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surviving to thriving in 5 movies featuring bill gallagher founder and business coach and myoutdesk

Leadership Strategies for Crisis Management with Scaling Coach Bill Gallagher

Administrative, Cannabis & Legal Marijuana, Financial Planning, Healthcare, Human Resources, Inside Sales, Insurance, Marketing, Marketing, MOD Virtual Assistants, Mortgage, Podcast, Property Management, Real Estate, Technology, Webinars

Tune in as we discuss leadership strategies for – crisis management, executing flexibility, accessing pivots & improving your cash position. Schedule a free Thrive Strategy Call today.

 

This special webinar includes 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 limited-time access to:

  • 1) Famous book “Scaling Up” + tools & worksheets
  • 2) #1 bestselling business book “Scaling Your Business”
  • 3) Business strategy consultants + thrive guides

 

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We’re joined by Bill Gallagher, CEO of Scaling Coach. Bill Gallagher is a business coach and master facilitator with over 30 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience. Bill has spent the last 15 years coaching and training others in leadership and performance and previously led 4 companies of his own and been a partner or executive in 2 others. Bill discovered the Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up 20 years ago, has used them in his own companies. 

 

Today, Bill coaches leaders and teams across more than 25 cities in 11 countries and the host of the Scaling Up Business Podcast. He is a passionate and playful presenter, and his clients, at all stages, share a hunger to grow successfully with an openness to new approaches and thinking.

 

It costs tens of thousands of dollars to attend one of Bill’s Scaling Up Institutes, and today you can access his timely knowledge here for free! If you need help or want to explore some ideas, book a Schedule a free Thrive Strategy Call today.

 

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Bill shares his strategies to lead in today’s uncertain times.

  • Lead Without a Plan — Although this sounds like terrible leadership, IF you relay that you’re FIGHTING through any crisis and problem, and when you work collectively with your team, you can figure out and make astounding pivots with your leadership.
    • Continue to hold the vision and communicate
    • Fight like hell
    • Ask your people for help
  • Radical Requests — Get access to improving the situation. Instead of feeling confined, ask what you really need! Don’t wipe yourself out, BUT work with a solution — For example, with clients & prospects, you can ask, “What do you need? What can I do for you instead?” It can help you turn situations around and come out with success and growth!
  • Name That Feeling — it takes courage to show emotions, and courage needs strength, to be a whole human! Nobody’s great—there are moments that you are, and moments that you’re not. Emotions make you human. There is power and courage in being a leader. Being human as a leader gives your people a truth, that you’re not faking it to make it. Self-awareness & mindfulness. Calling it out as a practice of acceptance—it becomes a powerful thing. Call it out and go with it!
  • Execute Flexible — Working remotely to keep the business going. Technology can help you manage virtually. At the same time, don’t change or abandon your long-term vision and goals. Shift priorities, or even strategies! Metrics and dashboards? It might be missing since you moved virtually. Some tools and apps can help you out and keep it up. This helps people know if we’re collectively hitting metrics and KPIs. Keep the progress visibility out there!
  • Let People Get Off the Bus — People who continually resist might not be a good fit in your environment. There might be a better place for them to win. How do you get people in this space and get the right requests out there? By leading up in the front and leading by example. Work with your team, and ask them what they can do. Keep nudging them up. Make a list of radical requests and have them do one while you are encouraging and helping. Fully appreciate and acknowledge the radical request from both perspectives.
  • Be a Trend-Spotter — Acknowledge the weaknesses and strengths in the world and yourself right now. What do they need? What can you do better? Pivot your business around what people need, and you might see opportunities. This might be the same business to different people, or a different business for the same people. Look for trends far outside the norm, and look broadly across the world. Bill shares his SWT tool—strengths, weaknesses, and trends. Start using this tool for in your industry, then for your region, and afterward go even broader!

