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Cybersecurity threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and prevalent. A recent webinar featuring cybersecurity expert Jan Thornborough shed light on the critical importance of building cyber resilience into your business strategy. Read the Blog Overview!

According to business strategist Azim Sahu-Khan, there’s an entire level beyond scalability that can unlock exponential growth and put you squarely on a path to complete “business reliability.  Read the Blog Overview!

We all have hopes, dreams and goals we’d like to achieve in life. But actually making them a reality can often feel like an uphill battle. In this Align coach webinar, executive coach Michael Martin shared his powerful “Self-Fulfilling Formula” – a proven framework to turn your aspirations into self-fulfilling prophecies.  Read the Blog Overview!

It really does take a village to successfully grow an organisation and it will likely be one of the most challenging, vulnerable and rewarding experiences of your life. Curating that village and leading people to success starts with gaining a deep understanding of yourself and the role you excel at, learning to communicate effectively and applying essential principles of leadership and team building.  Read the Blog Overview!

Discover the essentials of customer experience (CX) from Alexandre Gagliano’s webinar, as we delve into effective strategies for enhancing customer journeys, employee engagement, and utilizing AI. Learn how to create lasting brand loyalty and turn customers into advocates. Read the Blog!

Coach Manoj Chugani teaches how to bridge the gap between vision and reality by connecting long-term purpose to annual priorities, cascading metrics, maintaining visibility for accountability, and ingraining consistent execution rhythms across the organization.

Charlie discusses strategies for maximizing business value and exit planning, with a focus on using tools like Align to implement these strategies.

Megan Alarid delves into the intricacies of bridging the strategy-execution gap, providing invaluable insights and practical strategies to enhance leadership, communication, and organizational success.

Jane Weddle explores the concept of positive intelligence, the impact of saboteurs on our thoughts and actions, and provides insights on improving mental fitness.

Scaling Up Coach Alicia Davis explains the key traits and habits of the most successful managers who are able to effectively lead their teams to success.

An effective vision could be the missing piece your company needs to drive results-yielding performance. Coach Jim Crisafulli explains how to get started as well as how to renew your current vision statement.

Take a closer look at the most common reasons why marketing fails during the growth stage with this webinar. We dive into key strategies and techniques that can help you lead a productive marketing team, and ultimately, drive growth and success for your business.

50% of internal meetings are a waste of time. Meetings are successful because of two things: proper planning and proper structure. Coach Jennifer Faught teaches 3 ways to cut down on the ‘junk’ meetings and make sure the ones that are necessary, are productive.

Business coach Charlie Janes explains how to create effective priorities and initiatives to enhance business value, and how certain resources can drive alignment and accountability within a business.

Verne Harnish says there are 3 disciplines for driving success in 2023 – Priorities, Metric Tracking, and Meeting Rhythms.

Often revenue increases are harder to attain, and the road to rising profitability rests on optimizing other business areas, such as compensation. Gord Smith explains the principles of compensation and how to leverage them to optimize your compensation plan.

Scaling Up Coach Jonathan Mond led a presentation outlining the simple yet necessary steps to turn your financials into a scalable business strategy.

Scaling Up Coach Wade Wyant explained the steps every business should take to prepare for the next recession.

Scaling Up Coach Mark Fenner leads a webinar uncovering 1) how to develop the right leading, lagging, quantitative and qualitative metrics, 2) how to create dashboards that provide insight, and 3) how do use data to forecast the future.

Philip Rose, Scaling Up Coach and Founder of Ignium, leads a webinar on how to prioritize your time and get the most out of it to enable strategic growth opportunities for your business.

Business coach Charlie Janes leads an informative discussion about the impact of low engagement, how to build a high-performance culture, and key recommendations to achieve alignment across the board.

Greg Crabtree provides an update on what is happening in the private business sector from the Simple Numbers’ Private company data model, and how you can manage market changes with pricing strategy and inflation management techniques.

As bestselling author of The Culture Fix, Will Scott tells us about the strategies behind how top leaders maintain an excellent business culture and use it to enhance every aspect of their business. Learn unique tools that no one else is teaching and apply this essential knowledge to your own business.

