🌿 Align your organization, your family & yourself

We’re all well aware on how fast this industry is moving, is your organization aligned? Is it primed for scale? You’re about to find out (while also having some fun along the way)

Below you’ll find:

1. Company Alignment via a V2MOM

2. Industry Headlines

3. A word from Polaris Partners

4. Cannabis Collective retreat recap

Let’s get into it.

⌛️ Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Company alignment

Teams are remote, career has become 24/7, and everyone is working at their own pace. More than ever, alignment within an organization is really hard, ESPECIALLY, when each department has various incentives and scorecards. How do you know the exec leader sitting across from you, who is on your team, and whom you have worked with for years…shares the same definition of winning as you?

How do you know they are motivated by the same purpose & vision?

What about your own personal alignment? Is your mind, body & spirit aligned? If not, it will be near impossible to achieve your dreams & life goals.

Today we’re talking about the Salesforce-developed V2MOM framework.

Alignment is the ability to agree (or disagree amicably) and work towards a common goal/greater good whether in at your company, or even for yourself.

The V2MOM is an exercise that is meant to be done with everyone in your organization and specifically with leadership. - I was fortunate enough to be apart of this exercise for each of the 6 years I worked at Salesforce.

I use this framework to align my life & I even did this with my extended family of 20 because I started to realise we all had different definitions of our values, our vision, and how we measure success as a family. With young nieces, nephews and the next generation upon us, we used the V2MOM to reset and ensure we were all on the same page.

• Vision: What do you want to achieve? 1 Year from now? 10 years?

• Values: What are the core beliefs that are instrumental to you every single day?

• Methods: How do you get it?

• Obstacles: What’s preventing you from being successful?

• Measures: How do you know when you have it? 

This ¨document¨ promotes: creativity, change, and empowerment. 

It’s also a way to ensure alignment while you scale. The V2MOMs should change throughout the years. As an organization grows, it is similar to a child-It lives, breaths & adapts and so to should the V2MOM. It’s not a static document that is looking for the right answer. It’s trying to identify flaws & misalignment and ensure course correction & prosperity to make sure everyone is beating to the same drum.

All dancers are dancing to the same song. All the players are playing the same game. All the puppies are…. OK you get my drift.

So why in the world is this important and why should you care? In an industry like Cannabis, markets are changing so rapidly there is a NEED for internal alignment on strategy or you’re not going to win in the long run, let alone the short term!

A Final note-I love this framework because it is also an incredible Sales discovery framework. To be a trusted advisor and a solutions, you must understand your prospects org chart, culture & strategy to be able to then tie all of the threads/ribbons/strings together.

I run a whiteboard coaching session on how you can leverage the V2MOM framework. If interested, let me know.

More info here: https://www.salesforce.com/blog/how-to-create-alignment-within-your-company/

🌟 Polaris Pulse: newest innovations updates, and announcements from Polaris Partners.

CannAcquire is the worlds first acquisition platform for brick & mortar retailers and works mainly in three ways:

1. They prepare you for acquisition by giving you access to key data templates which centralizes all of their data and makes it really easy to a) extract the true value of the business & b) give acquirers a complete data room

2. They help source acquirers by tapping into their network of buyers

3. They help negotiate the sale on your behalf.

They´ll be launching a full marketplace in the coming weeks, if interested in listing your store, reach out to [email protected] or respond back to this email and we will get you connected.

Event(s) Recap

CANNABIS COLLECTIVE SECOND ANNUAL RETREAT. SAUGERTIES NY

With 160+ open retailers in the NY State, countless innovative brands, and top-tier leaders, the NY market is accelerating quickly. Acceleration & activity often mean opportunity cost, burnout, and a consistent exercise determining who you can trust.

The retreat included:

1. A Thursday night executive dinner which was purposely unstructured to get ideas flowing

2. 65 executive leaders spanning retail, processor, brand, technology, law & regulatory consultants during the day on Friday at a beautiful farm

3. Two Excellent panels featuring Fernway, Bloom, Verdi, HPI Canna, Lit Alerts, nabis

4. Brand activations including our new friends at Coastal Vape Co and the Northeast’s “Forever Brand” Fernway & delicious drinks from Ayrloom.

5. World-class food from two resilient chefs who battled the rain on and off all day

6. A calming and somewhat challenging Vinyasa flow to start the day & set the intentions (with an amazing Bloom pen in hand) by @woodstock infusions

7. Four breakout workshops including Terp Tasting with Andrew Lowitz, a nature hike, a conversation on Hemp vs. Cannabis with the immaculate Jeffrey Schultz, and finally, Actionable Trust Building (ATB) with yours truly, SKV.

8. Product ¨pitches¨from all of our partners

Connections were created, relationships were forged, and trust was cemented. We battled the wind, the rain, and the unknown elements. We discussed a lot, including what you need to focus on over these next four months as a NY operator, how to be successful in your lane, and how to stay grounded.

More importantly, the executives who attended had a chance to look under the hood of their fellow execs and discover their way in hopes of one day being a resource.

I'm excited about the NY market for years to come... but don´t get it twisted. It will only get harder to win as the days go by. So find your tribe right now and qualify ruthlessly.

Thank you to all of our executive members and partners. We could not have dreamed about doing something like this if it hadn't been for you.

📆 Upcoming events

Business of Cannabis: New York
November 12th, 2024, 📍 The New York Academy of Medicine  
Bringing together over 400 industry leaders, investors and policy-makers.

Tickets are selling fast. If you are a retail executive with a store open in NY or soon to open, we have a complimentary code for you. Respond back to this email and we will set you up with tickets (valued at $350 USD).

Game Changers: Inside the minds of Global Leaders

As the world becomes more complex, it becomes more and more challenging to stay grounded, focused and aligned. Stay ahead by fostering unity, innovation, and trust across your teams and yourself. Don’t miss out on upcoming events and insights that will help shape your success in the months to come.

- SKV