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Barry Pruitt

Barry is a Rhythm Consultant. He has years of experience helping clients get in a strong Think Plan Do Rhythm to grow their business with purpose. He is also a professional speaker and expert meeting facilitator.
SWOT Analysis: SWOT Analysis Template

A SWOT analysis is an effective tool for identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Effective Meetings
How to be a Good Facilitator: Qualities of the Best Facilitators [Recently Updated for May 2024]

Dread planning meetings that are crucial to your success? We outline the qualities of a good ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Effective Meetings
How SMACCC Will Save Your Company

Errol shared plenty of examples of military preparedness and then linked them to what we do as ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Top CEOs are Obsessed with Coaching

Top CEOs are obsessed with coaching since the coach has seen these patterns before and can minimize ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
KPI vs Target: How Use KPI Targets Effectively

This blog is an attempt to explain Targets vs. KPIs by giving you enough, without overwhelming. ...

KPIs & Dashboards
Drive Your Remote Team's Morale, Maintain Productivity and Win

It’s your responsibility as a leader to drive team morale, maintain productivity and win while your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
2 Reasons You May be Failing to Grow Your Company and Have a Life

These two reasons may be why you’re failing as a growing company and can’t seem to get a life. The ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
9 Steps to Make Coaching Your Sales Team Predictable

Sales expert Jack Daly offers advice on how to coach your salespeople for more effective, ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Stop Measuring Everything: The CEO KPIs That Should be Prioritized

I coach executives and entrepreneurs to track key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure that ...

KPIs & Dashboards
Not to Be Ignored: Artificial Intelligence

While taking stock of your current position and thinking about your strategic future, include AI ...

Strategies for Growth
Moat Building: 3 Ways to Build Your Moat Around Your Business

Do any of your revenue-generating winning moves help you build a moat around your business to ...

Strategies for Growth
Create a Virtual Plan for Grief during COVID-19

It reminded me of a recent challenge I see many executive teams face—accepting where team members ...

Effective Meetings

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Scaling Up Your Business with Rockefeller Habits 2.0 With These 16 Questions

You need a contingency plan for health and safety prior to a hurricane, and you need a contingency ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
Adaptive Leadership Theory: Adaptive Leadership Framework

Practice adaptive leadership while remaining true to the core of your business: core purpose and ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Virtual Planning Lessons: Keep Your Company Out of COVID-19 Trouble

When planning to overcome a business disaster, always consider your options (the ways out) within ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning
Priority ZERO: Make COVID-19 Part of Your Survive, Recover and Thrive Mentality

This is not the time to discard your quarterly plan or your planning process in your paddling ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning

and more
How the Balanced Scorecard Keeps You Balanced

Use your KPI Balanced Scorecard as a framework for measuring organizational performance through a ...

KPIs & Dashboards
Cash is King – Do You Know Where Your Cash Is?

While looking at strategies to steer your business, to gain from the CARES Act, to collect ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning
Practice the Rockefeller Habits to Drive Accountability and Response-Ability

Are you fostering an accountability-based team, department, or organization? Accountability takes a ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Emotional Intelligence in Action: List of Emotional Intelligence in Action Steps

Emotional intelligence is a critical skills for leaders. It's tied to self-awareness, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Nuts and Bolts Leadership: Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

As company leadership, sometimes it’s important to revamp how you interact with others, spend your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Disproportional Influence: Problem Identification and Lag Time

Begin to measure how long it takes for issues to get addressed in your organization or team. What ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Tom Sawyer Management Approach - 5 Steps to Increase Your Leadership

In working with leadership in over a dozen countries, I’ve found that the best leaders don’t have a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Two Truths and a Lie: The Sears Saga and Your 3-5 Year Strategic Plan

There are two truths that can keep your business alive and growing in a framework of 3-5 year ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning
You’re Fired: 5 Steps and a Glass of Wine

Your team and organization performance is 100% based on front-line managers and the teams they ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Stop Putting Lipstick on a Pig: Start Driving Predictable Results

Rather than being the weak link between intention and implementation, you should instead be the ...

