Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

Recently I had the opportunity to volunteer as a mentor/coach to a group of business women.  The event provided that various coaches address different topics and the women could choose three of the 30 minute topic discussions to join. My topic was “Accelerate Performance”; a topic that could be defined...

As a financial advisor I learned technical concepts and developed knowledge and skill around the fundamentals of financial planning.  What are the payoffs of investing in the stock market, real estate or other ventures?  What level of risk is required to generate the return?  Will the return be sufficient for...

Are you too close to your vision to see it clearly?  Have you ever held something close to your face in order to see it clearly only to discover that it comes into focus when you hold it farther away?  Or am I just revealing my age here?? At a...

Now that vision is out of your head and onto paper or its technological equivalent, what do you do with it?  That grand exercise you undertook has yielded fruit and your excitement is palpable.  Purpose and mission as well as action steps are the obvious next place to go.  But...

Creating a vision that you are able to communicate requires space and effort.  I find it helpful to have a few tools to get the creative juices flowing.  These tools help coax that internal picture (vision) out of my head and become something specific that I move toward every day...

My work with clients, both personally and professionally, often centers around vision.  Some people know exactly what theirs is while many struggle to even define vision.  Perhaps that is because we use other words to attempt to describe what is an internal picture. Consider these definitions, courtesy of Merriam Webster:...