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On Leadership at the Highest Levels
🥂Congratulations, you have arrived! But soon you will look around and realize...
✨The crowd of partners has thinned
✨They expectations have increased
✨The support is almost gone
✨The pressures are mounting and multiplying exponentially
✨The ongoing education has nearly ceased- with little available time to seek this on your own
✨All eyes, all results are on you

⏱️The clock is ticking and it can feel like a time bomb.

📞This is when 'The Leaders' call me.

📈Last year alone I supported nearly two dozen individual Leaders on an ongoing basis. Weekly, Monthly, several times a week in certain situations.

🙋‍♀️In addition, I took over 200 one-on-one calls to coach Leaders, non-paying customers, as we solved a current, pressing situation together. I listen well and customize options for solutions quickly, effectively and realistically.

Those calls are my gifts, my offerings, to an industry under pressure and with little Leadership training and coaching.

🎯Leaders who are able to confidentially admit they need support and added perspective to clarify the game plan, perfect the solutions.
How can I possibly say no?

I don't. I cannot.

By supporting these Leaders, it is my hope, my strategy, for my work to then be felt throughout their organization. Straight to people I might never meet, but who can experience the impact of thoughtful strategies and communication.

I stay available, strategically so, for the best Leaders throughout our industry and beyond.

👉I am committed to making a difference, and impact in our efforts to improve our brand, internally and externally.

You've watched me and my work for a long time now. You know what you need.

Call me or request a meeting at National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA). I will be in Dallas from the 24th-29th.

Your Leadership Team can win more often, with greater consistency and confidence. Seeing your progress and your wins is our reason to celebrate.

Let's get you and your Leadership Team the support and the results you deserve.

#LeadershipMatters #CelebrateWins #ExecutiveCoaching #CareerStrategy #LeadershipCoaching #Forward #FORWARDExecs

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I will be onsite at National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) in #Dallas from Tuesday, January 24- Sunday, January 29.

For those who have watched my work from afar and would like to learn more, reach out and I will make sure you are on my calendar.

Here is an overview of who is already reaching out to meet:

✨Business Leaders discussing Future Planning, Growth Solutions and Leadership Development.

✨Individuals seeking our Executive Coaching and Career Services.

✨ Companies who would like to learn about our ✨FORWARD Talent Acquisition solutions and Executive Leadership Development and Retention services.

You know what your needs are and where it matters most for your successful 2023. As one of the industry's leading Performance Strategists, share your challenge and we will discuss how we can support you and your vision.

I will be onsite and available to share your options and success formulas.

We want your 2023 to be your best year yet.
No hoping. Pure Strategy.

#LeadershipMatters #ExecutiveCareers #CorporateGrowthSolutions #TRACTION #CorporateTraining #LeadershipDevelopment #CareerStrategies #TalentAcquisition

1554

To Leaders 6 Months After Installing a New Person in an Important Role:
👉Would you hire them again, knowing what you know now?
👉What questions should you have asked?
👉How well did your Team Leads do at Onboarding this new person from Day One?
📉What targets are you going to miss because of this?


🎯Would you like a better option going forward?
✨ FORWARD by Foster Strategies Group is now strategically connecting terrific talent with outstanding companies.

In addition to getting the right people together, we stay with you to ensure the process is going well for all parties engaged.

There is no 'set it and forget it' if you are committed to attracting, growing and retaining great people.

We will ensure you and your people are all succeeding each step of the way.

✨FORWARD: A fresh, success-based perspective on Career Search and Talent Acquisition.

To learn more, reach out to info@fosterstrategiesgroup.com or visit us at https://lnkd.in/eRDK9MT

#Automotive #CareerSearch #TalentAcquisition #ExecutiveJobs #ExecutiveCareerStrategy #LeadershipMatters #PeopleStrategy #SuccessFormula #FosterStrategiesGroup


1553

On a Strategic Pricing Conversation:
While prices are skyrocketing everywhere you turn, I have made a Strategic decision for my clients.

With the exception of one category, our prices for engagement are holding the line. While busier than ever, as I approach my 4th anniversary of launching my company, I am committed to keeping my services easily attainable for all who are interested.

Here is an overview to give you a glimpse into our valued offerings to our rapidly growing Client base.

Business and Leadership Performance
🎯 Onsite Growth and Performance Strategy, $4000/day
🎯 Onsite Leadership Coaching and Strategy $5000/day, up to 10 attendees
✨Virtual for either option, reduce by 10%

Executive Leadership: Individuals
🥇 Executive Career Strategy and Coaching 3- 55 minute session bundle, was 595, now 695.
🥇 Career Placement $3500 Retainer
🥇 Talent Acquisition and Career Placement 12% of TCP (less retainer)

Talent Acquisition
⭐ Talent Acquisition -$3500 Retainer
⭐ Talent Acquisition Placement 12% of TCP (less retainer)

Speaking and Presentations for Events
📢 30-45 minute Customized Presentation: Onsite $6500
For longer events or special requests, please contact us.