In this webinar, Verne Harnish leads a discussion about mastering leadership habits to help your team reach its full potential. What habits are you incorporating into your business to help build strong leaders?

In this learning event exclusive to the EO community, Business & Leadership Expert John Spence covered three major areas of creating an effective strategy: Strategic thinking, strategic planning, and strategic execution. John’s approach is to make strategy less complex and identify the most important things necessary for developing a solid strategic plan. This learning event dove into the five levels of strategic thinking, pattern recognition, how to hold a successful strategic planning retreat, how to create goals and tactics to support the strategy, understanding the importance of disciplined execution, and maintaining momentum in executing your strategy.

Based on Jack Stack’s best-selling book, The Great Game of Business is a unique and well-proven methodology and approach to running a company, based on a simple, yet powerful belief:

“When employees think, act and feel like owners… everybody wins.”

VP Steve Baker discusses the history behind the Great Game, its importance in modern business, and how business owners can take full advantage to align their team.

As workforces become more dispersed and executives become more inundated with meeting overload, there’s never been a more important time to re-evaluate your internal meeting rhythms and contemplate ways to improve their efficiency and impact.

Coaches Jeff Loehr and Joe Rojas lead the deep-dive into how to run an effective leadership meeting.

In this webinar, Joe and Rick will help you get started writing Objectives and driving Key Results. Using a ‘teach the teacher’ approach, they share best practices you can implement immediately on your teams to enhance motivation and boost performance.

In this webinar, Patrick will explain the research behind his approach to leading with emotional agility. He’ll share his advice for leaders looking to grow themselves and their teams to build cultures of success and incredible customer experiences.

In this webinar, Shawn shares methods for evaluating your leadership and performance over the past year and making adjustments to build back strong in 2021.

In this webinar, UK-based Business Coach Peter Boolkah discusses strategies for transforming your performance management with transparent goal setting.

Jason and Morgan from Petra Coach share a proven strategy for focusing and motivating your team: The Quarterly Theme! The right Theme brings energy to your strategic execution.

As an award-winning author and guru to CEOs of fast-growing companies around the world, Verne Harnish has helped countless organizations reach their goals. In 2021, says Verne, you should run your company like a professional sports team. The championships teams will be those who adapt quickly to changing rules of the game and stay focused on their most critical target.

In the changing workplace of the new decade, implementing the right software in your business can boost productivity and provide a competitive advantage. As a serial entrepreneur and lead trainer for EO’s Global Accelerator, Luiz Gonzalez-Aspuru knows the impact the right software tools can have on an organization’s culture. Watch our November webinar to hear Luis’s best practices for businesses transforming their culture with new software.

Digital Growth expert Kerrie Hoffman joins Align for the October Coach webinar on keeping up with the seismic change in the business world. As economies transform due to COVID-19, digital transformation, and political turmoil, only leaders who adapt quickly to meet this increasing pace of change will find success in the coming decade.

Tue. Aug 25^th @ 10 AM CDT

As your business works to adapt to the “new normal”, your sales strategy must transform to meet changing customer needs. Coach Rich Scott joined our August webinar to share how connecting your customer journey to your strategic plan can power sales in an uncertain time.

Wed. July 22^nd @ 10 AM CDT

For Align’s July webinar, we heard from author and strategy coach KK Diaz of South Africa. KK brings expertise in helping leaders gain a competitive advantage through digital transformation. For organizations looking to not just survive but thrive during COVID, these efforts are critical.

Wed. June 24^th @ 10 AM CDT

For Align’s June webinar, we’re joined by UK Scaling Up Coach Hayley Erner. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, Hayley has helped companies adapt their strategy and their cultures for the “new normal”. She’ll discuss best practices for building a culture where teams feel accountable and passionate.

Tue. May 19^th @ 10 AM CDT

Lead Petra Europe Coach and strategic planning expert Andy Clayton discussed keys to a successful remote strategic planning session. Andy has helped numerous organizations adapt strategy to remote conditions and shared best practices for effective goal setting during disruption.

