On Unlocking the Next Level of Success: Make sure your daily plan includes contributing to others.

On Unlocking the Next Level of Success: Make
sure your daily plan includes contributing to
others.

Yes, you will *literally* add generosity, sharing, offering assistance
onto your calendar.

It's good to see it and black and white. before the day or the week
starts.

It's so important that you should use another tip I use:

Give it a color.

Make it a color you like. A color that evokes the feeling of helping
others or care or love or joy or gratification.

Because those are the feelings that are going to show up.

Now as you look back on your days or plan your days ahead you
will see this color sprinkled throughout your weeks.

I recommend light green. This feels like new growth and fresh
beginnings to me.

The funny thing about contributing to others is finding out how
much of that new growth is inside you and not just in your
benefactor.

Be intentional to contribute with abandon.
whatever you're doing right now, ramp it up.

Be the kind, generous person you are outside of work to others to those inside the paradigm of your work life.

I can guarantee you the results are equally as rewarding.

Maybe even moreso as you're touching lives you can see grow right
before your eyes as you grow right along with them.

Now enjoy your day and keep contributing at the top of your mind
and in the bright green of your calendar.

Greater success is right outside this door.

-Laurie

#BetterTogether

We Connect the People, Ideas and Companies in Automotive and Beyond.

We Connect the People, Ideas and Companies in Automotive and Beyond.

How wonderful today to see others begin to employ the
words we've been using since the beginning.

Am I being serious?
Absolutely.

Because if I truly built this moment, this conversation,
this movement by design, these very words are lead
measures showing the market that it's time, and that we carved the
path.

We have always been out front to kindly yet powerfully lead the way. It takes courage, it takes intelligence, but most of all it requires
the desire for a better future for the industry.
Hence, #BetterTogether amongst other powerful phrases
and mottos.

How do you spot our impact to the industry?

⭐When you see Performance or Performance Strategies,
we were there.
👉When you see the Power Of Partnerships, we started
the conversation.
⭐When you see Connectivity, we broadcast our power
of connecting the best people and ideas and companies
and partnerships from the beginning.

When I review the volume of lives we are touching on a daily basis
I am humbled and excited to more simultaneously.

We instigate CHANGE!!!

It's a living, breathing tribute to our spirit of innovation,
collaboration and insights at Foster Strategies Group to see others
start to use 'our' words. Inspiring to know we are broadening our
impact.

And it should give you greater confidence that while the company
I built on my own with Zero Investors and no assistance from any entity,(including the government throughout the pandemic!) is barely 3 years old, my legacy of experience, insights and passion for the industry have always been and always will be, a step ahead of the competition.

An unmistakable edge for you and for us.

Foster Strategies ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Automotive's Leading Performance Strategists
We Connect the People, Ideas and Companies in Automotive
and Beyond.

#BetterTogether is alive and well.
For Performance Strategies and Increases throughout your
organization, contact us today.

Looking for what's next?!

Looking for what's next?!

Many great companies like TrueCar, Inc., Cars.com, CarGurus,
Autotrader US, Edmunds and others have recently released some of
their outstanding people due to business needs. We consider these
companies our friends and are glad to talk to you if you were
performing well there and ready for the most exciting breakthrough
in Digital Marketing in 10 years.

Join us as Foster Strategies Group introduces job opps to another
fresh crew of Sales Execs to the groundbreaking platform from Eric
Brown, formerly of #Dataium. inSearchX has a feature today's
Dealers are already embracing- Talking to Customers!

The 'AskOtto' platform provides Dealers and real Shoppers the
chance to do what they both want: Have Real, In-Time
Conversations about the Car Buying Process, Financing, Trading,
New Inventory and More! Everything our dealers do well on-site,
even better earlier in the funnel when customers are looking for the
dealer they trust!

Bring your fresh ideas and energy to the
conversation and explore all that is possible
for a new opportunity for you to excel!

Digital Marketing Sales Opportunities! Short to Long Term for New
Digital Platform for Automotive Retailers on Jun 11, 2:00 PM EDT
at:
https://lnkd.in/eKXFMMu

#BetterTogether
https://lnkd.in/eRDK9MT

Elevating Automotive Partnerships. It's 2020, are you in?