Strategy Execution
Stand Up, Speak Up, Shut Up, and Sit Down

No matter how well you’ve developed the skill, I’ve found that it can be improved by following a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Focus Like a Magnifying Glass to Expand Your Power

In a way, Rhythm is a magnifying glass for you and the power of your team. Successful teams can ...

Strategy Execution
Focus to Win: Nobody Buys Your Drinks When You’re Last Place

Focus on one thing at a time, clear away distractions and focus on what you're doing now.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Using the One Page Plan and Rockefeller Habits to Create a Corporate Strategy That Works!

One of the critical issues business leaders face is not failing to create a strategy, but actually ...

Strategies for Growth
How Myers Briggs Can Help You Run a Profitable Business

The MBTI is one assessment tool used by many companies to increase self-awareness and help with the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Blindsided: Your Sales Pipeline, Business Performance, and Dual-Role Players

Determine a consistent process to regularly measure team member productivity and sales pipeline. ...

Increasing Sales
4 Steps to Get Your Team Past Issues and Problems

Leaders often struggle to get team members to solve problems. Here's a simple and effective ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
5 (More) Secrets to Make Happy Money in Your Business

I recently blogged about why some companies increased sales and were happily forging ahead while ...

Increasing Sales

Strategies for Growth
5 Secrets to Make Happy Money in Your Business

Whatever your description of happy money, and I’ve heard many, the definition usually includes ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning
Lessons Business Leaders Could Learn from Eight-Year-Olds

You should 1. face the brutal facts, 2. take a few shots, 3. focus on the very few things, and 4. ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Steps to Build a World-Class Organization or Sales Team

As the leader of 5 employees, you’ll need to develop each person and help them grow their skills ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Accountability: Trust, But Verify (I'm Gonna Miss Krispy Kreme)

Each executive assumes that their team members handle customers in a way that aligns with corporate ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
The Ten Rules to Becoming a Sales Professional [Video]

Let’s set aside hiring and core values and focus on the foundation of becoming a sales ...

Increasing Sales
Customers Don't Suck - The Boss Does!

When your team has interactions with people that are seemingly unreasonable, even irate, then you ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Your Leadership ETHIC Drives Predictable Results

As I sorted my experience with great leaders from four continents, I realized that one could ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
3 Action Steps to Leverage Stress for Success

No matter who you are, every person experiences problems, difficulties, unexpected reversals and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
3 Action Steps From Jack Daly to Increase Sales

Here’s Jack Daly's advice: use a playbook to increase sales. Having a go-to Sales Playbook for your ...

Increasing Sales
8 Habits for CEOs to Grow Your Business Without Breaking a Sweat

I’ve observed 8 habits exhibited by successful leaders and CEOs as measured by consistent revenue ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Business Lessons from the Story of David and Goliath

This boy and his story have much to teach us as men and women business leaders. Well-planned ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Your Blueprint to Get Your Message Moving

We’ve been busy preparing for our Breakthrough Conference in Charlotte, working on content that ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
True Grit, Premium Value, and Success - How Bad Do You Want It?

Leaders and entrepreneurs often wonder what it takes to be successful. Jack Daly, sales expert, ...

Strategies for Growth
From Your Heart To Feet To Changing the World

When you come to our Breakthrough Conference on October 19-20 this year, you’ll have a chance to ...

Strategy Execution
Coach Your Sales Team to Get Predictable Results

When you’re clear that you're wearing a coaching hat, you can create a positive impact on your ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
3 Sales Contest Examples to Predictably Increase Revenue & Profit

Institute sales contests in your company to grow predictable revenue results. Here are 3 examples ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
Sales Contests Offer the Predictable Result of Increased Revenue & Profit

I asked Jack Daly, "How can CEOs and leaders gain the predictable result of increased revenue and ...

Strategies for Growth
Business Productivity: The Weak Link Between Intention & Implementation

The relationship between intention and implementation is often weak causing business productivity ...

