Phil Morabito's newest presentation to the Houston Business Executives on improving leadership skills and peer advisory.

1. How do I improve?????
Phil Morabito
Wednesday November 30. 2011

2. The Situation
 You work hard everyday
 You get sucked into all kinds of things
 Your mind is filled with business issues never-ending
 How do you ever work on yourself?

3. Strategy
 You must find time to make yourself a better executive
 You must work on your own SWOT analysis
 You always have to be learning something new
 You must always improve to be successful in business

4. Your options
 Knowledge center stuff - - - - Books, seminars,
webinars, podcasts, whitepapers, speakers…..etc
 Mentors
 Advisory Boards
 Roundtables
 Peer Groups
 Company Retreats

5. Knowledge Center Stuff
 Sign up
 Read at least one per week
 Have an employee lead a topic (Digital Influencer
Weekly)
 Look for topics, then
buy….download/hardcover/whatever
 Pick a subject and do a search Saturday

6. Mentor
 Find the right match
 Meet regularly
 Come prepared
 Ask to be held accountable
 Celebrate successes
 Measure results

7. Advisory Boards
 Get the right mix
 Cover all areas of your weaknesses
 Meet regularly
 Ask the members to be candid
 Compensate the members
 Come prepared/be held accountable/measure results

8. Roundtables
 Less formal
 Some good….some not so good
 Can run their course
 Requires commitment from members
 Hard to keep together…without leadership

9. Peer Groups
 Non-competing owners of like firms
 CEO only
 Sedona example
 When done right….results are outstanding

10. Company Retreats
 We do two per year
 Format
 Commitment/time/money/opportunity cost
 With speakers/without
 With team building/without
 Facilitators required for success

11. Summary
 Make yourself better
 Improving your skills leads to profits
 Get advice…Mentor/Advisory Board/Roundtable/Peer
Group
 ABL…..Always Be Learning
 Share all your learning with all of your peers