Go Forward As One
Camaraderie among employees is one ingredient for business success. Whether a business has a handful of employees or 100 plus employees, team building can produce positive results. Progress is made when employees feel a commitment to their employer as well as to each other seeking to work as a team rather than working strictly as…
Autocratic Leadership: An Outdated Approach?
If you look at any of the origin stories of some of the biggest companies in the world, you’re likely to see talismanic figures who stand out above the rest and personify the company’s image in your mind. Think Steve Jobs at Apple, Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, Elon Musk at Tesla….
The Importance of Satisfied Customers
Are satisfied customers important to a business? Are satisfied customers especially important to a business during a global pandemic? Of course, the answers to both questions are an empathic “yes!” When customers purchase from a business – any type of business – they seek benefits and solutions to problems and want satisfaction for the money…
Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
For years your business was doing well, more than well, it was doing excellent. But now things have taken a turn for the worse and the worst thing is, you can’t find the root of the problem. The strategy you followed all these years that was serving you well, is now betraying you. How can you strategically respond to…
Be the Best
All types and sizes of businesses sell products and services of all different qualities. Competition is intense for almost any business. With a limited supply of buyers and a multitude of businesses and their products or services to choose from, buyers generally have their choice of which business to patronize. Stand Out from the Competition…
Find the Fortune
Businesses spend time, energy, and money training employees. They undertake different marketing campaigns testing a variety of components to see what produces the best results. They attempt to provide the best possible products or services they can while promoting their unique value proposition. Businesses will study the competition, try to be price competitive, challenge employees…
Corporate Strategy: The Four Key Components
What is Corporate Strategy? Corporate strategies are arguably the most essential and broad ranging strategy level within organizational strategy. The corporate strategy level concerns itself with the entirety of the organization on a more or less abstract level, where decisions are made with regard to the overall growth and direction of a company. For context, other strategy…
Processes: An Important Aspect of Business Growth
Businesses of any size need constant improvements in operating processes to ensure efficiency and growth. A process can be one activity or a series of activities designed and intended to accomplish certain business goals. These activities might have several different types of inputs such as time, money, people, equipment, etc. The inputs combined with the…
Certified Coach: What’s Next?
Now that I am a Board Certified Executive Coach, colleagues are asking: Who do you coach? My focus is helping small businesses. I coach small business owners and executives to turn their business vision into predictable, scalable results. If you are a small business owner or executive wondering how you can compete in today’s environment,…
Board Certified Executive Coach
Visionary Results is pleased to announce that Craig Paxson is now a Board Certified Executive Coach through the Center for Executive Coaching and the Center for Credentialing and Education.