Business Coaching

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending a retreat for the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) Foundation, which I am honored to serve on its Board. While there were many highlights to the retreat, one that really stood out to me was a presentation and discussion led by Dr. Mike Comer, President of The Hayes Group. The Hayes Group is a consulting firm that specializes in organizational and individual development, including working with boards and providing executive coaching. Dr. Comer’s time with us included a discussion about what

As many of my regular readers know, I am an avid sports fan and baseball is one of my favorite sports. As the 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season approaches, I have been fortunate to have discovered an MLB-related podcast entitled, “Foul Territory,” which has become a personal favorite. The podcast is regularly hosted by a professional broadcaster and three former MLB players (when one or more of the regular ex-player hosts are unavailable, they are replaced by other former MLB players). One of the regular ex-player hosts is Erik

During the next two weekends, my wife and I will be traveling to Hilton Head and Jekyll Island, respectively. We often travel to Hilton Head in its “off-season” for a long weekend change of scenery with walks on the beach and general relaxation. We find late February is a good time to go as the chance of warmer weather becomes more likely. While our trip to Jekyll Island is as much business (board retreat) as pleasure, we are excited about the prospect of a more beach atmosphere before the peak

I have been taking part in annual performance reviews for approximately forty years, beginning with Officer Performance Reports (OPRs) as a lieutenant in the United States Air Force, to earlier this week as a faculty member at Augusta University (AU). I have sat at “both sides of the table” for such reviews, having been evaluated for each of those forty years, while also being the “evaluator” for at least seventeen of those years as an administrator at Kennesaw State University (KSU) and here at AU. During one year at KSU

Hopefully, you enjoyed Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers as much as I did. Although I didn’t have a significant rooting interest in the game (for transparency, I was pulling for the 49ers), I was able to enjoy the exciting back-and-forth action that ultimately ended with the Chiefs winning in overtime. As most long-time readers of my columns know, I often watch sports with an eye toward what lessons I can learn that can be applied to the world of business. In

Hopefully, you found my column from last week valuable as you reflected upon how your company provides your target market with what it values most. In case you missed last week’s column, it addressed how a firm uses its “order winner(s)” to provide its target market with a compelling reason to purchase its goods and services. To review, an order winner is something that a firm’s product does better than any of its competitor products. It is important to remember that what it does better has to be something the