Boardroom
7 Transferable Deep Dive Findings
7 years ago this June I registered the company name The Value Innovator, a “me-only-business” set up to support SME’s with easy access to my leading company experience and best practice expertise on strategic and leadership challenge. Never did I…
Tagged with: #constantpurpose, #experience, #perceptionisfact, #relevance, #startwithwhy, Values
Posted in Appraisals, Company Culture, leadership, Strategic Planning, Values
Posted in Appraisals, Company Culture, leadership, Strategic Planning, Values
A GOAL without a plan is just a WISH
After 30 years in what is generically referred to as “corporate life” where we even planned the plan, the shock of working with smaller businesses that do not produce a plan, let alone written goals was (for me) an anathema…
Tagged with: Budgets, Business Planning, Goal Planning, Growth, Skills for business growth
Posted in Annual Plan, Business Growth, Planning, Strategic Planning
Posted in Annual Plan, Business Growth, Planning, Strategic Planning
2019 GREATEST HITS
So,Greatness is all relative and Hits ain’t quite what they used to be! Nevertheless, here are the most viewed Value Innovator blogs of 2019. #3 Strategy doesn’t have to be complicated – Lessons from a car maker. The May 2019…
Tagged with: culture, self management, STRATEGY
Posted in business strategy, Company Culture, Strategic Planning, Values
Posted in business strategy, Company Culture, Strategic Planning, Values
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