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Delivering innovation in today's ever-changing business world requires motivation and inspiration.   As leaders we need to be able to champion innovation in our organizations and it can be daunting and difficult at times and that's when we need a little inspiration to get us to the finish line. So to help keep you motivated and inspired I have pulled together my Top Inspiring Movie Picks. These movies have helped me through some tough times – [...]

To be a great leader, it is essential to understand your innate leadership style and your blind spots to ensure you are leading with your whole brain.  The first step is to understand your innate strengths as a leader and this can be accomplished by taking a leadership assessment.  But don’t stop there, this assessment will also identify your blind spots as a leader or the areas of leadership that are less developed. These insights [...]

This is a great time to sit back and reflect on the past few months and look at your leadership and the impact it has had on your organization, your team and the people around you.   As you know, leadership is a privilege and as a leader you have an opportunity to do great things that can reach beyond your organization into your community and even extend to the world as a whole. To [...]

Are you a jungle lion or a zoo lion when you are dealing with change?  How do you react and adapt to change?  How will this knowledge help you to succeed in this ever changing business environment? How  you anticipate and react to change and how you adapt to your environment is a key success factor in business today.  Today’s business environment is far from predictable, reliable or safe. It is ever-changing, growing and evolving [...]

Defining your corporate culture and finding a way to share it is the key to unlocking its power. Corporate Culture is not easy to define – it’s a feeling, an organizations’ personality, how employees interact with each other and how people outside your organization feel about you. Unlocking its power can make you stand apart from your competition, lead to incredible business success, and drive employee retention and engagement. How do you define your organizations’ [...]

Before you begin thinking about innovation it is important to understand the culture you are working in. If you’re an entrepreneur think about your own appetite for risk and then build a plan to either embrace it or overcome it. That is what I had to do when I worked for a non-profit organization that wanted me to launch a product innovation - I had to find a way to overcome the “risk adverse” culture. [...]

How do you build high performing teams? How do you build trust? How can you become a corporate athlete? This is about what it takes to build teams and lead them in today’s business world. This isn’t about authority; it is about influence. This is about the Law of Solid Ground. And understanding that trust is something you have to earn as a leader. Knowing when to train, perform, celebrate and rest are some of [...]

At the end of an amazing first season of my Voice America radio show - Chat With Chicules, I provided my listeners with a snap shot of the ideas they’ve heard over the past few months, framing them into my Leadership Checklist. It is important to recognize that leading is complex and therefore while my leadership checklist will help get you thinking along the right lines, it is certainly not an exhaustive list. The list [...]

My blog is called Chat with Chicules. What they couldn’t teach you in business school. Because I believe you have to live it to get it. Certainly I believe in the power of education and I also believe in the power of experience. It is not easy to navigate today’s business environment to achieve success and you need education and experience to get you to the other side.

You and your UVP Your Unique Value Proposition (UVP), identifies what makes your organization unique – what you can do that no one else can. It’s a key component of developing your brand. Defining your UVP should inform every aspect of your marketing strategy, including your logo design and visual brand, and all aspects of your marketing outreach, including website, investor relations presentation, branded materials, and so on. Not to mention, it informs your customers [...]