Becoming a High Performing Company

In this episode of the Small Business, Big Moves Podcast, host Tom Bennett interviews me as I share my personal journey of overcoming alcoholism and how it has influenced my coaching approach. We also cover these topics:

  1. The importance of setting a small number of clear 3-year, 1-year, and quarterly goals for the business.
  2. Meeting weekly to create a who, what, when list that the entrepreneur and the senior executive team will keep other accountable to for the next week.
  3. Why identifying your ideal customers is critical to maximizing the success of your business.
  4. The difference between goals and habits.

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Culture Resources

A powerful way to create a high performing business is to live a set of core values every day. There are two parts to living your core values:

  1. Discovering the ones that exist and documenting them.
  2. Having concrete actions that bring your core values alive every day.

A client recently asked me for resources on core values in business. Here are the ones I shared.

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Video: What should I do if I suspect I have an employee with a problem with alcohol?

As a business owner or CEO, there is a good chance you will encounter an employee that has a problem with alcohol. Alcohol is the most common legal drug in the world. At least 5% of adults suffer from Alcohol Use Disorder. In this video, I describe the things you can do as the leader of your company if you suspect one of your employees has a problem with alcohol or other substances.

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E-Heroes: Rob Anspach Interviews David Greer on Culture and Performance

Rob Anspach is the founder of Anspach Media. He hosts the E-Heroes podcast. I was fortunate to be interviewed by Rob on the topic of Culture and Performance. We discuss hiring, firing, global brands, and how always hiring people better than you leads to outstanding companies.

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Energy and Flow

We perform our best when we are in the energy and flow of the moment. Think of a river running downhill on the side of a mountain. The water is perfectly in balance with the rocks it is flowing over and the width of the stream bed, as gravity naturally draws the stream downwards.

No matter what you are doing, it will always be better when you are tapping into your natural energy and flow. This is also true when we are leading people.

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