It’s time for the Great Awakening!

May 30, 2025 by Malcolm Gallagher Leave a Comment

If you feel that these past months (or even longer) of uncertainty have brought you “doldrums in growth”, then perhaps it’s time to do something about it. Okay, that is easier said than done, I agree. But wallowing in the doldrums as so many businesses are doing means, I suggest, losing opportunity for you!

Yes, there’s been a lot of arrows and spears ( or is it now drones!?) headed your way recently with so many still flying about such as tariffs, economy, Brexit, mental health, wars, AI and more. But, in different guises, it has all happened before!

You see, I know from many years of experience (50+ of them) of the cycles of business and how the troughs of those cycles mean that many businesses fall by the wayside forever. And that is often because they (well, especially the leader) allow external geopolitical situations or negative news and assumptions to be their business driver.

This usually manifests itself into thinking that nothing can be done about the trading situation, and that “we have to just hunker down” and hopefully ride it out. Where that thinking leads to is a negativity that quickly cascades throughout the company from the very top to the very bottom. Gloom descends, cutbacks happen and any initiative is lost.

It is really hard to then get everything rolling from such a position.

Growth is key everyone says. And it’s often said without knowing what growth is! This allows “snake-oil” opportunists to push their solutions. And there are plenty of them around at the moment as you’ll know from your spam box. There is no magic Disney Fairy Dust to deliver that growth tomorrow.

What WILL work is to doggedly follow a system – a plan if you like and one that comes from knowledge of things that work in tough and uncertain times.

You’re reading this and now thinking – oh here it comes – aren’t you?? Well yes, I do have that system for you but bide a while as we keep thinking together.

The big problem with so many of these so-called “growth solutions” in your spam box is that they are geared to selling whatever product the writer or video presenter is offering. Those solutions tend to ignore the past or even the current situation in favour of “change will happen tomorrow”. Be truthful you know it will not.

Most change initiatives fail because they ignore the past and try to build on the present which is like trying to build a house on quicksand.

There is an answer for you. It WILL bring you that elusive growth and you WILL lead your business and people to sustainable success. But, like weight-loss (I’ve lost 3 stones over this past year) it won’t and can’t all happen overnight. Sustainable growth, like the weight loss, has to be gradual.

Frustrating? No, because gradual growth makes you stronger than others.

So where am I leading all this you ask?

I’ve spent the past few months in my dusty archives retrieving all my past and successful tough times programs and updating them to meet today’s challenges you face. I’ve tidied and tested my new program to bring it to you in a format that works today.

Heck, we’ve even changed our main name from BizVision to BVTVMedia to meet the type of growth support you need in this present and future business world.

Our new program for you revolves around the word THRIVAL. It’s a word that means more than just Thrive. It brings with it a sense of true purpose and direction, building on the past. Your will be in pursuit of Thrival. It’s a word that, when you present it correctly, will help get your people behind your growth initiative.

From this post, you’ll start to experience THRIVAL in many ways. Our blog and newsletters will have the masthead title of The Thrival Times. Our new videocast show is called Thrival Pursuit. There will be a Thrival Pursuit membership cluib with forum, Thrival Pursuit Courses and Coaching.

Many items will be free, others priced affordably bu all with our very special BVTV Support which helps you make it work.

So have I aroused your interest? That’s great as it all starts happening from this post.

Or are you filing me into your “not for me” pile? Surely you owe it to your business, your people and especially yourself to hang around to see if, after all, it could all work for you?

Aroused or Hang around? Take action now anmd simply follow this Thrival Times Blog and get the free Thrival Times News by clicking here

BVTV Global REFRESH starts NOW!!

March 13, 2025 by Malcolm Gallagher Leave a Comment

These past months we’ve been a bit “absent from being present” whilst getting organised for our BVTV Quantum Action refresh of BVTV Global. This is now going live from this post date.

BVTV Quantum Action means replace and refresh.

This means new BVTV Global Shows and Blogs, new must-have Freebies, a host of new interviews with leading authors and thought leaders. Plus there are new clubs, courses and coaching to support you. Oh and of course, AI will be joining us (she is called Bee-Vee naturally!!)

Our new action line for you is “Thriving Through Turbulence”.

We are now firmly in a world of uncertainty for business and our BVTV Quantum Action approach has been carefully (and painfully!) constructed to help you find and achieve business and personal success in these challenging times.

BVTV Quantum Action brings you our 4-step ABCD approach:

Accept uncertainty and use it for growth. Uncertainty is the new normal so learn to talk a new “language” with us

Balance all outcomes by looking for, and finding, opening doors as others close. There are always opportunities but it is often easier to resist or ignore them than to make the change necessary to seize them

Challenge all preconceptions especially that old favorite that “nobody is buying”. You’ll be able to do that by wishing to make yourself or your business better rather than making everything easier!

Decide to take action that extends to being disruptive in the marketplace and driving your competitors crazy!

Have we tickled your taste buds enough? Will you follow us to see what it’s all about and how it will help you thrive?

Remember BVTV Quantum Action starts now!

We’re almost ready for you!

November 19, 2024 by Malcolm Gallagher Leave a Comment

If you’ve done techie stuff before you’ll know that it takes twice as long to finish than you had planned! We’re busy making changes ready to be even more supportive to you and your business in 2025. It all starts to go live during February ’25 so please excuse us looking a bit unkempt without our “make-up” on at the moment.

To support you in these ever-changing and challenging times we have for you 3 Pathways. These are Growth, Performance and Entrepreneurism.

Coming in “dribs and drabs” over the month and into March across the 3 pathways are:

New BVTV VideoCast Shows including the Thrive & Grow Show, the Business Now Show and the Performance Pursuit Show

New BVTV Membership Clubs for each pathway

New BVTV How2 Freebies for each pathway and much more….

