Podcasts about strategic plans

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. How do you grow your business from startup to seven figures in just three years? It might sound like a huge leap, but it's absolutely possible—and it comes down to one thing: alignment. You need to synchronize your daily, effective actions with your long-term, big-picture goals. Your efficiency is a direct result of how aligned you are with your strategic plan. Keep it simple. Keep it structured. Keep it systematic. Earlier, I mentioned that planning tools—like spreadsheets and weekly meetings—will become some of the sexiest things you do in business. I'll admit, when I first heard that, I cringed. That's not what I pictured when I thought about building a business. But now? I look forward to them. Not because I love spreadsheets, but because I love the results that come from being organized, structured, and system-driven. Like and follow this podcast to learn more. I'm Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When you pair a consistent, high-quality system with a strong customer experience, you create something powerful—a deeper connection with your clients. That connection allows you to serve at a higher level and positions your business as a leader in your field. And when that happens, results follow—fast. In the success cycle, your energy should be channeled toward achievement. Spend just 10% of your time identifying the challenge or opportunity, and 90% focusing on solving it. When your attention is locked in on the outcome, solution, and result, you'll move through the success cycle quickly and effectively. Like and follow this podcast to learn more. I'm Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the Business Discovery Process, there are three core areas you need to uncover: First, your behaviors—what we refer to as DISC—reveal how you do what you do. Second, your values—these are the why behind your actions, your motivators and priorities. And third, your attributes—they show what you are willing and able to do. The goal is to identify both your strengths and blind spots in each of these areas. Once you do, align them with your company's mission, vision, values, and purpose. That's when true organizational alignment begins. Like and follow this podcast to learn more. I'm Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. As we dive into Stage One and explore what's required, you'll see the power tools for where your focus should be at each phase. One of the earliest and most important tools is assessment. You need to understand your identity—where you stand at any given moment—and what you bring to the table. But it's not just about you. You'll also assess everyone in your company, looking at their behavior styles, value hierarchies, and key attributes. With those insights, you'll be able to put the right people in the right roles, doing the right tasks. While we assess people early on, the benchmarking of the business and roles comes later. Like and follow this podcast to learn more. I'm Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO—just a little over a one-minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Even if you process things logically or are a numbers person, your decisions start with emotion. You've probably heard it said: we buy on emotion and then rationalize with logic. And it's true. Humans have six basic categories of motivators. When making a decision—whether to buy, act, or not—you go through a mental checklist based on these motivators, ranked in a hierarchy. If a choice doesn't satisfy your highest values, or worse, triggers your lowest values, it's unlikely you'll make that decision. In other words, your emotional values either pull you toward something or push you away. Like and follow this podcast to learn more. I'm Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Once more into the breach we go, though we're not headed for battle but for another bout of audio stories collected and packaged as the Charlottesville Community Engagement podcast. This is an element of Town Crier Productions, a one-person information outlet created in 2020 to provide me, Sean Tubbs, with a way to do what I love best: Write stories that may seem obscure until you realize I'm writing about growth, economic development, and living in a changing community.In this edition:* One person is dead and another injured following house explosion in Keswick (story)* Judge Worrell is set to make a decision related to the granting of default judgment in the legal case against the city's zoning code but it had not come in at press time (story #1) (story #2)* Albemarle Fire Chief Dan Eggleston will retire in October and a brief look back at his career as well as a listen back to a March story about why fire and police both asked for more money in the FY2026 budget (story)* Charlottesville City Council briefed on regional tourism efforts (story)* Albemarle County Supervisors adopt economic development strategic plan (story)Sponsor: Westwind FlowersIt's that time of year we've all been waiting for… Dahlia season!Westwind Flowers in Orange, Virginia believes the blooms in your vase should be just as fresh, and just as local, as the food on your table.Join them in September at their Gordonsville floral studio for their Dahlias & Desserts Workshop—sweet treats, stunning flowers, and serious fun.Then in October, grab your shears and sign up for their Dahlia U-Pick events at their farm… a flower lover's dream come true!But why wait? Order your locally grown, freshly harvested Dahlia bouquets today, delivered straight to your home, your office, or to someone special.Westwind Flowers offers sustainably grown, thoughtfully curated cut flowers, perfectly suited to the season, and the special moments in your life.Learn more at westwindflowers.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe

August 24, 2025 -- FBCM Strategic Plan by Phil Knight

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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. To those of you who are reading this–that had ever–ever got a gift that says “some assembly required” and what have you done? This is how you've tried to put it together in the past: you've got this model airplane or bicycle, and here's what you did. You did the I part, you got it and you said “wow! This is really great” thank you so much for getting me this, it's exactly what I want it and then you try to implement a systems, I'll pull everything out of the box, I'll lay all my tools around and I'll put myself in the shop and then step by step I'll put this thing together. And then you'll start to realize you've got more parts lying around as you get closer and closer than you should have, and you'll realize this isn't going so well. So, I've got to tighten the screws up a little bit more and I've got to maybe get a better screwdriver, you'll try all of a sudden raise the quality of what you're doing and then when you realize that the things should be built in 20 minutes, you've been doing it for 2 hours, you're not half way through, everyone else is wondering where is this great creation. It's only then that you say, “maybe I should read the instructions”. And that's the way most people try to build a business. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. How do you know you have the right person in the right place? Their true nature, their experience, their attributes, their skills align with the job description that they are involved in. So, in building a structure you put the right people doing the right task, how do you know? At the end of the day does performing that task give you energy or rub your energy. If doing that task or performing that part of the business gives you energy as the day goes along, you have the right person, you have the right structure and the right people in it, that's how you'll know. You put the systems in later in order to help that person grow within that business. Right now, right people and the right jobs who are enthusiastic about doing the job that they have and that will align with the MVP planning. We will put the structure in, we will put the system in at a later time. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

The Bigger You, the Smaller the Problem Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Then the world you're around, you'll be more skilled so I've got really good at my voice to text. So, I can have phone calls and send emails and everything from my phone without ever touching you cause I understand the commence now, you just work on those things, right? So, you wanna become better than the problem you are facing and be able to juggle more, work smarter you know you want to expand you know so you're bigger than the goal as opposed to saying “oh well, I'm overwhelmed let me shrink it down”, no no no it don't work that way, you should be thankful to the problems you have, you wanna become bigger and better than your problems and you know who was it, I think it's Billie Jean King said you know “pressure is a privilege”, right? You know people who don't have pressure you know they don't have that–they're not gonna have the life that you aspire towards, you know what I'm saying. So, take the pressure as a privilege and figure out what's the better way for me to manage it not let me shrink my whole world down so I can handle it, well anyone can do that, right. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Multiply Your Time, Multiply Your Impact Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And I get it, the brain works better when you're doing one thing but you're not getting anywhere beyond you're not achieving the level you want unless you're multitasking, right? So yeah I have my coaching business, I have my speaking business, I invest in companies you know I have real estate and I've got that, that's not all gonna happen on the same day you know and so you got to figure out how to do more than one thing at a time, you have a team here you already starting with that, your key–the key to your success will be and anyone successful will be thinking about how well can you multiply time, right? And how well can you share your guiding principles and be transparent and share your goals with others so they can help you get there, right? And so you have to be multitasking. I'm sorry this whole idea that you know I get it–I get all the signs that surround us say we do better for doing one thing at a time (yup), well if that was true then why do I drive down the road and everyone's looking at their phones. No one would admit the texting on their phone but everyone's doing it, right? Of course they are, you know I count it up once I'm driving on the road, I'm like you want me to put on my phone. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The advisor is somebody who is probably the most important person in a room, they're great at networking and they can marshall and channel all the resources necessary to get something done, they're a generalist, they're a jack of all trades and they're good at all of them, they're not like a master of none they're actually very good at all of them. It's the hardest one to become actually, advisor and then there's a mentor. And the mentor is somebody who's done something successful and now they're just gonna walk, they're gonna say to that person “listen follow my footsteps it works for me and I can show you the way through”. So, in today's age you're looking for one of those four, right? So if I'm going to lose weight, I wanna get in shape, I'm actually looking for a consultant, a personal trainer. You know I might coach so they could--how you feel about me in fat not in shape, oh I feel like (shit) and I wanna get better shape, okay good now I'm gonna turn consultant on you and I'm gonna say “this many exercises, this many reps and you got to--you got to pound them out, that's a consultant”, right? So it depends on what you're going for is what you'll seek out and how much you know, how much you'll participate as their client. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the beginning it was enough to say you were a coach, hey I'm a coach, wow that's awesome, then it was I'm a life or business coach.Then I'm a life coach and I've got all this segmentation and so now, you know it's a very mature industry and each industry has niches, that's how you know, when there are niches, you've got a mature industry, coaching is there. But coaching you know in what you describe people aren't hiring a coach because they want an expert. As a matter of fact the coaches are least likely of the four disciplines to be an expert you--there's a coach, there's a consultant, there's an advisor and there's a mentor, okay? And there are four distinct skill sets, four distinct market place opportunities or in services that you provide, coaches are there to help you process through the core issues of what is leading to whatever your experience is right now. They don't have to know anything about anything other than how to help you process through the core emotional issues and the mindset of what is got, in where you are today. A consultant though that's the expert, that's the mechanical works on the scooters, that's the lawyer, the accountant, the attorney they're there to diagnose, treat and then help you fix the problem. They are the ones that they're gonna take over, they do the doing. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

