By !Joe Urbanski, 10 minute read

Fill in the blank: Most trainings, workshops, meetings, and webinars are ___________. If you’re like most of the clients and participants in our sessions, you may have said: “are boring,” “are ineffective,” “could have been an email,” or the wildly popular “suck.”

And then we shifted during the pandemic to online trainings, online workshops, online meetings, and even online onboarding. More suck.

6 minute read

True Clarity is a clear understanding and accurate direction to what is Really Most Important™. It’s about driving what’s Really Most Important™ for the customers you serve, the organization you want to be, the departments you lead, and the people you work with. Then, integrate these results to create a strategic focus and plan that is fully integrated and transparent. When something is Really Most Important™, it’s the true focus or impact that if you achieve it and nothing else, you have accomplished everything. If it is not achieved, it renders everything else we do meaningless.

So how do you get True Clarity to what’s RMI? Read on!

By !Joe Urbanski, 3 minute read

We are months into COVID-19. Is your organization accelerating, innovating, or evaporating? Are you moving faster than ever before, accomplishing more in less time with possibly less resources? Are you radically shifting how you do business, adapting to the current times, and evolving for the future? Or are you slowly but surely falling apart, losing trust in each other, and missing key opportunities to grow the business? We can easily look back on our experiences and review our past defining moment. Now, it may be time to predict your next defining moment.

By !Joe Urbanski, 6 minute read (+ a challenge)

When something is Really Most Important™, it’s the true focus or impact that if you achieve it and nothing else, you have accomplished everything. If it is not achieved, it renders everything else we do meaningless.

You know that you do important work—and also that you have some things on your list that are simply not relevant or compelling. Perhaps you’re in need of some True Clarity™. So how do you know what is Really Most Important™?

Read on for the simple formula for you to filter through all of the big things and little things that you do so that you can figure out what you’re really on the payroll (regardless of the reasons you thought you were being hired)!

By Jack Gottlieb, 4 minute read

For as far as we can remember—from the history that we learned in school, to the history that we’ve experienced within our own lives—we have seen all forms of divides and inequality that span: land, racial, political, gender, economical, societal, health, and even sibling rivalry.

Over the past few months, this may be one of the most significant periods in history where all of this has converged at the same time to create unprecedented impact which has fostered additional fears, concerns, views, and reactions that are crossing boundaries and borders not just of countries, but between provinces and states, townships, communities, neighbors, and maybe right even in your own home. While we’ve come together in some aspects, we’ve also been more divided at all levels in how we preserve and progress our communities, societies, and livelihoods.

So, how do we approach this in the worlds in which we work? What do we each need to do right now within our organizations? Here are four powerful and simple steps for each of us to take.

By !Joe Urbanski, 8 minute read

We are one nation with a single President, a nation of 50 different states, each run by their own governor who works with many city/town mayors that support the neighborhoods and their families. That's a lot of leadership levels, a lot of trust, and a lot to govern, not to mention a lot of areas for miscommunication, a lack of clarity, and missed execution.

Let's put it another way: We are one company with a single CEO, a company of 50 different office locations, each run by their own Vice President, who work with department leaders that support the teams and people.

Maybe this feels too much like your organization—or your household.

By !Joe Urbanski, 6 minute read

First, we said our heads were “in the clouds.” Then, it was our data that was stored in the cloud. Now, it seems like all of our lives are taking place in the cloud—over the Internet. The novel coronavirus of 2020 has changed how we do business, how we lead our teams, how we develop our people, and even how we raise our families…and this trend is likely going to continue into the foreseeable future because #1 it’s not all that bad and #2 people are going to get used to it. The only thing I can’t get used to is how companies and trainers have used this as an excuse to be lazy.

I don’t mean lazy in the typical sense. Companies are doing more than usual to support their people and their communities. Businesses large and small are contributing where they can. And you’ve been invited to 136 webinars so far.

So then, how do I mean lazy? Why are “professionals” delivering webinars while sitting in chairs?! What the hell is that about? It’s either lazy, naïve, or disrespectful. Is that how we create high-energy? Is that how we interact with an audience? Is that how we engage with the human soul from the platform? No way! And it’s certainly not as much fun—for them and for us!

It’s 2020 and you thought we’d have some hindsight this year. Instead, we’re managing the novel coronavirus this year...and possibly into next year. It seems to be the only thing people are talking about these days: the virus itself, how it’s spreading, what it’s doing to our economy and society and lifestyles.

Maybe you have found yourself or people that you work with being sucked into the vortex of the daily headlines from the New York Times to the Washington Post, from CNBC to Fox, from LinkedIn to Facebook—and all of the emails we’re getting from every company we’ve ever done business with and every person we’ve ever known.

There’s so much competing information that the context is lost to us. Our confidence rises up and falls depending on the information we’re consuming. In both our economy and the society, there are critical and transformational lessons we need to embrace immediately and leverage daily so that we are able to own the reality so that we’re able to respond with purpose (instead of react in fear).

These are unprecedented circumstances with an unpredictable future. It seems our world changed overnight...and is continually changing every day. Our commitment here is to be your partner in driving the results that are Really Most Important™ now and for the long-term in your culture, strategy, and capability. This is about culture-driven solutions for you and your business, as well as your family.

It’s time to take the next step forward and be the leaders our organizations and families need us to be right now. In 16+ years, we have partnered with over 150 domestic and global organizations like yours to drive the transformation and growth they most needed to solve their most pressing challenges and seize their most critical opportunities internally and externally. In the past three weeks in response to many requests from our clients for insights on how to cope or adapt when events seem to be beyond their control, we offer you The 3 Critical Shifts You Must Make For Your Organization & Your People. (And then an invite below to the follow-up webinar.)