100 ways Accelerate Your Business, Professional and Personal Growth

In this article you will learn the following

-48 Tips Accelerate your professional and personal growth

-42 Tips How to Accelerate your Business Growth

CEOs, Business-leaders and Startup-founders - sharpen your professional personal and business growth trajectory

You could be a startup owner or have been given the charge as CEO/MD of an established business.

Reaching the Top is definitely a great achievement - but to remain there and create growth while leading your organizations through disruptions can't happen - just because of your past accomplishments, knowledge, experience, exposure, expertise or competencies [although these may give you some idea time to time].

To succeed in this role - you have to inculcate many new competencies, develop still newer capabilities - unfortunately there is no institution which can teach you how to deliver results as the CEO/Business-owner.

You as the Senior-most leader are ultimately responsible for every decision and action of every employee of your organization including their those decisions and actions that you are not even aware.

You will have a very small leeway-window of making mistakes - and you have to learn, perform and deliver - while being judged and in spotlight all the time.

You have learn to create your own strategic approach to manage the interests of all the stakeholders to deliver value - for which you were chosen.

In this article I have given some very basic tips - although most of you would know almost all of them.

Idea is to give few insights - that may trigger a great evolution and revolution within you to propel you taking some unconventional and disruptive actions leading to extra-ordinary results.

42 Tips How to Accelerate your Business Growth for CEOs, Business-Leaders, Startup-owners

• 1.‍Ensure best talents working for your most important projects
• 2.Create, build, nurture very strong bonding and relationship with your team as well as cross-functionally
• 3.Upgrade yours as well as each one of your team-member's skills
• 4.Know what future skills needed - as per the emerging trends
• 5.Facilitate learning and treat it as your top-most priority
• 6.Empower your team-members
• 7.Innovate and evolve - create curiosity for learning in your team
• 8.Mentor, coach, train and support your team members
• 9.Seek feedback for yourself and give constructive feedback and then trigger sustainable improvements through coaching
• 10.Sharpen your curiosity as a practice -Adopt a growth mindset
• 11.Ask open-ended questions -when having conversations with your team or colleagues
• 12.Encourage team-members to share their thoughts, opinions, and ideas -Expose them cross-functionally
• 13.Encourage challenging each other to identify the best ideas
• 14.Make the best skilled person lead a task
• 15.Facilitate reverse and peer mentoring - learn from others
• 16.Learn, share and implement global best practices - from diversified businesses across the globe
• 17.Develop your business-model, revenue-model, financial-model and marketing-model
• 18.Create KPIs - that matches with your business and other models
• 19.Challenge your assumptions - make corrections
• 20.Keep polishing and sharpening your various models
• 21.Measure the your organization culture and behaviors - identify which of those are promoting and which of those losing business
• 22.Encourage development by giving opportunities to your team members through challenging roles and rewards
• 23.Ensure meritocracy and provide opportunities for growth equally
• 24.Reward performance - create various non-monetary and financial rewards that inspires
• 25.Sharpen your organizational abilities in - technology expertise, industry expertise and business arenas
• 26.Look at the leaders in your own industry and beyond who can help fulfill your company's vision
• 27.Have a compelling story to tell, a solid business plan and the right message to - attract, catch and retain - talent, customers, funders
• 28.Make each function as a profit center
• 29.Implement customer loyalty program
• 30.Reduce your risks - by constantly identifying and building solutions to disruptions which are taking place globally
• 31.Have adequate insurance to take care of unforeseen financial disasters - because of political or other unpredictable scenarios
• 32.Be adaptable, flexible and proactively - make your products and services obsolete by introducing future services and products that create unparalleled value
• 33.Pivot fast to switch directions quickly in response to changes in the market - have an agile approach to development, both in your product and your company
• 34.Focus on creating memorable customer and user experience
• 35.Polish and diversify your offerings to best meet the customer's changing tastes
• 36.Have an exceptional online and social media experts - use all the channels to boost your business
• 37.Build partnership and collaborations with your vendors, suppliers and service providers
• 38.Network with other players and competitors
• 39.Be very pro-active to give back to community and your social responsibility
• 40.Create competitive advantage first - start with a winning, scalable formula - in profitable, fast-growing markets - focus on growing where you have an ownership or niche advantage in your core industry
• 41.Ensure that you think locally and act globally by create your home-market - through service and connecting with customers
• 42.If need be shrink or get out of non-core business activities to grow phenomenally
• 43.Career growth and development are some of the top things people look for in jobs but most person are seemingly not growing - which makes changing jobs the only way to grow - it off-course depends on multiple factors - ensure that in your organization people learn, grow and upgrade continuously