The Kansas City Public Library announced a "Strategic Plan" to meet community needs, funded by a new grant. Anyone can weigh in on what they want it to include.

QFF: Quick Fire Friday – Your 20-Minute Growth Powerhouse!   Welcome to Quick Fire Friday, the Grow A Small Business podcast series that is designed to deliver simple, focused and actionable insights and key takeaways in less than 20 minutes a week.   Every Friday, we bring you business owners and experts who share their top strategies for growing yourself, your team and your small business. Get ready for a dose of inspiration, one action you can implement and quotable quotes that will stick with you long after the episode ends!   In this episode of Quick Fire Friday, host Rob Cameron speaks with Leslie Hassler, founder of Your Biz Rules, shares her journey of helping service-based entrepreneurs scale with confidence and clarity. Leslie dives into her proprietary Scaling Rich Method and explains how focusing on predictable profitability, 90-day strategic planning, and mindset shifts can unlock exponential growth. She discusses a powerful case study where a client grew from $125K to over $1M in take-home pay within a few years. Leslie emphasizes that growth doesn't have to mean burnout—and that business success is about building systems, leveraging the right team, and not doing it all alone. Key Takeaways for Small Business Owners: Profitability Comes First – Focus on making your business predictably profitable before scaling; cash is the fuel for growth.   Use 90-Day Strategic Plans – Long-term visions are important, but 90-day plans keep goals achievable, focused, and easier to execute.   Mindset Matters – Often, the biggest growth barrier is in your head. Let go of limiting beliefs and be open to what's truly possible. Our hero crafts outstanding reviews following the experience of listening to our special guests. Are you the one we've been waiting for?   You Don't Have to Do It Alone – There's no trophy for burnout—leverage experts, teams, and advisors to lighten the load and scale smarter.   Growth Can Be Exponential, Not Just Incremental – With the right foundations, systems, and timing, rapid growth is achievable without chaos.   One-Size-Fits-All Doesn't Work – Every business is different. Custom strategies based on data and current business needs outperform cookie-cutter solutions. One action small business owners can take: According to Leslie Hassler, one action small business owners can take is to create a focused 90-day strategic plan based on real business data—this helps identify low-hanging fruit, prioritize actions, and build momentum toward scalable growth. Do you have 2 minutes every Friday? Sign up to the Weekly Leadership Email. It's free and we can help you to maximize your time. Enjoyed the podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes or your preferred platform. Your feedback helps more small business owners discover our podcast and embark on their business growth journey.

