By Scott McKain – Dynamic Speaker on Innovation, Sales & Customer Service If you’re like me, you often find yourself asking, “Where does the time go?” It was all the way back in 1994 that my awesome friend, Antonia Barnes Boyle, and I co-wrote my first book: Just…
Communication
The Small Change to Endure the Pandemic
By Dr. Tasha Eurich – Organizational Psychologist and Speaker on Leadership & Teamwork With summer vacation off the table this year, I’ve taken to reliving my favorite trips of the past. One gave me a valuable insight about coping in a COVID world, so I wanted to…
5 Steps to Booking a Speaker
In March, our world changed and the speaking business was not immune. With grace & skill, our great speakers rose to the occasion, developing fascinating and inspiring content that they could deliver virtually. The good news is that booking a speaker with The Sweeney Agency is as easy as…
How Nice Leaders Become Angry
By Pat Lencioni, Management Consultant and Speaker on Organizational Health Anger is a funny emotion. No, check that. It’s not funny. It’s angry. But it is often strange and hard to understand. That’s especially true when otherwise affable or thoughtful people become leaders and start to exhibit anger…
Stay Standing: Hitting Turbulence
By Janet Lapp, Expert on Change and Employee Motivation A few years ago, my small plane and I were flying in clouds, when unexpected severe turbulence hit, and the aircraft became hard to control. We train for these moments. If everything suddenly seems out of control,…
4 Keys to Capture the Window of Opportunity
By Ryan Estis, Speaks on Business Performance, Leadership and Sales More than 33.5 million (1 in 5 American workers) have filed for unemployment over the past seven weeks as states move to reopen, a number we haven’t seen since the Great Depression. It hasn’t been easy,…
After COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?
By Mike Walsh, Author of Futuretainment and Speaker on Change, Technology and Innovation. Over the last few months, leaders have had a chance to respond to the impact of COVID-19. Plans for contactless service, process automation, remote work, Cloud infrastructure, and virtualization have been accelerated and implemented. While…
Are You Doing What’s Important?
By Molly Fletcher – Inspiring Speaker on Leadership, Business Development, and Peak Performance Discipline is doing what you want most; not necessarily what you want right now. When we set goals, whether short- or long-term, we’re clear on what we want to achieve. We have goals, we…
Look to the Future for Help Working Through what Bothers You
By Josh Linkner, Tech Entrepreneur, CEO, and Best-Selling Author In stressful times, it’s easy to get derailed by matters that might be viewed as trivial under ordinary circumstances. A colleague shows up late to a Zoom call, the client changes her mind mid-stream, the boss unleashes an unnecessary…
3 Tips to Getting Potential Customers to Open Up
By Diana Kander, New York Times Bestselling Author and Speaker on Innovation Three years ago, I was coaching a successful company that was very confused about the failure of a recent product launch. When I was first hired, they told me they were convinced they had done everything…