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What is the key to staying focused and productive when you’re faced with competing priorities?  If you’re like the visionary CEOs and top leaders we work with, you may be torn between taking advantage of emerging opportunities while balancing the demands of employees, customers, partners, and other stakeholders. Taking a strategic approach to these challenges can help you prioritize more effectively.

This week we discuss this challenge with Penny Zenker, a focusologist, international speaker, business strategy coach, and best-selling author. As one of America’s leading experts in the psychology of productivity, she focuses on eliminating distraction, perfectionism, and self-sabotage to maximize results in every area of life.

Penny’s book “The Productivity Zone: Stop the Tug of War with Time” was an instant Amazon Best Seller. Her engaging, inspiring interactive talks teach people to think and act more strategically, and her TEDx talk, “The Energy of Thought,” has gained attention around the world. NBC News, Forbes, Inc., ESPN, and Wharton Business Radio, among others have also featured Penny’s insights.



Competing business priorities are the number one distraction, because when everything’s important, nothing’s important — Penny Zenker



This week on Growth Igniters Radio:



* The #1 issue that distracts leaders from maintaining focus in a high-pressure business environment

* How the principles of what Penny calls “The Reset Mindset” can help leaders navigate competing business priorities

* A story that illustrates how a “Reset Mindset” helped a CEO work through multiple business priorities

* Three immediately useful ideas for resetting your mindset to balance competing priorities



Resources for This Episode:



* Learn more about Penny Zenker and connect with her on LinkedIn

* Find out more about Penny’s book, The Productivity Zone: Stop the Tug of War with Time

* Find out more about Pam’s keynote “Break Orbit: Achieving Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term World”



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Do you feel like you’re leading at warp speed?  If so, you’re not alone. It’s likely that in the fast changing business environment you’re dealing with many high-stakes decisions all at once. What’s the key to balancing the often competing needs of employees, customers, partners,  and other stakeholders when the pressure is on? As counter-intuitive as it seems, it’s to uncover assumptions even more often.

In this Fan Favorite Quick Take episode, we discuss the key to making high-stakes decisions at warp speed. Under time pressure, it’s tempting to assume everyone knows what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what needs to happen next. However, as your company and stakeholders are changing faster than ever, these assumptions may no longer apply. This can lead to unintended outcomes.

For example, we discuss the story of what one CEO and C-suite team discovered about the impact of their assumptions as they led their company for dramatic transformation and growth.

A quick way to begin uncovering assumptions is to use our complimentary checklist, “Five Questions To Ask When You Need To Move Even Faster.”  We also discuss three particular times these questions can be especially impactful.

Increasing the success of  decisions at warp speed requires you to check assumptions even more often – Pam Harper

This week on Growth Igniters Radio:



* The special challenge of making high-stakes decisions at warp speed

* What one leadership team discovered about their assumptions and the impact it had on their decisions for growth

* Three ideas for using our free checklist for discovering leadership assumptions  when you need to move at warp speed



Resources Mentioned:



* Download Our FREE strategic resource: 5 Questions To Ask When You Need to Move Even Faster

* Find out more about Pam’s keynote speaking at Pam Harper Speaks



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If you’re like many of the top leaders we work with, you have a can-do attitude that enables you to take on tough issues and do what it takes to exceed expectations. You assume that you’re resilient. But in the face of unrelenting demands, anyone can burn out and not even realize it.

This week, we discuss this challenge with Marie-Hélène Pelletier, PhD, MBA, also known as “MH.” Her book, “The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health,” was released in February 2024.

Throughout her career in business management and psychology, MH has spearheaded a dialogue on the crucial issues of leadership resilience and workplace health. Drawing on her extensive background in corporate, insurance, governance, and public sectors, she brings national and international perspectives and expertise on mental health and resilience as a key pillar of overall health. MH is also a bilingual practicing psychologist with over 20 years of experience in clinical psychology and advisory workplace psychology. She holds a Ph.D. and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.

MH is a Member of the Global Clinical Practice Network of the World Health Organization, and past Director on the boards of the Canadian Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology. She is the author and co-author of numerous industry and academic publications and has won numerous academic and industry awards.



Resilience is not a given – you need a strategy. — Marie-Hélène Pelletier



This week on Growth Igniters Radio:



* The factors that can unintentionally put highly successful people at risk of burnout

* The reason MH say that rather than being a trait, resilience is a resource that can be developed

* Why MH says “taking a strategic approach to developing a resilience plan is good business”

* A story of a CEO who increased her productivity through developing a personal resilience plan

* Three immediately useful ideas for designing and developing a custom resilience plan



Resources for This Episode:



* Learn more about MH Pelletier and connect with her on LinkedIn

* Find out more about MH’s book, The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimize Your Work Performance and Mental Health

* Find out more about Pam’s keynote “Break Orbit: Achieving Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term World”



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How do you regard the turbulence and complexity in today’s business environment? While it can be extremely challenging, we’ve found that successful visionary business leaders recognize and embrace complex situations because they can also offer many opportunities.