Strategy Execution
Getting Predictable Results From Leadership

Leaders that produce predictable results ask the right questions of their team – and also of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Not Enough Time is More Common than the Common Cold

I’ll start with an exercise I often ask when working with leaders on team development: Think back ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
6 Keys to Save Communication Time: Gain a Following Like a Great Preacher

As a consultant to CEOs and leadership teams, I’ve discovered that (nearly) everyone would like to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Want a Better Relationship with Your Boss? Use a Job Scorecard

Begin the process with a Job Scorecard and you’ll have more control over your work destiny, greater ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
7 Ways Employee Engagement Can Help You Become a Best Place to Work

I’ve thought about what we practice and the behaviors I’ve observed that foster employee engagement ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
The Road to Hell (is Paved with Good Intentions)

I have learned a simple strategy to help you pave the right road. The focus is on 3 points to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Stop Being a Monkey: Low-Hanging Fruit Leads to Failure

While you’re focusing on low-hanging fruit, you’re not thinking about long-term, exponential growth ...

Strategies for Growth
7 Steps to Tighten Your Steering and Drive Out Leadership Waste

A Lean leadership team creates tight teamwork and forces managers to lead rather than do. Lean is ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Engage Your Team and End the Year Strong

The "how to" of employee engagement seems overwhelming or unclear, but you can start engaging your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
What the Twit - Is Social Media a Waste of an Entrepreneur's Time?

John Warrilow shares data that further inspires me to figure out my value for social media. As ...
11 Ways to Kill Your Business Value

Expert John Warrillow shares research findings that can kill the value, if not the operation, of ...

Strategy Execution
How To Double Your Return From Any Conference - Part 2

My objective is for you to have a way to determine if conference attendance is worth it, and ...

Strategy Execution
How To Double Your Return From Any Conference - Part 1

My objective is for you to have a tool to determine if conference attendance is worth it, and ...

Strategy Execution
Jack Daly's Secrets to Sales Success (Part 3)

Today, in part three of a sales series, Jack Daly shares insights on fulfilling unmet needs and ...

Strategies for Growth
Jack Daly's Path to Sales Success (Part 2)

Jack Daly shares his path to success through Relationship Selling. Rather than pushing a product, ...

Strategies for Growth
Sales Success with Jack Daly (Part 1)

I asked Jack Daly to address the issue of selling profitably in a multi-part series. Here's his ...

Strategies for Growth
3 Steps to Be Situationally Multilingual

Being situationally multilingual is when you, as a leader, communicate in a way that will best be ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
3 Secrets to Motivation

Using these secrets will result in effectively encouraging your team, will help you communicate ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How To Write Your Legacy - Lessons From a Cowboy

The question is, are you writing your legacy while living, or waiting for the obituary once you’re ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Break Down Your Process Before You Break Down Your Business

Understanding the smaller components in a larger process allows you to create your KPI dashboard ...

KPIs & Dashboards
3-Step Process: The Build Up To a Great Stand Up (SlideShare)

It takes courage to stand up when it's time to speak up, and you need a communication process to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
3 Ways to Break Free of Competence

Ideas and breakthroughs are happening too fast for leadership to afford to be competent. It’s just ...
Test Your Potential Before the Market Tests You

You should always be stretching yourself towards continuous improvement. To determine where you ...

Strategies for Growth
Have Your Say in a Positive Way

How do you present a new idea to your key stakeholders, or persuade others on a different approach? ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Performance Reviews: HR Can’t Handle The Truth

Leading High Performance Teams, it’s time for you to implement a rhythm of conversations in lieu of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Jack Daly Thinks You Better Pay Me!

I consistently hear questions on sales, developing a high performance team of sales people and ...

Strategies for Growth
MacGyver is Your Sales Guy!

Making sales is revenue generation, and therefore the lifeblood of business growth. Simplify, ...

Strategies for Growth
Test the M Factor – How Boomers, GenX and GenY Can Get Along Better

Hire the people you feel can bring the right talents to the table and get the best work done, every ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Anchors A Weight

People who feel the negative emotions of irritation, disinterest, and discomfort disengage nearly ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Nostradamus Predicts Steve Jobs Was a Bad Model for Startups

Hire these people well (skills, core values, initiative, culture fit, etc.) and you’ll celebrate ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Only Being Book Smart Isn't Really Smart

Emotional Intelligence is viewed as even more important in leadership development as it was a ...
Entrepreneurs are Different from Executives

Being an entrepreneur, like being a parent, can offer some of the highest highs … and some of the ...