3 Communication Zones in Your Body   Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  Communication zones in your body. They're higher, middle, lower.  That's it, right? Think collarbone, think waist, right? So higher, middle, lower. And that's how people will communicate. So I'll demonstrate and then we're gonna do it together. So higher is from your shoulders upward, right? So somebody is what we would call a visual person. They are higher, faster, louder communicator. The reason why they're, and when you see their gestures, their hands are above their shoulders and they talk like this and they're like, hey, come on up front. They don't say, come to the front there, hey, come on. Right, they're making all these gestures way up here. And you're 50 feet away saying, oh my God. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Program note: Every Saturday at 6 a.m., an audio version of this newsletter airs on WTJU. The copy for this newsletter is the for the one that aired today Good morning and welcome to another archive edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement for August 2, 2025. I'm Sean Tubbs, the publisher at Town Crier Productions. For the past five years, I've been writing stories about the community from a close-up perspective, documenting all manner of stories.Today's edition is going to feature several of those about economic development. Albemarle County is updating their strategic plan for attracting business to the community, and the Board of Supervisors may adopt the plan later this month.Here are the stories:* In January, the Albemarle Economic Development Authority got a briefing on the Broadway Blueprint (learn more)* In June, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors denied an application to fill in the flood plain for an industrial building in the Broadway Blueprint (learn more)* Later in June, the Board of Supervisors got an update on the economic development strategic plan (learn more)* On July 8, the Albemarle Planning Commission got a briefing on the implementation chapter of the Comprehensive Plan, but heard from members of the public concerned about the economic development strategic plan (learn more) Continuity copyAlbemarle County has dramatically increased efforts to boost business in the area over the past 15 years with the creation of an economic deve nlopment office and adoption of a strategic plan called Project Enable.Efforts to update the plan got underway this January with the opening of a survey to “better understand the perception of Albemarle County's past economic development efforts and to identify future opportunities that should be considered in the strategic planning process.”In recent years, Albemarle County has bet heavily on expanding the defense and intelligence and in May 2023 the Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of several hundred acres of land around the Rivanna Stations for $58 million. The goal is to build a campus for those industries and they're seeking to get it ready for development.There are other places where the county is seeking to focus development. Here's one story from February 2025.(Broadway Story)However, just because there's a strategic plan doesn't mean that Albemarle Supervisors won't make decisions. Here's a story from early June.(Flood Plain Denial)Later this month, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors will have a joint work session with the Economic Development Authority about that economic development strategic plan. The Board had a briefing in June.(EDSP Briefing)Ad-lib(Planning Commission AC44 implementation)The draft EDSP can be viewed here and feedback is being taken through August 8.The end of #901AI've spent a lot of time with my parents this week helping them be together for their 62nd anniversary. That's meant I've not been able to spend much reporting, but I'm a person with many deadlines. I'm very fortunate I'm able to work when I can and these times of eldercare have forced me to become more efficient.Today I'll be working on the next Week Ahead as well as the next Fifth District Community Engagement. This next week should see a return of “normal” newsletters, but at any point I may have to put all of this aside. In any case, thanks for your patience this week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe

This week was a landmark week for Caribbean development as the AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2025 yields extraordinary results with Afrexim Bank.  Major Infrastructure, Health, Trade, Investment, and Regional Cooperation is underway in the region as highlighted in this episode of Pulse of the Caribbean News Roundup. Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada Chambers signed a cooperation agreement for economic and social developmentTanzania expressed interest in improving diplomatic relations with Grenada The Bahamas  National Health Insurance Bill 2025 to bring universal healthcare to all its citizensCARPHA launched its Strategic Plan 2025-2030 to improve regional health systems and promote innovationDominican Republic Consulate in Miami launched a 24/7 chatbot for consular servicesFirst annual Caribbean Vibes Party and boat contest coming to Chicago this summerSend news releases to news@pulseofthecaribean.com. If you have an interest in sponsoring our podcast, email us at  biz@pulseofthecaribbean.com.

