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Transitioning Leaders Using EOS™ Tools

When you have a member of your leadership team leave, filling a key seat with a new person can happen one of two ways: smoothly or chaotically. Utilizing the tools provided by EOS can support your efforts to ensure a smooth transition,...

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Overcoming the 3 Barriers to Delegation

At the beginning of every EOS journey is Focus Day. It’s a day dedicated to establishing the leadership team, setting rocks, and learning about the five leadership abilities and how you can use them to create breakthrough moments for your...

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Defining Resilience with EOS Implementer Nathan Beene

Defining Resilience with EOS Implementer Nathan Beene

In my last blog, I posed a few questions around how we as individuals define resilience, and what it means to us to be resilient. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nathan Beene, the COO of the Grand Rapids Center for Community Transformation and a fellow...

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Defining Resilience with EOS Integrator Kelly Plawinski

Defining Resilience with EOS Integrator Kelly Plawinski

If you’ve been around for a while, you might remember my previous blogs and videos highlighting Kelly Plawinski’s expertise. As the COO and EOS Integrator of Adamy Valuation, Kelly has a wide variety of leadership experience and has faced her fair share of challenges...

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Create a More Resilient Organization & Self

Create a More Resilient Organization & Self

You find yourself at the end of a busy day learning from experts on a topic that interests you. You’ve met some new peers and had plenty of conversations that leave you feeling uplifted and not so alone. As your inspiration burns like a fire inside of you, you see a...

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3 Things You NEED to Teach Mid-Level Managers

When you grow to have mid-level managers in your organization—which generally leads to more disconnect from the day-to-day—it brings a whole new level of complexity. With a million things on your mind to keep the business afloat, there’s one task that often falls through the cracks: making sure mid-level managers have enough training.

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Top Tips for Beating Burnout

Exhausted, overwhelmed, void of passion for our work. Burnout is no joke, and it happens to even the most experienced businesspeople! Here are my top tips for healing and—most importantly—preventing burnout.

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2022 “Serve First” Donation Wrap-up

2022 “Serve First” Donation Wrap-up

When I did my own VTO 6 years ago I defined 4 core values: Serve First, Kindness Matters, Get it done, and Learning+Doing=Growth. This program emerged when I created a 10-year target to give away 20% of my revenue as a way of living my Serve First value. Through Serve...

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Why Every Member of Your Team Should Lead

If I asked you to draw me a picture of a leader, you might pull together a confident and commanding CEO running a meeting, a press conference, or a standup with a group of people. Leaders tend to stand out for how they carry themselves, what they wear, and certainly...

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A Different Approach to Onboarding From Day One

I had the delightful opportunity to chat with Kelly Plawinski, the COO and EOS Integrator at Adamy Valuation. Adamy is a financial services firm based out of Grand Rapids MI that serves business owners, legal experts,...

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