The Value of Regeneration in Business
It’s a cold late November morning, and you awake with a slight sense of dread anticipating your work day. Despite your best efforts, the company is behind in their numbers, and the pressure is on. Once you get to into this kind of a situation, it’s not an easy thing to step back and consider a more regenerative way to be. Read on for a regenerative twist for a difficult situation.
CTLF’s 2021 Organizational Health
CTLF has utilized nRhythm’s Organizational Health Index to provide insight into our organizational health, including the design, operations, and receptivity of the organization. While the measurements are indeed helpful, it’s more about the conversations the data ignites. We use it as an opportunity to listen, ask meaningful questions, and design the future we want together. Read on to see our learnings from our Spring 2021 OHI.
Innovate Your Leadership with Three Gifts from SpiralMethod
SpiralMethod, is accessible, vast, and simple-and immensely powerful to build community and engagement. If you loved the SpiralMethod experience at the CTLF CEO Forum, have experienced elements of it at CTLF gatherings, or realized its full potential in our peer groups, here are three ways to bring its impact into your business and all your relationships. We hope these gifts help you make the mot of the special, intentional time the holidays bring to be with others.
A New Chapter for CTLF
Decades are milestones that tell a story, and over the last four years in my current capacity as CEO and in the entire decade I have spent in this most special community, much has emerged and evolved. Much has been built, and CTLF has never been in a better position for a changing of the guard…
The Value of Solitude in Leadership
One of our favorite maxims is, “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” While we find this to be largely true, there are times when being alone can help you go far. But the irony is, you actually have to slow down. As leaders, it’s important […]
The Art of Being Served
“It turns out, people will like us more when they put effort into the relationship. So we need to give them the opportunity to do that,” says New York Times Best-seller, Jon Levy.
Yet after years of leading a business organization built on the foundation of authentic relationships and a spirit of service, I’ve noticed a trend – most people have a hard time letting people help them. Read more for a closer look at how to strengthen our relationships in this powerful way.
The Conditions Matter
Leveraging What is Working to Make Great Things Happen This Summer
When you think about what is currently working in your life, what comes to mind? Your schedule, the rhythms you share with your family, working on projects you love, your health, your leadership, your business model? Think about how you can leverage the good conditions you are creating in one area of life and apply them to another area, so that you can really thrive and come alive this summer! Happy Memorial Day Weekend.
Interconnected: The importance of choosing connection
In times of sorrow and tragedy as we experienced in the Boulder shooting this week, our interconnectedness becomes real. We are filled with empathy and feel the hurt and outrage as one, not as disconnected parts. This is being human. This is a call to…
When It Takes A Toll
Lately, I’ve been experiencing what I once thought of as the February lull, when winter is unrelenting and the load of life feels heavy. But I’m not sure it’s just February this time…
Should We Rethink?
How do we become open to challenge our beliefs and assumptions? JJ Abrams gives a hint into how he is able to think anew so that he can create new movies and characters that move us. “I never go into anything with a template for how it should or shouldn’t be.”
A Fresh Look At A New Year: CTLF’s Theme for 2021
As we step into this New Year ahead, CTLF is thoughtfully planning conversations and opportunities for you to slow down, think about the things that matter, and find the space you need to step out of the noise and to be intentional. One thing is certain. You can count on CTLF for being the place […]
The Breakthrough CEO: Culture as a Driver to Success
From CEO Forum Keynote on October 1 with Paul Sarvadi About Paul Sarvadi Paul Sarvadi is the Chairman & CEO of Insperity, a $4B public company he founded in 1986. He has 34 years of experience learning to think like a CEO who is always ready to take his company to the next level and […]
2020 CEO Forum Partner Profile: Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network (BEN)
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2020 CEO Forum Partner Profile: Citywide Banks
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The Breakthrough CEO: Alignment as the Key to Achievement (It’s the job of the CEO)
Alignment is the key to optimizing people, so that they can perform at their best, and as the CEO, you must hone your ability to look around your company and spot misalignment quickly. It’s your #1 job. Read on to learn the Three Steps to Optimizing Performance in Your Company.
The Breakthrough CEO: Know Your Blind Spots & Do Something About Them
We all have blind spots, and the more we know what they are and work to fill them with the gifts and genius of others, the more we, and our teams and companies, can thrive. That’s when the real magic happens!
2020 CEO Forum Partner Profile: BDO USA, LLP
Thank you to BDO USA, LLP for your partnership with the Colorado CEO Forum. It is a pleasure to tell your story alongside you this year! ACM LLP grew to the region’s largest independently owned public accounting firm, widely recognized as a Best Company to Work For, and joined BDO USA, LLP on August 1, 2020.
2020 CEO Forum Partner Profile: The Forbes M+A Group
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Becoming A Breakthrough CEO: Laser Focus on the Customer
When your company is customer-centric and laser focused on your customer, the outcome is a true “hand-in-glove fit” that drives volume, pricing, and ultimately growth and profitability. Here are a few keys to this Breakthrough…
Humility is a SuperPower
It’s remarkably uncomfortable being questioned and pressed to the brink. Being pushed to a fork in the road. Have you been there before? Humility can be our guide – our super power – to see around the corner in brand new ways.