48 Tips Accelerate your professional and personal growth

• 1.Invest in yourself to accelerate growth - initially in startup phase - you will see a very lean profit margin (or no profit at all), so any money you make should go directly to helping your business grow
• 2.Learn to always always think ahead - observe the trends and change yourself
• 3.Boost your customer service - giving them what they did not even think about - without financially getting busted yourself
• 4.Research and learn your competitors
• 5.Become the go to expert by mastering your trade
• 6.Go for planning in detail from the scratch - and keep improvising with all the new information
• 7.Track, monitor and measure the progress regularly
• 8.Look for new opportunities - create a mindset of turning crisis into opportunity among your team members
• 9.Take ownership for important projects impacting your organization, employees and customers
• 10.Implement transparent and clear performance management
• 11.Proactively create career development opportunities - which anyone or the great performer can take
• 12.Make stepping out of comfort zone a fun thing
• 13.Help your employees develop into leaders - create professional and career growth plan help them set their career goals
• 14.Recognize your transferable skills - perform a gap analysis
• 15.Ensure a positive career trajectory for your team through horizontal and vertical learning, growth and development
• 16.If you are interviewing for the job - ensure discussing - the type of career growth - during the interview process itself
• 17.Negotiate what you think would make you deliver your best and add great value to the stakeholders
• 18.Ask your seniors - about the promotion criteria, your skill-developmental needs etc.
• 19.Identify your frustration areas by determining the mismatch in your current role vs. Your aspirations -where are you now - is there a mismatch - because there are not enough opportunities to progress or you are in the wrong role or you are not getting the support which is basic or you have a toxic workplace
• 20.Should consider changing jobs - Look for places with high growth potential.
• 21.Leverage your time -identify the non-critical work they spend time on—work that could be delegated
• 22.Work on goals that are important long term
• 23.use a personal organizational system that is reliable -to keep track and be focused
• 24.Focus on results and quality of execution and delivery
• 25.Learn to promote yourself - make yourself visible
• 26.Find a mentor
• 27.Learn to be indispensable by adding unparalleled value
• 28.Accelerate your learning curve -self-development is continuous and essential
• 29.Master the basic system- to think outside the box requires living outside the box -don't reinvent the wheel - it's a slow process
• 30.Invest in the success of others - to grow fast
• 31.Hang out with the winners
  see the big picture
• 32.Master the art of creating and nurturing great relationships with most important people in industry and business
• 33.Experiment by taking risk
• 34.Read, read read - ensure reading one book every fortnight - keep a list of book to read for mental, emotional, professional and relationship growth
• 35.Develop entrepreneurial mindset- bylearning to understand people - and identifying a problem and creating solutions that will help a significant mass
• 36.All the time - plan, revise, build, review
• 37.Understand your organizational or corporate culture
• 38.Learn to work with the existing culture
• 39.Identify critical behaviors and then focus on changing people's behaviors to affect the culture for upscaling business by linking behaviors with business objectives
• 40.Align programs with behaviors-manage and maintain the culture over time
• 41.Develop essential soft-skills - your ability to learn better and faster can help determine your success and your potential for growth
• 42.Identify which soft skills you need to sharpen based on your existing professional, personal, relationship challenges
• 43.I have written an article about 60 soft-skills that each of us needs to master - in this website
• 44.Make a list of soft-kills you need to improve - in my this website - there are 42+ blogs on different skills [in addition to 600+other articles in do-it-yourself on business, professional, financial, social etc.]
• I.Break down each of the soft-skill into its sub-skills - like decision-making - identifying the options available, prioritizing, doing pros and cons of each options solution, identifying why deciding on this is important, selecting
• II.Identify what resources you need - identify from where you will access these including learning from a mentor or coach
• III.Use your imagination - to identify where in your work environment - you can practice complex soft skills such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking
• IV.Strengthening soft-skills is an incredibly slow process as it is not acquiring knowledge but because it requires a change in your mindset, personality and habit