Orchestrating Success
Converting Passion to Profit is a podcast by Hugh Ballou, The Transformational Leadership Strategist teaching leaders to convert their ideas into income. Each session is packed with practical concepts for immediate application.
Episodes
March 24, 2023 • 38 mins
Brainpower with Nina Sunday
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May 9, 2022 • 25 mins
How to marry creativity and business acumen and turn them into superpowers
We creatives often get in our own way because of the stories we tell ourselves
So our creative juices sometimes can become our worst nightmares that lead to overwhelm, burnout, and jeopardize our well-being and relationships
But it doesn't have to be that way. Let me show you how.
Yiqing (yee-ching) is an award-winning actor/filmmaker and a creativity coach...
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April 11, 2022 • 30 mins
OS 122 Super Charge Your Profits with No Bid Federal Contracts!
Federal Contracts are not just for the BIG COMPANIES, federal contracting is for small companies. Small Businesses are leaving SO MUCH money on the table. If you've never thought about federal contracting because there's too much red tape, no-bid contracts will open up this door of opportunity for you.
Ron Imbach is the president of the Center for Business Innovation ...
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February 10, 2022 • 39 mins
OS 121: Scale Your Business by Following Evan’s C.A.S.T.LE. Methodology
Evan Tzivanakis is an Accredited Executive Coach (www.ExecutiveCoachAsia.com) and a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Behaviour. Throughout his career, has managed more than 500 employees across 8 countries and led companies to expand across the Asia Pacific region by successfully crafting the right company culture and leading people from the front. With that...
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February 1, 2022 • 29 mins
OS 120: Ed Krow on Leadership
With a proven track record in HR, Ed Krow is a people expert who uses his unique talent transformation process to leverage existing talent and align employees with organizational strategy to create change, drive sustainable growth, and maintain overall happiness.
“I help solve people's problems and I write books about solving people's problems, but I’m also a business owner. It’s not only experience, i...
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January 24, 2022 • 27 mins
OS 119: Know, Like and Trust and Other Sales Lies with Sara Phillips
Website: superiorperformancecoaching.biz
Free Ebook for listeners: https://www.hotsalestips.com/habitsofsuccessfulsalespeople
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Bio: Sara Phillips is a person who has sales running through her v...
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December 14, 2021 • 12 mins
5 Leadership Myths That Kill Entrepreneurial Ventures
Hugh Ballou
The Law of the Lid
Your leadership is like a lid or a ceiling on your organization. Your church or business will not rise beyond the level your leadership allows. That’s why, when a corporation or team needs to be fixed, they fire the leader.
- John Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Starting and maintaining a profitable enterprise as an entrepreneur is v...
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March 18, 2019 • 9 mins
Top Challenges for Today’s Leader
Leadership is a general topic that people understand in different ways; in fact people have contrasting and conflicting perceptions of how leaders should behave and what leaders should do. Therefore, there are many gaps between theory and effective performance for leaders. Over the past 31 years in working with leadership in many types of organizations doing different kinds of work and leading diff...
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March 12, 2019 • 7 mins
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.- Albert Einstein
There are at least 200 working days a year. If you commit to doing a simple marketing item just once each day, at the end of the year you've built a mountain.- Seth Godin (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/09/the-simple-power-of-one-a-day.html)*
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. ...
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March 4, 2019 • 6 mins
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost
Choices are very important in leadership. Making the wrong choice costs money and potentially damages the organization. The burden is on the leader for making effective and wise choices.
Not making a decision is a choice. Sometimes, paralyzed by the gravity of the choice, leaders stall and can’t decide. Not ...
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February 25, 2019 • 9 mins
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
- Gustav Mahler
Thinking versus Feeling is Transformational Leadership
Leaders lead. The question is…do we lead with our brains or with our hearts?
In my studies in Bowen Family Systems, a profound paradigm for leadership by managing and differentiating self, I ha...
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February 12, 2019 • 7 mins
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs
As a musical conductor, I...
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February 4, 2019 • 7 mins
“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
We hear lots of noise in conversations and in the media about striving for equality of gender, nationality, and race - equal opportunity - equal rights - equal pay, etc.
Recently in Blacksburg, Virginia, in a session called “Dialogue on Race,” a young African-American presenter used the phrase “Diversity of Excellence” in his presentation. Th...
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September 17, 2018 • 8 mins
Leaders, Set Your Standard of Excellence
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. - Irene C. Kassorla
One of the most common problems I encounter, when working with leaders to build results and create effective teams, is described in the statement, "My people just don't do what I need them to do." I suggest that this problem comes from the leader...
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July 5, 2018 • 5 mins
Hidden Goals Don't Work
5th of 5
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Set your goal.
Share your goal.
Accountability is energy.
We think that being accountable to someone might bring us criticism if we fail. We don't want to look bad. We don't want anyone to judge us poorly.
When we set a goal and share that goal with someone, it might be frightening. What if the person laughs at ou...
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June 26, 2018 • 8 mins
Focus on the Outcome
4th of 5
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
You want to quit.
Focus on success.
Do not quit.
This simple concept is very difficult.
Along the trail, there are many opportunities to quit - don't quit.
On the pathway to success, there are many opportunities to quit - don't quit.
Focus on the benefit, and not on the problem.
...
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June 25, 2018 • 5 mins
If I miss a day of practice, I know it. If I miss two days, my manager knows it. If I miss three days, my audience knows it. - André Previn
Running to Be Fit
3rd of 5
The first rule is to set your goal. Then begin at once preparing for success.
Rehearse for success in everything you do - you are forming good habits that will influence your success and your life.
I set my goal on finishing a half marathon. My mind believes it. M...
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June 22, 2018 • 4 mins
Setting Goals is the Key to Success
2nd of 5
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At the root of all success is a vision and intention. We must learn to set achievable goals.
I lead teams.
I lead meetings.
I teach leaders to lead.
I can see the end result, because I have defined it clearly.
I set a goal to be in shape. I have expressed the goal in terms of running a certain distance in ...
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June 21, 2018 • 9 mins
Commitment is everything. I decided to begin training for a 5K road race when I was 48 years old. I had trouble running from one driveway to the next one. This was a major change in my life, however, I was committed to succeed.
Two years later, I had finished over 50 5K races and was training for a half marathon.
My commitment was to, #1 not finish last, and #2 to finish without stopping. I accomplished that goal with every race. I...
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May 6, 2018 • 8 mins
I have been traveling around the country presenting Nonprofit Leadership Excellence Workshops (http://synervisionfoundation.org/summit/workshop/). In many instances, I’m asked what to do when a board, or members in general, are resistant to change. The phrase, “We’ve never done it that way before!” is often repeated.
Change is a fearful thought if other changes in life are too stressful. Change is not an option when there is no und...
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