Want more Opportunities? Don't rely on your Internal Memory Card, it's already at 99%!
Take time, make time, to do a quick check of your recent activity. Relying on memory alone is inviting disappointment.
Plus the ROI of your time here is terrific.
🎇Comb through your emails
🎇Flip through your notes
🎇Review your calendar items
🎆Move things around on your desk. We all let a few errant items pile up!
Now discover what you, yes you, might have missed, need to schedule or take further action on now.
I've also found that items that didn't seem terribly significant when first recorded have often shifted in importance or relevance.
In this exercise, you may also find info you've gained gives you an interesting new approach to your clients and prospects.
Take 5 this morning and take a closer look at what's right in front of you. And give your memory card a break!
Clear out a few things and you make space to uncover #opportunities right at your fingertips! You and your business deserve every possible advantage right now and sometimes, they are much #closer than you thought.
I hope you enjoyed your #FosterStrategiesTipOfTheDay.
Got to run, I have a few emails to send. Oops!!!
#BetterTogether
#LeadershipInAction
#RightBeforeYourEyes
Where are you today and why? Where do you want to be... And why?
Even if you can't be with the people you want in the places you want right now, close your eyes and know that they're right there still. And they're waiting to see you also.
Hang in there...we're all going to be better on the other side of this.
I promise.
#PeopleFirst
#SheTravels
#GlobalOpportunties
Automotive Vendors: Which challenges are currently costing you the most time, money or people?
📌Client Retention
📌Customer Acquisition
📌Internal Friction
📌Leadership Development
📌Dealership Connectivity, Relationships and Connectivity
📌Sustainable Performance
📌Training and Development
📌Sales Strategies
📌Employee Development and Retention
📌Profitability
You'll be glad to know there is a place you can turn to and trust to offer you programs built to address each of these.
With a strong presence in Automotive for over 20 years, I focus on helping businesses like yours succeed in any environment.
All platforms can be customized to adapt to your very specific needs. And if you have another challenge you'd like to discuss, just ask.
Your business is vital to our industry. Partner with me to ensure your stability, strength and sustainable success.
It's easy to begin. Simply message me on the LinkedIn PM or reach out to info@fosterstrategiesgroup.com
To your success-
Laurie
#ElevatingAutomotivePerformance
#BetterTogether
#AutomotiveExcellence
#LeadershipInAction
On why it's important monopolies do not exist and fair business practices are in place.
The squeeze has been on for dealers and vendors for a very long time.
As much as we all do not want overregulation, here is an example of why it's important monopolies do not exist and fair business practices are in place.
While there is much the companies mentioned offered to the industry early on, I've watched firsthand as it became increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for vendors to integrate their services for their dealers. Add to this ill-defined, lengthy time to add services and the high cost portioned out to both the vendor and the dealer
A smaller, yet quite promising startup I'm helping shared their initial startup costs upward of five figures. Choking out small businesses and potential competitors before they can even get a foothold with their solutions for our dealers was bound to have a reckoning day.
In a time where APIs are the law of the day and digital life has become app based, I wonder who will emerge out of this with solutions much more friendly and cost efficient.
Elevating automotive partnerships helps us all.
So does healthy and fair competition.
Many newsworthy stories are happening in our space, and I thought my network would appreciate Cliff Banks' insights as he always brings a very needed perspective and depth to the story.
On Retention Strategies.
Our Retention Packages generate revenue and keep you from undesired loss. The ROI for your organization could make the difference between a 'sunny' or 'gloomy' outlook on your next earnings call.
We designed a comprehensive, proprietary 7 step program to help companies overcome the time, expense and unrealized revenue resulting from Churn and Retention concerns.
Information for our programs available upon request.
Customization for your specific challenges and opportunities is a frequent request we fulfill.
#RetentionStrategies
#ClientRetention
#TheHiddenCostOfChurn
#LeadershipInAction
#EarningsCall
#PerformanceImprovement
#Automotive
What is your current understanding, approach and spend in #SocialMedia?
