Sonya Sigler moderated this lively panel discussion on strategies to stay focused when running and growing your own business. The discussion focused on ways to manage your schedule and stick to your priorities. Boundary setting is imperative when running your own business. You get to choose how you run it, what kind of culture you want to build, and what kind of customer you want to serve. Growing your business beyond a sole proprietorship will necessitate hiring others, building trusted working relationships, and delegating work.
If you would like help in figuring out how to run your business more efficiently and effectively, please contact Sonya Sigler. The panelists bio, picture, and contact info is included below.
Sonya Sigler – Owner of PractiGal, a business coaching consultancy (Moderator)
Alice Tang – Partner, BPG Wealth Management
Pam Isom – Founder, President/CEO ICE Safety Solutions, a health & safety training/equipment company
Graciela Tiscareno-Sato – Owner of Gracefully Global, a multi-cultural publisher
Shannon Berg – Owner of Berg & Associates, a PR crisis consultancy
The RSVP survey showed a need to focus on hiring and delegating work:
The takeaways from this discussion were:
– Block off important, sacred time on your calendar – for you, for short-term and long-term planning, and for concentrated work.
– Boundary setting is important for you and everyone else in your company.
– Empower your people to take care of things for you, invest in their training, and mentor their work (in a good way).
– Similar to our discussion on self-care – learning that “No.” is a complete sentence is great for self-preservation and for managing your calendar.
– Understand your ideal customer, their traits, and their behavior. Take on only these types of customers unless there is a VERY, VERY good reason to do otherwise.
Resources:
Video | Audio | Chat | Transcript
Free Resources:
Sonya Sigler’s free book – WELCOME to the Next Level
Alice Tang’s free guide – Build Your Future
Alice Tang’s free tip sheet – Start with No
Articles:
Sonya Sigler’s Self-care Journey – Self-care is More than a Spa Day – It’s a Choice.
Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith – The 7 Types of Rest Every Person Needs
Sarah Kessler, New York Times – Long working hours lead to a rise in premature deaths, WHO says (paywall) or in the Seattle Times (free)
Books:
Sonya Sigler – WELCOME to the Next Level – Amazon, Kindle, Book stores
Sonya Sigler – What’s Next for My Career? Amazon, Kindle
Graciela Tiscareno-Sato – Latinnovating
Graciela Tiscareno-Sato – B.R.A.N.D. Before You Resume
Panelists:
Shannon Berg
Shannon Berg, APR, is the Founder & CEO of Berg & Associates. Shannon has more than 20 years of PR consulting experience and specializes in crisis communications and issues management. Shannon has expertise in litigation PR, labor communications, reputation management, incident response and a broad range of regulatory, employment and industry-related issues. She is an experienced workshop facilitator and has built a suite of trainings to help businesses evolve and elevate their communications skills and crisis preparedness. In addition to advising clients, Shannon enjoys speaking to communicators and industry groups on the role of communications in effective crisis response.
Shannon graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit with a BFA in public relations. She earned her APR accreditation and is a Leadership Detroit and Leadership Portland alumna. She was named of one of 2021’s Women of Influence by the Portland Business Journal.
Connect with Shannon Berg on LinkedIn
Pamela Isom, President/CEO, ICE Safety Solutions
Since she was a young girl Pam had one focus:
“To be sure no one around her became ill, injured or would lose a life”
While growing up in Oakland & San Jose, California she the one who always made sure no one around her would get hurt. Her life changing moment came as a teenager when she used her lifeguard CPR skills to recognize her father was suffering congestive heart failure and she leaped into action! Ms. Isom earned a degree in Biological Sciences from UC Davis and started her career as a Biologist in Preclinical Drug Development and Cardiovascular Pharmacology. After 9 years in research, she left her career with the birth of her daughter and started an American Heart Association CPR training company.
Fast forward 20 years, ICE Safety Solutions is a nationally ranked safety company executing fun, innovative & transformational safety training, equipment and services focused on mitigating employee illness, injury and loss of life for corporations across the US. ICE Safety Solutions has won numerous awards including the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) Minority Business Enterprise of the Year, 2017.
Ms. Isom admits that the greatest success in working with Fortune 1000 corporations delivering their myriad of safety training has been the lives saved and here today because of the training, products and services we innovated. These lives and testimonials from clients are honored on the ‘Wall of Life’ at ICE Safety Solutions headquarters in Fremont, CA.
Connect with Pam Isom on LinkedIn
PractiGal Blog – Day 7 Pam Isom
Alice Tang
When it comes to building networks, many believe that you need to know a lot of people or spend countless hours networking, but Alice Tang has proven otherwise. As a Vice President and Partner at a full-service multi-generational financial planning firm in Oregon, a top female producer in the financial industry, and a sought-after speaker, she has built her business and success by focusing on creating and deepening relationships one connection at a time.
Alice immigrated to the U.S. from Hong Kong with her husband and no network, family, or community and quickly realized the “tried and true” advice for networking doesn’t work; there are only so many hours in the day!
So, she set out to create a scalable system that has exponentially grown her network, business, and success ever since. She now helps female professionals catapult their success through her no-nonsense approach to building connections.
Disclosures: Tel: (503) 654-7676 | Fax: (503) 653-7575 | www.bpgnetwork.com | 12901 SE 97th Avenue, Suite 240 Clackamas, OR 97015.
Securities and advisory services offered through Royal Alliance Associates, Inc. (RAA), member FINRA/SIPC. RAA is separately owned and other entities and/ or marketing names, products or services referenced here are independent of RAA.
Contact and connect with Alice Tang here:
Website: https://www.askalicetang.com/
Email: alice@askalicetang.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicetang2010/
Graciela Tiscareño-Sato
Graciela Tiscareño-Sato is an Air Force veteran, award-winning author, and bilingual public speaker on personal branding, bilingualism, social entrepreneurship and more. She completed Air Force ROTC Aerospace Studies and her bachelor degree in Environmental Design/Architecture from UC Berkeley, before serving as an active-duty Air Force officer and aviator for a decade. She deployed to 20 countries on four continents, gaining valuable cultural insights she applied in her global business careers upon completing her master degree in international business management/marketing.
In 2010, she founded Gracefully Global Group, an educational publishing company creating groundbreaking literature and online classes to showcase the positive contributions of Latino Americans in the USA, to global audiences. Award-winning titles include Latinnovating, the bilingual Captain Mama children’s aviation picture books, and for the military community, B.R.A.N.D Before Your Resumé, the first marketing guidebook to feature nearly 30 personal branding examples written by military veterans.
The Obama White House honored Graciela as Champion of Change, Woman Veteran Leader for her work raising educational expectations of Latino students. Graciela enjoys an active, outdoorsy life with her family in Northern California.
Contact and connect with Graciela Tiscareno-Sato here:
Website: https://www.gracefullyglobal.com
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LinkedIn: Graciela Tiscareno-Sato