Episode 254 - Maximize Your Success Using the IDEOS Mantra

11/10/20 • 28 min

Becoming Your Best | The Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

It’s amazing what a business can do for its clients when it has a clear vision, a purpose, and a why! But keeping tabs on everything that’s going on in a company is pretty difficult! That’s why it’s crucial to learn easy but yet quite significant tactics that help you stay focused on your end goal.

Today, we have a delightful guest with us - Jennifer Goldman. With over 30 years of experience in transforming small and mid-sized businesses, she coaches leaders on business management techniques and consults on operations infrastructure improvements that boost people, productivity, profitability, and growth. She is going to share with us some of her tips that she uses both in her life, and with her clients also, that have proven to be successful for any individual or company.

Jennifer has been published in Inc. Magazine, Tech Tools for Today, Liberated CEO, and several other magazines, and has taught workshops and spoken at several national conferences. Her love is helping businesses thrive and embrace operational changes so that they can help more consumers. As a volunteer, she advocates for public schools, and in her personal life, she is a loving wife, and mother of two teenagers.

Listen to Episode 254 of Becoming Your Best, to learn more about ways to prioritize your improvements, protect your time, and boost your growth in your personal and professional life.

Some questions I ask:

What is your story? And what are some turning points in your life that have had a significant impact on what you’re doing today? (03:30)
How do you help prioritize all possible business improvements to create the biggest impact? (06:12)
How have you found the best way to say no? (12:43)
Do you have any advice on how to be the best leader for your team during the pandemic? (15:58)
What role does modern technology play for a leader? (17:22)
How do you help businesses to boost their growth? (21:04)

In this episode, you will learn:

How Jennifer switched from being a financial planner to business owners to becoming a business owner and consulting other people. (05:09)
How to determine what your priorities are. (07:23)
The importance of having a plan written down. (09:41)
The art of saying no and protecting your time. (11:36)
The IDEOS mantra that helps you reduce your workload and free up your time. (14:08)
Why you should have a scheduling system & the tools that can help you. (19:35)
The importance of focusing on your niche and finding your audience. (22:25)

Connect with Jennifer:

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Listen to Episode 254 of Becoming Your Best, to learn more about ways to prioritize your improvements, protect your time, and boost your growth in your personal and professional life.

Some questions I ask:

What is your story? And what are some turning points in your life that have had a significant impact on what you’re doing today? (03:30)
How do you help prioritize all possible business improvements to create the biggest impact? (06:12)
How have you found the best way to say no? (12:43)
Do you have any advice on how to be the best leader for your team during the pandemic? (15:58)
What role does modern technology play for a leader? (17:22)
How do you help businesses to boost their growth? (21:04)

In this episode, you will learn:

How Jennifer switched from being a financial planner to business owners to becoming a business owner and consulting other people. (05:09)
How to determine what your priorities are. (07:23)
The importance of having a plan written down. (09:41)
The art of saying no and protecting your time. (11:36)
The IDEOS mantra that helps you reduce your workload and free up your time. (14:08)
Why you should have a scheduling system & the tools that can help you. (19:35)
The importance of focusing on your niche and finding your audience. (22:25)

Connect with Jennifer:

Becoming Your Best Resources:

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

Episode 253 - Go Forward with Faith

When we’re faced with difficult situations, we have a choice: to let fear dictate our emotions and our decision-making or to have faith that everything we’re experiencing is part of a bigger plan, the blueprint that is set for each and every one of us.

We may not know all the answers - actually, we never know all the unknowns in a life equation – but trusting and believing that God takes care of us is the differentiator that can help us overcome any challenges. So, go forward with faith!

In this episode, we share with you some personal experiences that we’ve gone through over the past few years, and the lessons we’ve learned – and continue to learn – from them. Listen to Episode 253 of Becoming Your Best to find out why it’s important to focus on what we can control and have faith for the things that are out of our ability to understand.

In this episode, you will learn:

The two forces in the world, that cannot coexist. (03:00)
An example that shows the importance of going forward with faith, even if you don’t have all the answers. (05:00)
How to focus on the things you can control when you’re faced with difficult moments in your life. (08:28)
How to view every challenge through the lens of, “There is a God, and there is a plan”, instead of making fear-based decisions. (11:19)

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Next Episode

Episode 255 - A Firefighter’s Story: You lift Me, I Lift You, And We Ascend Together!

The firefighter departments in our country have been dealing with inclusivity and diversion issues for such a long time! Throughout decades, the average number of black people or women joining the forces has been on the low side of the scale, but things are starting to change!

Our guest today, Russell Grant Hayden - the Founder and President of the Firefighter’s ABC’s- although his initial life trajectory didn’t point to being a firefighter, has been given the chance to join this world in the late ‘60s, and became the first Black hired by the Los Altos Fire Department. Since then, he’s helped countless young people of all backgrounds join the endless fight against fires.

His motto is “Reach out and touch someone else” and he encourages everyone to help others in need because the ripple effect of every small act of kindness toward one person can make a difference on thousands of other individuals!

Listen to Episode 255 of Becoming Your Best to find out his background story – which is one full of hope for many individuals that find themselves in rough places – as well as to learn what Firefighter’s ABC’s is all about and how you can join their cause of bringing more diversity into this amazing and noble field.

Some questions I ask:

Grant, tell us about your background – what led you to where you are today? (04:15)
What are some of the experiences you’ve had, that have been inspirational for you, where you’ve seen real progress? (05:46)
What are some tips you could give us, to be more successful and to make a difference? (13:47)

In this episode, you will learn:

The diversity & inclusion issues within the firefighter departments throughout the country. (05:46)
How one person changed Grant’s life by introducing him to the Student Firefighter Program. (06:31)
The ripple effect of small acts of kindness. (08:37)
The struggles Grant had to go through, as the only black man in his firefighter department & His motto in life. (10:38)
How Firefighter’s ABC’s is preparing the youth to become more well-rounded and able to deal with life. (11:48)
How you can join the Firefighter’s ABC’s. (16:13)

Connect with Grant:

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