POPULARITY
Jonno White, Founder of Clarity Consulting, shares his leadership journey with us and explores some leadership keys he's discovered while chatting to a broad range of leaders on his podcast. Check out Jonno's: Book – ‘Step up or step out' Podcast – ‘The leadership conversations podcast – with Jonno White' Company – consultclarity.org
Duane Peters from the Lupus Foundation of America talks to Dr Cristina Drenkard from Emory University and Dr Teresa Brady from Clarity Consulting and Communications, both based in Atlanta, USA. They discuss their paper on the relationship between levels of self-efficacy and health behaviours and outcomes in black women with SLE. Their study specifically evaluated the associations between age, educational level and depression in SLE patients and the degree of pain and fatigue they experienced. These findings may help predict who might benefit most from self-efficacy-enhancing interventions to improve quality of life. Access the article: https://lupus.bmj.com/content/9/1/e000566
On this episode of the Maximize Business Value Podcast, host Tom Bronson is joined by Conni Francini, President & CEO of Clarity Consulting, to talk about burnout. As a burnout survivor, Conni defines the term, addresses the impact of burnout on businesses and provides prevention insight. Many business owners desire a lifestyle of balance, competence and calm, so she teaches others how to tackle these concepts in the workplace. Listen now to learn about burnout, so you don't fall victim!Conni Francini likes to say that she's been guiding others to see and create a hopeful future since 1979. She created opportunities from limited resources, made the most of what little she had, and did the “right” things. As a high achiever, her intense expectations turned into perfectionism, which spiraled into burnout. Her survival story as an executive burnout has guided the way she runs Clarity Consulting, where her mission is to instill hope and enable success.Tom Bronson is the founder and President of Mastery Partners, a company that helps business owners maximize business value, design exit strategy, and transition their business on their terms. Mastery utilizes proven techniques and strategies that dramatically improve business value that was developed during Tom's career 100 business transactions as either a business buyer or seller. As a business owner himself, he has been in your situation a hundred times, and he knows what it takes to craft the right strategy. Bronson is passionate about helping business owners and has the experience to do it. Want to chat more or think Tom can help you? Reach out at tom@masterypartners.com or check out his book, Maximize Business Value, Begin with The Exit in Mind (2020).Mastery Partners, where our mission is to equip business owners to Maximize Business Value so they can transition their business on their terms. Our mission was born from the lessons we've learned from over 100 business transactions, which fuels our desire to share our experiences and wisdom so you can succeed.
Let's find out just how productive you are! Conni Medina joins the POWER HOUR crew to expose the myths of productivity and share some more effective strategies with us. Do you dare try something new? As founder of Clarity Consulting, Conni helps entrepreneurs and executives get out of their own way; to help give them clarity on their goals and take meaningful action to achieve them.
In this week's episode of Project Recovery, Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley are joined by Claire Groll(owner of Clarity Consulting) to talk about how her dad leaving the family when she was five ultimately led to Claire becoming an alcohol addict by the time she was 14 years old. We also dive into how Claire was pepper-sprayed and forced to spend time in a juvenile detention center after an altercation with an officer and what her road to recovery was like.
Adam Torres interviews Conni Medina President & CEO at Clarity Consulting in this episode. Follow Adam on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/askadamtorres/ for up to date information on book releases and tour schedule. Apply to be interviewed by Adam on our podcast: https://www.moneymatterstoptips.com/podcastguest --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/moneymatters/support
On today's episode Bruce talks with Conni Medina founder of Clarity Consulting and Coaching. Conni left an executive career in her late 40's to do something of her own and capture the opportunity for time and financial wealth it offered her. In this conversation we talk about her separation, learning to love running, and how she helps business owners to achieve clarity and build effective execution plans to support that clarity.