Healthcare executives juggle decisions worth millions of dollars across multiple campuses while trying to predict a future that keeps changing. Aging facilities need updates, new technologies demand space, and patient needs shift faster than anyone can track. For health systems managing everything from rural Critical Access Hospitals to major medical centers, the old method of planning one facility at a time leaves critical gaps.BWBR Principal Jason Nordling, Senior Planner Jessica Sweeney, and Principal Brian Zabloudil help health systems tackle this complexity through system-level strategic planning. Their work extends well past traditional facility master plans, taking on the task of aligning an entire network of care.If you like what we are doing with our podcasts please subscribe and leave us a review!You can also connect with us on any of our social media sites!https://www.facebook.com/BWBRsolutionshttps://twitter.com/BWBRhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/bwbr-architects/https://www.bwbr.com/side-of-design-podcast/

We create a world around us that matches how we define ourselves  Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  People are the people we surround ourselves with the most. And here's what I mean, okay? I don't wanna scare you with that photo. We, as people, the way we're wired, we're kind of like that projector right there. Whatever we put on the inside of that projector shows up on the screen. We define ourselves a certain way, okay? We define ourselves a certain way, and based on that definition, we create a world around us that matches how we define ourselves, okay? And how you do anything is how you do everything. So once I can understand a little bit about your style, I can predict a lot about your life. If I can predict a lot about your life, I can find a lot of things in common. If I can find a lot of things in common, I know how I can communicate with you, build rapport and ultimately how to have impact in your life, okay? Does that thesis sound reasonable? Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.

Someone else believed in me Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We've coached about 150,000 people now. And we ask everybody, how did you ever get started in your business, if they're a business owner? Or how did you choose this career path if you work for an organization? The number one answer that we get as the reason why somebody chose a career path is someone else believed in me. Someone else said, hey, you know, you're really good at this, or you have a, I went into accounting and finance. This is how the meeting went, senior year in high school. My guidance counselor said to me, Carl, your math scores are really high. You should become an accountant. And I was like, well, that sounds cool. I should do that. So I went to school for accounting and finance, and I had no clue what it was. But I did it because my career counselor said to me, well, you have a proficiency in that area. Your scores are really high. You should go into that field. So I did. I had no clue what accounting and finance meant until I got to college, right? But it's the most common answer we have is somebody believed in me. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

People Follow Certainty   Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Your language means this is where knowledge, credentials comes into play. You need to be the smartest person in whatever room you walk in. Or if you're on a project and you're doing a build-out or you're doing a budget, you want to be among, if not the smartest person in that room because you can then direct the room because people follow certainty. They follow leaders, okay? So you want to be the lead dog. So most people say, oh great, I don't have to worry about that 7%, I'll just focus on the body language. Uh-uh. We need it because it's the lead dog. The body language will do most of the work, but we do need the words for the, as the lead dog. Everybody okay with that? Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

In this episode, we have a special treat - it's Dr. Lauri Diehl, the 2024 president of the ACVP, interviewing Dr. Rachel Reams, the current 2025 President. They discuss the transition process as the College moves between presidents, Dr. Diehl's mission and accomplishments in 2024, and Dr. Reams' goals for 2025. Join us as we hear more about how the ACVP is moving forward with IT infrastructure, the Job Analysis Task Force, and goals for the Training Program Accreditation process as well as what they think is one of the biggest current challenges for the Board of Directors. Learn more about how ACVP is moving forward with more inclusivity and building strength through ACVP's 2023-2027 Strategic Plan. So get ready to hear your ACVP past and current presidents.    ____ 2025 ACVP Annual Meeting Pathology Informatics ACVP Membership ACVP Errors in Publications Portal American Veterinary Medical Association ____ Featured Past Episodes! Season 02, Episode 02 - A Conversation with 2024 ACVP President, Dr. Lauri Diehl Season 02, Episode 03 - A Conversation with Dr. Craig Miller of the ACVP Advocacy and Policy Committee Season 02, Episode 010 - A Conversation with Dr. Rachel Reams Season 03, Episode 04 - A Conversation with Dr. Michael Q Bailey of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) - Part 1 Season 03, Episode 05 - A Conversation with Dr. Michael Q Bailey of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) - Part 2 ____ ACVP Social Media Facebook - ACVP Meetings and Topics Instagram - americancollegevetpath X (Twitter) - @ACVP LinkedIn - AMERICAN COLLEGE OF VETERINARY PATHOLOGISTS ____ Music: Guestlist by Podington Bear, licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.  The contents of this audio do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) or the participants' affiliations. Spoken audio content and associated photos are the property of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, 2025.

