The Strategist
Developing a Growth Strategy for Small Business Owners
As a small business owner, developing a growth strategy is crucial for the success of your business. A growth strategy lays out a plan for how you will increase revenue, expand into new markets, and improve your bottom line. But developing a growth strategy can be...
7 Ways to Eliminate Distractions and Increase Productivity
The new year is well underway, and you're ready to make significant progress. You've set goals and are excited to see what you can do. But things are already popping up and pulling you away from the plan you created. No matter how hard you try, it seems like you're...
How to Get Your Business Ready for New Opportunities
It's a new year, and with that comes new opportunities. While some business owners are pulling back in fear of the looming recession and what will happen to the economy, others are using this time to prepare their companies to scale. If you're feeling the fear but...
Conquering Fear to Learn What You Don’t Know in Business
What you don't know—and are too afraid to learn—will hold you back in business and life. I have a great dad, who I appreciate even more now that I'm an adult. When I was a kid, he used to do things that embarrassed me, like asking random strangers questions about what...
Why You Need to Set Your SMART Goals Backwards
Do you struggle when trying to set SMART goals? It could be that you're doing it all wrong. Well, not really all wrong, but there is a simple change you can do to make setting SMART goals easier. It's as simple as working backwards. Instead of SMART, focus on TRAMS....
10 Leadership Lessons to Bring You into 2023
Once again, we're about to flip the calendar to another new year. And once again, focusing too much on the overall media messages can overwhelm you with uncertainty about the future. But you don't have to focus on those messages. SPEARity founder and CEO Darren Fisher...
Tips for Enjoying the Holidays as a Business Leader
The holidays are supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, and we sure hope they are for you. But we also understand that as a business leader, it's not always easy to check out while you celebrate. Small business owners and leaders are often plagued with...
Are You Allowing Fear to Control Your Decisions as a Leader?
Every individual and leader deals with fear. It's not just you; we all have them. But the question is, are you allowing your fears to dictate your actions while constantly being unhappy with the results? Living in and making decisions in fear will keep you stuck....
How to Stretch Your Business Growth In 2023
Have you spent the last few years wanting to see business growth but feeling like you're staying stagnant? If you continue doing what you've always done, 2023 will look exactly like 2022. But if you're ready to see a change in yourself and your business, it's time to...
The Necessity of a Growth Mindset as a Business Owner
Growing a business takes a lot of work, but it doesn't end there. Inevitably, as a business owner, you will come up against challenges you're unsure of how to move past. You will also experience failure along the way. These are facts that no one wants to accept, but...
How to Get Authentic Feedback as a Leader
In a perfect world, we would do everything right and always know exactly what we should focus on. But this isn't a perfect world, and we all have blind spots. This means we need to be intentional about seeking feedback as a leader. It's nice to hear positive things...
What Happens After You Set Goals?
We all know setting goals is important in life and business. While you may struggle to know exactly how to set the right goals, there's no denying the need to set some if you want to grow and scale your business. A quick internet search of "how to set business goals"...
5 Signs You Need to Improve Your Talent Management
Renee West from Luxor and Excalibur Hotel once said, “You can have the best strategy and the best building in the world, but if you don’t have the hearts and minds of the people who work with you, none of it comes to life.” We probably don't need to tell you that your...
10 Tips to Help You Finish 2022 Strong in Your Business
Another year has flown by, and we are now well into the 4th quarter. This is the time of year when many business owners and leaders start looking back at the goals they set for the year and try desperately to make progress on them before the year ends. If you're...
Is Your Business Leaving You Feeling Overwhelmed, Confused, and Lonely?
Start a business, they said. It will be fun, they said. You will make tons of money working for yourself. Are those the thoughts you had when you first started out on your entrepreneurial journey? But now you are smack dab in the middle of running a business and are...
The Importance of Bringing New Perspectives into Your Business
There is a common problem that business owners and leaders run into—limited vision. We all have our perspectives, which influence how we think about things around us and how we make our decisions. In general, people tend to surround themselves with others who think...
How to Improve Communication With Your Employees
You are working long hours. Employees are not performing up to expectations. Frustration is growing on all fronts. If you're a leader or manager experiencing this, you may be able to address it all by fixing one thing. All these "symptoms" can be red flags that you...
Are You Procrastinating at Work?
Are you one of those people who feel you do your best work under pressure? You push off projects until the last minute while telling yourself that you'll be able to accomplish them to the best of your ability. Well, research disagrees with you. Procrastinating at work...