<p><span>In this article you will learn the following</span><br></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">48 Tips Accelerate your professional and personal growth</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-42 Tips How to Accelerate your Business Growth</b></p><p>CEOs, Business-leaders and Startup-founders - sharpen your professional personal and business growth trajectory </p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">You could be a startup owner or have been given the charge as CEO/MD of an established business</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Reaching the Top is definitely a great achievement</b> - <b data-redactor-tag="b">but to remain there and create growth while leading your organizations through disruptions can't happen</b> - just because of your past accomplishments, knowledge, experience, exposure, expertise or competencies [<b data-redactor-tag="b">although these may give you some idea time to time</b>].</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">To succeed in this role - you have to inculcate many new competencies, develop still newer capabilities</b> - unfortunately there is no institution which can teach you how to deliver results as the CEO/Business-owner.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">You as the Senior-most leader are ultimately responsible for every decision and action of every employee of your organization</b> including their those decisions and actions that you are not even aware. </p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">You will have a very small leeway-window of making mistakes - and you have to learn, perform and deliver</b> - while being judged and in spotlight all the time.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">You have learn to create your own strategic approach to manage the interests of all the stakeholders to deliver value</b> - for which you were chosen. </p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">In this article I have given some very basic tips</b> - although most of you would know almost all of them.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">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</b> leading to extra-ordinary results.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">42 Tips How to Accelerate your Business Growth for CEOs, Business-Leaders, Startup-owners</b></p> <ul><li>1.Ensure best talents working for your most important projects</li> <li>2.Create, build, nurture very strong bonding and relationship with your team as well as cross-functionally</li> <li>3.Upgrade yours as well as each one of your team-member's skills</li> <li>4.Know what future skills needed - as per the emerging trends</li> <li>5.Facilitate learning and treat it as your top-most priority</li> <li>6.Empower your team-members </li> <li>7.Innovate and evolve - create curiosity for learning in your team</li> <li>8.Mentor, coach, train and support your team members</li> <li>9.Seek feedback for yourself and give constructive feedback and then trigger sustainable improvements through coaching</li> <li>10.Sharpen your curiosity as a practice -Adopt a growth mindset</li> <li>11.Ask open-ended questions -when having conversations with your team or colleagues</li> <li>12.Encourage team-members to share their thoughts, opinions, and ideas -Expose them cross-functionally</li> <li>13.Encourage challenging each other to identify the best ideas</li> <li>14.Make the best skilled person lead a task </li> <li>15.Facilitate reverse and peer mentoring - learn from others</li> <li>16.Learn, share and implement global best practices - from diversified businesses across the globe</li> <li>17.Develop your business-model, revenue-model, financial-model and marketing-model</li> <li>18.Create KPIs - that matches with your business and other models</li> <li>19.Challenge your assumptions - make corrections</li> <li>20.Keep polishing and sharpening your various models</li> <li>21.Measure the your organization culture and behaviors - identify which of those are promoting and which of those losing business</li> <li>22.Encourage development by giving opportunities to your team members through challenging roles and rewards</li> <li>23.Ensure meritocracy and provide opportunities for growth equally</li> <li>24.Reward performance - create various non-monetary and financial rewards that inspires</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">25.</b>Sharpen your organizational abilities in - <b data-redactor-tag="b">technology expertise, industry expertise and business arenas</b></li> <li>26.Look at the leaders in your own industry and beyond who can help fulfill your company's vision</li> <li>27.Have a compelling story to tell, a solid business plan and the right message to - attract, catch and retain - talent, customers, funders </li> <li>28.Make each function as a profit center</li> <li>29.Implement customer loyalty program </li> <li>30.Reduce your risks - by constantly identifying and building solutions to disruptions which are taking place globally</li> <li>31.Have adequate insurance to take care of unforeseen financial disasters - because of political or other unpredictable scenarios</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">32.</b>Be adaptable, flexible and proactively - <b data-redactor-tag="b">make your products and services obsolete by introducing future services and products that create unparalleled value</b></li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">33.</b>Pivot fast to switch directions quickly in response to changes in the market - <b data-redactor-tag="b">have an agile approach to development, both in your product and your company</b></li> <li>34.Focus on creating memorable customer and user experience</li> <li>35.Polish and diversify your offerings to best meet the customer's changing tastes</li> <li>36.Have an exceptional online and social media experts - use all the channels to boost your business</li> <li>37.Build partnership and collaborations with your vendors, suppliers and service providers</li> <li>38.Network with other players and competitors</li> <li>39.Be very pro-active to give back to community and your social responsibility</li> <li>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</li> <li>41.Ensure that you think locally and act globally by create your home-market - through service and connecting with customers</li> <li>42.If need be shrink or get out of non-core business activities to grow phenomenally</li> <li>43.