Communicate Trust & Respect through body language  Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Communicate trust and respect through your body language. And this is a universal communication strategy, and we will practice that. So there are three elements that influence another person to your point of view. One of them is words. One of them is your voice qualities, and the other is your physiology, meaning how you stand and how you move. So words of the three, all three make up 100%, words, would you guess, make up what percentage of what influences another person to your point of view? 30? Seven? Any other guesses? 15? 16? I like it. He goes to auctions. I'm going 60.  You go 15, I'm going 16. All right, add them all up, okay? And it's 7%. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Trust & Respect  Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. When it comes to trust and respect, trust is a back-to-back exercise. In other words, we have common goals and interests, we establish that, okay? Then, when I turn my back and go into another room, do I trust you'll keep your commitments? Do I trust you're going to do what you said when we're standing face-to-face, you made a commitment?  Now I turn my back and I go, you turn your back, you go, are you going to follow through? Can I trust that you're going to do that? Respect is when we're face-to-face, do I think you are even a substantive enough person? Do you carry the credential? Can you do the job? Do I even want to bother talking to you, right? So if somebody can't look at you and respect you, and somebody can't be in the same room with you and trust you, it's going to be hard for you to influence them. Does that make sense?  Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

After a busy spring for the City Council, which included items like the Comprehensive Plan and Strategic Plan, the Ice Arena Project, the Water Treatment Plant, and the start of the discussion regarding the 1% for the Arts. All of these major projects and ordinances raise the question: how exactly does the City Council and […]

Do you hold the credentials for the job you perform? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Questions that we ask is, we ask this of our clients and we'll say, does everybody in the company hold the credential for the job that they perform? You know what the majority of the answer is for most people in most companies? No. So if you are the bookkeeper, you use QuickBooks Online or some other NetSuite or some other financial software. Have you taken all the certifications that that software offers? The answer is, probably not. If you're a project manager, have you taken all the project management courses that align with your level in the company? Probably not. So just something to think about. Think about your position, what you do,  whatever credential, whatever continuing education credits, whatever training or certification that goes along, not just goes along with your job description, but makes you best in class, you may want to consider taking it.   Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

 After a busy spring for the City Council, which included items like the Comprehensive Plan and Strategic Plan, the Ice Arena Project, the Water Treatment Plant, and the start of the discussion regarding the 1% for the Arts. All of these major projects and ordinances raise the question: how exactly does the City Council and Government work? Mayor Erica Zweifel stated that Northfield chose a unique layout for its government.  To answer some of these questions, KYMN's Maya Betti talks with Northfield Mayor Erica Zweifel about the roles of the mayor and city council members, the process of proposing a project or ordinance, and other aspects of city government.  

Can you handle the task at hand? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Not as important, but it is very important, especially in a commercial setting, respect. Can you handle the task at hand, right? So whatever your title is, can you handle the job that you say you can do? Here's why that's important. Because if I don't respect you, I won't bother telling you the truth. I won't bother bringing things to you because you can't handle it. Why would I bring a problem to you if you can't handle it, okay? Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