Monthly Contracts available for specific short or longer term projects.
Recent example include:
✔Growth Advisory
✔Competitive Analysis
✔Leadership Strategy
✔Corporate Training and Leadership Services

For added information on any specific service or a special request, reach out today.

I am proud of the impact we are making in the #Automotive industry and beyond.

I will always offer a complimentary intro conversation for you and your team.

https://lnkd.in/eRDK9MT


*All are exclusive of Travel


1552

Standing up and applauding Samantha Unrau while shaking my head.

Learn the difference first between discrimination and unconscious bias prior to proclaiming you are 'People First'.

All this guy has done is avoided a lawsuit. Nothing heroic here. But in his mind, he really did something.

What he doesn't realize is that he is just now operating legally, something that might have been an epiphany...

Let's hope this is the first step in leveling up and awakening to the true meaning of People First.

Now let's hear some great example from Leadership- You're up!

1551

On Your Growth Strategy.
Not your forecasts, goals or hopes.
Your Strategy.

Foster Strategies Group was built on 2 dozen years of providing necessary solutions and innovative strategies with a litany of outstanding results.

We are not here to tell you what you're doing wrong.

We help our clients get it right, with certainty and greater ease.

Let's use a current example:
NADA is right around the corner.
What is your Strategy?
Based on the last 5-7 years, factoring in Sales, Revenue, Clients, Your Team, Travel, Product Launches, all of it...
How successful have you been?

If you have had some success- what is the gap that remains between your 'hoped for' and actual results?

Our question: Would you like a partner who can offer you assurance of great outcomes?

We love helping people and companies who won't settle for 'okay' results.

When would you like to connect and discuss?

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Tip # 765 I A Foster Strategies Group Guide to Finding Out What Your Leaders Are Thinking
First of all, let's agree to Stop Guessing or Assuming.

Next, follow our Success Formula carefully.
✨Choose one of your leaders.
✨Step out of the office with them and go somewhere nearby.
✨Spend $10 on a few cups of coffee.
✨Sit down.
👉Breathe-and let them breathe also.
✨Slow down the pace and enjoy casual talk.
✨Fight the urge to have your 'agenda'.
✨Let the conversation find its way back to business, but let it be what is on their mind today, not yours.
✨Listen carefully.
✨Now listen like the Leader you are, the Leader they need you to be.
✨Don't try to solve anything.
Marinate on the conversation overnight.
✨Think about their perspective.
✨Where are you in alignment?
✨Where are they heading in another direction?
✨How did they enlighten you?
Now, jot a few notes down to yourself, and then ask them to meet for Coffee # 2.
Continue listening, and listen from a far more informed position as a trustworthy, calm, confident and capable Leader.

Now it's time to talk with them...not at them...with them.

You will suddenly start to find your people opening up sooner and more frequently, which is precisely what you want from those you have entrusted with Leadership roles.

#LessonsOnLeadership #LeadershipMatters #Automotive #ExecutiveCoach #LeadershipCoach #CorporateGrowth #Listen #LeadWithConfidence #LeadWithRespect #EmployeeRetention

1548

Get in the Game!
Sitting in the bleachers is only a good seat if you merely want to be a spectator.

🎯Practice.
🎯Show up.
🎯Set new targets.
🎯Measure your progress.
🎯Measure your effectiveness.
🎯Watch, listen, learn, apply and teach.
🎯Test your theories.
🎯Press yourself.
🎯Increase your speed.


Then, climb back up into the bleachers and see if you look like you still resemble a comfortable spectator or if you've earned the position as a champion on the field.

Train yourself like your life depends on it!
Because it does. ♥️

1547

On The Best Way to Get What You Want:
✨Prioritize Graciously, Generously Helping Others Get What They Want, with Greater Ease.

Executive Pro Tip #1498
✨Don't wait for people to come to you, pre-emptively ensure they know you are ready and willing to help.

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In 2023 we will be partnering with even more outstanding companies and talented leaders to drive their businesses, their successes and help them meet all of their goals and dreams.

Happy New Year from your dedicated Automotive Business and Career Strategist!

1545

Indulge Your Career in the New Year!
Our Executive Coaching helps seasoned professionals strategically prepare for the next critical career move.

✅Make more money.
✅Make a bigger impact.
✅Increase your influence.
✅Enjoy a work-life balance.
✅Lead your way to new successes

✨FORWARD from Foster Strategies Group.
Executive Career Moves and Talent Acquisition.
Quietly, confidentially, confidently and strategically.

Have the Happiest New Year ever!

1544

Off to Uptown to meet a client who requested to get together while they are visiting Charlotte for New Year festivities.

We are going to discuss their year-end performance and set our sights on a strategic plan for 2023.

Yes, it's a Saturday, and yes, it's the 31st- practically a holiday.

I am thrilled to support someone this committed to their personal and professional growth.

When we grow ourselves, we are then stronger and more capable to help others...and that is my plan for their entire organization.

