CarlGould-#70secondCEO-5 Steps to Come A Back-Break Down Part 1
Release Date: 03/03/2021
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Adapt Your Style to Build Rapport
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Why do we care that we have rapport? Why do we care that we have influence? Well, first off, we need rapport because we need to build a relationship. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions in a moment, but we need to build a relationship with other people. And there are only three styles out there. You're one of them. There are two others. And for our purposes, you are basically wired like one-third of the population when it comes to your communication style....
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-The Questions That Build a Business Plan
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Next, the business plan. Who are we? What is our product? Or service or idea? Who are our customers? What is our market? Who is our competition? Where will we operate? How will we advertise? How will we market ourselves? What is our unique selling proposition? What is our business identity? What size will our company be? And what size will our company eventually become? How long do we plan to stay in business? How much money do we intend to make? Will we operate...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Vision and Values Must Be Intentional
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The vision statement, where will we be in five years? 10 years, 20 years from now? Where will we be in one year? Where will we be in three years? What does the future look like for the business in our mind's eye? When we close our eyes and think about our business? What do we see? I know what do you see. Next, our values statement, what do we hope our business will be remembered? As what are we here to contribute? Who are we here to educate? What experience will...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Solving Symptoms Never Works
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So, identifying the issue, we are looking for the cause, not the symptom. It's good to know the symptoms, but we need the cause, okay? So I'll give you an example, all right? Let's identify what the issue is in this particular situation, okay? A client of ours just built a brand new state-of-the-art building in New York City, okay? Multiple floors that requires elevators. They had the latest and greatest elevator system go in. It is optimized based on how many...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Problems Plus Solutions
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now this is gonna take discipline from you as a team member because, as their manager, because you can't allow them to come to you with just the problem. They have to come to you with not only the problem, well defined, and then more than one solution. So you can pick your max now. Your job is to have your team come to you, hey, we noticed this one problem, hey, there's a challenge with this one client. Hey, this client had a question or wants something new that...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Process Over Preference
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. There's no way, especially as you get bigger, and there's no way anyone on the team is gonna like everything that's going on, you just have to advocate for the process. So in everything in your professional life that you don't like, are you guys familiar with the law of opposite values? You guys familiar with what that is? So have you ever heard the expression that you can't understand light until you know dark? You can't be cold unless you've been hot?...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stop Describing. Start Instructing
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So you've heard the term over-communicate. We have to over-communicate. That doesn't mean just talking more. That means being very, very specific in how we give instructions. Okay, and when we do the situational leadership, we'll talk about that some more because we need to stop being descriptive and we need to start being instructive. So as a manager, as a leader, that's what this group needs to do, right? So in other words, somebody's gonna go and if you...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why Handoffs Break Teams
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Anytime there's a handoff, so if you're in sales and someone's engineering, someone's on the service desk, right, those handoffs have to be managed tight and you always cover your teammate's back, right? So that's where, so we have to define how that box runs, okay, and that'll be one of our challenges because we speak American English, that's our challenge, our English is so bad. You try handing it off to somebody who actually knows English and you'll find out...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Think Like a Team, Not a Task List
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So if you're working on something as a team, whether you're the leader, you're the manager, whatever, doesn't matter. Take 100% responsibility for the outcome, which means if Nicole and I are working on something and Nicole has her tasks and I have mine, I'm going to take 100% responsibility for hers, she'll do the same for me, and what that is, that will give enough overlap that makes sure we're going to get this job done. So if she's struggling in an area, I'll...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Finding the Trigger That Forces the Buy
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Take a moment right down what is that--what is the top five complaints about your industry, maybe not about you as a company, maybe you as a company but maybe not, but about your industry so how would you know that? So think of the a customer negative customer--customers review you’ve gotten or competitors have gotten, the sales objection you get from a prospect when your telling them about your product or service and when you--when you win a project and they...
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.
Number one is break down you know so think about it, what was a trigger that started or caused a break down somewhere in your life, your business, your finances, your relationship, your health you name it. Right now break down doesn’t mean you're totally abandoned on the side of the road, break down could simply mean it’s not meeting your standard. It’s not what you wanted right now or you outgrew the last, a set of goals that you handle processes or systems just from the graduate. My daughter, well you know how phenomenal 8th grade is and you would say “wow Vonny you gotta to keep going, you're crushing it in 8th grade”, but you know what it’s time to move on, it’s time to take that 8th grade, why would you give up 8th grade? You’re the big fish in a small bowl and the goal to become a freshman in highs chool, where you’re a tiny fish in a bigger bowl, why would you do that? Because it’s time to graduate and sometimes you just outgrown no matter how successful you are now, it’s time to go to the next level and so that automatically turns up a little bit of adversity for you, so what’s the break down?
Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.