Have You Checked in with Your Customers? Although we are starting to see a few more trips and meetings, most clients are staying put. How are you checking in on your customers? Hopefully we haven’t forgotten how to use the phone. Although Zoom meetings can be quite effective, with [...]
Do You Know If Your Best People are Looking for a New Job? You better believe it! There is a trend across clients and colleagues that the best people are on the move! COVID has disrupted the landscape. Whenever multiple clients experience similar situations, we take note. There [...]
January 9, 2020 Do you have a network of people you can go to for answers, help, introductions, and more? My network is not only very important to my business but it is also very important for my personal life. Starting with business, I can definitely say that LMA [...]
April 30, 2019 You'll notice I enlarged the picture this week because I thought it noteworthy for you to see it. This is the Piazza IX Aprile in Taormina, Sicily, which is a square known for the breathtaking view of the azure Ionian Sea and of the Mount Etna. [...]
December 19, 2018 Certainly when it comes to what I've really been thinking, there is no doubt I'd have to say "holiday cards"! It has actually become somewhat funny. I have a bit of an assembly line going with Outlook updates (as it makes no sense to send cards [...]
Recently, we updated our website, and that prompted a lot of thinking about many aspects of business. One is the importance of continual learning. As you'll see on our Continual Learning webpage, it is a priority. With that said, I've noticed that the most successful people (clients, colleagues, fellow [...]
August 20, 2018 I attended a ProVisors social of miniature office golf last week. We had great fun (thanks to James Valmonte and Kit Mac Nee for arranging such a great social). As you'll see, there was much creativity in setting up golf holes in an office setting. [...]
Every executive we work with is interested in increasing the value of the business. Whether a small closely-held business with an owner who might want to sell the business or exit with an ESOP or a private-equity backed company aiming to achieve the ideal exit strategy per the private [...]
March 19, 2018 The importance of viewpoint has arisen frequently in the last few weeks. This past weekend, I spent the weekend in an APICS (leading trade association for supply chain and operations professionals) train-the-trainer class. Certainly, your viewpoint as a trainer is quite different than as an audience member [...]
December 29, 2017 The holidays tends to bring on conversations with old colleagues and catching up with family, friends and clients. We often-times zip through life and business and don't stop to get to know the people we interact with on a daily basis. How could this be? I [...]
