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10/18/2019
Skip Weisman
Skip's sixteen seasons as CEO for five professional baseball teams provides him with the ideal background to be a business coach that helps small businesses create championship companies. From 1986-2001 Skip served as CEO for five different professional baseball teams affiliated with the Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, and Texas Rangers.
As CEO, Skip’s primary role was to put butts in seats, keep the beer cold, and the bathrooms clean at his stadiums to keep fans coming back night after night. Twice in his baseball career his franchise won “Organization of the Year” Awards from the primary industry publications, The Sporting News and Baseball America.
Since 2002 Skip has been a keynote speaker, author, and small business coach working with business owners and their employees to create championship company cultures and work environments. His clients report more positive, more productive, and even more profitable companies after working together.
Skip’s first book Overcoming The 7 Deadliest Communication SINs: A New Standard for Workplace Communication (www.7DeadliestCommunicationSins.com) was published in May, 2018 and is the foundation of one of his signature programs for keynote speeches, workshops and seminars at corporate employee events and industry associations.
Since 2012 Skip has been a main stage keynote speaker and workshop presenter to audiences from 15-to-1500 in virtually every industry including manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, and financial services.
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Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy
Mary C. Kelly
Leaders leave. It's inevitable. It might even happen today. Are you prepared? Every organization needs a plan for leadership succession, but few leaders know how to start the process. WHO COMES NEXT? solves that problem and easily guides you through the steps of creating and implementing a viable succession plan.
This essential guidebook simplifies the process and gives you the tools you need to build and activate your leadership succession. You’ll find a comprehensive action plan, a library of all the tools needed to develop and sustain your plan, and a resource guide. You’ll learn how to:
- Communicate with customers about the change
- Identify talent gaps in your succession plan
- Decide which succession planning model to adapt
- Find the next generation of leadership within your organization
- Handle the unique emotional complexities of succession in a family-owned business
Whether you are part of a small, family business, a Fortune 500 company, or a non-profit, you need to start now by answering the question: WHO COMES NEXT?
