Strategic Leadership Lessons: From an F-15 Eagle to your Small Business

Leadership is a key factor for success in today’s business world. And Leadership is that kind of soft skill that we learn from practice, from inspiring others and also with our own perspectives and experiences.

As a Leader, you need to develop abilities while having a clear vision. Your team will follow your ideas and thus leaders lead by example.

This is why Leadership is an art; leaders need to inspire, empower and motivate constantly. In our lives we encounter obstacles and challenges and we are the ones that need to be determined in order to make an impact and achieve the change we aspire to happen; and this is what leaders do every single day.

Former Air Force F-15 Pilot Steve Olds is now applying to small business the leadership and endurance skills he learned and developed over the years. In this fast paced and thought provoking conversation we explore what it means to lead from an F-15 Eagle and down to your very own business. To be a leader in the business world today, Steve draws form his own personal experiences to define leadership in a different way, focusing on small and mid-sized businesses and international teams. Join us on this episode on "Strategic Leadership"

About Steve Olds

Steve Olds was a combat decorated F15 Eagle fighter pilot. Since moving into the private sector, he has served at every level of small business operations including creating and funding new ventures, building large international sales teams, product development and strategic consulting.

Steve is now leveraging more than two decades of entrepreneurial experience as a visionary, leader and communicator to execute his current role as Chief Executive Officer of PATRIOT MISSION which is a US based leadership Development Company. Their mission is to Rebuild America through The POWER of Small Business™.

This is why I invite you to listen to my interview with Steve Olds: Click HERE!

To your continued improved Performance!

Luis Vicente 

How to boost your business with public speaking, writing & social media

A critical factor for success as we all know is your ability to master public speaking and to create a strong personal brand. Every skill you can acquire in order to improve and do it better will prove beneficial to you, your career and your company. You will create, sell, manage and lead in different positions and by having a strong personal brand while developing your speaking skills will allow you to position your message in much better ways.

Public speaking is an art in itself, and I am truly honored to invite back Ms. Joan Detz (@joandetz) as my guest for the second time in our show. Joan is an amazing speaker and an expert coach, trainer and author who has already shared with us some tips to boots your career. Now she will share with us five newer tools to improve your public speaking, self-marketing and branding.  

Join us to learn from Speaking Coach Joan Detz new tools that will allow your Public Speaking to have a positive impact in your personal life and in your and profession.

Join us in this fast paced and future oriented social media conversation: Listen HERE

About Joan Detz

Bio: Joan Detz is an international speaker, a world renowned public speaking coach and the author of four successful books on public speaking, including “How to Write & Give a Speech”, which the Washington Post praised as “a how-to classic”. “How to Write & Give a Speech” is now in its 30th anniversary edition and in 2015 was published in Spanish by Alba Editorial of Barcelona, Spain entitled “Cómo Escribir y Pronunciar un Discurso”.

Since 1984, Joan has run her own speaker services where she prepares executives for speeches and media interviews, and consulting with business leaders around the world. Joan has worked from Finland to Montenegro and throughout the United States. She coaches speakers via skype for top corporations around the world.

Joan is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), and an All-Star Speaker for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The National Association of Government Communicators honored Joan with its President’s Award.

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The Keys to Entrepreneurial Success!

When we talk about Business or entrepreneurial success, we might not be real sure what it is or how to define it. Whether you have been in business for years or you are a start-up, things look harder and more difficult than what you originally thought. 

What you need to do is to understand what makes you apart, what is important for you and your company and see how you start redirecting some of the approaches you have been using.

This actually is the number one critical issue for all people and companies that do change: realizing the need to adapt to the changing business environments, looking at the trends and doing the things you need to do to improve all areas in your company. When you do it, something starts to happen and suddenly there is a better flow, new ideas start to flourish, a more dynamic team takes action, goals are reached and visions are aligned. In all, you start talking about success.

There are many definitions on business success and in this program we discussed some ideas that may allow you to understand some of the Key Elements to Entrepreneurial Success. If you want to listen to our show Click HERE!

Think of strategic words in your business: Keys to Success, entrepreneurial success, vision, goals, performance, teamwork, change, strategy, trends, continuous learning.

And again, when you, your staff, team members and your company start talking about success and what it would mean to be successful (and yes we know we all measure Success in a different way) things start to change!.

How do you define Success? There are many definitions on business success and in this program we will be discussing some ideas that will allow you to understand some of the Key Elements to Entrepreneurial Success.

Decide to learn more about your success; Click HERE!

For more information please visit my web pages: Luis Vicente Garcia ; Coach Luis V Garcia & read my articles on Entrepreneur Performance

And as always, keep improving your Success!

Luis Vicente

5-Keys to Better Engagement!

There are a few concepts in management and leadership that will constantly make an important difference in your company. They are teamwork, strategy and vision. Companies as we know are formed by groups of people with complimentary knowledge and abilities who interconnect daily.

As leaders and managers we strive to make our teams better, to make them creative, to improve their performance and to help them reach excellence. And in many cases it comes as a result of high level engagement.

Engagement is an emotional connection between the employee and the organization. It comes from trust, better communication, the development of new abilities, better interpersonal contributions and a series of high key elements that combine together and will help every organization improve, adapt and change with flexibility.

This is what Hans Trupp and myself discussed in this very interesting interview.

Join me on this show as business coach and corporate trainer Hans Trupp, helps us we discover the 5-keys to better engagement.

Bio: Hans Trupp

Hans is an expert in the areas of professional development, corporate training and business coaching. He is an experienced entrepreneur, sales executive and outdoor educator who is dedicated to giving back to the community.

Based in Vancouver, Hans is fully committed to building leaders and growing businesses by evaluating what makes them unique. He is passionate about training and coaching using the time-tested and proven materials and is motivated by working with clients and colleagues to implement solutions.

With a coaching philosophy grounded in the key fundamentals of business and leadership, Hans specializes in being a catalyst for coaches, business owners, executives, and their teams. By working with Hans, you will set and reach goals for the highest levels of personal and professional success.

Is your TEAM ready to win the World Series?

Baseball season starts on April every year. Coaches, players, fans and staff have a renewed hope to be in the playoffs and then winning the World Series. 

Many teams are competing for it, many more aspiring to achieve it. However, only one will win the #WorldSeries.

You have a series of important elements that will help you make it but one, above all else, is the number one #1 Key to success: TEAM Work. It has been said that the Best Teams achieve Greatness. How do your team will do it? AND AGAIN, Is Your TEAM Ready to win the World Series? 

It really means asking you the following questions:

-       do you have the best players, strategies and coaches?

-       Can they work together and at the same time improve their individual abilities?

-       How is your farming system and are you constantly training them to reach new levels of performance?

There are many important questions that every leader and manager need to answer in order to achieve your organization’s goals and many of them are related to TEAM PERFORMANCE. 

As a leader, you need to understand the importance of creating a team that is aligned, works to achieve excellence and that is committed to achieving the results you have created for your company. This happens at sports teams at every level; it happens with companies all over the world. 

Whether in your country you play baseball or not, you know the importance of being in a world class tournament and thus the question here is: Is Your Team Ready?

Join us on this interesting show as we discuss the importance of TEAMS to achieve our goals; to listen: Click HERE!

And keep performing at your Best!

Luis Vicente Garcia

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