Newsletter; May, 2023
Happy May! Each month we strive to provide you with a variety of helpful resources, tips, and practices to support your continued success, both personally and professionally. Because we work with a diverse demographic of clients, industries, and backgrounds, we aim to provide content equally as diverse. If a particular section doesn't resonate with you, that's okay! Our hope is that everyone can find at least one gold nugget per issue.
Below, you will find information on this month's article from Crum Consulting, this month's development challenge, as well as general wellness reminders. We have a number of knowledge-forward articles available that explore a variety of professional and personal topics, all of which will challenge your current perspective, and push your continued growth. Each month, we aim to provide you with a new challenge to help facilitate your ongoing growth. These challenges will range in topics and applications, in an effort to focus on a variety of aspects of your life. If you are a recurring client with us, we will be following up on this month's challenge with you in session. If you don't currently have any sessions set up with us, and would like to discuss this challenge and others like it, please feel free to reach out to schedule a session with us! You can reply directly here if we have worked together in the past. If you are a new client, please click here to fill out a consultation form, and we will be in touch to schedule a session with you. We also provide new wellness reminders in the form of our stretch of the month, and wellness tip. Regardless of your background, these reminders will help improve your day to day health and wellness.
May Article: This month's article is: Acquisition 101. There are several reasons you may be considering a business acquisition; you prefer to acquire an existing business as opposed to starting your own, you wish to increase your market share, you’d like to tap an unassociated market, or even if you’d like to expand your business offerings. Regardless of your reasoning, the initial scope is the same; due diligence, due diligence, due diligence. If you have any questions surrounding this month's article, or would like to further explore opportunities, please feel free to reach out to schedule a session with us! You can reply directly here if we have worked together in the past. If you are a new client, please click here to fill out a consultation form, and we will be in touch to schedule a session with you.
May Challenge: I challenge you to practice having open ears, and an open mind.
If you are interested in more content on these topics, we recommend reading our The Value of Old School article.
→Network, interact, engage: Determine one new networking event / opportunity for your business. This can be a conference, tradeshow, lecture, festival, etc. The important part is that it provides access to a new audience; whether potential clients, partnerships, collaborations, etc.
→Model continuous learning: Explore opportunities for continuous learning that will enrich your business. This can be a certification, a book, a course, a group, a video, etc. So long as it provides you with relevant new information to enrich and inspire your business, you’re on track.
→Always ask for feedback: Tap your nearest and dearest professional connections for feedback on your role and business. The most important thing here is to simply have a conversation with professionals outside of your immediate work environment for perspective you wouldn’t otherwise have access to.
Stretch of the month: Revolved Triangle pose - this stretch strengthens and stretches the legs, opens the chest to improve breathing, relieves mild back pain, and improves your sense of balance. Click the (external) link to learn more, or simply google "revolved triangle pose"!
Wellness tip of the month: Set yourself up for success with your daily goals by providing yourself with a variety of options. When you are creating your daily scope of work, it is important to provide yourself with a variety of styles of goals. This variety could range from time requirements, to bandwidth requirements, to creative vs. data driven, to the setting of the work needed to execute the goal, and so on. When we are faced with a structured amount of time to execute a defined list of goals, it can get very overwhelming if every goal on the list is the same style; all major projects, all small tasks that require a lot of transitions, all goals that require third parties to be able to get completed, all data intensive, etc. By providing yourself with a variety of each relevant variable, you will set yourself up for success, as you will have the flexibility required in the reality of your time constraints. For instance, let's say you have just wrapped up one of your high level goals, and you only have 30 minutes before lunch- if you don't have a handful of small tasks that require a lot of transition, you will likely feel stuck. It wouldn't be efficient to start another high level goal with only 30 minutes, as you would lose your momentum just as you got going. So, without smaller tasks available to fill those small blocks of time, you will likely become frustrated, or worse, decide to start another high level goal and work through lunch to maintain your ideal productivity. Building a list of goals is a wonderful practice, but can easily become detrimental when not constructed with a realistic view of your day, constraints, and capabilities. Be mindful to account for these variables.
"If you're not learning, you're not living." -Kevin James
Thank you for being a pivotal part of our journey here at Crum Consulting. We would be nothing without you, and your continued support. Please feel free to share our content with others to pay it forward. We relish in receiving feedback, so if you have any suggestions or if you'd like to share your opinion on any of the content we have provided here, please let us know! If you have any questions about anything we covered here, or if you'd like to explore potential opportunities with Crum Consulting, we are here for you! Reach out anytime!
Until we meet again, take care of yourself, and others. Thank you.