The King of Clarity, Steve Woodruff Steve Woodruff helps business owners, leaders and others discover their fit if they’re in charge of a business or brand, and are asking these kinds of questions: With all this stuff that we could be doing, where should our strategic focus be? How can we differentiate in the marketplace? Do we have a core message that our customers are grasping and remembering? Steve does this through something he calls Clarity Consulting. He says it's like a combination of personalized strengths-discovery, strategic brainstorming, and targeted branding. The goal is simple: Discover Your Fit. Then, he helps you craft the words that become your verbal business card. Words that lead to the ultimate business advantage – referrals. Sound like a plan for growth? Today’s Sponsor is Impulse Creative’s Video Marketing Masterclass - George B Thomas built out an 11 module On-Demand Course on how to leverage Video in your Business. He covers everything from how to choose the right equipment, to what you can do videos about in your business. Check it out at impulsecreative.com/vfm and preview 2 modules for Free. Clarity is: Identity, Focus, Message Every company needs to be crystal-clear on their identity. What's your mission? You vision? Who are you really? #identity Where do you fit in the marketplace? Who do you reach? #focus How do you tell people about what you do and who you are? #message Steve has found that many companies that come to him are lacking in at least one of these areas, more commonly two or three. When you don't know who you are, you don't know who to go after, and you don't know how to say what you do. This work, Steve says, really has to be done by the people running the company. Founders, C-level executives... the leaders of the brand who set the vision. If you don't have the captain of the ship using a compass, you're sunk! "It's a scary thing because you're going to have to say yes to very specific things. Which means you'll say no to a lot." - Steve Woodruff on getting clarity Clarity Leads to a Simple, Memorable Message Steve describes his original consulting gig in the pharma world as the "eHarmony of Pharmaceutical Training." It's a great way to give people a quick picture on who he was. This is the goal of your clarity exercise: get your message to people in a simple-to-understand way. This symbol, or metaphor, is the pinnacle to clarity. It's the most powerful way to portray who you and what you do in a matter of seconds. Take everything you've uncovered, your who, your what, your why... and distill it down into symbolic language. A word picture, an analogy. That's the goal. Navigational Tool to Growth: Your Network of People One of the most powerful tools for navigating your growth you have, and may not even realize, is your network. Steve learned that as his happy clients became his ambassadors, having a clear message helps tremendously in empowering them to help you grow. This network should be full of people you can help, who can help you, and where you can be mutually beneficial when it comes to things you need like input and mental support. "Look beyond your tools and software. It works much better when you have a bunch of sympathetic souls with you." - Steve Woodruff on the importance of a network Sometimes Your Niche Has More to Grow You can't be everything to everyone. Find your niche, and explore it deeply. Steve works in the world of pharma training, which one would think gets tapped out quickly with only a few big players in the industry. What he's found, even in his own work, is that he's "barely scratched the surface." Like many entrepreneurs, Steve faces the risk of shipwrecks due to lack of focus. Some call it shiny object syndrome. He found that over time he'd want to branch out and find clients in other industries. But diluting his message and chasing clients outside of the industry in which he's well known slowed down Steve's growth. Instead, focusing on his niche and digging deep gave him more ideal clients and more business. Connect with Steve Steve's website Steve on LinkedIn Steve on Twitter Clarity Wins the book Other Helpful Links Forging an Ironclad Brand by Lindsay Pederson Whiskey Nate Subscribe for New Episodes Every Week Be sure to subscribe on your podcast player of choice (or the email notifications below) for new episodes every week, Tuesday mornings at 7:00am EST. Wayfinding Growth is the go-to podcast to inspire entrepreneurs, business owners and leadership. “For better or worse, in richness and in want” may be for weddings, but it’s also for businesses. We will be your navigator in this journey, no matter your level. Love what we're doing? Leave a review wherever you listen!
