High Impact Leaders

Doug Staneart

Welcome to High Impact Leaders! Your shortcut to personal growth and career success. Join Doug Staneart for leadership development training that will bring out your inner entrepreneur and make you a fearless leader in today's chaotic business world.

  1. Sep 28

    Decide Your Mission-Vision Statement | Part 2

    This week we continue our series on making sure your team is as highly effective as they possibly can be. This week is all about the goals. A company’s mission vision and values statements are important to success. In fact, business consultants often start with the mission, vision, and values when working with new clients. They do this for a very simple reason. Creating (or updating) these statements can drive the organization in a new direction. You can use this Mission, Vision, and Values Template to create or update your corporate statements. Many of us use the mission and vision interchangeably. However, the two statements are distinctly different. The Mission Statement focuses on where the organization is right now. In contrast, the Vision Statement creates a picture of the organization’s future. The values of your organization, though, are probably more important than even the vision and mission. These values are the criteria that you use to make decisions within your organization. If you wanted to take a trip in a car, the vision would be the destination. The mission would be the vehicle. Finally, the values would be the directions or the road map to get there. So, you can see that each of the three is important to get to the end goal. Without the destination, we have no way of knowing if we are moving toward our goal. In addition, without the right vehicle, the journey will be more challenging. Then, of course, without a map, your journey can have a lot of wasted effort. Show Notes: Mission, Vision, and Values Template and Examples (https://www.leadersinstitute.com/mission-vision-and-values-template-and-examples/)

  2. Aug 31

    Employee Development Program: Ways to Make Training Stick

    An employee development program only works if the people we are developing actually change what they do at work. Most programs never get that far. The content is solid. The instructor is engaging. Evaluations come back positive. Then Monday arrives, and nothing looks different. What’s missing from most employee training is a way for the participants to create new, more positive habits as they develop new skills.   In this episode, we’ll give you an overview of how to create an employee development program that builds skills and positive habits. This guide will cover three main areas. First, we’ll show you that shorter training sessions over time will improve both retention and application. Next, we’ll show you how to tie the training into real business skills that help the employee improve performance. And finally, we’ll show you ways to get your employees excited or motivated by the learning process. This reduces resistance from them.   So if you are an HR executive who is trying to skill up your employees, or if you are an entrepreneur who doesn't yet have the luxury of turning employee development over to an HR team, these ideas can help make your training programs more cost effective and productive. And if you aren't in HR, and you just want to find ways to make yourself more productive, you can use the same ideas personally. I had an advantage when I started my consulting career, because I started out in an established business surrounded by some of the most successful trainers and consultants in the world. And they taught me this process because the were using it in my development.   When I went out on my own and start my company, for the first couple of years, I used the process just with myself, and my company grew and grew as a result. You can do something similar. Show Notes: Employee Development Program Guide: Ways to Make Training Stick (https://www.leadersinstitute.com/employee-development-program-guide-ways-to-make-training-stick/)

  3. Aug 24

    How to Motivate Your Employees in Hard Times

    Keeping team members motivated during periods of high growth is pretty easy. There's natural excitement around the office. Everyone is busy, and there is energy in the air.   But sooner or later, every business hits a plateau. And getting over that next hump sometimes takes a little time. As a leader, you want to reward your best team members, but what happens when your margins just won't allow additional salary or bonuses?   In our early days, I was investing everything back into my company and sometimes working 60-hour weeks. One morning, my hotshot tech expert came into my office and told me he had accepted an offer from another company. It was a gut punch. He was so young and talented that, in my head, I saw him running our whole marketing team in the near future.   But, unfortunately, I never told him that. We didn't have the margins to expand yet, so I never had those conversations. And when he left, all those growth plans got pushed back another year.   Interestingly, there are a few different ways to motivate employees that cost nothing (except a few moments of your time). And maybe, they'll keep those hotshots in your own company from looking elsewhere.   And if you do these things often enough, your bottom line will likely increase so you can pay your team more as you break through that plateau. Show Notes: How to Motivate Employees Without Paying Them More (https://www.inc.com/doug-staneart/how-to-motivate-employees-without-paying-them-more/91384016)

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Welcome to High Impact Leaders! Your shortcut to personal growth and career success. Join Doug Staneart for leadership development training that will bring out your inner entrepreneur and make you a fearless leader in today's chaotic business world.