With no less than three (3) articles in today's #WallStreetJournal, the first on page 1, TikTok is the focus in a conversation intersecting marketing, social media, #government, #infotainment and #investors.
Today's business leaders would do well to take time to understand how an influence like this can so quickly emerge, creating new opportunities, eroding others.
Before making a decision summarily dismissing TikTok based on what you don't know about it, arm yourself with better understanding of its position in the marketplace. Your marketplace.
If you'd like to discuss this further, we can schedule a time to do so.
in the meantime I'm thinking I should have made a #tiktok video to share this message
You can find the other articles in the business section, B1 and B4.
I wake up to the paper edition of the Wall Street Journal in addition to seven or eight other digital sources. Please feel free to share yours as I'm always looking to increase resources.
The investments you or your #marketing team are making in social and digital are integral to your success.
#WakeUpToWSJ
#ResearchInAutomotive
#LeadershipInAction
#FosterStrategies
#SocialMedia
#DigitalMarketingStrategies
On the #1 Reason People Don't Start a Career Search: Their Resume.😲
According to several recent studies, even when people are unhappy in their current role or dissatisfied with their career opportunities at their current company, they fail to start a job search.
Why?
The seemingly daunting task of the entire process itself.
🎯Starting with their resume.
👉Followed quickly by '"Where do I begin?"
🕔Then to frustration of the time it takes and keeping track.
😫And the ever-popular "Why isn't anyone getting back with me?!"🤦♀️
At Foster Strategies Group, we approach Career Upgrading differently.
We help you put a realistic, customized plan together and also help you open yourself up to more opportunities.
Contact us today to learn more. https://lnkd.in/eRDK9MT
⭐We now have over 100 jobs from over 45 companies on our website.
Let's put you powerfully in the right seat.🏆
We're counting on you for the Future of Automotive.
#BetterTogether
#Automotive #Consulting #Careers #Talent #Hiring #PerformanceStrategies #FosterStrategies
On Attracting Attendance to an Automotive Industry Conference.
What if you saw that for a Professional Service Conference:
32 of the 34 speakers presenting were female?
Would you go?
Would you wonder the value?
Would you spend 10s of thousands?
Would you send your team?
Would you wonder what the tone would be and if you'd fit in?
However, the conference formats in Auto are typically not like this.
Rather...
👉What if you knew that: 32 of the 34 speakers and the entire board were male?
These are the exact numbers for a conference I am considering attending.
But, we have to wonder...
❓What does this say to the women considering attendance?
❓Are those planning the event aware of this?
❓Are the planners and other guests prepared to include the rare woman in attendance in their presentations/conversations/dinners/meetings?
When women aren't present, we can no longer fail to notice.
It's obvious, it' right there. It's an easy data point.
When women aren't present, you are missing out.
On attendance, ideas, profitability and more perspectives.
It would be safe to assume, from the data, that even in 2021, far too often it is not important to those planning these events and spending 10s of thousands to send their teams.
What signals are you sending to attract a more expansive audience or are you content with business as usual?
We're here to help those who want to do better!
👉You can use our Foster Strategies AIDE Model:
✔Awareness- Is it possible we aren't doing all we could?
✔Intentionality- Are you ready to do the work and get others involved?
✔Discovery- What does our past data tell us regardless of how it 'feels'?
✔Expectations- What new expectations and objectives could/should we employ to track our progress and effectiveness?
Whether you are planning large events or making significant financial investments into these conferences, we can help.
Reach out today for one-on-one, customized help for your next event. We guarantee you'll see the results.
Foster Strategies ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Automotive's Leading Performance Strategists
#Conference #Events #IndustryEvents #Marketing #Presentation #Keynote #BoardMember #DEI
'Leadership In Action' program.
Business owners and leaders are on an endless quest for greater results from their teams. And however much belief they have in them, unlocking the full potential of their leaders can remain an elusive effort and the clock runs on.
Foster Strategies has the formula to unlock and unleash your teams' full potential with our proprietary
'Leadership In Action' program.
By following our carefully designed 7 step program, we can turn teams of all calibers into High-Performance Leaders.
