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…
Motivation
Is Your Inner Narrator Behaving?
By Meg Soper – Speaker on Resilience & Teamwork In my April Blog (When You Can’t Go Out, Go Within) I explored the importance of being mindful of where we direct our mental energy, during these very challenging times. Given that we have somewhere around 50 thousand thoughts…
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…
How To Create A Psychologically Safe Zoom Room
By Dr. Nicole Lipkin – Organizational Psychologist & Speaker on Leadership and Mental Agility We’ve all had the experience of asking someone how they’re doing, they answer “Fine,” but it’s easy to see they’re anything but fine. We naturally read people’s body language, facial expressions, and the emotional…
Should We Try to Preserve Our Workplace Culture?
By Eric Termuende – Speaker on Optimizing Workplace Culture, Future of Work, and Engagement in the Workplace Ah yes, March 252nd. Here we are. And while it may seem like we’ve been stuck in the same place for months and that nothing has changed, hasn’t it felt…
Mentoring: From The Ballpark To The Boardroom And Beyond
By John Baldoni – Internationally Recognized Leadership Expert, Speaker and Author “Jeffrey [Hammonds] learned from Eric Davis, and Eric Davis learned from Dave Parker, and Dave Parker learned from Willie Stargell and Willie Stargell learned from Roberto Clemente. You see where the gravy train is going?” That is Dmitri…
4 Ways To Help Employees Deal With Change
By Adrian Gostick – Acclaimed Author and Speaker on Leadership, Anxiety in the Workplace and Employee Engagement In times of transformation—when an organization needs its people to buy-in—that is when employee trust is typically the most challenged. People are often distracted by how a change will affect them,…
Are You Just Making the Donuts?
By Erik Qualman – Top Technology Speaker, #1 Bestselling Author & Futurist In the 1980’s, Dunkin’ Donuts produced a television commercial so successful that the company decided to make over 100 slightly different versions. People would get up in the morning and humorously repeat its popular tagline to…
How to Make 2020 the Year You Upped Your Leadership Game
By Krister Ungerböck – Global CEO, Entrepreneur and Speaker on the Language of Leadership What makes a good leader? It’s a question that has rarely been as relevant as in 2020, which might well be named “The Year of the Frustration.” The past months have brought…
The Psychology of Peak Performance
By Scott Welle – Motivational Speaker, Best-selling Author and Strategist on Peak Performance Basically, how do you get the best out of you and your team during this virtual time? I’m not going to pretend that it’s easy, but why do some people show up…