The King of Clarity, Steve Woodruff Steve Woodruff helps business owners, leaders and others discover their fit if they’re in charge of a business or brand, and are asking these kinds of questions: With all this stuff that we could be doing, where should our strategic focus be? How can we differentiate in the marketplace? Do we have a core message that our customers are grasping and remembering? Steve does this through something he calls Clarity Consulting. He says it's like a combination of personalized strengths-discovery, strategic brainstorming, and targeted branding. The goal is simple: Discover Your Fit. Then, he helps you craft the words that become your verbal business card. Words that lead to the ultimate business advantage – referrals. Sound like a plan for growth? Today’s Sponsor is Impulse Creative’s Video Marketing Masterclass - George B Thomas built out an 11 module On-Demand Course on how to leverage Video in your Business. He covers everything from how to choose the right equipment, to what you can do videos about in your business. Check it out at impulsecreative.com/vfm and preview 2 modules for Free. Clarity is: Identity, Focus, Message Every company needs to be crystal-clear on their identity. What's your mission? You vision? Who are you really? #identity Where do you fit in the marketplace? Who do you reach? #focus How do you tell people about what you do and who you are? #message Steve has found that many companies that come to him are lacking in at least one of these areas, more commonly two or three. When you don't know who you are, you don't know who to go after, and you don't know how to say what you do. This work, Steve says, really has to be done by the people running the company. Founders, C-level executives... the leaders of the brand who set the vision. If you don't have the captain of the ship using a compass, you're sunk! "It's a scary thing because you're going to have to say yes to very specific things. Which means you'll say no to a lot." - Steve Woodruff on getting clarity Clarity Leads to a Simple, Memorable Message Steve describes his original consulting gig in the pharma world as the "eHarmony of Pharmaceutical Training." It's a great way to give people a quick picture on who he was. This is the goal of your clarity exercise: get your message to people in a simple-to-understand way. This symbol, or metaphor, is the pinnacle to clarity. It's the most powerful way to portray who you and what you do in a matter of seconds. Take everything you've uncovered, your who, your what, your why... and distill it down into symbolic language. A word picture, an analogy. That's the goal. Navigational Tool to Growth: Your Network of People One of the most powerful tools for navigating your growth you have, and may not even realize, is your network. Steve learned that as his happy clients became his ambassadors, having a clear message helps tremendously in empowering them to help you grow. This network should be full of people you can help, who can help you, and where you can be mutually beneficial when it comes to things you need like input and mental support. "Look beyond your tools and software. It works much better when you have a bunch of sympathetic souls with you." - Steve Woodruff on the importance of a network Sometimes Your Niche Has More to Grow You can't be everything to everyone. Find your niche, and explore it deeply. Steve works in the world of pharma training, which one would think gets tapped out quickly with only a few big players in the industry. What he's found, even in his own work, is that he's "barely scratched the surface." Like many entrepreneurs, Steve faces the risk of shipwrecks due to lack of focus. Some call it shiny object syndrome. He found that over time he'd want to branch out and find clients in other industries. But diluting his message and chasing clients outside of the industry in which he's well known slowed down Steve's growth. Instead, focusing on his niche and digging deep gave him more ideal clients and more business. Connect with Steve Steve's website Steve on LinkedIn Steve on Twitter Clarity Wins the book Other Helpful Links Forging an Ironclad Brand by Lindsay Pederson Whiskey Nate Subscribe for New Episodes Every Week Be sure to subscribe on your podcast player of choice (or the email notifications below) for new episodes every week, Tuesday mornings at 7:00am EST. Wayfinding Growth is the go-to podcast to inspire entrepreneurs, business owners and leadership. “For better or worse, in richness and in want” may be for weddings, but it’s also for businesses. We will be your navigator in this journey, no matter your level. Love what we're doing? Leave a review wherever you listen!
Steve Woodruff. Steve is known as the King of Clarity. He is a consultant and author who has helped many professionals - from solo consultants to Fortune 100 pharmaceutical companies - with their brand identity and messaging. He is best known for his intensive clarity sessions, which, in less than a day, unlock a company's DNA and market positioning, and produce crystal-clear messaging to generate sales and referrals. He also helps people find their professional purpose with Clarity Consulting.The author of Clarity Wins, Steve loves to help people and businesses find clarity. In our conversation you'll hear how Chris Brogan gave him his nickname, how a Russian oligarch and his French chateau plays a part in Steve's story, and so much more.Connect with Steve:Steve's websiteClarity FuelClarity Wins (book website)LinkedInInstagramTwitter