How are you planning to thrive in 2025?

October 15, 2024 by Malcolm Gallagher Leave a Comment

With 2025 just a short “bus ride” away every business and organization leader should be thinking about their 2025 Thrival Plan. Yes, the BIG Corporates will have already done so (or will they?) However, you mustn’t think that your business is too small or that there is plenty of time for thinking and planning.

Time seems to fly quickly these days largely because of the myriad of daily, and supposedly important jobs to be done as a leader. But these “time-grabbing” jobs shouldn’t crowd out your leadership responsibilities of growth. If they do, then you may end up planning for surviving or even consider your business to be diving. We live in such a changing and uncertain economically fluid world that such results may happen. Unless you take action.

Of course, you could be muttering that’s all very well for me to say because I’m not there with you who has that myriad of “today tasks” to achieve before you even think of 2025. However, I do understand and I’ve been there myself many times in the past and worked with many leaders across many sectors who have done the same thing.

At this stage in this post, I want to move away from that conversation and encourage you to think about your Thrive ’25 plan. If you steadfastly think I am too prescient and there’s lots of time before you need to plan, then save yourself some time and leave this post. Join me later on in another posting!

If you’re still here with me, then let me give you some Thrive ’25 thinking. Yes, there’s uncertainty around with geopolitical problems making some markets hard to access. Yes, there are new challenges to meet with the advent of AI (artificial intelligence),. Yes, there are HR problems with a fluid workforce. Yes, customers are today less loyal and their buying behaviors have changed. And of course, there are many more “yesses” like those!

But anyone can list the negatives. And in many cases, they will do so as it may be deemed “safer”. What you need as a leader is to list the positives to outweigh the negatives. If you don’t your competitors or a new entrant disruptor may do so.

I’ve lived my life with the firm Stoicism belief that there are “no problems only opportunities”. You just have to have the growth mindset to want to find those opportunities instead of being drowned by the negatives.

So where does this leave you in your planning of Thrive ’25? Well over the coming posts and across our channels and shows and new membership clubs, courses and coaching you can find the answers you seek. Not all from me you’ll be glad to hear. But also from the 100’s of global experts and thought leaders we interview on our BVTV Global Channels.

I want to start your Thrive ’25 thinking in this post with our Thrive Model. You will see in the image below the steps to consider. How about taking the time now to consider those steps and how you will consider and reflect on them? Then follow me on further posts and our Thrive ’25 Programme to action them. Are you up for that? Here’s the model.

The model is not complicated as you can see. However, it’s essential you don’t miss a step. Trust me, I have done that in the past much to my financial regret!

Let me know if you want a free Zoom chat about the model.

Mail me at mg@bizvision.co.uk

The time for growth is today not tomorrow!

October 14, 2024 by Malcolm Gallagher Leave a Comment

You may know the old saying that “everyone votes for change but nobody want to do it”. Well, let me put that into the context of that other desire of today…growth. Every business wants, and yes needs, growth but nobody knows how to do it may be case here.

Let me correct that! People may think they know how to do it and have sort of a plan but they are maybe reluctant to put it into operation because they perceive “the time is not right”, or they want to tweak the plan, or inwardly they are frightened it won’t work or is too risky or….or….or and so on.

Prevarication today is impacting productivity, profit, perception, purpose, people and every other “p” you can add to that list. Too many businesses are scared to take the ride to growth and will usually come along for the ride rather than taking action.

Now let’s be fair to them. The constantly challenging economic conditions and total uncertainty haven’t actually favoured the growth agenda have they – unless perhaps you are in the defence industry! But that uncertainty is now the “new normal.” So you have to live with it, and beat it to achieve growth.

How? Preparation is key. For this post let me give you three areas of preparation.

First, too many of today’s leaders haven’t truly experienced leading in tough times. They also may be struggling with the turn of what is needed to be a leader today. Those dominant technical skills of yesteryear have had to give way to the need for strengthening emotional intelligence (EQ) and people skills. And that is important whether you are a leader of thousands, hundreds or one. Your people set the tone of your business. We talk a lot about that on our BVTV 2-Leadership & Performance Channel and it will be featured in our new BVTV Leadership Today Show. Improving your emotional skills should be uppermost in your mind.

Secondly, growth is too often seen as linear. You know “sell more of this or that to more of them” type of thinking. But the world has changed. We agreed that earlier didn’t we? I see growth as needing a bit of 3 -dimensional chess play. In this case, and there are many scenarios, the 3 levels are Changing Customer Needs, Implementing Innovation and Realistic Market Access. Now obviously there are other scenarios including geo-political, strategy, purpose and so on.

But what I am trying to point out here is that your business success is fundamentally about your customer. I am dismayed these days how many businesses have lost sight of their customer. And that usually means their customer has quickly lost sight of them too! Remember a happy customer will tell others making your growth path easier. Follow us at BVTV, as we talk about improving Customer Experience. The old tactic of taking a walk through your business in your customer’s shoes may, yes, be old but is totally relevant today.

My third area of growth preparation lies in knowledge. Yes, this should be a personal trait where you know what is going on in the world. But that knowledge needs to extend further into the knowledge of competitors, knowledge of markets, knowledge of customers, knowledge of technology, knowledge of your sector or industry. You may say “hold on that is too much for me to do”. Then tune it if you a small business or delegate it if you have a team. Think of the “pride of input” a team member will have by being given an area of knowledge-seeking and reporting back to the rest of the team. That’s true involvement!

I’m going to close now on this post to give you time to reflect on it and if you are going to take action and join us for an exciting growth journey. Follow my blogs, channels and shows for growth support.