#ElevatingAutomotivePartnerships

Automotive's first-ever initiative offering a proven program to
Vendors, Suppliers and Dealers of all sizes and brands.

Consulting, Strategy and Training backed by years of hard-earned
knowledge and insights to provide your
dealership business or your company access to elevating the value
you and your team deliver and the
value you receive from each other.

We are #BetterTogether.

We can Elevate together! But it starts with this proprietary program
that lays it all out and provides companies like yours what's missing
and how we fix it + move forward powerfully.

2020 is the line in the sand for adding value, for making a difference,
for going above and beyond.

Are you in or will it just be #BusinessUnusual will be the new
normal for those who are progressive enough to understand and
aware enough to realize they need help getting started on this path.

#ElevatingAutomotivePartnerships by your reliable and driven
partners at #FosterStrategiesGroup

Retention, Results, Rewards, Relationships.

Click here to join the conversation:

Fosterstrategiesgroup.com
#BetterTogether
#TransformingAutomotivePartnerships
#ElevatingAutomotivePartnerships 'business as usual' for you and your people?

On Who Is Calling Us For New Positions and Why You Want to Know:

We have heard from dozens of outstanding professionals in the last
few weeks. These colleagues of ours run the full spectrum of
#Automotive.

To companies looking for rare talent, we are highlighting two today
who add incredible value to any organization. Both are 'undeclared'
in the job market. But we know the inside scoop- because they tell
us!

1. Executive Platform Manager in Automotive Retail.
This candidate has successfully led dozens of locations in their
capacity as a Regional Executive Manger/VP for large dealers
groups.

Their skills cover the depth and breadth required to operate at such a
level, and their skills leading their GMs is unparalleled.

They embrace the best of current digital tools and technology, while
still having the fire of earlier Automotive leaders. Reach out directly
here (message) to learn more about this exceptional talent.

2. VP of Marketing, Automotive or Automotive Vendor/Digital
This candidate has a strong and successful background in Marketing
in and to the Automotive sector. They have deep relationships
throughout the industry.

Their Marketing skills have only grown and expanded since they
were an integral part of a few important companies in the industry
where they served for many years.

If you are seeking a Marketing Leader for your Dealership Group or
company serving Auto and would like to bring on someone with
fresh ideas, strong collaborative and leadership skills who is also well-
regarded throughout the industry, ask me for more info.

This...is what #BetterTogether looks like.

Care about the people in your world, your industry. When they are
ready to make a move, they want you there for the guidance and the
ride.

For more information on how we connect the best talent to the best
companies across automotive, contact us here via message at
269.217.0414 or visit our website https://lnkd.in/eRDK9MT.

Foster Strategies ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

We connect the dots in Automotive.

Dear Automotive industry friends.

Please consider eliminating the words 'Desk Manager'.

This phrase has slowly devolved into a role.

You can see it being played out with people walking straight to the
long wall of desks with a barrier to their teams, locked behind this
'wall', managing computer screens and paper, not people.

This is not helping us go forward powerfully.

Rather, it reinforces old behaviors and does not introduce or develop
skills we need for today's leaders.

Sometimes a simple thing like changing one word can change everything.

Thoughts?
#BetterTogether

It's just your future, that's all.

For strategies to solve your challenges in automotive, you need to call Foster Strategies first.

For strategies to win in a competitive landscape, call Foster Strategies.

For strategies to turn your team into lifelong, high-performing leaders, call Foster Strategies.

Once we've talked, you will never look at your opportunities the same again. Or your challenges. Because together, you'll quickly see we can win.

It's a pleasure and a privilege serving our industry.
Get more out of your efforts, call today.
It's your future. And that could really be something special.

#FosterStrategies
#PerformanceAndLeadershipDevelopment
#Traction
#StrategiesAndSolutionsAtWork
I almost forgot...
#BetterTogether
(just kidding! I never forget this)

On how we help Vendors become better partners to Dealers.

The Automotive Retail industry has 1000's of Vendors selling solutions. Goods, Services, Software, Marketing and other categories.

We'd all like to believe our people will easily learn the 'dealership world' and learn to sell successfully into the industry.