Finding the right job is like wearing a pair of jeans that fit perfectly, you just know when it feels right. Did you know that over 50 percent of the workforce finds themselves in an ill-fitting job? Are you one of the 50 percent? Steve Woodruff, founder and CEO of Clarity Consulting, allow people in sales to find their proper fit in the industry and guides businesses towards niches where they thrive financially. How do you know if you and your company (or potential company) are the right fit? How do you discover and harness your sales superpower? Steve will help us answer these questions and more in this episode. This episode is brought to you by, The Why and The Buy, hosted by Jeff Bajorek and Christie Walters. They interview entrepreneurs and sales experts to find out the why behind their success. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On today's show... 03:17 - What are Jeffrey and Jennifer's superpowers? 08:35 - The many job transitions that Steve made to get to his clear fit 17:26 - How do you learn to live out your passion? 23:11 - The steps needed to discover your superpower 32:09 - How to refine your elevator pitches 41:17 - Thinking of your superpower as a hashtag More on today's guest Steve Woodruff and Clarity Consulting is like a combination of personalized strengths-discovery, strategic brainstorming, and targeted branding. The goal, quite simply, is to Discover Your Fit. Then, we craft the words that become your verbal business card. Words that lead to the ultimate business advantage – referrals. FREE E-BOOK: WHY PEOPLE BUY Figuring out why people buy, is a thousand times more powerful than knowing how to sell. This eBook will give you the insight that will allow you to uncover the genuine buying motive of your customer, every time. Join our Exclusive Sell or Die Facebook Group, where our members are already discussing the latest episode. Submit your sales question and we will answer it on the show! Need more sales help? Jeffrey's website: https://gitomer.com Jennifer's website: https://salesinanyminute.com Subscribe to the Gitomer Learning Academy: https://go.gitomer.com/gitomer-learning-academy
Imagine that you and I are having coffee together, and I looked across the table at you and said, “Give me a clear summary of what you do in 1-2 sentences” … what would you say? If you would struggle to answer that question, you have a clarity problem. I can relate, because this is an area where I have struggled as well. We’re in luck because our guest today shares a massive amount of wisdom and practical tips for getting clarity about your creative work, your business, and your ideal customer, client, or reader. I’m excited to bring you this conversation with Steve Woodruff, who is known as the “King of Clarity.” He helps people find their professional purpose through his Clarity Consulting process. Steve works with businesses as well as individuals in career transition to help them be more effective and discover their fit in the marketplace. He is also the author of the excellent book Clarity Wins: Get Heard, Get Referred. This episode is packed with a ton of amazing information, as you can see from the length of the episode highlights I’ve listed in the show notes. But just to give you a couple of highlights, you’ll learn how to start thinking like a business person, how to determine your ideal customer or client (this applies to authors, not just “business” people), and how to effectively network with people as an introvert. Steve also gives me a mini coaching session and shares his very personal journey through depression. To read the full show notes, visit https://kentsanders.net/clarity.
Imagine that you and I are having coffee together, and I looked across the table at you and said, “Give me a clear summary of what you do in 1-2 sentences” … what would you say? If you would struggle to answer that question, you have a clarity problem. I can relate, because this is an area where I have struggled as well. We're in luck because our guest today shares a massive amount of wisdom and practical tips for getting clarity about your creative work, your business, and your ideal customer, client, or reader. I'm excited to bring you this conversation with Steve Woodruff, who is known as the “King of Clarity.” He helps people find their professional purpose through his Clarity Consulting process. Steve works with businesses as well as individuals in career transition to help them be more effective and discover their fit in the marketplace. He is also the author of the excellent book Clarity Wins: Get Heard, Get Referred. This episode is packed with a ton of amazing information, as you can see from the length of the episode highlights I've listed in the show notes. But just to give you a couple of highlights, you'll learn how to start thinking like a business person, how to determine your ideal customer or client (this applies to authors, not just “business” people), and how to effectively network with people as an introvert. Steve also gives me a mini coaching session and shares his very personal journey through depression. To read the full show notes, visit https://kentsanders.net/clarity.
