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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Connection And Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Being visible and engaged on a random part-time basis, due to other jobs, won’t do it. Possibly an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon may be enough, if you make it happen consistently. This can even be done remotely via Zoom, but it’s important that every team member attends.

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5 Tactics To Minimize Meeting Time And Get More Done

Startup Professionals Musings

I have found it to be more productive and effective to lead with the model that no meetings will take an hour, and may be done in as little as five minutes. But it only works if you observe the following principles: Never hide from your team. Listen and adapt your style to theirs. You rarely learn anything by talking.

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10 Lessons To Be Learned By Winning Teams Everywhere

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I quickly learned that luck has very little to do with it, and I now look for some personal characteristics and leadership styles that separate the potential winners from the losers. Then it extends to the hiring process. It's a waste of time." That means you must first find optimism in yourself.

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10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. It’s always better to be over-dressed than under-dressed.

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5 Ways To Optimize Team Satisfaction In The Workplace

Startup Professionals Musings

With business teams now getting back together in the workplace after primarily working remotely during the pandemic , it’s an ideal time to implement change and make sure your team is feeling a renewed sense of satisfaction, high engagement, and maximum productivity. Put away permanently your “suck it up” voice. We’ve all been there.

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10 Keys To Building A Business Image To Be Remembered

Startup Professionals Musings

In a classic book on this subject “ Leading with Your Legacy In Mind ,” Andrew Thorn, PhD, business coach, and psychologist, talks about his work on leadership strategies with business leaders at all levels. It focuses us on what we can give instead of what we can get. If you disappeared today, what would your legacy show?

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8 Tactics To Make Service Your Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. Know your customers intimately. Train and coach continuously.