We also offer you the ability to choose from our list of add-on's or customize focus items to foster growth with specific coaching and development needs.
Our proprietary strategic solutions including the
'Leadership In Action' series are available in multiple formats:
🕖 Hourly
🗓 Workshop
⭐ Ongoing high-performance retainer packages.
Call now and we can discuss the best approach to get you started... and succeeding, quickly.
#LeadershipInAction
#PerformanceAndDevelopmentCoaching
#RetentionStrategies
#LeadershipDevelopment
#FosterStrategiesAtWork
#ElevatingAutomotivePerformance
#AutomotiveConsulting
#BetterTogether
To your success!
General Managers: What questions are your managers asking their people today? Is it helping?
What 'better' questions should your managers be asking your people today and better yet... What should they be showing them and teaching them today?
Could it help?
Managers tend to ask the same questions over and over again because that's what they were taught. This begins to get not only annoying to the people that report to them, but it's not effective at moving the ball down the field.
And once they've tuned you out their performance tends to sink.
After witnessing thousands of dealership personnel and carving out the data showing retention and attrition and development fails I labeled this accordingly:
Peak- Plateau-Plummet.
Or even, POOF!
We've seen this happen far too often in the most promising of candidates that entered into our industry.
Our managerial coaching programs help your leaders become more effective.
We ask better questions to give you better solutions.
We named this 'Elevating Automotive Performance'. Another proprietary platform in the Foster Strategies Leadership series.
We are built to strengthen #Automotive and the people in it.
Where are your people today?
Call now and let us help your Managers and your Team, together.
#BetterTogether
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
Change is hard. Transformation on the other hand is exciting!
If you're tired of the slow pace of change, the distractions of 'disruption' and the feeling you're moving a boulder up a mountain, act now.
I've been able to navigate complex organizational, leadership and sales challenges successfully as I listen, strategize and solve in a refreshing and proven manner with my clients.
My approach ensures we achieve results you've been missing and are able to sustain them through your people.
Watch it happen right before your eyes.
Transformation.
Everything has shifted around you. Forget about disruption, let's be proactive and transform things around here.
Be a Transformative Leader.
Elevate what your influence is in your company. Elevate and transform what your people and your customers think about you and how they talk about you.
Is it radical to want more?
I think it's perfectly logical.
You built your company.
Let's transform the results, the people, the purpose, the outcomes together!
https://lnkd.in/drWghYE
Info@fosterstrategiesgroup.com
The sooner we get started, the sooner you win.
#Consulting
#Transformation
#ElevatingAutomotivePerformance
#LeadershipMatters
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
Turning the story around on Retention and Churn is possible!
Our Foster Strategies diagnostics will determine where to stop the bleeding and start succeeding again.
Save time, stop your losses and increase your long term Retention health with Retention Rx.
"People don't buy what you do. People buy why you do it." - Simon Sinek
If you don't already know why I do what I do, keep watching, read back through my hundreds of LinkedIn posts written myself, check out my website-even with its imperfections as I work to keep it current, watch one of my dozens and dozens of authentic webcasts and interviews or pm/call me directly for a wide open honest and helpful conversation.
My commitment to the industry and to the thousands of incredible people I know in it is visible, is evident, is palpable and it stands for itself.
Partner with people who share your enthusiasm for our business. For our people.
Partner with us and experience the difference.
Foster Strategies. Inspiring leaders, inspiring leaders.
#Relentless
#ThisIsMyWhy
#automotiveexcellence
#elevatingautomotiveperformance
#elevatingautomotivepartnerships
#LeadershipInAction
#BetterTogether
Change isn't hard. Leaders and so-called experts make it hard.
These same leaders and so-called experts make it hard when they fail to listen, forget to include the very people they will to make necessary, rewarding and meaningful.
When the desired change is simply on posters, not in the hearts and minds and souls of the people that work with you, for you.
If 'change' has been hard for you and your organization, we're respectfully suggesting it's the people you've had in charge of change.
Give us a call and let's discuss realistic and reliable solutions to get you back on track.
We're committed to positive, professional change and transformation.
