The BUILD Leadership Series Podcast: Recent Episodes
Scott Brown
The B.U.I.L.D. Leadership Series Podcast is focused on helping the leaders of today and tomorrow build up their individual leadership discipline (B.U.I.L.D.). We focus on the "Assumed" or "Taken For Granted" skills which cause leaders to be less effective and efficient in their daily activities which can limit their overall success. We discuss practical applications of key topics to build your leadership discipline. Are you ready to B.U.I.L.D.?
Chances you have heard of the elephant in the room. However, have you ever heard of elephant talk? The discussions that need to happen before you get to discussing problems that are impacting you and your organization? If you don’t do this chances are you just simply feeding the elephant instead of eating the elephant.
Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some tips to help you address the elephant in the room.
Have you ever heard the phrase that hindsight is 20/20? And while this is true, if you stop at this point, you are missing out on some great opportunities to enhance yourself, your business, and your quality of life. The great part is that you don't have to keep looking in the rearview mirror.
Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some tips to leverage this information to help you take action now and make progress both professionally and personally.
Have you ever felt stuck? Do you want to change, improve, and make progress, but don't know where to start? Guess what? You are not alone!
Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some tips to help you deal with being stuck and gives you some practical tools to move you from being stuck to taking action.
We have all had to deal with customer service at one point of time in our lives. Some of these experiences have left us feeling excited and amazed while others left us fuming and promising never to go back.
Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some tips to help you deal with customers and put a smile on their faces, and build a relationship that can last.
Delegation is a key part of being a leader, yet many times we delegate things to ourselves instead of others. However, doing this may be limiting our ability to accomplish our goals, our team's ability to accomplish theirs, and limit the organization's performance. Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some of the reasons why we may avoid delegating and the impact this could have on you.
In our last episode, we talked about metrics and how to make them work for you. Today, in our last episode on metrics, we will talk about the importance of making the metrics clear enough that our staff can explain them. Wonder why this is important, join me and lets find out.
Have you ever seen metrics that were missing their targets and yet not driving action? In today's session, we will focus on 3 simple steps to help your metrics get traction and move your business forward.
Metrics can be a great resource for improving effectiveness, efficiency, and responsiveness in your organization is used correctly. They can also be a source of mystery, confusion, and wrong behavior if not used correctly. Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some simple ways to improve the power of your metrics to create sparks of innovation in your business.
Metrics are one of the vital aspects of our business, but using the wrong metrics, or no metrics to run our business can create a lot of stress, missed opportunities, and potential failure in our business. Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some simple ways to develop and manage your business metrics to help you succeed.
Have you ever had a good idea but then within just a few moments of having the idea you talk yourself out of it? Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some simple, yet practical questions to help you understand the 5 second rule, and how to avoid this trap to gain traction in your business.
Are you a change agent or a change anchor is a hard question to ask but one we need to periodically evaluate. When we talk about being a change agent, it is not that we are looking to make a change for the sake of making change, but it focuses more on how do we handle the process. Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares some simple, yet practical questions to help you understand which one you are.
What are some simple disciplines you can develop to protect your data from falling into the wrong hands? Join me and my guest, A-Jay Orr from Simple Plan IT as we talk about the world of cybersecurity and the leadership disciplines each of us needs to put in place to protect ourselves, our companies, and our customers.
We all have things we work to avoid doing both at home and at work. However, when we think about things at work, when we procrastinate the impacts can become severe. Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown as he shares the simple link to eliminating procrastination.
Have you ever wondered why change doesn't occur? You have good ideas but they never seem to take hold, or even get off the ground? Today, FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown goes over the process and equation to help you move from soliciting the idea for change to actually making it.
We all know that being consistent and accountable are disciplines we need to have, yet many of us, if we are really being honest, fall short. Today, FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown takes a deep dive into being consistent, being accountable, and why this is so important for leaders to demonstrate each and every day.
Many times we talk about improving efficiency. While that is great, what if that was not the most important point to be working on? Join FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown and he talks about about the important difference between these two words and how to help you improve both in your business.
We have all heard the term or been introduced to S.M.A.R.T. goals, but how many of us actually use them in our daily activities? Today, FocalPoint Business Coach Scott Brown helps break down S.M.A.R.T. and helps us understand how we can become more disciplined in using S.M.A.R.T. to improve our effectiveness and efficiency.