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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

As I talk to many of you in my role as business advisor, I still often hear the concern for maximum return to the business and stakeholders, more than a passion for sustainably enriching the lives of your customers and team. This applies to your own team, as well as customers. Make every customer experience memorable.

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7 Ways To Raise Your Visibility As A Business Leader

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A community requires two-way communication and respect – including advisors, partners, and customers. The best leaders don’t just give orders – you work with people you depend on to build trust, give and accept coaching, and motivate by being a role model for the approach you espouse. Build community with team members and advisors.

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6 Tips For Ramping Up Your Work Culture For Tomorrow

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, Elon Musk says he seeks out innovations from his team by constantly asking them how they can make things better, how often they get out of internal meetings and into customer shops, and actively encouraging them to try new things. Spend more time mentoring and coaching your team.

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6 Keys To Finding The Right People For A Winning Team

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of rapid change, the pandemic, and worldwide competition, you need to make sure your entire team is customer-focused, innovative, and always looking around the corner for the next big thing. Find folks who are customer-centric and sensitive to competition. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/26/2021.

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6 Keys To Reducing Team Pain From Market Uncertainty

Startup Professionals Musings

Authors Adrian Gostick and Chestor Elton, with their deep backgrounds as executive coaches and organizational consultants, recommend some simple methods, consistent with my own beliefs, to reduce the pain of uncertainty, and increase productivity, in your teams and employees: Make it okay for them to not have all the answers.

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7 Reasons A Good Team Merits Priority Over Procedure

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Here are the key reasons that I recommend that aspiring leaders focus on people before process: Customers judge the business by the people quality. Whether it be in person, on the phone, or implied in your marketing, your people and their engagement level is the key driver of customer loyalty, advocacy, and sales growth.

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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Engagement and Happiness

Startup Professionals Musings

You must start this process by sharing your own values and priorities, and explaining how you see the work values relate to the bigger picture of customer satisfaction and a better future for all. Enhance intrinsic motivation through coaching. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/16/2021.