Creating Sustainable Businesses for Tomorrow

1. Creating Sustainable Businesses for Tomorrow
Debora McLaughlin
Executive and Business Coach

2. Create
Influential
Leaders,
One at a Time.

3. Purpose
 Review today’s business landscape
 How to plant the seeds of influential leadership
to grow sustainable businesses
 What tools to use to till the soil
 Discuss how to take what we learned forward

4. The ability to self-lead and empower
others through positive influence.

5. Of U.S. Employees
are Engaged in
Their Work
Disengagement Costs Between
$243-270 Billion Per Year

7. They are committed
and loyal to the
company

9. They don’t really
care…

10. These Employees are…
 Burned Out
 Over-worked
 Overwhelmed
 Depressed

13. High Corporate Mortality Rate
 Fortune 500 companies last 30-40 years
 1 out of 3 gone every 10 years

15. So What Makes a Long-Lived Company?
 200 year companies saw themselves as a community
first and a profit-generator second
 Sense of Identity and Values
 Tolerance and Openness
 Fiscal Conservation
 Environmentally-Conscious

16. What to Do?

17. Create influential
leaders who
promote employee
engagement and
build collaborative
cultures.

18. How Do We Do That?
“Foster adaptation…help people to
develop the next practices that will
enable the organization to thrive
even as you continue best practices”
Harvard Business Review 2009

19. Revolutionize Leadership Skills of…
 Analytical Problem Solving
 Top-Down Decision Making
 Leading the Organization’s
Mission and Strategy

20. The Adaptive Skills of Influential Leaders
Inspire Innovation
Nourish Trust
Foster Leadership at All Levels
Listen… to Unfamiliar Voices
Unleash the Power of Their People
Encourage Teamwork and Collaboration
Notice and Recognize Achievements
Create a Collaborative Culture
Engage Diversity

21. Engaged employees
perform up to
better and are
less likely to leave
the organization.

22. Of Engaged Employees…
• Believe they can positively impact the quality
of their company’s products and services
• Believe they can impact service delivery and
client retention
• Want to take a stake in reducing costs and
improving the bottom

23. “There is clear and mounting evidence that
high levels of employee engagement keenly
correlates to individual, group and
corporate performance in areas such as
retention, turnover, productivity, customer
service and loyalty”
The Conference Board

24. Giveaway Items
 UnlockMyPersonalPowerofInfluence.com
 Free e-course delivered via e-mail
 RealWorldLeaderReport.com
 How to build a collaborative coaching culture and the
traits of effective leadership
 JournalForInfluentialLeaders.com
 Weekly tips on how to optimize people, performance,
and profits

25. John C. Maxwell

26. What Will You Do?
 The Renegade Leader Coaching &Consulting Group
provides:
 Executive Coaching
 Retreats
 Career Transition
 Team Building
 Leadership Development
 Assessments
 New Manager Success
 Consulting/Mentoring

27. “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner
fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by
an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those who
rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer
Nobel Prize Winner