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The Power of Books as Development Tools

15 August, 2014

By Beth Miller, an EO Elumni and Overdrive contributor

Last year at a Fortune Growth Summit, I was captivated by a video that featured Arnie Malham, Founder and President of cj Advertising.

Arnie, like many entrepreneurs, is constantly in search of new ideas that might work for their company. Early in his career, Arnie was in sales and read the book “Swim with the Sharks.” As he relates his story, he got more out of reading that book than the four years he spent in college.

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Small Business Owners’ Top Three Accountability Problems

9 June, 2014

By Beth Miller, an EO Elumni and Overdrive contributor

As an EO elumni and a Chair for Vistage International, one of the biggest benefits that peer groups can provide for a business owner is accountability. Often, small to mid-size business owners don’t have someone they are truly accountable to. They may have a few industry mentors or an advisory board, yet are they truly accountable to them?

So what can happen when an entrepreneur lacks a system of accountability? Here are the three top problems I have seen leaders face when they don’t have an accountability system for their performance:

Categories: Best Practices Coaching FINANCES Goal Setting Guest contributors

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The Inspiration Behind My eBook, “Are You Talent Obsessed?”

21 April, 2014

By Beth Miller, special to Overdrive

It’s a challenge many small business owners face: How to attract and retain a talented workforce. When a business is made up of average or below-average employees, leaders are forced to work around the clock, afraid to delegate and rarely see progress. I wanted entrepreneurs and business owners to understand the depth of this issue and how to overcome it.

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Top 5 Recruiting Mistakes that Entrepreneurs Make

19 February, 2014

By Beth Miller, special to Overdrive

Starting up a business is no easy task, and it’s not surprising that the vast majority of entrepreneurs fail the first time around. Although there are a number of reasons many start-ups end up unsuccessful, most new business owners make the mistake of not recognizing or investing in their talent. The best businesses are built on the backs of the best people, and the only way to recruit, retain, and engage true high-performers is through a true obsession with talent.

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Communication: The Lost Art?

19 November, 2013

By Beth Miller, Special to Overdrive

To become an effective leader in any field, from a Fortune 500 company to a retail manager, the concept of communication is heavily emphasized. A definition of communication arose in 1983 by the US Army defining communication as, “the exchange and flow of information and ideas from one person to another; it involves a sender transmitting an idea, information, or feeling to a receiver.”

Why is communication so important? If you were to look at a day in the life of an effective leader you would see that it is their charisma and presence that set them apart. They say that communication is an inherent characteristic, but it is actually one that is learned over time. Communication is the act of sending a message and receiving the information, as opposed to talking which is just sending information.

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Employee Engagement – A Leading Indicator of Employee Retention

9 April, 2012

By Beth Armknecht Miller, president and executive coach at Executive Velocity, Inc.

A June 2008 Employee Engagement Survey by HR Solutions of Chicago revealed that employees were more engaged with their work when they felt:

Supported by their manager when making suggestions to correct work place problems

Valued and recognized as an important part of the team
Their manager was helpful and friendly toward them

So what can happen if your employees are disengaged?

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Decision Outliers: Their Impact on Team and Organizational Effectiveness

2 November, 2011

By Beth Armknecht Miller, a leadership advisor, coach and Vistage chair for Executive Velocity, Inc.

In the book Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, many of the stories focus on those outliers who were successful, often due to circumstances and luck. What if you have an outlying preference that holds you back? A behavior that, if modified, moves you closer to the norm and makes you more effective? Let’s take a look at Decision Outliers. We’ve all experienced someone who either makes decisions too quickly or too slowly, and for some of us we actually may have one of these tendencies ourselves.

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Developing Future Leaders is an Ongoing Process

5 August, 2011

By Beth Armknecht Miller, a leadership advisor, coach and Vistage chair for Executive Velocity, Inc.

Why is it important to develop future leaders within your company? Continuity of company culture, labor shortages, and an unexpected death of a senior manager are just a few important reasons. In his book, Built to Last, Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. The process involved 96 candidates over seven years before Jones narrowed the candidates down to a single successor: Jack Welsh.

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Managing and Working with Negative People

22 June, 2011

By Beth Miller, founder and president of Executive Velocity.

We’ve all been there. You find yourself working on an important project and one of your team members, co-workers, or even the manager is an eternal pessimist. I like to call people like this, Eeyore. You remember Eeyore, the gloomy donkey from Winnie the Pooh. The words and phrases you often hear from pessimists are: “It won’t work,” “I can’t,” “why?” Not only can these people de-motivate others, but they can also quickly derail a great project.

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