On-site Leadership!

Enjoy your New Year's Eve and acknowledge all you have done to impact the lives of others!

1543

Another Great Insight on Your Best Life from my friend, Tania Katan, Inspirational Speaker.
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Tania
"If it’s ok with you, can we just get it out of the way… Happy New Year!
 
I don’t mean to be cavalier about a brand new year; a chance to let go of all the limiting beliefs that no longer serve you, to make positive changes, to put pen to paper and write down everything you desire to do & be in 2023…
 
BUT if we’re waiting for just ONE, seemingly anointed day, each year, to find a way to make our best life an everyday reality, then we’re squandering 364 perfectly good days! That’s really putting a lot of pressure on ONE day that looks pretty much like all the other days—only with more drunk kissing your “straight” friend in a bar bathroom stall, enveloped by the scent of Sex on the Beach, stale cigarettes, and lost dreams (sorry, that was 20-something Tania talking).
 
So, let’s pull the pin out of that big NYE ball, releasing the myth of THIS IS MY ONE SHOT TO DO EVERYTHING RIGHT, ALL AT ONCE, OR LIVE 364 MISERABLE DAYS.

Instead, I’m going to share with you ONE question that, when you answer honestly, will lead you to your best life and work. It comes from my BRILLIANT friend, Robert Nicoletti, CEO & Founder WHYFOR Ventures. He’s the kind of friend that loves the F out of you and, because he knows and loves you so much, will call you out on your bullshit.
So, when I went on the job market, he said...

Rob: What the F*!$ are you doing, Katan?
Me: Looking for work…for an opportunity, one that values my skills.
Rob: A job is not an opportunity. It’s a job. You’re a genius. You don’t get a job. You get clear on what you need in order to do your best work.
Me: Ok, well, you’re a genius too! So… how do I do that?
Rob: You answer one question...

To live my best life and do my best work, I need to:
 
And without overthinking, I wrote for about 5 minutes and stopped. Whatever I had written felt complete. I read (the image above) to Rob and quickly realized that those 5 bullet points are without-any-doubt exactly what I need to live my best life and do my best work! They each hold space for many different forms. Like, “Make people laugh and think differently.” This can, and has, taken the form of writing books, public speaking, coaching, etc. 
 
Now, when pursuing opportunities—or jobs—or plotting out my life I look at this list and if all 5 are a YES, then I’m a YES, too! 
 
So, instead of taking days to write your 2023 RESOLUTIONS only to abandon them a few weeks in, take 5-minutes to answer ONE vital question. The emotional and professional ROI on those 5-minutes will pay you dividends for the rest of your BEST life and work!
 
Happy New Best!
xo Tania"
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As you can already guess, I couldn't agree more with them. To have your best life, you can choose any day to get started. Don't let any date keep you from committing to more...choose your date, your time, just choose and go.

And Tania- please share the image with your 5 bullet points!

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Meet my brilliant friend, Terri DeBoer!!!

From her earlier:
"In 2022, I was inducted into the Michigan EMMY Chapter - NATAS Silver Circle, wrote two books (for release in 2023) and learned how to solve the Rubik's Cube! (Even loftier goals are ahead for 2023) #rubikscube #author #2022recap #SilverCircle #2023goals"

✨Terri, At a time when many people in life are easing off the accelerator you've got your foot pushed right through the floorboards!

You inspire me daily with your energy, enthusiasm and focus.

Now, as an established author, I cannot wait to see how many more people your publications will continue to impact.

Here's to what's next for one of the most talented women I know…. right from my home town area in Michigan!

I've introduced Terri personally to a few of my friends including the inimitable #TikTok sensation, helen polise...aka, @themuthership.

Do yourself a favor and start following both of these women yourself!

Happy New Year and here's to what's next for you my friend!

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On Choosing Well in Business and Life in General:
Here are some of the choices I'll be making for 2023- Care to join me?
✨Choose more Joy.
✨Choose more Generosity.
✨Choose more Time Outside.
✨Choose to Read More Often.
✨Choose to Laugh at Yourself.
✨Choose to Look at Life from Other's Perspective.
✨Choose to Get Better at What You Do.
✨Choose to Go Out of Your Way to Help.
✨Choose to Look at What You've Done This Year as a Launching Pad.

✨Choose to Have More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't.
✨ Choose to Surround Yourself With Those Who Enrich and Encourage You.

✨Choose to Live Your Professional and Personal Lives with Greater Harmony.

✨Choose to Embrace the New Even When You Feel a Bit Behind.

✨Choose to Add New People to Your World Even When Your World Feels Full and Overflowing.

✨Choose the Person, Persona and Impact You Want and Go For It.

✨Choose to Be Aware You Have These Choices and So Much More.

✨Choose to Unlock and Unleash Your Full Potential.
✨Choose You. Your Best You. You Deserve It!

✨✨✨Choose to Let Us See You at Your Best in 2023.✨✨✨

Happy New Choices Year!

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