We know Dealers are always looking for solutions to improve their business. And people to care.

Most companies feel training their people on their products or services alone is enough.

But this is Automotive.

In our research, upward of 90% of Sales Representatives aired their frustrations:

🛑I can't reach the #Owner or #DealerPrincipal.
🛑The #GeneralManager won't return my calls.
🛑We had a meeting scheduled-no one remembered!
🛑I waited over an hour, and even then the person I met with was distracted."
🛑We met, but still aren't sure we had the right people at the table.

Your reps are feeling ignored, disrespected or worse.

They're not fully prepared.
Yet.

We developed a program specifically for our suppliers to lift the understanding of the automotive clients, increase performance and drive results to celebrate.

Contact us today and learn how we help Vendors become better partners to Dealers.

Elevating Automotive Partnerships.
An original, proven, affordable investment to lift our industry.
#BetterTogether

Active Listening.

It's important to have a schedule clear to pay close attention, learn and contribute. With many new companies, people, products constantly surfacing, I make a concerted effort to stay on top, taking invites for demos, intros, et al.

Applying my own consulting and strategy logic to maximize my learnings from these calls, I'm pleased to announce
Intro and Demo hours!
Tuesdays 3:30 -5pm ET.
This will allow for 3-5 calls.

What a great concept, Foster Strategies!

Since the energy and innovation of these conversations is inspiring, this is a good place in the week.

Why share with you and not just make the change?

Like me, you may need to give yourself permission to align your time and priorities. We've all missed important bites of good conversations as other pressing items were at hand.

Valuable inspiration and insights can come through in these calls, if you can hear it.

Make the time. Focus, listen closely and keep growing and connecting the dots.

Remember-It's even more important to value others' time.

We are #BetterTogether. It's my hope this change is mutually beneficial- and powerful.

I'm listening...and looking forward to your call.
Schedule yours now! https://lnkd.in/drWghYE

What is value, and to whom?

We closely examined the intricacies and subtle nuances of the word 'value'.

We chose to incorporate this 'Value' exercise early into our corporate trainings and workshops and it quickly serves to align mindsets towards a greater mission.

I thought you might enjoy a glimpse into how we set the stage for successful outcomes with each and every client.

Could this type of thinking help your company increase its perceived and real place if value?

Have we mentioned how valued you and your business are to us? We prove it with everything we do for you.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Foster Strategies.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#BetterTogether
#elevatingautomotivepartnerships
#FiveStarSolutions

Foster Strategies created our proprietary 'Bi-Directional Partnership Agreements' for our Dealer and Vendor clients.

When you invest into new solutions, you have hopes for its success.
When you sell your services, software or products you feel the same.

But over and over again, we receive similar calls from both parties.
👉It's not working.
👉It's not worth the money.
💲We're not seeing the ROI.
👉They're not reading the results right.
👉They are not dedicating people/time to use our solution.

All of this.
The 'Blame Game' is one where everyone ultimately loses, by design.

Our experience on both sides of this equation led us to create partnerships that work.
By design.
We improve partnerships, from the beginning, throughout the entire life-cycle.

It's cost you enough time, money and resources already.
Vendors and Dealers alike can reach out now, right now, and right this ship.

The ultimate ROI is available for you with our unique, proven insights with 'Elevating Automotive Partnerships'.
More than a program, it's an fresh approach built to create sustainable success for all players.

Move forward powerfully and profitably with stronger, successful partnerships, starting here.

Foster Strategies. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Five Star Solutions for Partnership Success.

#BetterTogether

'Elevating Automotive Partnerships and Performance'

We help Dealers and Vendors alike ensure everyone is receiving and taking advantage of all your products and services offer.
That's why we call it
⭐'Elevating Automotive Partnerships and Performance'⭐

When we all do our part, we all can and will win.
We create stronger relationships that benefit all parties.

⭐Are you ready for more of this and less contention and confusion?

What do you need to do today to make sure you are doing your part to make your relationships work for you?

⭐Don't spend more, learn more.
Reach out today and we'll discuss how we support people just like you and your company.

Foster Strategies. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Five Star Solutions for Successful Partnerships in Automotive.

