Weekly meeting

E85 |Pricing Is A Function (Summer Series) Many leaders avoid pricing decisions due to fear of losing volume, yet pricing has the greatest impact on profitability. Andres Zylberberg, Richard Peake and I continue our summer series on why pricing must be treated as a core business function rather than an ad hoc reaction when profits decline. A critical factor is pricing elasticity: different products and services respond differently to price changes, and profit often sits in low-elasticity Read More...

e85 Pricing Is A Function (Summer Series)

E85 |Pricing Is A Function (Summer Series) Many leaders avoid […]

E84 |Why Don’t I See A Profit? (Summer Series) Business owners often feel frustrated when their P&L shows strong profits but there’s little cash in the bank. This disconnect isn’t incompetence or unfairness – it’s a misunderstanding of how cash really flows through a growing business. In this fifth summer series episode, Andres Zylberberg, Richard Peake and I discuss how profit and cash are not the same. Growth itself consumes cash through working capital tied up in inventory, Read More...

e84 Why Don’t I See A Profit? (Summer Series)

E84 |Why Don’t I See A Profit? (Summer Series) Business […]

E83 |The Weekly Meeting (Summer Series) Weekly meetings are the cornerstone of effective execution, yet they often fail by becoming unfocused status updates that drain energy and momentum. When designed well, the weekly meeting creates rhythm, clarity, and accountability, helping teams move faster and avoid surprises at month or quarter end. I’m joined again this episode for our summer series by Andres Zylberberg & Richard Peake. We discuss how effective weekly meetings, over time, Read More...

e83 The Weekly Meeting (Summer Series)

E83 |The Weekly Meeting (Summer Series) Weekly meetings are the […]

Leaders often waste a lot of time on decisions because meeting delegates are not well prepared with the information needed or aren’t well-disciplined with a process that can lead to an effective and quick decision. In order to be a more effective leader, effective decision-making in meetings is crucial. Also, the format of rules and engagement to discuss, debate and decide impacts the effectiveness of meetings. In this episode, Brad and Kevin discuss how to achieve effective Read More...

121 How to structure presentations to ensure effective decision making

We know that a carpenter or a nurse has many tools to use in their profession, but a CEO has only one tool. That one tool is meetings, and is the only mechanism that CEOs can use to get things done. So, if you’re a leader, it’s essential that you master meetings, the only tool that’s at your disposal. We talk about how to become masterful at meetings, how to prepare, how to host and how to run meetings. The CEO has only one tool Episode 114 Read More...

114 The CEO has only one tool

The weekly meeting is the key to successful execution. The leadership team takes the strategy of a company developed at an annual meeting, which is then translated into a series of priorities at a quarterly meeting, and then the team executes the priorities through the weekly meeting accountability and updates. Many teams feel that they already have too many meetings and that yet another meeting doesn’t make sense. But the weekly meeting – within the meeting rhythm – Read More...

93 Meeting Rhythm – The Weekly meeting

The collective intelligence agenda item inside the weekly meeting is one of the most valuable parts of the weekly meeting. This is where decision-makers learn all the data and facts, debate the merits of ideas and most importantly make decisions to help the business pulse faster. But there are seven important aspects to making collective intelligence work well in your company. We discuss these Read More...

58 Collective intelligence, the key to a successful weekly meeting

This week on The Growth Whisperers Kevin and Brad talk about business dashboards, and how you should use them to make better business decisions. They talk about digital dashboards, analog dashboards and how to implement dashboards into your business, as well as how dashboards can fail. Also, they discuss how to use the weekly meeting to roll out dashboards with your team. Finally, they discuss the 7 important things to consider when using dashboards in your Read More...

45 Using business dashboards make better decisions

This week on The Growth Whispers we’re talking about the magic, and power, and simplicity of traffic lights. Red, Amber and Green as a simple tool to help drive focus for your team and manage, and improve performance. We discuss why the traffic light system works for teams, what’s the best practice for measuring using traffic lights and how can you use it to drive better execution in your team. Red Yellow Green – Using traffic lights to make your Read More...

The Growth Whisperers episode 44 Traffic Lights

44 Red Yellow Green – Using traffic lights to make your culture of KPI management and goal execution stronger

This week on The Growth Whisperers Brad and Kevin are talking about the weekly meeting, one of the most important parts of execution and also ensuring you successfully complete your quarterly priorities. They provide the top 7 best practices to ensure your weekly meetings are engaging and valuable. The top 7 best practices for weekly meetings Episode 43 – The Growth Whisperers The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Read More...

43 The top 7 best practices for weekly meetings

Episode 39 – The Growth Whisperers The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth Read More...

39 What you must do on execution and data heading into 2021 (part 3 of 4)

Episode 20 – The Growth Whisperers The Growth Whisperers is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Giles and Kevin Lawrence two advisors to mid-market businesses, one Australian, one Canadian, who each work with CEOs and Leadership Teams across the world with a mission to build enduring, great companies. Each weekly episode covers interesting situations and questions from the world of strategic planning, leadership development, talent and hiring in high growth Read More...