 

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December 22, 2020/by Jeremy
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Growth Guy Mastermind Verne Harnish features MyOutDesk on Podcast | with Bill Gallagher

MOD Virtual Assistants, Podcast, Webinars

The Scaling Up Business Podcast is all about how a FEW companies make it … and why the REST don’t.

 

Verne Harnish is the founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 14,000 members worldwide. Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 180 partners on six continents. He’s the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which is translated into 9 languages; his latest book Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) has won eight major international book awards.

In his Scaling Up Business Podcast, MyOutDesk is FEATURED on Remote Work + Health Crisis with Bill Gallager.


201: Daniel Ramsey — Setting up for Remote Work During a Health Crisis

Link: Scaling Up Business Podcast

 

Companies now have everyone working remotely. If you don’t have it yet, you’re about to. Remote work is becoming the new normal and most of us are not set up for it! This episode is all about ways you can optimize your working-from-home situation.

Daniel Ramsey is the Founder & CEO of MyOutDesk, a virtual assistant provider for businesses looking to take their needs offshore. Daniel has over 13 years of experience helping clients manage remote employees and has a quick checklist of all the tools, systems, and processes clients need to succeed.

 

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
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Daniel started his business in 2008, during the economic downturn, and had to think quickly about how to serve his clients. He helps his clients in four key areas, sales, administrative support, operations support, and marketing assistance.

In Daniel’s checklist, the first step is to understand who your audience is and what are the different things that matter to them. This could be your employees, clients, and vendors. Once you understand who you need to be talking to, the next is to develop a remote checklist.

Find your communication hub that everyone will use. Start your day with to-do tasks and end your day with a report on how those tasks went. Over-communication is critical at this time. Use video conference calls when chatting about important topics because that face-to-face interaction is critical.

Link: Scaling Up Business Podcast

 

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April 15, 2020/by Jeremy
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6-Point Blueprint for Crisis Management: Prevent sinking ship while undergoing change

Administrative, Inside Sales, Marketing, MOD Virtual Assistants

Crisis management is designed to protect an organization and its stakeholders from threats and/or reduce the impact of the threats.

This guide is made for teams whose businesses are under threat in today’s health crisis. This blueprint will support transforming the way teams work together in these changing times — with best practices for businesses to effectively respond during a crisis.

Undertaking organizational change helps businesses continually improve, sustain a positive brand, and stay competitive.

Here at MyOutDesk, we use a comprehensive approach so that our core values become rooted in the organization and the people that it impacts.

Drawing inspiration from our popular Organizational Change Framework, this Blueprint for Crisis Management is a current take on helping teams work together on creating REAL, impactful work and growth.

 

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6-Point Blueprint for Crisis Management

The Blueprint for Crisis Management allows entrepreneurs and business professionals to implement change under external threats and to breathe life into any idea, any concept, any organizational culture change, and any procedural change.

Here is the framework we use at MyOutDesk:

 

Let’s address threats and concerns with an actionable response plan. Pass them through this 6-Point Crisis Management Blueprint:

  1. Identify
  2. Inquire
  3. Acquire & Contain
  4. Protect
  5. Recover
  6. Learn & Adapt

 

The Blueprint for Crisis Management is a helpful guide especially for businesses looking to thrive and scale at any stage of the 7-Figure Business Roadmap.

We’ll guide you through each stage and give our own examples of how we brought our philosophy of adding value and being of service into existence.

 

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The Blueprint

 

1. Identify

 

In this first step, you will need to identify the tangible risks and threats affecting your organization. Be specific with what you are articulating. These are internal factors within your business.

—

Example: 

  1. Loss of revenue streams
  2. Costs currently greater than profits
  3. Dip in productivity, decrease in personnel, decrease in output

 

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2. Inquire

 

After you identified these risks. Understand that you CAN overcome these threats. You must double-down and seek knowledge — which brings us to this step, Inquire.