#BetterTogether
#ElevatingAutomotivePartnerships
#ElevatingAutomotivePerformance
#LeadershipMatters
#OneVisionOneGoal

"Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail."

We've all heard this wise axiom:
"Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail."
I'm taking a close look at this one, toying with it and adding my own touch. It might even be painful for some of us.

What is the real story here?

Read this to yourself, and out loud.

"Failing to Plan Shows Failing to Care."

Gasp. This literally took me aback.

Those 7 words took on a new power.
"Failing. To. Plan. Shows. Failing. To. Care."
Consciously or unconsciously, the message feels the same.

Failing who?
Ourselves, others?
Of course we care...but 'Care' like most everything, is in the perspective of the recipient.

Is it possible that our small oversights amounted to a feeling that we weren't invested...that the person or project didn't...matter?!

I'm going to set this one out there for you to consider now.

Thoughts? You know me, there is a pot of gold full of positivity, but let's do the work to get there first.

Now, I would love to see take a moment, reflect and finish this line:
'Failing to Plan---___________'

#MakingADifference
#LeadershipMatters
#FosterStrategies
#ThinkBeforeYouLeap
#BetterTogether

On Payrolls As Your Guide:

How rapidly are we closing the gender gap in Automotive Retail?

Straight from our research desk:
While women now hold a record 21% of the positions at a dealership, merely 8 cents of each dealerships' dollar of payroll lands in their paycheck.

Frankly, it is difficult to believe the facts.
We are entering 2021 with women barely taking in 8% of automotive retail payroll.

It may be more clear or perhaps even worse to view it this way:
$1,000,000 of payroll, distributed like this:
$920,000 to male employees
$80,000 to female employees

If your jaw didn't drop, are you contributing to the problem?
If you want to look away, are you complicit?
If you don't want to believe it, but do want to fix it you can call us.

$80,000 out of One Million Dollars.

Money = Influence.
Their lack of influence shows when important decisions are made.

If you're interested in closing gender gaps at your organization, increasing overall employee performance and building leaders and leadership into your company's culture, visit https://lnkd.in/drWghYE to start.

What are you waiting for?
We are here and we will help.
#AutoNews
#AutoRemarketing
#DealerMagazine
#DigitalDealer
#Automotive#LeadershipMatters
#BetterTogether

On Attracting, not Chasing.

Who is on your wish list of people you'd like to meet, and why? What if I told you there were better results available if you attracted their attention, rather than hunting them down?

Trust me, people know when you have them targeted.
Why be the hunter, be the hunted.

Set yourself up as a professional friend who can offer them opportunities to excel, through conversations that capture their interest and make them want to hear more, learn more.

It's as old as time, but you win more by giving than taking. There are universal laws that will support your efforts if you slow down, recalibrate and focus on not what you will get from a connection, but what you will give others.

My favorite consultant to the 'rich and famous', globally recognized author and leader David A. Fields calls this 'Right Side Up Thinking'.

Be 'attractive' and send the right signals to gain interested customers. It's less exhausting than chasing and it's so much more rewarding.

By the way, if there is still a connection you would like to make, let me know. If it makes sense, I'll do my best to introduce you.

Be inspiring, be helpful, be a leader.
Watch what happens next.

#FosterStrategies
#Sales
#BetterTogether
#WhatIsPossible
#elevatingautomotivepartnerships

On My Birthday.

I'm already overwhelmed with gratitude by the hundreds of your messages...and it's only 10 am. I have a full schedule today, but I'm trying to respond to each of you- because you and your wishes are valued. Thank you!

#BetterTogether isn't just a cute catch phrase for me. It's a personal and professional choice to fully live out all of those things we learned, but rarely see applied past a Hallmark card or meme.

If I had one wish, it would be for you to think about any single scenario in your world today with a #BetterTogether mindset.
⭐Who else is here to help?
⭐How can my team be more productive and powerful?
⭐What am I already buying that I need to understand more completely?
⭐Who needs me...and who do I need?
⭐Am I available to others?
⭐What else should I consider prior to entering another partnership?
⭐Who are my true alliances- and who am I contributing to?

My new year begins today.
I am 100% committed to our industry learning and living #BetterTogether as an OS.
The people I serve deserve to know this concept, this truth.

