Patrick Smyth
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Patrick Smyth Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Strategic planning, business plans, brand strategy, leadership, business coaching.
- Best Sellers
- Elephant Walk: Balancing Business and Brand Strategy
- Career Focus
- Business coach, speaker, author, trainer.
- Affiliation
- Principal at Enchanted Forest Press
Patrick Smyth is a business coach and colnsultant focused on developing high performing businesses through effective strategic planning, leadership, and marketing. He connects visions with strategies and creates effective business plans for achieving business goals. He provides advice to navigate the roadmap successfully to build sustained profitable growth. Patrick’s talents include developing and growing businesses, general management, strategic branding and positioning, leadership, and optimizing marketing performance. Patrick’s background is unique in that it spans software development, product management, general management, business incubation, and strategic marketing. He has a big-picture strategic perspective, innovative thinking, energy, focus on results, and ability to motivate and help others to connect with the vision. These experiences and talents allow him to make a rapid and significant contribution to any business. Patrick is a published author, speaker, and trainer on business strategy, leadership, and individual empowerment. www.innovationhabitude.com
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The Power Of A Team
A man was walking along a road and he came to the beginning of a steep hill. At the bottom of the hill was a farmer with a heavily loaded wagon. A tiny donkey was hitched up to the yoke in front of the cart. The man asked the farmer how he could possibly expect that little donkey to pull that ...
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Leading By Listening
“No one ever listened themselves out of a job” said Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). Have you noticed that we seem to devote a lot more time and effort in learning how to talk to people than we do learning how to listen to them? We are taught that we must become powerful orators able to deliver a speech, be heard, be understood, get a point across, persuade, entertain, engage, motivate, and more. If not, we will not be able to compete, in order to win, in order to be effective leaders. Hundreds, if not thousands, of books have been written on the subject of talking.
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The Power Of A Team
A man was walking along a road and he came to the beginning of a steep hill. At the bottom of the hill was a farmer with a heavily loaded wagon. A tiny donkey was hitched up to the yoke in front of the cart. The man asked the farmer how he could possibly expect that little donkey to pull that ...
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Transparent Communication
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security adjusts the security alert status from code yellow to code orange. The change is announced on national television news networks. You immediately launch your orange alert status program – or, do you? More likely, you’ll do what almost everyone else does ...
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Leadership and Innovation
How many ideas fail to launch because they will require big changes in the business? Could it be the result of a failure in leadership? Do good ideas turn bad? If an idea fails to produce, does that mean it was bad? How many good ideas will be applicable to your business? Do they fit your ...
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Leading Change: The First 100 Days
It is the end of April and tax season is over. That is a big sigh of relief, except that roughly every four years it marks another huge milestone - the US President issues a “100-Day Report”. Why? The people voted and the new president is in office with a new agenda. Do we really expect a major accomplishment in just one hundred days? Maybe not, but this is the time for the agenda and ideas to become a mandate: for it to take root with all the key stakeholders who need to be accountable for important elements of the plan’s success.
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Workshops/seminars:
- Strategic Planning - clarifying your vision, mission, value propositions, objectives
- Brand Strategy - aligning your company with your brand for sustained profitability
- Business Leadership coaching - startup sequencing, capital readiness, alliances