By The Sweeney Agency Did you know that according to Microsoft’s 2021 Work Trend Index, 41% of employees globally are considering leaving their employers this year? (LinkedIn 2021) Think about that. Forty-one percent of the entire workforce is ready to leave their…
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The Guide to Finding the Best Business Speakers & Keynote Speakers
The Ultimate Guide to Booking a Keynote Speaker Planning an event can be very exciting… and time consuming! With so many details to organize, having great partners along the way can make all of the difference. The focal point of any event is the…
How To Get Others To Be Less Resistant To Change
By Dr. Nicole Lipkin – Organizational Psychologist & Speaker on Leadership and Mental Agility If you’ve ever tried breaking an old habit, you know how hard it can be. When a habit is ingrained in our brain it creates neural pathways that are comfortable for synapses to travel…
Living in Limbo: Navigating Change
By Dr. Mark De Volder | Motivational Speaker on Change and Employee Engagement Do you feel like you’re living in limbo? Are you in a perpetual state of change, waiting for the current crisis to be over? For some people it’s even worse and Pandemic Gloom has set in. As a…
Why Your Business Should be More like The Oak Ridge Boys
By Scott McKain – Dynamic Speaker on Innovation, Sales & Customer Service When I was about 16 years old, the manager of the small-town radio station I worked for told me that we were going to be emceeing the concert of a gospel quartet. As you can imagine, to…
9 Basics of Sales Everyone Must Know
By Marc Wayshak – All-American Athlete, Sales Author and Speaker Ever find yourself in a selling situation where you thought things were going well…but then suddenly the prospect disappeared, or the sale just didn’t go the way you expected? Most of the time, sales situations that unexpectedly…
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,…
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…
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia
By Dr. Tasha Eurich – Organizational Psychologist and Speaker on Leadership & Teamwork After a long, scary, and stressful year, let’s take a moment to celebrate that 2020 is finally coming to an end. I’ve been truly inspired by members of our community who have shared your stories…
A Lesson From 2020: Get Simple Before You Get Strategic
By Lisa Bodell – Global Leader on Culture Change Focused on Simplification and Innovation If your strategic plan for 2020 was scrapped in Q1, you’re in good company. Beyond the new best practice of adding contingency plans for a global pandemic, this year offers a rare opportunity to…