To find out more, listen to this Fan Favorite conversation with Amy Lee Segami, President and Managing Principal of Segami Studios and Consulting. We discuss a few of the parallels between physical turbulence and turbulence in the business environment. These can help you lead yourself and others through complex situations and times of crisis.

NOTE: This episode was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic turbulence that followed. While the specific issues have evolved, the ideas we discuss are timeless.

Amy is an award-winning artist and entrepreneur who formerly trained as an engineer. She uses her unique application of fluid dynamics (Painting on Water™) to help leaders and teams embrace turbulence and increase innovation. Her artwork is in museums’ permanent collections, and her artistic process was nominated for the 2020 Thomas Edison Innovation Award. Media, including BBC, NPR, Crain’s, and the TED Blog, feature her work.



Anything that goes through a process to come up with a new or improved outcome has to go through turbulence. — Amy Lee Segami



This week on Growth Igniters Radio:



* How embracing the principles of turbulence can help you and your teams navigate disruptions from complex situations and crises such as COVID-19 and the volatile economy

* What one of Amy’s clients learned about turbulence through Painting on Water™ that helped them to increase innovation

* Three immediately useful ideas for leading to find the positive side of business turbulence



Resources for This Episode:



* Learn more about Amy Segami and connect with her on LinkedIn

* Find out more about Amy Segami’s Painting on Water™ art

* Listen to Pam & Scott’s conversation with Dr. Leslie Austin about “Leading Your Organization Through Major Change During a Crisis”

* Find out more about Pam’s keynote “Break Orbit: Achieving Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term World”



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If you lead a family business, you probably deal with the challenge of building a lasting legacy for the business every day. Establishing good governance and nurturing leadership talent from inside and outside the family are important parts of a strong foundation. However, family dynamics also have a very powerful impact on how a family company’s legacy evolves.

This week, we revisit our Fan-Favorite conversation about this challenge with Thomasina H. Williams, Founder and Principal Consultant of Sankofa Legacy Advisors. We discuss what she calls “the family side of family business,” and how it’s equally or even more important to building a lasting family business legacy than attending to the “business side.”

Thomasina combines her decades of experience as an award-winning lawyer and nationally recognized philanthropy strategist to help families who own large businesses or significant financial wealth build transgenerational legacies of success. She does that by helping them focus on their most precious asset – who they are individually and collectively as a family.

Thomasina is a member of a cadre of vetted family advisors for a family office network that’s part of financial giant Charles Schwab. She was also Wells Fargo Private Bank’s first in-house Family Dynamics Consultant. Thomasina has been profiled on NASDAQ and Thrive Global, and has written for Enterprising Women Magazine and the National Association of Women Business Owners, among others.



For me, our most precious legacy is who we are, not what we own. It’s about how you walk in the world, how you treat people, and how you show up. — Thomasina H. Williams



This week on Growth Igniters Radio:



* What Thomasina believes is the key to building a family business legacy that can thrive across generations

* How “default family dynamics” can repeat across generations and impact a family company’s legacy, for good or ill

* An important principle for leading a family business to overcome communication challenges

* Three immediately useful ideas for leading to build a family business legacy while preserving relationships



Resources for This Episode:



* Learn more about Thomasina H. Williams and connect with her on LinkedIn

* Download Thomasina’s 3-Circle Model infographic to better understand the family business ecosystem

* Find out more about Pam’s keynote “Break Orbit: Achieving Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term World”



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How do you celebrate your company’s major milestones? Maybe you have a party; some companies ring bells. It’s important to celebrate in meaningful ways that fit with your company’s culture. Beyond the celebration, milestones can serve as an opportunity to reflect on your vision and what you’ve learned so far. This can help you make the important decisions about what’s next.

As for us, we’re celebrating our three-hundredth episode and entering our tenth year of Growth Igniters® Radio!  As you’ll hear, this is about much more than a podcast. We’ve found that it’s been an important part of continuing to build significant relationships in our business community!  It means so much to us when you tell us about an episode that’s had an impact on you.

That’s why In this week’s episode, we’ll answer some of the questions about Growth Igniters® Radio we’ve been asked over the years. Our answers will reflect on what’s changed, what’s stayed the same, and what’s next for us on the journey.

What milestone are you celebrating? How are you going to build on that to create new value in the changing world? – Pam Harper

This week on Growth Igniters® Radio:



* How we have adapted our focus on emerging trends in response to the constant stream of unexpected changes in the world that have emerged since we started our podcast in 2015

* The things we have been and are happy about and grateful for across our years of conversations with amazing executives, thought leaders, and ourselves, and looking to what’s next

* Three immediately useful ideas about developing what we call a “Growth Igniters® mindset,” based on our past 9+ years of experience as podcasters and strategic advisors

* A special offer for our listeners in honor of our 10th year celebration: Contact us to tell us about which Growth Igniters® Radio episode is your favorite, and why — the first 3 people to do by April 10, 2024 will receive a complimentary Kindle edition of Pam’s critically acclaimed book, “Preventing Strategic Gridlock“



Resources Mentioned:



* Read our press release announcing our 10th year of Growth Igniters® Radio

* Learn more about Pam’s keynote address at Pam Harper Speaks





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