 Remove the Barriers Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  And you can't find something in common, it's painful. You meet somebody. Hey, how are you? Nice to meet you. Oh, yeah, I'm Carl. How are you doing? Oh, good to meet you. Oh, yeah, it's your first time at this? Yeah, great, cool. So you into sports? Nah, not much of a sports person. Oh, oh, OK. So what are some of your hobbies? You know, I don't have a lot of hobbies, so I'm just more of a stay-at-home kind of person. Now, that's just two sentences. How hard was that to watch? And we've all been there, OK? So we have to remove the barriers, have the common goals, master the word yes.  Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Unlocking Opportunities with Yes Pt. 2  Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. If somebody asks you, do you golf? Do they actually care if you golf? No. What is it they want to talk about? Golf! And what do you think they were about to tell you after you say yes? Some story that you don't want to hear about their golf weekend. Right?: Okay.  I get it. You don't want to listen to it. But if you say no, they cannot find something in with you. So your answer is yes. Every time. As long as you have a reference for it. I'm not suggesting you lie to somebody. You ever been to Hawaii? Oh, I tricked you. I tricked you. Let's try it again. Let's review the training. It's coming on three. You ever been to Hawaii? Right? In my dreams I have been. On the internet I have been. Seen a lot of great photos of Hawaii. I wish to get there someday. It's yes or some version of yes. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Unlocking Opportunities with Yes Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You have to use this word first. And here's the word. The word is yes. So what's the word? OK, everyone this time, what's the word? OK, so we're going to try it out. Hey, do you golf? Some of you are like, well, I don't I don't know if it's called golf. Like, I went to the miniature. All right, we're going to try it again. Ready? We'll review the training. I'm going to ask you a question. You have only one answer. OK, here it comes. Do you golf? Some of you still, it's still, we're not there yet. OK, now you're saying, well, I don't golf. I don't want to say I'm golfing. I'm not going to lie to somebody. Have any of you ever seen a golf ball? Have you ever gone miniature golfing? Have you ever watched golf on TV? You know who Tiger Woods is? So you have a reference for golf. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Whose goals or interests matter Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We need two things going at the same time at a high level, and they are trust and respect. So trust we define as having common goals or interests. So there you are, you're talking to another person, whose goals or interests matter? Yours or theirs? Who thinks it's yours? Like, it's really important that everyone knows what I like to do so they can talk about it when I want to talk about it. Or theirs? Not a trick question guys, go ahead. This is the audience participation part of the presentation. I'm going to ask a question and you'll raise your hand for one or the other. There's not a third option, okay? So if it wasn't yours, then it's definitely theirs. All right, so let's try again, okay? So whose goals and interests matter? Yours or theirs? Theirs, right on, it wins, okay. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Equine practices need a strategy for the future that outlines the business's overall goals and the steps necessary to achieve them. Link: https://equimanagement.com/business-development/creating-a-strategic-plan-for-practice-growth/Mentioned in this episode:EquiManagement on Audio All the articles you have come to love in EquiManagement Magazine are now available in this podcast for free. Each article is released as its own separate episode to make them quick and easy to listen to. EquiManagement always has the latest insights on equine health, veterinary practice management, and veterinarian wellness.Purina Microbiome Quotientmq.purinamills.com

How do you grow your business from $1.8M to $5M — and get your life back in the process? In this episode of the Profit Tool Belt show, Dominic Rubino breaks down a real case study of a kitchen renovator who transformed his business using smart systems, job tracking, and a new mindset. It's practical. It's doable. And it could be you next.

Different Minds, Different Wires Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now that we have rapport, we can now influence somebody to our point of view, right?  Remember, there's three styles, right? So think about it. When you walk around every day in your work and you say, you know, that department, I don't know how they hired those people. They don't deserve to have jobs. How do they make it through the day? Ever have one of those moments, right? Because those people aren't wired like whom? Like you. They're fine. They weren't put on this earth simply to annoy you. They have a purpose. And guess what? They're thinking the same thing of you. Like, I don't know how he or she makes it through the day. I have to help them find their keys. I have to let them in. They forget their security pass all the time. Like how are we relying our future on that person, right? And yet they get a lot done, right? There are just different styles.We just have to find the style. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

The Safety Net of Strong Rapport   Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  You meet somebody for the first time, what is it you look for? Things in common, right? Because once we have something in common, we can then like each other. Now, not like each other in the way you're thinking, meaning we are like each other on some level.  That is the basis on which we will allow somebody else to be in a relationship with us, or we influence them, or they influence us, okay? And it is how we're wired. Like if you didn't wake up today and say, ah, I did rapport yesterday, I'm not gonna do it today. That was exhausting. You have to have it every day because it's how we feel safe, right? So now this is good news for some of you because you're just like, oh, I don't know if I'm the most likable person. I'll leave it to you to decide. If you create commonality, the other person cannot help but like you. This might be the best thing you learned in this whole conference.  Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

