Business Excellence - TOP 5 Series

“We are all living our legacy every moment of every day, choice by choice.”

Kat O’Sullivan Top Five Tips For living your legacy on purpose

1. Let go of the doubts that are keeping you from living the life you really want

2. Ask yourself, what if “impossible” is just a story you are telling yourself?

3. When “shift happens” embrace disruption as your BFF

4. Confront limiting labels that can keep you and others stuck

5. Embrace the re...

“Whenever we pretend to be something we're not, we're generally not going to be very successful at it. So, you shouldn't try to be the loudest voice in the room. You shouldn't try to be the person who speaks up the most at a meeting, because that's not just who you are as an introvert.”

Stacey Chazin Top Five Tips For Introverts To Become Powerful Leaders

1.      Know and Own Your Strengths

2.      Leverage St...

"You have to be the owner of your business and not the operator, and you need to learn how to duplicate yourself, which means teaching other people to do the kinds of things that you do, so that you're free to work on developing strategy and growing the business."

Ral West Top Five Tips For Achieving Business Success While Living Your Dream

1. Organize your business to free up your time:

2. Use systems and leverage...

"Most people come to work every day. They want to succeed. They want to be owners. They want to take initiative and somehow management kind of gets in their way of all of that."

Scott Morris Top Five Tips For Maximizing Your Direct Reports’ Productivity & Engagement

1. Get on the same side of the table with your directs

2. Slow down to speed up – small things that make a big difference if done right

3. Shape your thi...

"Leadership isn't about perfection—it's about consistent, strategic progress.”

Jaclyn Strominger Top Five Tips For Unstoppable Leadership

1.      Vision

2.      Mission

3.      Action

4.      Delegation and team alignment 

5.      Measurement and monitoring

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03:28 Understanding the deeper purpose behind goals

07:29 Creating focused action plans aligned with intentions

13:24 Importance of human connecti...

“If we are bold enough to consider the spaces where we step in crap, there are equal number of advertunity openings for us to see a way out.”

Nathan Andres Top Five Tips For Building Authentic Resilience

1. Facing Reality, 

2. Using Energy, 

3. Building Authenticity, 

4. Leading with Love (the anchors of the REAL model) and using

5. Advertunity.

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01:37  The concept of the "power pack punch" of authentic resilie...

“The opposite of trauma responses or the opposite of being stuck in a toxic stress loop, is agency, having the ability to make a choice.”

Christy Gibson Top Five Tips For Emotional Regulation

1. Notice 

2. Connect to Breath and Body 

3. Iffirmations

4. Lenses 

5. Flexibility 

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01:34  Noticing your nervous system (overactive vs. underactive states)

04:21  Connecting through grounding and breath techniques

10:03  Using &quo...

“Saving Face is not a culturally specific necessity. Saving Face is universal to human beings. If you want somebody to say and do something that was not originally their idea, I would argue that helping them save face and protect their self-image is at least 85% of the battle”. 

Michael Reddington Top Five Tips For Obtaining Every Day Confessions In Your Business Conversations 

1. Help people save face

2. Allow others to feel in ...

“Success equals value, the amount of value something has multiplied by leverage. And leverage is how you either magnify or multiply the value.”

Mike Handcock Top Tips For Building  Any Business To A Global Business Level

1.  Clarity

2.  Market Understanding

3.  Partnerships

4.  Build a Killer Team

5.  Plan Your Exit Strategy

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01:26 Understanding the rules of the business

07:10 Getting clear on what the marketplace wa...

“Operating in the world of what really is possible. What do I really think I can achieve? But then, once he had set his mind on it, yes, this is something doable. This is something I firmly believe I can do, then obviously, unexpected obstacles always arise. But he refused to be defeated by one.”

Talmage Boston Top Five Tips For World Leaders

1. Integrity/credibility 

2. Consensus building to effectuate successful diplomacy

3. Princip...

“Cool heads and warm hearts is a balance for rational thinking and compassion.”

Rhonda Parker Taylor Top Five Tips To Embrace Emotional Intelligence in Leadership 

1.      Pause Before You Proceed

2.      Empathy Unlocks Clarity

3.      Feel First, Act Wisely

4.      Separate Signal from Noise

5.      Decisions Rooted in Values

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01:34  Emphasizes pausing, empathy, feeling first, separating signals, and value-ba...

“What you don't change, you choose.”

Carol Kabaale Top Five Tips For Running Purpose Driven Facebook Ad Campaigns That Convert 

1. Have a Tried and Tested Offer

2. Craft Effective Messaging

3. Define a Clear Campaign Purpose

4. Manage Advertising Budgets Wisely

5. Invest in Yourself

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03:05 The importance of validating an offer

05:14 How to create authentic, personal-sounding ads

12:13 Realistic expectations for ad sp...

“If all of our success is what happens right here, in the here and now, I feel like we're just going to miss out on what is to come, have hope through these challenging circumstances.”

Link Forester Top Five Tips For Finding Joy and Purpose Through The Twists and Turns in Life

1. Focus on Relationships

2. Be a Steward not an Owner

3. Have Absolutes

4. Eternal World View

5. Be quick to Forgive Yourself and Others

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"You have to have a very disciplined approach to stakeholder management to actually to successfully sunset old features and deprecate them as part of a replatforming exercise.”

Katie Tamblin Top Five Tips For Replacing Old Software

1.  Define the vision up front and align the stakeholders around that vision

2. Get the data right

3. Design, execute, check what you are building every step of the way

4. Get close to your colleagu...

“We are the centre of our world, and that whatever we do, our world is going to reflect. So therefore, it my world, we need to look at our world and see how it is.”

Jill Robin Payne Top Five Tips For Swiping Right On Connection In The Digital Age

1.      Find fun and have a win-win mindset.

2.      Timing and position are important in conversations.

3.      Be aware of speed and language differences.

4.      Recognize that you are alwa...

“So if you pause and just get curious and say, Wait a minute, what's happening in my body? I'm feeling tense. I feel like I even want to fight like, maybe verbally. Some people might want to fight physically. But if you could pause in that moment and just notice what's happening and even ask yourself, like, who's like, what's happening here? Who's here.”

Seth Kopald Top 5 Tips for Living a Self-Led Lif...

“You have value right now. They are valuable right now, not when they get a degree, not after they take a class. They are valuable right now. And it is building that confidence, that entrepreneurial confidence, to not wait for someone to tell you when you have value, you have value.”

Glen Dunzweiler Top Five Tips For Students 

1. Know that you have value. 

2.  Know that you are good enough RIGHT now

3.  Find the joy that you can give ...

“Now what scientists are beginning to think, is that consciousness out there in an ever-present quantum field that we interact with every day. We either pull information down for us to live and grow by, or we provide information up into the quantum cloud.”

Dr Toper Taylor Top Five Tips For Living In the Quantum Field

1.  Everything and everyone is made of energy and particles 

2.  We are all interconnected with each other 

3.  Every t...

“When you have all these different orbs and these different layers, you have those of your team, and then you have those of just your outside team, which could include your suppliers, vendors and such, you know, a virtual assistant, whoever is providing you services that help you do your things that are similar to what your team is. And then outside of that is actually your competitors or your collaborators. And you know what? What...