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Remember Natural Wiring When Navigating Unexpected Change In Your Business

May 4, 2017 by Lisa Mininni Leave a Comment

If there is one thing that is constant today, it is that the business landscape is in perpetual state of flux. Some changes can be more jarring than others, like the sudden passing of a key employee, the unexpected resignation of multiple employees, or the crash of your phone and computer systems right before a big launch of a new product.

As a leader, it’s important to know one key element about powerfully navigating unexpected change. Change will automatically amplify your and your team’s natural wiring.

The reality is everyone’s unique mix of wiring is distinct. As a leader, you can skillfully and artfully navigate any kind of change with greater ease when you keep wiring in mind.

To skillfully lead unexpected change, it’s important to understand human wiring. Wiring is something you’re born with and dictates the type of environment in which a person is best equipped to thrive and succeed and the kind of environment they prefer to live and work. With the knowledge of someone’s wiring, you can recognize and appreciates what matters to them, how they communicate and what they innately need when communicating with them.

There will be those naturally wired to put their thumbprint on the change and be concerned with the results or outcomes of the change. Others will want to be able to voice their concerns. Still others want to know the next steps and nurture those impacted by the change. You also have those wired for certainty. They want to know the who, what, where and whys of the change.

As a leader, how you show up and address each of these wiring needs can mean the difference between getting stuck in a rut or causing your team to skillfully navigate the change with grace. The words you choose, the methods of conveying the messages, and the pace at which you implement matter in effectively moving your organization ahead.

Different situations require different tools. When you increase your personal awareness of human wiring (including your own), you discover a level of communication that makes a highly effective and lasting difference when navigating change.

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Building Operational Capacity for Your Business

March 9, 2017 by Lisa Mininni Leave a Comment

Capacity is an interesting word. In business, there are a myriad of meanings and contexts. There is leadership capacity, staffing capacity, and operational capacity to name a few.

As a small business owner, you can reach your own leadership capacity. For example, if you don’t learn the skills of delegating, you’ll hit your personal productivity limit. The reality is you can stunt your business from growing because you can only grow your business to the maximum amount that you can personally handle.

Then, there’s the ripple effect. If you don’t delegate to a team, then they won’t learn the necessary skills. If they don’t learn the skills, then you will be missing necessary leadership proficiency. As you scale your business, you won’t have the bench strength to take care of operations or your customers.

If you don’t understand the operational capacity of your machines, IT storage, or even your new computers, you’ll be putting out fires, rather than proactively planning. The first step is recognizing your capacity to scale.

When will you hit capacity in all areas of your business?

This is an important question to ask. As you scale your business, you want to know what the growing pains will be before you experience them.

If you would like a framework to scale your business, join us for the Wake Up Profitable Boot Camp for Business Owners on April 27-28, 2017 at Davenport University in Livonia, Michigan. Registration information at http://www.wakeupprofitable.com. Register before March 31 to take advantage of the tuition scholarship and installment program.

The Importance of Activating Your Vision

November 10, 2016 by Lisa Mininni Leave a Comment

Many years ago on a cold winter day, I drove down the road with a million thoughts in my head. I questioned if I was on the right path in starting a business and writing a book.

Within a split second though, my thoughts scattered. That was all the time I had to react when I suddenly realized that an object was hurtling with lightning speed straight toward my windshield. I instinctively crossed by arms in front of my face waiting for the pain.

While protecting my eyes, my other senses took over. I heard a whooshing sound and metal dinging around in the front seat of my car but, surprisingly, not the pain I anticipated.
I forced one eye open, took the wheel again, only to view a shattered windshield and a four-foot, five pound metal bar stretching from my dash board to the passenger’s seat.

I was unhurt but the car was not so lucky. This tire iron incident is not unlike navigating your business.

One day you’re working the next you’re thrown a tire iron and it sidelines your momentum. Often times, just one event sidelines you and absorbs all of your energy.

This is the very moment where having a grounding framework comes in handy. This grounding framework can save you and your team from spiraling off on a tangent.

A vital competency of successful leadership is the ability to visualize, articulate and engage others in a desired future of any organization. Most business leaders, however, miss the vital next step. Creating and slapping a vision on the wall is what happens in most organizations.

The trick to sustaining a vision is to keep it alive each and every day. If it is not kept alive, it takes a back seat to the events of the day.

People who commit to living their vision realize that they must change their actions in order to live in alignment with it. They absorb their vision at a level where it keeps them on track.

When you take action consistent with your vision, your actions have a magnificent positive trickle effect. You begin to powerfully choose your next action intentionally in alignment with the vision versus the problem of the day.

Implementing the vision is a process. Once implemented, you will find that you and your team have another tool in their toolbox. Because you and your team focus on your future vision, which encapsulates your values in action, you will start to focus on possible alternatives versus what is not going right.

Creating a vision is one thing. Activating your vision every day is another.

It’s a choice. Choose powerfully.

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Me Myself And Why x 300 P.S. An exercise to create your vision is available in the book, Me, Myself, and Why? The Secrets to Navigating Change by Lisa Mininni. To purchase copies for your team, CLICK HERE or for group purchases, visit https://excellerateassociates.com/me-myself-and-why/

A Day Without Context is a Day Wasted

October 13, 2016 by Lisa Mininni Leave a Comment

Consistency.

