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

You know your business better than anyone: your strategy, priorities, and business risks. But you don’t know what you don’t know. To help you make better informed high-stakes decisions, INFORMED DECISIONS shares new ideas, been-there-before advice, and sometimes, a reality check. Each episode focuses on one pressing leadership or strategy topic. In 30-60 minutes, gain strategic perspective, along with practical (and tactical) ideas that can help. Informed Decisions with Randall Craig is not “just another podcast” – go behind the scenes and listen in for yourself what it’s like working with a proven business growth coach, serial entrepreneur, and Hall of Fame speaker.

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Episodes

Tuesday Jan 21, 2025

Here’s our discussion on this important investment in team alignment: leadership retreats, part 3.  Catch the full episode 👉 https://www.braintrustprofessionalinstitute.com/braintrust-institute-powerful-leadership-retreats
Topics include:
Getting a better ROI from your retreat investment.
What to do when key employees aren't able to attend a leadership retreat?
Preparing for what could go wrong… (and more!)

Tuesday Jan 14, 2025

Continuing with part 2 on running a truly impactful leadership retreat.  Catch the full episode 👉 https://www.braintrustprofessionalinstitute.com/braintrust-institute-powerful-leadership-retreats
Topics include:
Managing poor attitudes and conflict going into a leadership retreat
Retreats, ESG, and your corporate brand
When leaders don't have 100% confidence in team members who are at the retreat
Is a “luxury experience” necessary for impact?

Tuesday Jan 07, 2025

Today we are talking about leadership retreats. “The offsite.” “The team-building getaway.” Whatever your organization calls it, it is a HUGE investment of time and money – the planning, the coordination – not to mention time away from work.
In theory, they are a tremendous opportunity to generate alignment and motivate your team, but why are some retreats transformational, yet others yield no significant impact?
To talk about this gap is hall of fame business speaker Randall Craig who has presented at countless retreats as speaker, and has participated in countless others in his leadership roles.

Tuesday Dec 31, 2024

Rounding out with the final instalment of our 3-parter on Driving your Leadership Performance.
Topics include:
💡 What do it if you “fall out of love” with your business?
💡 When should key performance indicators be changed (and are we measuring the right things)?
💡How to have more effective meetings, and more.

Tuesday Dec 24, 2024

This week we get vulnerable: How can we improve our performance, and what supports can we put in place to get the best from ourselves?
Topics include:
💡What to do when our motivation has waned?
💡How do your key hires impact your leadership?
💡How can you create peer accountability, and how to prevent burn out? (And more.)

Tuesday Dec 17, 2024

As a leader, you motivate and set expectations for everyone within your organization… but what about yourself? For your peers? And for your leadership team?
 
Topics include:
💡What wake-up call do leaders need to hear?
💡Recommendations to safeguard time for the “urgent” vs the “important”
💡Accountability, and more.

Tuesday Dec 10, 2024

Here’s part 2 on Creating a High-Performance Team and Work Culture. This week we move from role modelling, to utilization, burnout and employee turnover, to “stretch goals” (and who they benefit), to peer mentoring, and more.

Tuesday Dec 03, 2024

What’s behind creating a high-performance team and work culture? And what are the obstacles we don’t see that prevent us from getting there? 
Join us as we explore the employee “journey”, touchpoints from hiring to onboarding and beyond, expectation setting and accountability, and the role of leaders and managers.

Tuesday Nov 26, 2024

As you close up Q4, are there specific things that you can do to ramp up business growth for next year? Are you open to new ideas that can make the difference between real success? And are there important market changes that you can capitalize on moving forward?
Join Randall Craig as he shares specific business growth activities that you can put into place now, that will make a difference in the coming year. (And also a few that you might want to ditch.)

Tuesday Nov 19, 2024

Part 2 on AI risks and opportunities with questions about the use of AI in hiring and recruiting, AI employee acceptable use policies and enforcement, and developing a proprietary generative AI tool for your organization.

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