Time2Market Business Development Coaching & Consulting

Twitter 2010 - Did you know...

Twitter is adding 300,000 users a day?  There's more...

 

Are you ready?

Not everyone's on board yet.  But, here are 5 top ways Social Media can help your business:

1. Increases your visibility and web site traffic
2. Creates awareness
3. Improve customer communication
4. Activate viral promotion of your brand, product and services
5. Encourage positive conversations, to build and defend your reputation

This video may inspire you. I'm not sure all the facts and figures are accurate, but you get the picture. (No pun intended - too bad I can't embed this video!)

Where is your customer?

With more companies and individuals embracing social media, it's useful for you to understand today's networks and their demographics.  Study: Ages of Social Network Users  provides an interesting snapshot of social network user demographics in the US.

Is your career blooming?

Good Undercover Boss episode with a lot of business discoveries at 1-800-Flowers to consider. One I want you to think about, which we saw in many other Undercover Boss episodes, is that employees at companies do not seem to know about training, development or even mentoring programs that may be available to them to help build their career. What's available at your company that you should consider taking advantage of? 1-800-Flowers Blooms on Undercover Boss - Careers Articles.

Sample Engagements

Career Development program design and delivery.
Results: Multiple career programs developed and delivered for several hundred international professionals to build business competencies and pursue promotional career opportunities.

FTSE 100 turnaround.
Results: International sales channel SWOT analysis in 5 countries, contract reviews, and business process enhancement recommendations in under 6 months.

Global 200 new market entry, multi-billion dollar business opportunity.
Results: Market investigation, top partner introductions, detailed profiles, contractual requirements delivered in under 45 days.

Microlender grant program.
Results: Pilot training program designed and delivered to secure $250,000 grant funding in 6 months and establish a 2-year technical assistance program for small business leaders.

$5 million non-profit grant project, for business recovery in crisis environment.
Results: Financial review process developed and review team delivered; funds to 200 recipients in 6 months.

Fortune 500 Latin American joint venture for new $100 + million business startup.
Results: Developed financial forecasts, operating budgets, business and marketing plans; project approved, funded and launched in under 12 months.

Career Development Program Design and Delivery Successes

Feedback on career development services - program design, workshop sessions, group and one:one coaching - has been extremely positive. Serving over 1000 clients in the past year, this is what some have e-mailed me:

- You were by far the most helpful. I can’t thank you enough for your insight...

- My thanks for your help preparing me for my next career steps - especially regarding your help with preparations for interview, which was extremely useful.

- You have been the most helpful and inspiring to me.

- I really enjoyed the course and found it extremely helpful, thanks again for all your help.

- Great class, everyone loved it! Thank you for help on my resume, very useful!

- Thank you so much for your help on this topic, you have worked wonders with our resume's, and I will be forever grateful.

Staying Ahead in the Race for Global Leadership

What does the "Global Leadership Race" mean to you?  We think of it as supporting your leaders to successfully manage across multiple countries and businesses with best practices. 

• Does your company attract and retain the best talent?

• Is your company recognized for leadership development best practices?

• Do you have strategies and processes in place to develop talent at all levels and transform your business for market leadership in competitive global markets?

To learn more about best practices in global leadership development and explore the 4-dimension coaching model we created and shared in Washington DC at ASTD International Conference and Exposition, see www.globalleadershiprace.com. 

Resilience - it's ordinary, not extraordinary

Resilience: recovering from or adjusting easily to change or misfortune. You may think it's something you're either lucky to have or unlucky to lack, but that's not so. Resilience is an ordinary ability, and you can take focused action to build it in your life. Don't wait. Start today.

The first step to building resilience is accepting change. With Spring being a time we welcome change, this first step should be easy. Beyond acceptance, focus on your adaptability, strategic planning, results-oriented actions, and persistence-- so you can build resilience and achieve goals. While the economic forecast is looking rough in many parts of the world and here in New York the Department of Labor warns that 2008 was the good year, 2009 can still be fine.

To work toward keeping 2009 just fine, concentrate on building your resilience a little bit at a time and successfully seizing new opportunities. A few tips to do this include:

1. Avoid viewing crises as insurmountable.

2. Establish and grow your professional support network, making contact to ask for and accept help, and to help others.

3. Nurture a positive outlook, discover what restores you mentally, and take care of yourself physically.

4. Do not stop looking for new opportunities.

5. Take decisive action to work toward goals, proactively working a plan.

Resilience is an ordinary ability that everyone has, it is not extraordinary. But you must build and foster this ordinary ability to have it ready in challenging times to drive favorable business and professional results.

Work the list on your own, or foster your resilience working with a Time2Market coach or consultant to move forward faster. We're helping professionals daily. Contact us here if we can help you or your organization be resilient too.

From Setbacks to Comebacks...

In the last 8+ weeks, times have changed. If you are facing significant challenges this fall in your business and professional life, you are not alone. Exploring ways to recreate and retool in this difficult economic environment can help.

Two ways to start being more proactive than reactive: 

1. The 10 Habits exercise described in this month’s newsletter can help. Sign up here!

2. Join us in Manhattan for the Nov 8th Retooling Session

This quarter you can begin to act on the things you control and help prevent worries from becoming more serious troubles. These two suggestions can get you started. But, to move forward faster, contact us here. We can help you or someone you know with further business and professional development coaching or consulting.

November 8th Retooling Session - Join us!

You’re triggered! Now what?

Turning Negative Emotions into Positive Outcomes

Many people believe that emotions interfere with sound decision making, creative problem solving, effective management and high-stakes negotiations. New research in the behavioral sciences has shown that nothing could be further from the truth. Every emotion (no matter how "negative"), contains vital information which, when properly interpreted, can be used to clarify doubts, generate ideas, build rapport and resolve conflict.

During this highly-experiential course, you’ll learn how to harness your anger, fear and disappointment to increase your performance and fulfillment – at home as well as work. You’ll learn more than a few new concepts and techniques – the content in this course will forever change the way you relate to emotions. Past participants, from CEOs to administrative assistants, have praised the content in this course, calling it "profound", "liberating" and "empowering."

Join us for this groundbreaking course and acquire a new tool for accelerating your growth and improving the quality of your life.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who would benefit from:

• Being less reactive and more proactive

• Making decisions with greater ease and confidence

• Relating with more empathy AND more assertiveness

• Negotiating with greater creativity and flexibility

• Reducing their level of emotional stress.

Past participants have included: Senior Managers, Salespeople, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Customer Service Reps, Learning and Development Professionals, Community Leaders and Change Agents.

When & Where

• Saturday, November 8th

• 1pm - 5pm

• Manhattan

Sign up here, or contact me at (212) 372-3256 if you have any questions.

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