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

Rounding out this three-part series on leadership retreat success strategies. This part 3 dives into addressing more challenges you may encounter without the proper forethought, communication, and expectation setting.
Topics include:
↳ Addressing the financial optics in tight economic times
↳ The impact of a work-from-home and hybrid team on leadership retreat planning; and 
↳ When employees see a leadership retreat as an inconvenience

💥Powerful Leadership Retreats Part 2💥
Getting into some leadership retreat whoopsie scenarios in part 2 of this topic. WWRRD: What would Randall and Ronja do??
Topics include:
↳ Managing poor attitudes and conflict going into a leadership retreat.
↳ When the most senior leadership doesn't think they need to change; and
↳ When leaders don't have 100% confidence in team members who are at the retreat.

💥Powerful Leadership Retreats Part 1💥
Sharing here the recording of our original live session on what goes into organizing a truly impactful retreats that propel your organization to the next level of growth. We covered so much we got three episodes out of it! 
Topics include:
↳ What challenges can a leadership retreat solve (and what problems can it not solve)?
↳ Moving from alignment to implementation and accountability when the retreat is done. , and 
↳ Why do leadership retreats fall flat? (And how to avoid this from happening)?

💥Hiring a Keynote Speaker: 10 Great Questions to Ask Part 2💥
You’re on your way to being expert at sourcing the right fit speakers for your retreats and events after this! 
Topics include:
↳ If all professional speakers get the same certifications and learning, is it the same quality across the board?
↳ Creative negotiations in lieu of speaker rates? , and
↳ What's it like working with TOP speakers…

💥Hiring a Keynote Speaker: 10 Great Questions to Ask, Part 1
When clients knock on our door to speak, we make sure it’s a good fit for both sides. In this episode we shed light on the business of speaking, and share the questions you should ask any speaker you are considering.
↳ The speaker selection process
↳ How to identify real quality speakers, and
↳ Speaker budget vs budget speakers: Do you get that much more for paying that much more…?

💥Building Your Business with Partnerships Part 3💥
We had so much to talk about we got three episodes out of it. Getting into the details here… 
Topics include:
↳ Reasonable partnership contracts clauses
↳ Doe the 50/50 partnership work? , and
↳ Developing our ability to identify and secure strategic partnerships…

💥Building Your Business with Partnerships, Part 2
Diving deeper in part 2 on sustaining strategic partnerships.
Topics include:
↳ Managing brand transfer: Absorbing the reputation of our partners
↳ Due diligence: What to be aware of, and
↳ Partner Disputes: Who decides, and how to avoid a deadlock…

Partnerships are tremendously valuable in your business growth strategy – let’s talk about it.
Topics include:
↳ How to focus your partnership strategy
↳ Best practices for partnership agreements/contacts
↳ Most partnership dissolve for the same reasons… why do companies keep falling into the same trap?

💥2026 AI Executive Briefing Part 2💥
We continue in Part 2 of our AI conversation with Q&A. 
Topics include:
↳ What happens when your leaders or middle managers are resistant to adopting AI?
↳ Why are people preoccupied with AI errors (i.e. hallucinations) when human error is more frequent?, and 
↳ What will be the human-only skills that will be valuable in the workplace in the near future?

💥2026 AI Executive Briefing Part 1💥
We’ll leave the compilation of how-to generative AI demos and ‘hacks' to the talented Youtube creators – This session is about how leaders should be thinking about AI, and how we see can be strategic about using it to shape the future of our organizations.