Strategy Execution
5 Steps to Define It Before You Design It

You need a leadership team that manages operational practices and day-to-day activities with an eye ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
It Takes a Big Pair of Questions to Collaborate

Don’t deal with conflict hastily without giving thought to unintended consequences. Follow this ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Company Culture: If You Ain't First, You're Last!

Sales expert Jack Daly gives five ideas to jump-start your design of a winning company culture.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Woohoo - Belgian Craft Beer!

Here are some leadership lessons from Kim Jordan, founder and CEO of New Belgium Craft Brewery (an ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
World Class Sales Organization: 5 Steps to Build It

Sales expert Jack Daly shares advice for building a great team of sales people, getting them ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How To Start A Subscription Business

John Warrillow shares a 7-step guide to building a recurring revenue model of business execution in ...

Increasing Sales

Strategy Execution
Don't Speculate When You Can Innovate

I have found that many in leadership at fast growing entrepreneurial firms don't feel personally ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
It’s Time You Knew Jack! Q & A for Successful Sales with Jack Daly

I prepared a few questions for Jack Daly, sales growth guru, and you’ll find his proven, winning ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
BHAG Your Customer Service Goals Before You Upset Your Customers

These three examples show how low employee engagement results in poor customer service. No service ...

Increasing Sales

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Teach Your Team to Navigate The Crisis

When handling a crisis, it is more challenging for leadership to determine the right direction, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Are Critical Numbers Part of Your Company Workout?

Critical numbers are key drivers that influence business performance. These special KPIs are ...

KPIs & Dashboards
Trusting Luck is the Worst BHAG Advice You’ll Ever Get

I used a financial BHAG, an approach I don't recommend because luck is not your best strategy, and ...

Strategies for Growth
Carrot or Stick? The Power of Positive Reinforcement

When I wanted to know about recognition driven leadership, I looked for someone with experience to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
4 Simple Steps to Encourage the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Your Team

Consider the benefit of a team full of creative problem solvers, follow the four steps, and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Why Status Criteria Matter

That’s why Red-Yellow-Green success criteria matters. Measurable criteria can make or break your ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Strategy Execution
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Leadership with well-developed emotional intelligence have advantages that outweigh people with ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Service is Not a Secret: 8 Steps to a Customer Service Revolution

Customer service training initiatives have proven vital, but only if they are focused on results ...

Increasing Sales

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Stop the Boring All-Encompassing Meetings

Look for ways to experiment in meetings by shining your spotlight on what's important for your ...

Effective Meetings
Fight the Under-Management Epidemic

If you lead or manage people across generations, listen to Bruce’s advice. Perhaps more important, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Think Before You Communicate Difficult News

One function of a leader is to deliver tough news; follow these tips for effective communication in ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Even Google Gets It Wrong Sometimes

Apply Heffernan’s description of leadership: “The job of a leader is to create conditions where ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Bond Creativity and Business with Social Glue

Use these tips for facilitating meetings that engage creative strategic thinking to solve problems ...

Effective Meetings
Your Actions are LOUDER Than Words

Tips for increasing employee engagement and attracting people who are a good fit for your company.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Does Saying Yes Mean Saying No?

Narrow your organization's focus and business execution discipline by intentionally choosing high ...

Strategy Execution
Tony Robbins Got It Wrong!

Learn how to implement internal training programs to help your team improve and stay smart.

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Steps to Make Your Message Stick

Making your message or ideas "sticky" is critical. Communicate more effectively with your team, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Don't Flip Off Your Team (Part Two)

In a leadership role, retain authority to make the final decision, yet still invite input. Each ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Don't Flip Off Your Team (Part 1)

Employee engagement is dropping at an alarming rate, a trend that damaging a wide variety of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Credibility: A Critical Foundation of Leadership

“If you don’t believe in the messenger, you won’t believe the message.”  —Jim Kouzes, co-author of  ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Lead With Insight

As a Rhythm coach and onsite facilitator, I am always interested in the different egos and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Hit the Nitro to Win the Business Race!