 The Power of Rapport: Why It Matters in Business Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.  Why do we care that we have rapport? Why do we care that we have influence? Well, first off, we need rapport because we need to build a relationship. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions in a moment, but we need to build a relationship with other people. And there are only three styles out there. You're one of them. There are two others. And for our purposes, you are basically wired like one-third of the population when it comes to your communication style. You don't have to do any work. You connect with them very easily. They, wow, that person is really cool. I get on very easily with them.  It's the other two thirds that we have to work on. So you have to know your style so you can understand others' styles so you can adapt. And that's what today's about. It's about situational communication, situational leadership. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

Meet Them Where They Are Pt 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Most of the time. So we have to make sure to bring our energy and be like, I've only got 20 minutes for, you know, 20 minutes. I just want to look around a little bit. I've got to get back to work and we might be too low. We just want to meet them where they are. So if they're higher than us, we want to come up to them. If we're higher than them, we need to bring it down a little bit just in the beginning. And once we feel like we're kind of in sync, then we can speed up. Sound good? I noticed a lot of where you're from. Oh, I'm from Winnipeg. Really? That's awesome. I don't know anywhere else in your life that when someone tells you they're from down the road, you say that's awesome.  It can be awesome.  Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.  

323: Unlock the Unrestricted Gifts You Deserve (Sherry Quam Taylor)SUMMARYSpecial thanks to Armstrong McGuire for bringing these conversations to life, and for their commitment to strengthening leadership throughout nonprofit organizations. Learn more about how they can help you at ArmstrongMcGuire.com. If your organization is stuck chasing small, restricted gifts through events, sponsorships, or appeals, it's time for a mindset shift. In episode #323 of Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership, Sherry Quam Taylor reveals why general operating support isn't as elusive as many believe, and how fundraisers can confidently lead donors to their best, most flexible gifts. She breaks down how to stop defaulting to transactional fundraising, how to engage board members and CEOs in authentic donor relationships, and why knowing your numbers is essential to making a compelling case. You'll learn how to move donors from “project-only” thinking to true investment in your mission. This episode is a must-listen for nonprofit leaders ready to align their time with transformational fundraising and finally unlock the unrestricted gifts they deserve.ABOUT SHERRYSherry Quam Taylor works with business-minded Nonprofit CEOs whose Strategic Plans require expansive budgets and larger amounts of unrestricted revenue for growth and infrastructure. As a result of learning her methodology, Sherry's clients become sustainable, diversify revenue, and know how to add significant amounts gen-ops revenue to their budgets. But mostly, their development departments and boards transform into high-ROI revenue generators – aligning their hours with relational dollars and are set free from time-consuming transactional activities like events, appeals, and campaigns. Sherry attributes the success of her business to her passion for modeling radical confidence to the future CEOs in her house - her two college-aged daughters.EPISODE TOPICS & RESOURCESThe 2-Hour Cocktail Party: How to Build Big Relationships with Small Gatherings by Nick GrayWant to chat leadership 24/7?  Go to delphi.ai/pattonmcdowellHave you gotten Patton's book Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership: Seven Keys to Advancing Your Career in the Philanthropic Sector – Now available on AudibleDon't miss our weekly Thursday Leadership Lens for the latest on nonprofit leadership

Today, we're kicking off our Strategy That Moves Your Business series with our 1st episode on The Power of an Actionable Strategic Plan. Many of you go through a strategic planning process yearly. It can be a lot of fun and hours of great brainstorming, but how much actually gets rolled out the way you planned? We've revamped the process to make strategic planning deliver on the real objective: an actionable strategy that moves your business. In this episode, you'll hear what makes our strategic planning process different, how to go through the planning process, the value of continued progress checks, and common pitfalls. Let's get planning! For more about ForthRight Business by ForthRight People or for 1:1 consultation, check us out at ForthRight-Business.com And as always, if you need Strategic Counsel, don't hesitate to reach out to us at: ForthRight-People.com FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/forthrightpeople.marketingagency INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/forthrightpeople/ LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/company/forthright-people/ RESOURCES https://www.forthright-people.com/resources VIRTUAL CONSULTANCY https://www.forthright-people.com/shop