By Denise Lee Yohn – Leading Authority and Speaker on Building Exceptional Brands Leadership is critical in 2021 if we want our organizations to withstand the challenges of the pandemic that will continue well into the new year. We can’t afford to hope things will…
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How to Deal With an Obnoxious Know-It-All
By Dianna Booher – Communication and Productivity Speaker How to manage an obnoxious employee or vendor? Glad you asked—and I know you’re “asking for a friend” because no one wants to admit they’ve hired such a jerk. You may ask, Aren’t all Know-It-Alls obnoxious? Although…
The #1 Most Important Leadership Quality
By Tom Flick – All-Pro Authority on Leadership, Leading Change and Increasing Performance Last week I posted an article entitled The Humble Leader: Giving and Receiving Feedback, and this week I would like to expand on this critical leadership quality. It is a quality often overlooked by many. Yet,…
21 Tips To Plan Your Virtual 2021 Sales Kickoff Meeting
By David Meerman Scott – Business Growth Strategist, Entrepreneur & Speaker The sales kickoff meeting is a fixture of many companies’ sales calendars. Typically occurring at the turn of a new year, it’s when the organization comes together to motivate the sales team to win and win big!…
A Fly on the Wall in a Fearless Organization
By Amy C. Edmondson – Speaker and Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management The trickiest part of organizational change is translating the big idea into the little interactions that happen hundreds or even thousands of times a day. What are team members actually saying to one another in situations…
Instant Insights: Bite-Sized Impact to Inspire your Team
Worried your clients or teams will roll their eyes and tune out at the prospect of another hour-long presentation? We completely understand, which is why we are thrilled to share Instant Insights concept with you. Here’s the lowdown: Instant Insights offers bite sized information on a topic of your choice,…
How to Build a Dynamic Speaker Series
Looking for new ways to create a dynamic event for your team in an era of Zoom Gloom? Consider hosting a Speaker Series to drive engagement over a defined period of time with expert speakers across a wide variety of topics that are relevant to your organization or audience. Let’s…
Hybrid Events: The Best of Both Worlds
Until vaccines are rolled out on a massive scale, travel restrictions will continue preventing a return to the large scale events and conferences that were the norm until February 2020. With that in mind, many of our clients have opted for Hybrid Events that combine live audiences with a virtual…
Release the Keynote! 3 Ways to Disrupt the Virtual Event
Over the last year, we’ve worked with organizations around the world on virtual events and have learned a few things in the process about how to make the most out of your events. Virtual Events have released the keynote from the stage, presenting…
5 Lessons Leaders Say They Are Taking Away From 2020
By Adrian Gostick – Speaker on Leadership, Anxiety in the Workplace and Employee Engagement I received a holiday card this year that summed up 2020 perfectly. It read: “Well, that was weird.” For businesses, 2020 has indeed been like nothing we’d experienced before. We saw pandemic-related closures, a…