Expired Webinar: Five Factors to Help Your Printing Business Perform Under Stress

Performing under stress doesn’t mean it’s always a bad situation, it’s just a stressful situation. How well you are prepared will help determine how well you lead your business during stressful times.

The graphic communication industry is undergoing yet another structural transformation. Challenges to supply chains, employment and wage issues, and market behaviors are unpredictable. The pressure to perform has never been more important. For many, generating revenue has not been a problem—making the money they deserve can be another issue.

Your decision making process will also be challenged under stress. It’s not uncommon, and the key thing is to be aware that it could happen. This is a good time to re-examine how do you make critical decisions, who you make them with, and the timeliness of your actions. Learn from history. Get your team together and review past stressful times and learn from what worked well, and what didn’t.

During the webinar, you will learn:

1. The importance of communicating your strategy — There may not always be a clear path forward, but that doesn’t excuse the need to effectively speak to and listen to your teams.
2. Busy times may not be the time to let up on the gas pedal — Find every opportunity to capture the business that comes your way. Be creative with scheduling, and be creative in your departmental staffing and workflow to minimize any bottlenecks and allow the work to accelerate through your shop.
3. Your decision making process will be challenged under stress — It’s not uncommon, and the key thing is to be aware that it could happen. This is a good time to re-examine how you make critical decisions, who you make them with, and the timeliness of your actions.
4. Fighting off the ‘hero syndrome’ — Don’t think that you are the only one who can solve the problem, the only one with the answer. Delegating is hard to begin with, even harder when the pressure is on. Work to improve on it every day.
5. The importance of taking care of yourself — Like the flight attendants say during the preflight speech, should you need one, an oxygen mask will fall from the ceiling. Make sure to apply your mask first before you help others. Make sure to take care of yourself!

   About the Presenter:
   Mike Philie is a business management consultant who works with companies in the Graphic Communications Industry. The Philie Group works with business owners, senior leadership, sales managers, and sales representatives who are not satisfied with the status quo and are looking for guidance in altering the trajectory of their results. He also leads interdisciplinary teams through the transition necessary for profitable growth within a changing, dynamic marketplace, and provides senior management with insights on internal and external issues impacting sales, profitability, and acquisition strategies paired with cultural integration. As a former printing company president and senior-level sales executive, Mike combines personal front-line experience with insight garnered from hundreds of industry clients to infuse his consulting and presentations with timely, real-world examples and proven, results-driving advice. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Printing Management from the Rochester Institute of Technology.Mike is a regular speaker and seminar leader at numerous industry conferences including Graph Expo, Print, National Postal Forum, PIA President’s Conference, Dscoop, Printing United and various manufacturer client events and Peer Groups. He has served on the faculty of NAPL’s Management Institute and Idealliance’s NexGen Leaders Group management leadership development programs as well as Idealliance’s CEO Roundtable for top industry executives. He also has co-launched the Graphic Arts CEO Forum – a two-year program to guide CEO’s that face the challenges of a changing industry www.gaceoforum.com. Also launching in March 2021 is the Graphic Communications Leadership Institute, a three-year program for emerging leaders. Explore at www.GCleadershipinstitute.com.

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   Date:
   Thursday, April 14, 2022
   

   Time:
   2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern
   1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Central

   Cost:
   FREE to GLGA Members
   $39 for Not-Yet Members

   Who Should Attend: CEO’s, Owners & Presidents, as well as current and future company leaders.

   A confirmation email with the connection information will be sent to you before the webinar.