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Career growth and development are some of the top things people look for in jobs but most person are seemingly not growing</b> - which makes changing jobs the only way to grow - it off-course depends on multiple factors - <b data-redactor-tag="b">ensure that in your organization people learn, grow and upgrade continuously</b></li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">48 Tips Accelerate your professional and personal growth</b></p> <ul><li>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</li> <li>2.Learn to always always think ahead - observe the trends and change yourself</li> <li>3.Boost your customer service - giving them what they did not even think about - without financially getting busted yourself</li> <li>4.Research and learn your competitors</li> <li>5.Become the go to expert by mastering your trade</li> <li>6.Go for planning in detail from the scratch - and keep improvising with all the new information</li> <li>7.Track, monitor and measure the progress regularly</li> <li>8.Look for new opportunities - create a mindset of turning crisis into opportunity among your team members</li> <li>9.Take ownership for important projects impacting your organization, employees and customers</li> <li>10.Implement transparent and clear performance management </li> <li>11.Proactively create career development opportunities - which anyone or the great performer can take</li> <li>12.Make stepping out of comfort zone a fun thing</li> <li>13.Help your employees develop into leaders - create professional and career growth plan help them set their career goals</li> <li>14.Recognize your transferable skills - perform a gap analysis</li> <li>15.Ensure a positive career trajectory for your team through horizontal and vertical learning, growth and development</li> <li>16.If you are interviewing for the job - ensure discussing - the type of career growth - during the interview process itself</li> <li>17.Negotiate what you think would make you deliver your best and add great value to the stakeholders</li> <li>18.Ask your seniors - about the promotion criteria, your skill-developmental needs etc.</li> <li>19.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Identify your frustration areas by determining the mismatch in your current role vs. Your aspirations</b> -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 </li> <li>20.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Should consider changing jobs </b>- Look for places with high growth potential. </li> <li>21.Leverage your time -identify the non-critical work they spend time on—work that could be delegated</li> <li>22.Work on goals that are important long term</li> <li>23.use a personal organizational system that is reliable -to keep track and be focused </li> <li>24.Focus on results and quality of execution and delivery</li> <li>25.Learn to promote yourself - make yourself visible</li> <li>26.Find a mentor</li> <li>27.Learn to be indispensable by adding unparalleled value </li> <li>28.Accelerate your learning curve -self-development is continuous and essential</li> <li>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</li> <li>30.Invest in the success of others - to grow fast</li> <li>31.Hang out with the winners<br> see the big picture</li> <li>32.Master the art of creating and nurturing great relationships with most important people in industry and business</li> <li>33.Experiment by taking risk</li> <li>34.Read, read read - ensure reading one book every fortnight - keep a list of book to read for mental, emotional, professional and relationship growth</li> <li>35.Develop entrepreneurial mindset- bylearning to understand people - and identifying a problem and creating solutions that will help a significant mass</li> <li>36.All the time - plan, revise, build, review </li> <li>37.Understand your organizational or corporate culture</li> <li>38.Learn to work with the existing culture</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">39.</b>Identify critical behaviors and then focus on changing people's behaviors to affect the culture <b data-redactor-tag="b">for upscaling business by linking behaviors with business objectives</b></li> <li>40.Align programs with behaviors-manage and maintain the culture over time</li> <li>41.Develop essential soft-skills - your ability to learn better and faster can help determine your success and your potential for growth</li> <li>42.Identify which soft skills you need to sharpen based on your existing professional, personal, relationship challenges </li> <li>43.I have written an article about 60 soft-skills that each of us needs to master - in this website</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">44.</b><b data-redactor-tag="b">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.]</b></li> <li>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</li> <li>II.Identify what resources you need - identify from where you will access these including learning from a mentor or coach</li> <li>III.Use your imagination - to identify where in your work environment - you can practice complex soft skills such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking</li> <li>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 </li></ul><div>#businessgrowth, #personalgrowth, #professionalgrowth, #Acceleratingbusinessgrowth, #acceleratingyourprofessionalgrowth, #CEOsBusinessLeadersStartupFounders, #sharpenyourgrowthtrajectory, #howtofaststartgrowth, #developingsoftskills<span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span><br></div>