The characteristics of a great leader have evolved. The qualities necessary to be an effective manager in today’s business landscape have drastically shifted from those of 20 years ago – Intimidating and berating your employees to get results won’t work anymore (But did it ever?). As a contemporary leader,…
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Clap Along if You Feel like Happiness is for You (at work): 3 Signs You’re Happy with Your Job
Employee happiness is something that all managers ought to be focused on. According to Emotional Intelligence expert and Speaker Travis Bradberry, compared to unhappy employees, happy employees are: 36% more motivated, have 6 times more energy, and are twice as productive as other employees Sure, they…
Would They Follow You Up The Mountain? 6 Ways to Inspire and Lead a Culture of Collaboration
Good Leaders and Managers require a lot of self-awareness and self-motivation, however, Great Leaders know that their behavior towards others is crucial to employee engagement and commitment. You can provide employees with wonderful perks and benefits (dental!) but if you don’t empathize, listen, and provide…
4 Ways to Engage Millennials in the Workplace
With experts predicting that Millennials will make up nearly half of the American workforce in a few short years, Employers are banging their heads against the wall looking for new and effective tactics to engage and retain a notoriously uncompromising group of employees. Millennials are a very…
Inspiring Influencers: 4 Habits of Dynamic Leaders
Evaluation is a constant task for anyone in a leadership position. The best leaders, however, not only evaluate others, they also evaluate themselves on a consistent basis. Great leaders follow specific directions in order to keep their employees, their business, and themselves on the “right path.”…
Change as Opportunity: 5 Quotes to Help You Motivate Your People
Managing Change is one of the most requested topics for guest speakers. The emergence of new technologies is continuously shifting the way we navigate our personal and professional lives, and these shifts are happening faster than ever before. Change can be overwhelming but by altering our mindsets we can learn…
12 Inspiring Leadership Quotes You can Use Today
Sometimes all the motivation you need to successfully lead your team can be found in a few simple words of wisdom. Here are some inspiring quotes from our top speakers: 1. Mike Abrashoff | Former Commander, USS Benfold and Author of It’s Your Ship “Leadership is…
Top Speakers On Teamwork
We are constantly gathering recent reviews and references on both our existing speakers as well as new additions to our roster. We tabulate the data to see who clients are picking as the best. As of October 24th, 2014 here are our highest rated Speakers on Teamwork:…
Dianna Booher: 4 Reasons Smart Leaders Scrimmage
“We’ve got our first scrimmage.” Players love to hear those words from the coach because scrimmages are much more fun than squat thrusts, windmills, or shoulder and hip rotations. Scrimmaging is as close to a real game as you can get without the hoopla, and it serves multiple functions…
The One Word I’d Like To Tell My Younger Self
How many of you remember seeing the movie “The Graduate” starring Dustin Hoffman? It not only made him a huge star, playing Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate who wasn’t sure what to do with his future, but it introduced a few memorable lines, including: “One word: plastics. The…