As a business owner, one of the best ways to ensure your business is both attractive and competitive is to have a retention strategy that addresses current, real-world employee stressors and needs.

Each business has risks they need to navigate and mitigate. The real question is which may impact the enterprise value of your business.

How do I know how risk is affecting my value drivers? If you are a business owner, the answer to this question is important to you.

What makes your business money, may not be what drives value in it. Enterprise value comes from specific drivers and knowing your company's is important.

How do I know my value drivers? If you are a business owner, the answer to this question is important to you.

In November 2021 we heard from Joe Slatter, instructor of Introduction to Decision Dynamics – powered by Better Practice™. Joe will offer insight into his methodology that teaches teams to figure out what matters together, make better decisions faster and act together with grace and accountability. Joe calls this metacollaboration. Joe has worked with thousands of business owners and individuals to help their organizations improve self-leadership and work more effectively together.

This session will:

- Highlight the importance of cross-functional collaboration

- Explore ways to improve communication

- Understand ways to expedite team focus

- Determine next steps to better collaborate

Your business is your income and your investment. You should understand if you are more owner or employee. This is especially critical as you begin to consider what transitioning from owning your business will look like for you.

How do I take the first steps to convert from a job to a business? If you are a business owner, the answer to this question is important to you.

Sometimes things look good but may not actually be good. Understanding what is important to you as an owner is important so when you are faced with an offer you can weigh and measure it with clarity.

How do I know when to walk away from an offer? If you are a business owner, the answer to this question is important to you.

Key personnel are just that: key. Making sure they transition with the business to the new owner will help with the ongoing performance of the company. The important part is keeping the key people through the transition.

How do I create an incentive prior to sale to keep my key personnel? If you are a business owner, the answer to this question is important to you.

Owner dependence negatively impacts the value of your business. It is important to take steps to make sure your business can operate effectively when you aren't there. We often have owners ask us: "how do I make my business less dependent on me?"

If you are a business owner, the answer to this question is important to you.

Business owners frequently ask why they should have an external advisory board and how to set one up. This video - "How do I set up and advisory board for my business?" will give you insight into the why, how and who of an advisory board.

The answer to this question is important to you.

If you are a business owner with a company that relies on a sales team, this video is for you. We answer the question "How do I build a compensation structure for my sales team?" in this video.

Keeping excess money in your business may seem like a solid financial approach, but it is important to know the unintended consequence of doing so. "How do I set up a distribution process?" is the focus of this video.

If you are a business owner, the answer to this question is important to you.

What if you knew something really simple that would make continuous improvement easier?

This book will introduce you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. Learn how to navigate an unpredictable future through the fast and agile development of complex collaborations, using a set of ten practical skills.

Author and consultant Jennifer Garvey Berger has worked with all types of leaders—from top executives at Google to nonprofit directors who are trying to make a dent in social change. She hears a version of the same plea from every client in nearly every sector around the world: "I know that complexity and uncertainty are testing my instincts, but I don't know which to trust. Is there some way to know what to do when I can't know what's next?"

Her newest work is an answer to this plea.

Leadership is more than a title or role. It is practiced and can be situation specific. Watch this video to learn how a captain of a nuclear submarine re-defined his leadership role.

Learn powerful, science-based techniques to boost focus, drive and energy hour-by-hour throughout the day – every day, all day long.

You have an employment brand. Do you know what it is and why it matters to you today? No matter what your employment brand, it can determine how you accelerate your business out of the recession.

In this session Martin Low and Leah Eggers, founders of On Plane Consulting will discuss why it is critical that you understand your employment brand, communication strategies and how to build your team now so you are ready to accelerate out of today’s recession. Facilitated by Sean Hutchinson, RFN Global and RFN Academy Contributor.

Learning objectives:

1. Learn what an employment brand is and why it matters to your business.

2. Discuss your current employment brand and how your actions today can shape it.

3. Learn how to communicate with your team during a crisis and support laid off workers

4. Learn how to assess your current team for business continuity

In these times of uncertainty, leadership matters more than ever. This session will help you identify relevant and useful practices to set a course for a more “agile” approach to leadership. It includes choosing an optimistic attitude others can share, inviting real, creative conversations and supporting accountability and collaboration, while supporting leadership at all levels.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand why leadership matters more than ever in times of uncertainty

2. Identify useful practices that promote performance and resilience

3. Learn what leadership competencies deliver more impact on business results

Ready for Next - Accelerating out of a Recession

Session 1: Embracing Uncertainty

Joe Slatter, John Lazar and Janyce Fadden introduced and discussed ways of seeing and understanding our current environment.

Learning Objectives

1. Introduce and discuss ways of seeing and understanding our environment that are particularly well suited to volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times.

2. Explore ways to set goals and plan effectively in periods of uncertainty.

3. Learn from each other. What's working? What's not?