Whom Does
Business Inspirations Serve?

INDIVIDUALS LOOKING TO ADVANCE IN AN ORGANIZATION
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Understand keys to getting promoted using your situation as the basis
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Identify personal changes to your behavior which could help you get past barriers
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Discuss the good and the bad of what others do to get more opportunities
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Get mentoring advice on difficult decisions and situations you face
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Discuss your next best steps to achieve something you want to achieve
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Find the courage to dare to be different when necessary
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Learn to ask the right questions to challenge something
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Understand what is important where you work
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Improve your approach to managing a project
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Create a plan to convert your weaker personal characteristics into personal qualifications
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Discuss options to solve an operations problem

INDIVIDUALS WITH A VISION TO ESTABLISH A BUSINESS
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Identify why you really want to do this
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Define your market niche
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List your competitors and their strengths
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Know your competitive discriminators
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Identify areas in which you will excel to succeed
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Understand why so many small businesses fail
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List the reasons why you will succeed
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Identify the ways in which you will build a customer base
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Identify key mistakes you must avoid
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Communicate your values, plans, people needed, and processes required
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Identify cash flow timing and needs
LEADERS LOOKING TO IMPROVE OPERATIONS IN AN ORGANIZATION
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Set better team and individual goals
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Effectively communicate and implement significant changes
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Build an open and candid high performance team approach to accomplish something new
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Implement a collaborative proposal approach to earn or win new work
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Correlate individual performance appraisals to team and organizational goals
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Communicate and reinforce "the way we do things around here" to build a high performance organization
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Create and delegate management of key performance indicators throughout the organization
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Update certain policies and procedures to give people the freedom to take initiative to operate in "the way we do things around here"
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Effectively deal with difficult people and people who do not fit expected values and behaviors, regardless of how productive they appear
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Make it safe for people to challenge "why" anything is done the way it is done
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Identify and eliminate any real or perceived double standards in the organization
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Remove expenses, approaches, and internal bureaucracy that add cost but not sufficient value
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Determine the real roadblocks, barriers and behaviors limiting the progress toward desired performance levels

LEADERS LOOKING TO IMPLEMENT RADICAL CHANGES IN AN ORGANIZATION
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Know why radical changes are needed
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List negative impacts of proposed changes
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List positive impacts of proposed changes
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Identify communication points on making changes
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Anticipate feedback and prepare Q&As to provide consistent answers
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Identify steps to ensure that changes have no negative impact on areas that are functioning well
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Consider people, needed skills, and timing
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Prepare notifications to customers, stockholders, regulators, and business partners
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Identify how internal policies and procedures will be affected, and make adjustments
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Clarify roles and responsibilities for decisions moving forward
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Commit to internal and external communications as changes move forward
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Establish goals and identify metrics for measuring change results
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Establish time-phased implementation plans and actions
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Prepare for plan modifications
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Focus on exceptions to plans
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Commit to consistency in objectives dealing with people performance
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Establish a process for open and candid feedback from anyone
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Intentionally celebrate success
