Randy Joy & Co. » Emotional Intelligence

Dec 26 2011

The Resilient Business Consultant

Randy Joy @ 2:00 pm

This morning I fell down right there on the New York street, scratching my knee and elbow. I fell with a smile and picked myself up with a smile. As a New York Business Consultant I have seen many businesses fall and pick themselves right up with a new plan, direction or resiliency. It is these strong entrepreneurs who courageously decide to succeed no matter what.

Think of the business growth greats like Ray Croc of McDonalds who did not find his business stride and the right idea until he was in his 50s.

As a Business Consultant I have seen that it does not matter where you start your business journey - only how resilient you are to succeed. If this week you fall, try to do it smiling and courageously. Pick yourself up for just around the corner might be your million dollar opportunity.

Tags: Business Consultant, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership

Category: Business Consultant,Leadership

Dec 13 2011

Becoming Universally Attractive

Randy Joy @ 11:00 am

Cheers, the hit TV program when I was growing up, made a memorable statement in its opening song that remains in my memory for its truth. “You want to go where everyone knows your name.” It’s true, even today.

Employees want to work for companies where they are respected as people and where their individual purpose, principles and talents are nurtured. Here’s how to make your company environment one in which people want to be:

1. Seek and respect everyone’s opinion.

2. Provide and encourage growth opportunities.

3. Align your company’s values with how you attract employees, customers, vendors and how you make company decisions. And live by it. Values are only as powerful as how often they are acted upon.

4. Create a company environment that blossoms and transforms. Joy, peace and positive energies are contagious. Create the environment where those feelings come through.

Tags: Best Companies to work for, Best Work Envrionment, Emotional Intelligence, Everyone Knows Your Name, Happy, Human Resources, Leadership, Making Employees Happy, Management, Optimal hiring, Productivity, Values

Category: Joyful Business Model,Optimizing Operations

Dec 12 2011

3 Ways to Energize Your Company This Year

Randy Joy @ 10:00 am

Revitalization: that’s the word used by my real estate clients regarding their work in various cities. That’s also the word used by my medical practitioner clients when speaking of bringing vitality and energy back to life. In your company, how do you revitalize yourself, your team and your vision?

Commit to bringing verve and energy to your company. Here is the recipe for revitalizing business:

1. Revisit your mission and vision. Take out your old business plan, dust it off, and edit it to bring it more up-to-date with new goals and growth plans.

2. Attract new clients. Think of a new client base, as well as new marketing slants.

3. Think up a bonus system to get employees enthusiastic about growing the company.

Tags: Best Business Practices, Business Planning, Business Plans, Emotional Intelligence, Energize Your Business, Growth, Leadership, Motivate Employees, Productivity, Revitalize, reviving business

Category: Leadership,Strategic Planning

Dec 06 2011

Gain Business Clarity

Randy Joy @ 3:00 pm

I woke up this morning, and it was am extremely foggy day in New York. So fogged up, in fact that I could hardly see the street down below. I wonder how often my clients feel in a fog leading their companies, unable to see the road ahead. I know when I led my companies, those murky days were not a pleasant feeling.

This is why I took time each week to remove myself from the day-to-day activities of my company to realign myself with the true purpose of the company; long term vision; and the strategic goals ahead of me to perform even during a foggy day.

Do you take time each week to realign yourself and bring clarity to your company?

Tags: Business Clarity, Emotional Intelligence, Fog in New York, Leadership, Mission, Time Management, Vision

Category: Leadership,Optimizing Operations

Dec 01 2011

Your Business Future

Randy Joy @ 10:00 am

It took Ray Croc, founder of McDonalds, many years and many businesses to find a way to make his billions of dollars eventually, at age 52, through selling hamburgers. He failed numerous times before. However, his secret to success was that he kept picking himself up and trying again. Don’t let the past determine your future.

I have made many mistakes too. Yet, with persistence and determination I pick myself up. This New Year commit to a one hundred percent commitment to reach your vision and persist no matter what.

Tags: Business Planning, Determination, Emotional Intelligence, keep trying, McDonald's founder, pick yourself up, Productivity

Category: Leadership

Sep 20 2011

Transcend Limitations

Randy Joy @ 10:00 am

Gymnasts, ballerinas, contortionists, they know something every entrepreneur ought to know. Limits are there just so we can transcend them. That pole over there, its there just to get us to vault over it.

The first step in transcendentalism is to acknowledge where you are now, a self awareness of what you have been able to do thus far. Then, create something new that was not there before, a new venture, a new office, a new product line, by pushing past where you are now. Go beyond yesterday’s limitations.

To do so, apply enormous will, persistence and imagination. Focus, plan, then vault over obstacles and limitations.

Tags: Business Planning, Emotional Intelligence, Getting Past Obstacles, Growth, Transcend Limitations

Category: Leadership

Sep 19 2011

A True Gift

Randy Joy @ 10:00 am

An age-old adage: He who bestows a gift must inform the receiver of the gift.

Charity can and preferrably should be given silently, slipped in secretly. Gifts, however, should not, because gifts have value as a catalyst and strengthener of human relationships.

Employees who go above and beyond their duties, but do it silently, thwart any chance of the boss encouraging them to continue. And that, in turn, leads to the employee, of course, tapering off those efforts.

A boss increasing how much he’s contributing to employees’ health plan without communicating how much he is investing in them each year, will be frustrated when employees take it for granted and don’t note that he appreciates them. That, in turn, can lead to a breakdown of cooperative efforts and goodwill.

True gifts require the recipient to know they have received a gift. For that is what makes the gift create a healthy, reciprocal human relationship.

Have you let others know what you have gifted them?

Tags: Building Healthy Relationships, Business Planning, Emotional Intelligence, Gifts, human relationships, Leadership

Category: Joyful Business Model

Jun 14 2011

Bounded by Boundaries

Randy Joy @ 1:00 pm

To be a strong leader you must recognize you have boundaries, as do others. Boundaries are those things that when crossed you feel an emotional response. Protecting your boundaries may cause conflict. However, not protecting your boundaries leada to inner strife and turmoil that usually explodes into more bitter conflict.

Better to protect your boundaries before they are crossed, than deal with the ugly aftermath.

As a strong leader, know those who you deal with also have boundaries. Learn to recognize them. And definitely respect them.

Boundaries delineate for all the parameters of emotional space that create a healthy working environment.

Tags: Creating Safety in Workplace, Emotional Boundaries, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Work Environment, ideal work environment, Leadership, reducing conflict, respecting employees, strong leadership

Category: Joyful Business Model

May 31 2011

What role do you play?

Randy Joy @ 4:20 pm

At the train station yesterday morning I saw a woman play delightful classical violin music treating the crowd underground. She was bringing music to loud and high traffic flows racing to their destination. Yesterday, I also saw a man scraping the old, hard gum stuck to the concrete walk in front of an exclusive office building in mid-town manhattan. I wonder if he knew what music he was offering.

Everyone makes music if they realize their role in the world and do it with finesse and class. From the shoeshine boy to the Wall Street dealmaker, everyone has a role. Do you know what role you play and why? Understanding the big picture will bring both purpose and a sense of accomplishment to everyone on your team. Make sure they know what part of the music they play.

Tags: Business Symphony, Business Training, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Productivity, knowing their role in workforce

Category: Clarifying the Vision