[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/7figureceo/7CEO_034__Three_Types_Of_People_Needed_To_Get_Your_Business_To_7-Figures.mp3″ title=”7CEO 034: Three Types Of People You Need To Get Your Business To 7-Figures” artist=”Casey Graham” download=”false” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” social_linkedin=”true” ] Today Casey brings along two of the people who helped him start, grow and sell a 7-figure business, Becca Harper and Renee Weber. They talk together about how they've worked together for the past 8 years and how their different wiring has helped them work together for success. They reference Les McKeown's book The Synergist throughout this episode to describe and define the three different types of people needed to grow a 7-figure business. After being coached by Les, Casey and the team adopted the language to help them better understand how to work together to reach their goals. LINKS Do You Have A Self-Sustaining Business? Take our short, 10 question quiz to see how you stack up(we'll even give you a score!): https://ownerssuccessclub.com/score Connect with Becca Harper and learn more about her business, Clarity Consulting: http://clarityformybusiness.com The Synergist book by Les McKeown: Amazon The Synergist Quiz from Les McKeown: SynergistQuiz.com 7CEO 007: How To Create A Growing, Sustainable Business With Special Guest Les McKeown: http://caseygraham.com/episode7 NOTES Three Types Of People You Need Visionary: Casey represents the “visionary” who generally has the business ideas and sets the direction of the company. The “visionary” often has more ideas than they're able to implement and need help accomplishing their dreams and goals. Because they usually start the business, they often think they are the best and have the most to lose. They have a tendency to think they're always right and don't realize how they effect the other people in the organization. Many times, they're losing so fast they leave the rest of the team behind. Without awareness of how they are wired, they will believe everyone thinks the way they do and if they don't, they should. Operator: Renee represents the “operator” who helps the “visionary” DO the work and accomplish their goals. The “operator” is often very flexible, which helps them adapt to the “visionary's” changing direction. An “operator” often needs to receive direction since they don't naturally have a lot of ideas for new direction. As the business is getting started, the “operator” plays an important role to help the “visionary” get it launched and is able to pivot to the necessary changes as they get going. A “visionary” entrepreneur will have a VERY difficult time getting the business off the ground without an “operator”. Processor: Becca represents the “processor” from The Synergist”. Most processors are very organized and process driven. They like things to have order and be systematized. Often times a “processor” doesn't join the team until the business is established and in order for it to continue to grow, there must be systems and processes implemented. The “processor” can be seen as an adversary at first because visionaries and operators have been running the business and the “ rocessor” comes in trying to change how they've been working. But they bring the stability into the business that's necessary to continue growth and enable stability. Transitioning To A Healthy Team To Grow & Scale To get to the next level in the business, the visionary must be able to develop the skills necessary to hire and run a team of people to accomplish their goals. This requires developing the “synergist” skills to relate to others and make decisions that are for the good of the whole company. Systems And Processes To grow the business you must simplify what you're doing and how you're doing it. By implementing systems and processes, you create simplicity which allows you to systematize – systems allow you to scale the business. How to Implement Systems and Processes Hire the right person. You can't expect a visionary or operator to be able to effectively create and run systems in the business. It's not their natural skill set, so you must have a “processor” in place. Use the synergist quiz to look for the right person Determine what are the most important systems you need to create. You must objectively assess the activities of the organization to determine what's working well and what isn't. Systematize the activities around the questions the visionary and operators are asking all the time Key Metrics To Drive The Vision And Provide Clarity Start with the goal or mission and work it backwards, asking, “What will it take for us to reach this goal in the different areas of the business?” Create 2-3 key metrics for each person that will help you reach your mission on a daily/weekly basis Report weekly to keep the metrics visible and provide accountability. Green = on track or have hit goal Yellow = not on track or need help to get beyond a road block Red = didn't hit the goal Focus Of A CEO A CEO must proactively look down the road to anticipate the road blocks and be able to remove them. You have to be able to see what's happening in the company and be able to lead the team based on data not gut. This doesn't happen often in businesses early on, but the entrepreneur must be able to make this transition.
In this musing, Clark and Mark talk to George Durzi of Clarity Consulting about developing within the Lync Server 2010 environment. Lync (not to be confused with Linq) is is the Unified Communications environment formerly known as Office Communicator.
In this episode we talk with George Durzi a consultant with Clarity Consulting in Chicago, IL about a project that he worked on that used Vista Gadgets, Unified Communications and WPF. Show Notes George committed to MOSSCamp 2008 during the show: MOSSCamp Website and Registration The project that George worked on is up on CodePlex at: http://www.codeplex.com/MOCVistaGadget WPF presence controls for Communicator 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5001d612-533a-4721-91ea-da990d94ff0f&DisplayLang=en Download / Listen to the Show http://shows.thirstydeveloper.com/TD036.mp3 Ways to connect with your hosts: Dave Bost: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag Larry Clarkin: Blog, Twitter Feed, Facebook Profile, GamerTag