The Total Leader® Developing Strategy, Building Leadership Cultures, Improving Productivity
Your company will achieve greater profitability, better performance and a higher return on investment when you communicate a vision-driven strategy, develop leaders throughout your organization, and increase productivity of your people. Together with you, we focus solely on delivering results you can measure.
How will you Minimize Risk and Maximize Value when you Exit?
LMI has the experience and a proven process to help business owners clearly understand your options, reduce risk and ensure a successful exit from your business. Our business exit and succession planning process provides peace of mind to the owners and senior level executives of closely held and family owned businesses.
Setting clear objectives
Protecting and maximizing value while reducing risk
Integrating the work of all of your trusted advisors
Addressing the triple bottom line of financial, family and legacy Click here...
Evolution of the Advisor Rainmaker
For 24 years, Atlantic Leadership Group has helped advisors refine their brands, attract ideal prospects and grow their businesses. Our expert performance system can help you make the most of your prospect and client conversations to:
prospect and market effectively
eliminate follow-ups
save time
close more deals
Advisors skilled in rainmaking guide their clients to understand their pain points: what the client wants to accomplish, fix or avoid. They are skilled in gaining commitment from clients to eliminate those pain points and to eliminate follow up conversations by making decisions with the right information. Rainmakers are expert facilitators of client decision making.
Edwards Holliday, is an accredited consultantive sales developer for financial advisors to help them diagnose their propensity for rainmaking, help them treat their unsupportive beliefs and mitigate their symptoms of skill deficiency. He helps leaders assess their team as a group to identify strengths and areas of improvement.
You, Inc.
What are you doing to improve You, Inc.?
Like a corporation, you have assets, skills and abilities that you market for your income and everything else you want in life.
What are you doing to improve your personal bottom line?
Call us today for an introduction to executive coaching and realize your greater personal vision for this year-- make it your best!
Enthusiastically,
Edwards A. Holliday (301)854-2388 Melba Sammons Holliday (301)854-2388 Kent McKamy (212)684-1465
Achieving Manager Study
The Achieving Manager Study - Breakthrough Research
“If we know one thing today…it is most managers are made, not born…there has to be a systematic work on the supply, the development, and the skills of tomorrow’s management…it cannot be left to chance.”
- Peter F. Drucker
The Achieving Manager study is based in solid science and shows definitively the common behavioral characteristics that the top achieving leaders employ to set themselves apart from their lesser achieving colleagues. These leaders were most highly valued by their respective companies and were promoted faster and given the most responsibility for managing their organization's assets and people.
It proves leadership is not accidental.
There is a model for effective leadership that exists and it can be modeled through programs by The Achieving Manager Experience. Read more...[The Achieving Manager Study]
Listen to Edwards Holliday on BlogTalkRadio hosted by The Copernicus Institute talk about how you can see the future, you can manifest your vision, and you can achieve your priorities. Edwards shares the powerful process and technology of the Personal Vision Letter, an exercise that he recommends as the first step in your annual strategic planning process. Edwards will show you how to facilitate yourself into a clearly defined story of your upcoming year (the show was recorded 11/2010 to create 2011), from the resulting outcomes back to the present, and how to avoid the pitfalls and limitations of conventional goal setting practices.Click here to listen to the show.
Why Management Training?
Only 15% of managers have any management training
Employees with competent management are 30% less likely to develop heart disease2
Most management training is subjective, sometimes negative, and not validated by research
Only 17% of managers are highly effective1
A model for effective management exists and it can be learned1
1Hall, J. (1988). Models for management: The structure of competence: Classic theories and facts about managing people 2Kivimaki M, Ferrie JE, Brunner E, Head J, Shipley MJ, Vahtera J et al., (2005). Justice at work and reduced risk of coronary heart disease among employees: The Whitehall II Study.
Leadership Inspiration
A Testament to What's Possible
Paul J. Meyer: What it Takes to be a Winner
Those who know Paul J. Meyer best believe that if he was stripped of all his possessions and dropped off in some part of the world where he knew neither the language nor another person, not only would he survive, but in a short time he would thrive. Read more...
Why Goal Setting Matters
Research suggests that 95% - 97% of the people in the world do NOT have written goals and fail, while 3-5% have written goals and succeed
Goal Setting is a powerful way to build self-confidence and self-esteem
Fear of Losing - Many people do not set goals because they are afraid they will be criticized for not reaching them
Fear of Winning - Odd as it may seem, some people do not set goals because they fear success
"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps it's because escape is easier than change" - Jim Rohn