Informed Decisions: Leadership Conversations and Q&A with Randall Craig (Video)

Your organization has a strategic plan, and presumably it includes the people who will carry it out. But are they as motivated and engaged as they could be? Is everyone in your organization truly aligned on your longer-term goals? And beyond the leadership and the high potentials, do you have a culture of delegation and succession planning? 
 
Topics include:
 
↳ Employee engagement statistics are low across the board (hovering around 30% of employees are engaged). Why is this so low?
↳ The impact of a lack of leadership or uninspired leadership
↳ The current age of company / employee loyalty

Topics include:
 
↳ Do's and don’ts CEOs should be self-aware of at their corporate offsites
↳ What kinds of one-on-one conversations should the CEO be having with team members at the offsite?
↳ How should a CEO react to a team member’s negative, rude, or otherwise anti-social behavior?
 

How we show up as leaders is always top of mind for us as part of how we coach leaders and leadership teams. The focus of this session is specifically how to show up at a leadership retreat because it’s a high-investment event where leaders can’t get the exposure from other team’s retreats, as they are behind closed doors. So we’ll tell you how it’s done! 
 
Topics include:
↳ The impact of CEO as facilitator
↳ How can the senior leaders know they have played their part well at their leadership retreat?
↳ What does the CEO have to do to prepare for their team’s leadership retreat?

More for marketing leaders, aspiring marketing leaders.
 
Topics include:
↳ CMO role in setting business strategy
↳ The CEO / CMO relationship
↳ AI Innovation for CMOs

A session for CMOs and anyone on the marketing team: how to remain relevant, career plan, and continue to make an impact in a time of significant change? 
 
Topics include:
↳ CMOs as executors vs CMOs as executives
↳ Career paths for CMOs?
↳  And why is it that marketers are often the butt of the joke… is it deserved?

Continuing the conversation with more on board performance: board compensation, board composition, the role of board consultants, the interplay with CEO performance, and much more.
 
Topics include:
↳ How can board member compensation be structured to incentivize board performance?
↳ If the board has identified that the CEO is underperforming, what role has the board played in their underperformance?
↳ What would a 1, 3, and 5 year board professional development plan look like?

💥Board Governance, Board Development Part 1
 
Hello board members! This leadership session recording is being share for you! What is your board doing as a whole to keep your governance skills sharp, and your minds ready to identify your next opportunities? Let’s talk about how to build more effective boards with practical thinking on board governance and board development. 
 
Topics include:
↳ What are the formal avenues to allow boards to talk about their governance practices and intensify professional development needs?
↳ Should boards be learning the same materials and having the same training vs each board member seek out individual learning opportunities?
↳ Using generative AI to prepare for board meetings

Topics include:
↳ When leadership team members are resistant to new ideas and feedback: can pre-retreat coaching for inflexible leaders help retreat outcomes?
↳ How do you handle retreat participants who take a long time to come around to ideas?
↳ How can we get everyone on the team to understand and sync up with the organizational strategy?

💥Making change stick: Post-retreat momentum and accountability Part 1
There’s the retreat that comes and goes, and then there is everything that has to be done afterwards. Let’s talk about how to integrate the ideas and ahas from the retreat into your organization’s culture and processes post retreat. 
 
Topics include:
↳ Best practices to create post-retreat accountability
↳ Post-retreat accountability issues… or more general issue of the culture of accountability in an organization?
↳ The impact of having the CEO or other internal team members facilitate vs having an external facilitator (ego… vs role modeling to your team)?

💥Beyond Numbers: Business Leadership for CFOs Part 2
Finishing up our recommendations to CFOs who are career planning, or succession planning. As always, the meta program here is learning how to think like a leader, and the concepts discussed are applicable to senior leaders in any role. 
 
Topics include:
↳ How to get the experiences to be an expert and influential CFO
↳ Opportunities for collaboration between CFO and marketing
↳ What can a CFO do to be more successful?