Tue. April 21^st @ 11 AM CDT

Serial entrepreneur, Business Coach/Founder at ScalingCoach.com, and host of Scaling Up Business Podcast Bill Gallagher joined Align during this time of disruption to talk overlooked strategies for adapting to the changing landscape. Having successfully led and coached businesses through past crises like the Dot-Com bust and 2008 financial crisis, Bill brings a unique perspective on adapting business plans during disruption and executing successful pivots.

Wed. April 8^th @ 11 AM CDT

Alexander “Sandy” Cohen, CPA brings a lifetime of experience at the intersection of accounting, finance, and business to a special webinar focused on applying for Federal Small Business Loan assistance. He will discuss:
– The Economic Injury Disaster Loan application (available now at https://covid19relief.sba.gov/)
– The Paycheck Protection Program
– Other resources and best-practices for financially navigating the current crisis.

Wed. March 25^th, 2020

For our March Coach webinar, Dr. Craig Overmyer, shared insights from his Amazon bestseller Accelerate Thru Conflict. He discusses how to maximize how your team makes strategic decisions through productive conflict. Dr. Overmyer offered ideas about how to leverage the Fly Wheel concept by Jim Collins for more impactful One Page Strategic Plans.

Fri. March 20^th

Business coach Erik Frank covered effective team communication through COVID-19 Crisis, contingency planning for challenging scenarios, cash conservation strategies, and how to identify and capture new opportunities that emerge.

Tues. February 4^th

For our February Coach webinar, Richard will share his SPARKLE strategy containing relevant best practices to build a company that is sustainable, valuable and attractive to outside investors. Numerous businesses have successfully used this model in their businesses, and Richard has shared similar presentations for the Strategies for Maximizing Your Exit program at Harvard Business School.

Wed. January 15^th

Chuck shared the Execution Best Practices from his high achieving clients that have built sustainable/highly profitable Scale-Ups over the past 18 years. He shared insights and best practices on how to both master your current execution in 2020 and how to build in Strategic Rhythms that will ensure your company scales sustainable enabling you to achieve your long-range BHAG!

Wed. December 11^th

Neale Lewis, Business Coach and CEO, will discuss choosing targets for company performance, and why creating visibility into the company’s critical numbers, the leading indicators of your business, can create alignment and power execution.

Tue. November 12^th @ 10 AM CDT

Jennifer Faught, strategy coach at Petra Coach, shared best practices for conducting a focused, energized, and effective strategic planning session that can drive your team forward with quarterly, annual, and long-term goals.

October 2, 2019

For our October Coach webinar, Glen Dall will discuss how to create the ultimate “Big Hairy Audacious Goal” that will inspire and motivate you and your team to reach for your own North Star by providing tools and case studies from his career and clients.

August 22, 2019

For Align’s August webinar, Coach Herb Cogliano, Managing Partner at Aspire Growth Advisors, breaks down how to select, write, and execute on a top quarterly priority to drive your company’s strategic plans forward.

When leveraged correctly, KPIs can be a game changer for your business. A KPI Card is a visual representation of a measurement of a Quarterly Priority, Critical Number, One Page Strategic Plan Quarterly Target, or Metric. We emphasize the importance of having a single source of truth to drive your strategic plan, and KPI Cards help Align become that single source. KPI Cards build upon your plans for strategic execution by giving your team easy access to all critical data and its many parts.

In the current situation, many of you are adjusting to your new work-from-home schedules, experimenting with new workflows and getting comfortable with new software tools to keep your team communication smooth. To help with these adjustments to your workday, we’re releasing an integration with the cornerstone of many remote teams’ communication: Slack. Align Product Manager Joey Muething demos features and answer any of your questions.

Align Advisor Emmy German walks you through best practices for starting and maintaining huddles to improve communication, accountability, and transparency in your organization. For more information, schedule a conversation with Emmy.

Align Advisor Emmy German covers: What types of goals should my team be tracking in Align? How do these goals differ from their regular job functions? & How does Align differ from a project management system? For more information, schedule a conversation with Emmy.

Align Advisor and resident planning guru Emmy German covers new expanded features in Align that provide greater flexibility for organizations with multiple locations or divisions. To learn more, schedule a conversation with Emmy.

Our CEO Doug Walner and Product Manager Joey Muething shared our planned product releases for the upcoming year.