Understand that you don’t have to do this alone. There are plenty of resources today that want to help your business thrive, from governmental relief to strategic partners.

In this phase, seek knowledge from trusted partners and resources that could help you tackle these challenges.

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Strategic Partners:

You are not in this alone. These are your partners in today’s changing times.

Consult your strategic partners in this order, and make an informed decision after you’ve inquired with all of your trusted sources. 

  1. Business Solutions, Professional Network, Strategy Consultant, Virtual Staffing – (We have them all through MyOutDesk!)
  2. Tax Advisor
  3. Financial Advisor
  4. Legal Advisor
  5. Lenders

 

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3. Acquire & Contain

 

By now, you’ve made an informed decision and plan to move forward. This important step helps you maintain your positive brand and reestablish stability for your business.

Acquire the help you need:

  1. Apply for cash relief. Prioritize on free monies before you borrow (government grants and loans).
  2. Strategize on lower labor costs & higher productivity. Double-down on productivity with skilled professionals who have remote work experience & decrease your overhead costs. Get the staff you need.

Contain: Ease concerns and anxiety by providing leadership communication:

  1. provide accurate, timely information to all targeted internal and external audiences
  2. demonstrate concern for the safety of lives
  3. safeguard organizational facilities and assets
  4. maintain a positive image of the organization as a good corporate or community citizen

 

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4. Protect

 

Protect your workers and your company assets. You know that your new plan is well thought out, but how do you get your employees to quickly enact this change and thus protect profits?

As you ramp up productivity with a refreshed business plan, you must demonstrate unwavering support to your employees. Explain to your employees every step that you are taking and how these new changes will support their livelihoods.

Discussion points for staff:

  • Employees: Daily updates regarding steps you’re taking to promote safety, remote work culture, positive reinforcement to new plan outlines.
  • Virtual Assistants: Communicate with them exactly as you treat your employees. MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants work for you full-time at 60% less cost than a traditional employee.
  • Applied for grants and loans? Discuss financial stipulations and if they may affect the roles of employees.
  • Sales & Marketing: Daily huddles to discuss new scripts and campaign strategies.

Communicating with stakeholders:

Protect your brand and product value by having regular conversations and rearticulating why your business is necessary at this time. According to Dr. Timothy Coombs, an expert in crisis management communications, you should:

  • have proper internal communication in preparing for a crisis moment of media frenzy.
  • maintain dialogs with different stakeholders in the middle of a crisis.
  • explain clearly and accurately the extent of damage and crisis management steps to stakeholders to assure that they comprehend the situation without misunderstanding or confusion.

 

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5. Recover

 

At this stage, a new plan that effectively addresses the crisis is incorporated into the rhythm of the organization. Like a regular heartbeat, the plan is integrated into the daily business as an organizational habit.

Track and measure your outcomes to ensure that the team is working towards the anticipated outcomes. It is also important to constantly repeat key messages as the leader, so everyone understands what is expected to be completed in all processes and is fully equipped to carry the tasks out.

To effectively recover, always revisit all stages of this blueprint to ensure your plan is appropriately responding to any new threats when new situations arise from the crisis.

 

 

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6. Learn & Adapt

 

If the first five steps have been thoroughly applied, your company will have business maintained as usual, with new revenues and value propositions.

You will find that you have these completed:

  • Company reputation is improved by effective crisis management.
  • Incidents are contained, and appropriate responses are enacted.
  • Policies and procedures are changed, and lessons of the crisis are applied to future incidents.
  • Resources are produced by the company and available to employees and stakeholders.

 

Find the Help You need with MyOutDesk

When you apply the Crisis Management Blueprint, you are able to revisit any stage of the process and make adjustments as you adapt to a more perfect solution. When applied alongside the Entrepreneur’s Thrive Guide & 7-Figure Business Roadmap, business leaders can learn to effectively scale, increase profits, and lead a talented workforce.

 

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April 15, 2020/by Jeremy

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