As you attempt to control your business and your team's effort, you will likely be attracted to ...

KPIs & Dashboards
Leadership Can Be Counterintuitive

I often find that what actually works for CEOs and leadership teams is counterintuitive. What was ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Strategy Execution
One-Page Strategy Implementation - Do You REALLY Got It?

I don’t mean to discount your need to create a strategy, but it never works unless you execute it ...

Strategies for Growth
Echo Mountain – The Entrepreneur’s Core Value Check

If you've ever visited a cliff known for its echo effect, you'll remember easing to the edge, ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
The Untraining Challenge

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits includes opportunities for all team members to be architects of ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Is Your Business a Murder Mystery?

Core Values require no external justification, they should not be chosen from a list or something ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Are You Missing a Key Component of Alignment?

End of year begins a heavy planning period for many of our clients – quarterly planning, annual ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning
Gazelle-Like Companies are Learning Organizations

A Learning Organization is one that is always improving its ability to shape its future. Turn your ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution

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Use KPI Bifocals to View Your Critical Numbers

The reason we care about KPIs and the “special” KPIs, Critical Numbers, is to drive decisions (and ...

KPIs & Dashboards
How You Can Avoid a $125M Mistake

You’ll find reports in every technology, sales, and business magazine - reports of businesses ...

Strategy Execution
Win With Change Leadership

Are successful leaders going to excel, regardless of the times in which they lead?  Some may say ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Transforming Company Vision

Certain kinds of changes are easier to make than others; increasing and decreasing budgets, ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
KPI Webcast: Questions & Answers - Part 2

Here are the second set of answers from, "How to Use KPIs to Focus Your Team and Keep Your Plan on ...

KPIs & Dashboards
Is Your Team Choking on KPIs? Special KPIs Give Your Team Kick-Butt Focus!

The companies I coach are in the game of business, not to survive – but to win! You can’t win by ...

Strategies for Growth

KPIs & Dashboards
Be Culture Conscious

I once heard that your culture will eat your strategy for lunch. The culture of your organization ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
People: Will the Real Conflict Please Stand Up?

I often ask business owners what was their best experience as an entrepreneur—and what was the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Lessons from Chopped: Your Brand Promise Can Be a Winning Move

No matter the market or the economy, you should always be asking your team to re-assess your Brand ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
Three Questions to Change Tracks Rather than Changing Trains

Implementing change on a company level can feel insurmountable.  As a matter of fact, the more ...

Strategies for Growth
3 Ways to Adapt Your Leadership While Practicing the Rockefeller Habits (Video)

There's an old saying that you can never go home again, but the fundamental framework of the ...

Strategies for Growth
Activation of the One-Page Strategic Plan

How does your organization typically roll out major change? Tips to help your roll out the One-Page ...

Strategies for Growth
Warning: Don't Be Blindsided

Warning: Blind Spot Ahead! Everyone has aspirations, goals, and wishes -- and they typically come ...

Strategy Execution
Does Your Talent Development Program Measure Up?

According to a Harvard Business Review study, fully one quarter of the highest-potential people in ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
S-C-O-R-E the Attention of Your Executive Team or Board

Presenting to executives can be a lot of work. They see, and hear, from many like you – so don’t ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Sharpen Your Professional Saw!

What gives successful leaders the edge over everyone else?

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Run Like a Gazelle! Be A Better Boss

Take stock of your professional role, priorities and influence as you run your gazelle-like ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Patterns of Executive Team Success

A coaches primary function and value is assisting, even guiding, and perhaps “forcing” individual ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Three Indicators That You Should Topgrade Your Data

Is your Data "A" level or "C" level information? The importance of quick, easy, important data ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

KPIs & Dashboards

and more
Is Your Growth Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

Is your business on the right path? Are you strategizing or just "feeling your way?"

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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