We're committed to growing your people, growing your organization, growing your reputation, growing your revenue.
Especially in automotive businesses.
We take it personally.
We are built to make change easier. We are built to help you get there smoothly and faster.
#FosterStrategies
#elevatingautomotiveperformance
#leadershipinaction
#TransformingAutomotive
#WhatIsPossible
#BetterTogether
#Retention
One of the most important aspects of my day is learning.
To offer the best possible insights and solutions, one cannot rely on an antiquated toolbox filled with rusty awards and yellowed certificates.
We must keep up.
Taking in more information doesn't mean changing everything everyday.
Rather, it means using this information, this data, on the economy, consumers, business overall, your industry, human behavior and wrap it into new thoughts and possibilities for what could add the most value today and into the near future.
Examine what you think and if it's still applies. Test it.
I keep my mind open.
I'm rooted in core concepts proven over time such as valuing people, attracting and caring for customers and making solid, profitable business decisions.
Information alone doesn't create action. And all action alone is not good.
Constantly add new information testing what fits, where it fits and how we might integrate it into current systems + mindsets.
When you measure against the 'old', it's also helpful to gently excise what is no longer useful while being grateful for its help at one time.
Read, listen, watch, learn, question, evolve, iterate.
Knowledge is power. But knowledge is fluid. Be sure to place yourself in a steady stream of new ideas.
#FosterStrategies
How is your circle looking?
It can be lonely at the top... It can be 'lonelier/loneliest' when you're not at the top! (I didn't say the bottom because that would just make it feel worse for you! 🤯)
We enter the ring with you, help you accomplish your goals faster and more profitably and celebrate every step of the way.
You need our insights and strategy.
You'll appreciate our encouragement and enthusiasm along the way and when you win!
Cheers in advance to your success!
#FosterStrategies
#automotive
#elevatingautomotiveperformance
#LeadershipInAction
#BetterTogether
#CelebrateSuccess
#ListenToLewisHowes
You want solutions.
Something's off and you can't quite put your finger on it. It doesn't overwhelm you, but it confounds you.
You've spent hours upon hours and money, trying to find the root cause, groping around for clues to fix it.
Meeting upon meeting. All the best intentions, same results.
Meanwhile the clock is running and you're busy again. Distracted by the urgent.
Only to be jolted later by the awareness you haven't solved this yet.
One call to Foster Strategies.
We provide businesses unparalleled insight, solutions, and strategies to sustain.
We have a proprietary process to quickly diagnose,
Some call it a health check. Call it a diagnosis. Call it a prescription.
Call it whatever you like. We'll white label it for you and you can call it your own!
Our Foster Strategies Formula will make you stronger and allow you to move past your challenges and on to health and safety and strength in the marketplace.
Let's flex your muscles. We'll put these challenges behind you and set new goals together.
Tell us your challenge, your timeline and let's go to work.
https://lnkd.in/drWghYE
#ProblemSolved
#LeadershipInAction
#BetterTogether
#ElevatingAutomotivePerformance
#Solutions #Consulting
#WhatIsPossible
#DealerTraining
#leadershipdevelopment
#RetentionAndChurn
3 Quick Questions' for those selling SaaS
FinTech or any digital solutions to consider today from Foster Strategies:
1. How do you ensure your solution is being used and used as intended?
2. What does your clients' 'path to success' timeline look like?
Follow up Q: Do you have one?
3. What is the most overlooked or underutilized segment of your product that would provide a great benefit (time savings, revenue gen, etc. ) to your clients and their users?
And why don't they know or use this?
We help real business anticipate and overcome real challenges with our unique, yet reliable strategies.
Companies who are interested in selling more, selling faster, sustaining their client base and increasing their revenue and reputation ask Foster Strategies to be their trusted success partner.
Don't miss out any longer. Discover how we lift you and your clients at the same time.
#ElevatingAutomotivePartnerships
#WinWinWin
#Automotive #Consulting #Strategy #Training #Development #LeadershipInAction
#BetterTogether
#SalesSuccess
#FosterStrategies
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