How To Rapidly Improve How You Lead And Communicate Right Now

My eleven-year-old daughter spontaneously bought my husband a mug for Christmas with the message “I survived another meeting that should have been an email.” She is more observant than either of us realized!

One of my nine-year-old daughters said to me this week, “all I have done for school today is go on video calls asking how I am doing with my work, so when exactly am I meant to actually have time to do my work?!”

Can you relate? Might you be guilty of creating too many meetings yourself right now?

Leading through a crisis requires you to make some of the toughest decisions of your career from behind a screen. When you would previously gather a group of your closest advisers around a whiteboard or table, now you are doing it via video with spotty connections and delays. When you would previously be able to walk around your offices, stores, or events to feel the mood of your team and customers, now you have to connect over technology. When discussing your boldest strategic choices you would leisurely consider during a retreat at a beautiful location over a couple of days with downtime and social time included. Now you have a board meeting in three days and you have to rapidly explore innovative options with your team.

Meetings, corporate retreats, conferences, customer events, and working life will emerge reinvented when we return to life after this global pandemic.

If all you have done is switched the location of your meetings from Building One Conference Room 245 to Zoom meeting ID: 23456789 chances are you are driving your team crazy and not achieving what you need to right now.

Three Actions to Consider:

• What phase of Review, Reset, and Relaunch are you in with your business right now?

• Have you set and is everyone clear on the goals you are trying to achieve for each phase?

• Who do you need to influence and how do you need to communicate best to achieve those goals?

Chances are it is not another zoom call.

Do you want some new tools for communicating and influencing for maximum impact? - Let me send you a preview eBook copy of my new book that launches May 3 in the UK and Rest of World and on May 26 in the US and Canada. Reply YES PLEASE. I have a few available to share and I will send a copy to as many of you as I can.

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

P.S. I hope you enjoyed this week's VAL-uable Insights, sign up here to get them in your inbox each Monday morning: http://valwrightconsulting.com/newsletter-sign-up/

Do You Want A Free Ebook Copy Of My New Book?

Do you want to join these executives and receive an early preview copy of my new book?

Let me know here, I have a few eBook copies remaining to gift to those willing to read, share, and provide early insights so others can learn how to influence, innovate, and lead during times of rapid change.

Reply YES PLEASE or tell me more here…. http://tinyurl.com/ValsVIPBookClub

From the back of the book:

“Val Wright makes the complex simple. She zones in on what is happening and light bulbs go off that truly allow you to grow your business in the right way.”Jennifer Anaya, SVP Marketing, Ingram Micro Inc

“I have read many business and leadership books and never has one been so unique, practical and immediately applicable as Rapid Growth, Done Right.

Every executive should read it.”Andrew Clarke, CEO, francesca’s

“This is the ultimate guide for how technical, creative and business teams can work together so that they are all talking the same language. Val Wright’s advice and toolkit will help leaders of all disciplines improve their ability to lead innovative and fast-growing companies.”Lance Ralls, CIO, Belkin International

From the inside cover:

"As a creative business executive in the entertainment industry, I love experimenting with new ideas. This advice provides rapid practical examples that I can immediately apply."Mike Tunnicliffe, Former EVP, Head of Universal Music Group and Brands USA

"This advice is so concise and powerful. Just what executives need to hear right now to grow their business during times of change."Carolina Stavrositu, Former Executive Director, Content Marketing, Time

Successful, growing organizations have one thing in common: they focus their attention on the relationship between their creative, technical and business teams. This allows them to have a clear and deliberate emphasis on the way the company is led, their approach to making decisions and the best ways to successfully adapt during times of rapid change. In Rapid Growth, Done Right  Val Wright explains how every leader can evaluate their current strategy and quickly adjust to the realities of today. When they get it exactly right, these organizations deliver creative and innovative products that customers love.

Rapid Growth, Done Right explains:

• How to create ground-breaking strategies to grow a pioneering company
• The best ways to increase the quality and quantity of those ideas which will accelerate innovation
• Powerful ways to pinpoint your success and repeat it
• How leaders can increase their power of influence
• How to define and find your perfect job in a rapidly changing world
• New tools to deliver fast results in an ever-changing world

Launches with Kogan Page:
UK and Rest of World May 3
US and Canada May 26

Let me know here if you are interested in a free eBook copy or reply YES PLEASE

http://tinyurl.com/ValsVIPBookClub

Wishing you and your loved ones health and strength.

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

P.S. I hope you enjoyed this week's VAL-uable Insights, sign up here to get them in your inbox each Monday morning: http://valwrightconsulting.com/newsletter-sign-up/

Should You Be Silent Right In A Crisis?

"I don’t want to deluge my customers"

"I don’t want to contribute to the information overload"

"I don’t want to appear to be taking advantage of the situation"

Are all reasons I have heard why you might want to be silent right now when in fact, the complete opposite is true. In the last few weeks, I have been talking to leaders all around the world: executives, conference organizers, executive community owners, a local school principal, CEOs, and small business owners. There has been a common theme I have been sharing:

Your customers and community want to hear from you!

Of course, if you call or email asking for sponsorship when their business has been obliterated, complain incessantly about your own personal woes, send irrelevant information too frequently, or if your communication is tone-deaf to the current global pandemic, yes silence is better than the wrong message, but now is not the time to be silent.

Use these Crucial Crisis Communication principles:

• Speed beats perfection

• Frequent and short vs. verbose and infrequent

• Even when there is no new news to share, letting people know you are there is comforting

• Ask and listen to how their business and life is going

• Ask how you can be of help

• Be empathetic, but don't make your communication all about your own business impact or personal challenges

Know someone looking for their next role?

I know many companies are evaluating their hiring needs right now so I wanted to provide you with the most up to date resources. Of course, check all the usual places where jobs are posted, but I wanted to provide a more personally curated list, so I asked my community on Friday who was hiring and was able to compile this list of current openings and links to company career sites of those who are hiring right now.  You can access the careers site or specific roles directly from this link.

I also came across this link to a Google doc of March 2020 US open roles that are remote. This is not my list, so I cannot verify how updated it is, but wanted to share given the large number of people currently unable to travel.

Are you looking for your next role? - If enough people respond with YES PLEASE I will hold a Video meeting next week where I share How to Define and Find Your Perfect Role. Reply YES PLEASE.

My Ask Val Anything is proving so popular, I am extending it throughout April and May. Enter your cell here and you will receive a text back from me and you can ask me anything about your business.

Wishing you and your loved ones health and strength.

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

P.S. I hope you enjoyed this week's VAL-uable Insights, sign up here to get them in your inbox each Monday morning: http://valwrightconsulting.com/newsletter-sign-up/