ProActive Leadership Group

09/20/2024

Rick Dahlseid and I are excited to announce we launched our REF Nonprofit CEO Forum yesterday. Thanks to Deric Fernandez for hosting us in his beautiful conference room. Thanks to Stephen Gamp for offering our educational presentation on Community Reinvestment Opportunities. Thanks to Mark Neilson for making sure our meeting went smoothly!

Our founding members are Wendy Forkas, Renata Sahagian, Stacy Rungaitis, MS, Juan Leon, MBA, Casey Castillo and Teresa Colosimo-Miller. We still have room for a few more members. Come grow, challenge yourself and learn through collective intelligence with a dynamic group of Nonprofit CEOs!

11/13/2023

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10/25/2022

Glad PLG coach Julie Poland was invited to be interviewed as part of this event!

Whether you are starting a business or launching a new product, here's how to properly set prices for sustainable growth.

07/21/2022

Sometimes the solid line-dotted line reporting structure in a matrix
creates a tug of war for the employee’s attention. Whose work should be completed first? It’s not always made clear.

STUCK IN THE MATRIX- by Coach Julie Poland It’s sometimes hard for team members to prioritize work effectively, especially in growing businesses where the scope of a particular job tends to creep. Sometimes this is a temporary situation, rectified with an addition to staff as the responsibilities ...

02/08/2022

Are you projecting revenue by looking at last year's numbers and then adding X percent? Where does that X percent come from, and how do you know you are choosing the correct number? Relying on history? There's a better place to start when forecasting for the growth in your business.

For leaders of growing companies who want smart business growth AND greater personal freedom.

02/01/2022

It's not what happens to you that counts - it's how you interpret what happens to you. It's all about how you frame it when you think about it. It's not what's there - it's what you see, what you notice. And when you remember events, you remember the story that you wrapped around the events more than you do the particulars of the actual events themselves. Your frame drives your understanding, and your understanding drives your behavior.

For leaders of growing companies who want smart business growth AND greater personal freedom.

01/24/2022

It would be great to tell you that your growth chart will be a straight line from the lower left of the chart into the stratosphere on the right side of the chart. But it would not be reality. Even for companies (and people) who are going through transformational growth, there are plateaus - pauses in the upward trajectory. And they serve some valuable purposes.

For leaders of growing companies who want smart business growth AND greater personal freedom.

01/17/2022

What is your superpower? Your leveraged strengths are your key to better performance and more satisfaction. Why invest your time and energy going from a level 3 to a level 5 on a non-strength when you could be developing yourself from a level 7 to a level 9 in your superpower?

For leaders of growing companies who want smart business growth AND greater personal freedom.

01/11/2022

We're a few days into the new year, still full of inspiration and drive to make this year better than the last. Whether you have made resolutions or developed a business plan or neither of the above, the possibilities stretch before you. BUT - if you are going to make room to chase all of the possibilities, what are you going to choose to stop doing?

For leaders of growing companies who want smart business growth AND greater personal freedom.

01/04/2022

There's a bad old list of topics that we prefer not to discuss, for a variety of reasons. In business, the topic is succession - often pushed and pushed on behalf of more urgent issues - until it becomes the urgent issue. Lack of a succession plan is a risk to your business.

For leaders of growing companies who want smart business growth AND greater personal freedom.