In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about the Top 5 Proposal Mistakes. We’ve all been in a position where we write our best proposal, submit it, and then lose. When it comes time for a debriefing, you realize you made a simple mistake. You make the correction next time, and to your surprise, you lose again! This time, your debriefing doesn’t really turn up any valuable intelligence so you are stuck not knowing what really happened. This episode talks about five things that aren’t usually going to come up in a debriefing. These are things that you are definitely being judged on; but no one wants to tell you about because quite honestly, the government doesn’t have the time to teach you how to properly write and submit a proposal.

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Featured Guest:	Michael LeJeune	Company:	Partner and Federal Access PM, RSM Federal
Email:	mlejeune@rsmfederal.com	Phone:	(636) 577-5005

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In this episode, we talked with Joshua Frank about Federal Trends and their Impact to Your 2022 Government Sales Strategy. Josh covers strategic sourcing, CMMC, the labor shortage, the challenges the government is having moving to a distributed workforce, clearly articulating your value in a lowest price (LPTA) environment, and much more.

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Featured Guest:	Joshua Frank	Company:	Managing Partner, RSM Federal
Email:	jfrank@rsmfederal.com	Phone:	703-677-1700

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In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about Celebrating Your Losses. When most companies lose an RFP, a top employee, or suffer some other loss, the tendency is to grieve at some level and then just move on. Celebrating your losses helps to create a culture of learning. The next time you lose an RFP, you should get a debrief from the government and then perform your own debrief internally. Identify your mistakes, correct them, and then apply that to your proposal process moving forward. Then celebrate what you learned from that experience.

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Featured Guest:	Michael LeJeune	Company:	Partner and Federal Access PM, RSM Federal
Email:	mlejeune@rsmfederal.com	Phone:	(636) 577-5005

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In this special episode of Game Changers, you go 1-on-1 with Michael LeJeune to talk about How to Hire and Retain Great People. It’s my personal belief that this is going to be a challenge for the foreseeable future. The employment market was already getting tight before COVID. After COVID, people changed their perspectives and priorities. Employers need to do the same in order to attract the best of the best and to keep them.

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Featured Guest:	Michael LeJeune	Company:	Partner and Federal Access PM, RSM Federal
Email:	mlejeune@rsmfederal.com	Phone:	(636) 577-5005

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In this episode, we talked with Emily Harman about her chapter Authentic Leadership from the book Becoming a GovCon Expert. The journey to becoming a better leader starts with self-discovery and a lot of inner work. Emily talks about letting go of the “shoulds,” developing your mindset, finding your purpose, and more.

Featured Guest:	Emmily Harman	Company:	President, Emily Harman Coaching and Consulting
Email:	emilydh9@gmail.com	Phone:	202-306-1682

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