I thank you all for a simply amazing year and am grateful for your encouragement, your appreciation and your commitment to a better, more rewarding path for all.

Thank you again and again.
Now where's the cake?!🎈
❤Laurie

On Sharing Career Opportunities.

Try this today.
💡When you see a post with 'Career Opportunities' in it, take 4-9 seconds and follow these quick, easy steps:
⭐1. Click 'Share' Yes, just click the word 'Share'. It's at the bottom right of almost every post.
⭐2. Click 'Share in a Post'. This pops up as a top selection.
⭐3. Type a few letters, or don't.
A. Type "Here's a career opp for anyone looking for work in my network." (see, you don't even have to spell out 'opportunity'!)
B. Don't type anything, but still share. No spell check req'd!
⭐4. Press 'Post'

Congrats, that's all! You did it!👏
The power of these few seconds could make a lifetime of change for one person and one company. There are people out there who need our help. 'Our' includes you.

You probably won't be able to slide past another one of these now without at least THINKING about sharing!

And you just might start or end your day by #MakingADifference.

Thanks in advance. Share anything I post with your colleagues and network. If you recommend a friend to connect with me, I will accept.

Now on with our busy Tuesday mornings!
(Please be kind and remember to share 😊)
-L

#CareerOpportunities
#PeopleMatter
#JobOfALifetimeOrLifeline
#BetterTogether
#FosterStrategiesCareerConnections
#EasyToShare

On Massive Growth.

Watch in real life what happens when my #BetterTogetherconnections light up and make something bigger, the sum is greater than the parts.

You can laugh at my hashtag. I see you, lol. It's okay.
#BetterTogether makes you chuckle, does it?
These businesses I'm connecting + their people are doing incredible things.

In the meantime, why are you settling for so much less than you should or could be contributing?
Why aren't you building up others?
Why aren't you creating something, anything, especially with the madness this year has brought on?
Why are you so uninspired and uninspiring?

Silly hashtag?
The Better Together OS is a stick of dynamite. Be ready.
You've spent millions going it alone.
We create explosive results.

Forget those old playbooks. I employ thoughtful, innovative, right-side up, people first business strategy.
And we are winning.

Silly girl with ideas of making people's lives better, making leaders stronger, lifting the perception of the #automotive business, creating greater partnerships where everyone wins.

Silly me.
Thinking I could create something because you didn't even think of it and don't think it's possible because it sounds so simple. It is simple, for me. Not you.

Go on back to the golf course. I'm busy, changing lives.

On Nailing the Success Formula.

It starts with your Dream. Shaped into Reality, fueled by your Determination.

The same applies to your personal life and your professional life. Success has a path, a formula. I always love Ray Dalio's insights.

If you don't already own the book Principles, you should. Grab it today. It's another that I own the book and Audible addition.

Beyond the formula building blocks, ask yourself how can you accelerate your success and minimize any roadblocks.

The next steps past the formula are Strategic Partners, Velocity and Scale.

Cheers to your dreams becoming realities backed with loads of determination!

To your, to our Successful Life!

#BetterTogether
#ExcellenceInAutomotive
#LeadershipMatters
#ExecutiveCoaching
#Training#DealershipStrategy

On instigating Positivity.

Get ready to be the Chief Instigator of Great Things
Take a look around those you are interacting with. What is it that you could say or do to let them know they are important to you?

Here's something I practice

I frequently (and it's not just a saying or a phrase) tell people how great it was to hear from them...because I mean it.

Going next level, when you're really thinking or smiling on a call, before you wrap up, tell them they made my day. You tell someone they 'made your day' by hearing from them and it changes their dynamic...their mood,, their day! You have to mean it of course.

But how often do we not even say the minimums to people? If we've learned one thing this year is that people are the only thing that matters.

Instigate Positivity. Be an Agent of Positive Change, Opportunity and Hope.

Believe in people. You may never know how far the ripples of your kindness will extende, but it's always much more than you can imagine...or could have done on your own.

Instigators of Positivity can create an unstoppable chain of events for good. For zero dollars, just 10 seconds of time and your intention.

As we go into the middle of December, make the decision to contribute with your words.

#BetterTogether

#fosterstrategies