For high-achieving business owners, it’s one of the painstaking parts of growing your business.

For almost every business, you operate like a farmer. You plant today what you want to harvest tomorrow. It’s the in between time of nurturing the business and doing everything necessary to generate a good crop of business.

The waiting can be frustrating!

Seth Godin talks about that in between time in his blog, Now is Never (but here comes tomorrow). He writes:

“Everything you’re working on is an investment in tomorrow.

While we can choose to enjoy the process, the end result is always at the end of an arc, always the result of many steps, of earning trust, of building a connection.

If you view any particular day without context, it is almost certain to be a failure. Because now never happens. The results always happen later. Since later is just around the corner, today, right now, is the perfect time to begin.

Now is the moment we get to plant the seeds for later.”

I couldn’t agree more. I especially like the phrase, “If you view any particular day without context, it is almost certain to be a failure.”

In my over 30 years of working with high-achieving business professionals, context is often missing.

Rarely do business professionals understand how to create that context in a way that makes a real difference for their life, their business and the contribution they are out to make in the world.

My brother is a dairy farmer. He really understands about context. Every day, he goes to work whether it’s below zero or a humid 90 degrees.

Every day, he feeds his dairy cows – because he knows that every single day he feeds 35,000 people an 8 oz. glass of milk.

Over 35,000 people depend on him each and every day.

Every day from sun up to sun down he and his team nurture the very animals that that feed 35,000 people. That’s his context.

What’s yours?

P.S. In last week’s teleseminar, Unstoppable Leader, I shared the importance of knowing your context and contribution in the world.

If you haven’t listened to the audio yet, here’s the link to listen:
https://excellerateassociates.com/free-teleseminar-unstoppable-leader

If you did listen to the teleseminar, then you know I shared a compelling ways to overcome circumstances, obstacles and barriers that make a real difference for your life and business.

If you’re asking how you can put all of the pieces and your ideas together in a framework that leaves you consistently inspired, focused, and generating results on a daily basis, then I encourage you to take the action today and reserve your spot at the Wired to Win Workshop on Friday-Saturday, October 28-29, 2016.

If you’ve been putting off things for later, then now is the time to change that.
Register at http://www.excellerateassociates.com/wired-to-win

You see, there is a specific framework that has caused thousands of my clients to align their work with who they are and get really clear on (and accelerate) their contribution in the world.

With this framework, you’ll become laser focused (and actually see results), decision making becomes easy, and procrastination disappears.

What’s most important is that the framework is aligned with your natural wiring. The beauty is that your path is like nobody else’s because nobody else is wired like you!

The Wired to Win Workshop is for you if:

-Deep inside you long to create a legacy business that has a life beyond you.

-You want to tap into your own unique mix of natural biological wiring and finally create momentum and ideal results with more freedom and ease.

-You want to put all of the disparate pieces and ideas together to create a life you’ve always wanted.

-You want to discover a key foundational framework that shifts your leadership into causing things to happen (versus you always having to generate it).

-You want a road map that inspires you each and every day to move your desired vision from concept to reality.

Register now or before Saturday, October 15 to save $300 at:
http://www.excellerateassociates.com/wired-to-win
To save $300, apply Coupon Code: wiredtowin

Create a great life,

Lisa Mininni

Unstoppable Leadership – How Are You Showing Up?

August 25, 2016 by Lisa Mininni Leave a Comment

excellerated success institute 2 Research shows thousands of employees want to take the leap out of their jobs, and it’s all about dealing with a horrible boss.

Over one-third say that not only is their boss horrible at their job, their boss is also deeply ineffective. And quite frankly? They feel they could do a better job.

Ouch!

Complaints about the boss are common. The key is to recognize that you might be that boss.

And, it doesn’t make you wrong or a bad person. It happens to every leader at some point. You show up irritated, get triggered, or have a habit of focusing on the negative.

As a leader, you get stopped. You often get stopped because your underlying wiring gets amplified or is not met especially under stress.

Your individual wiring is one of the main forces determining how you show up. Your wiring is your greatest asset and can be your biggest liability.

Wiring dictates the type of environment in which you are best equipped to thrive and succeed, and the kind of environment you prefer to live and work. Understand that your wiring influences your actions each and every day. When you understand your wiring and the wiring of others, you expand your capacity to clearly and confidently interact with people around you.

You also transform how you show up as a leader. Understanding how you and others are wired enhances idea flow, transforms communication, expands productivity, and strengthens decision making.

If you want to expand your natural capacity for leadership and see the difference you make on a broader scale, I invite you to my upcoming teleseminar where you will:

-Discover the #1 underlying reason why leaders are ineffective.

-Understand the 4 key elements of human wiring and the hidden reasons you get stopped.

-Learn to recognize a major cue so you’re more effective in enrolling others in an idea, product or service.

-And, most importantly, how you can take it further to become an unstoppable leader.

Free Teleseminar: How to Become an Unstoppable Leader
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
12 pm Eastern (11 am Central; 10 am Mountain; 9 am Pacific)

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