Aaron Levy discusses how to encourage your team to give and receive more honest feedback.
You'll Learn:
1) The deciding factor of high-performing teams
2) How to make feedback less intimidating
3) Four ground rules that allow teams to thrive
About Aaron:
Aaron is the Founder and CEO of Raise The Bar, a firm focused on helping companies address the problem of millennial turnover.
Aaron is an ICF Associate Certified Coach, a Thrive Global contributor, an 1871 mentor, the Co-Director of Startup Grind Chicago and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He has educated, coached, and consulted over 5,500 business leaders, helping them to define goals, create action plans, and achieve sustained success.
Aaron is on a mission to transform the manager role – by empowering each manager with the tools, skills, and training to be leaders of people who unlock the potential of their team.
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Chris Baréz-Brown shares high-impact approaches to boost your energy for more fulfilling workdays.
You'll Learn:
1) The surprising root of our energy problem
2) The tiny change that massively boosts productivity
3) A powerful way to lower stress and find clarity
About Chris:
Author and global event speaker, Chris has over 25 year’s experience in coaching, and counts multi-nationals such as ITV and Sky amongst the clients he's helped transform their business, from a personal level up. He has interviewed senior business leaders including Apple's Steve Wozniak and regularly coaches on leadership style at global events like Leadercast.
Chris recently created a new social enterprise programmed called Talk It Out, which has been proven to help reduce stress levels and increase self-awareness.
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Writing Coach Daphne Gray-Grant offers practical tips to accelerate and improve your writing.
You'll Learn:
1) The biggest mistake people make when writing
2) Why outlines don’t work—and what does
3) Top do’s and don’ts for engaging writing
About Daphne:
Daphne Gray-Grant grew up in newspapers: her parents owned a struggling weekly where she worked from the age of 16. Eventually, she left the family business to become a senior editor at a major metropolitan daily. After the birth of her triplet children in 1994, she became a communications consultant, and writing and editing coach. Author of the books 8 1/2 Steps to Writing Faster, Better and Your Happy First Draft, Daphne has been coaching writing and blogging since 2006.
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Christine Clapp shares best practices for preparing and delivering engaging presentations.
You'll Learn:
1) The most common mistake in presentation preparation
2) The five S’s of confident speakers
3) How to eliminate filler words
About Christine:
Christine Clapp is the author of Presenting at Work: A Guide to Public Speaking in Professional Contexts and the president of Spoken with Authority, a Washington, D.C.-based presentation skills consultancy that includes a team of six expert coaches. Through training programs and coaching engagements, Christine and her team help professionals at law firms, corporations, associations, and non-profit organizations build the confidence to connect and the capacity to lead.
Christine holds two degrees in communication: a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University, and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also taught public speaking to undergraduate and graduate students at The George Washington University for thirteen years.
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John DiJulius shares his expert tips for quickly building lasting emotional ties.
You'll Learn:
1) Four touchpoints that effectively build rapport
2) The subtle ways you’re killing the conversation
3) How to go from indifferent to curious
About John:
John is the authority on World-Class customer experience. He is an international consultant, keynote speaker, and best-selling author of five customer service books. His newest book, The Relationship Economy: Building Stronger Customer Connections in The Digital Age could not be timelier in the world we are living in. John has worked with companies such as The Ritz-Carlton, Lexus, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Nestlé, Marriott Hotels, PwC, Celebrity Cruises, Anytime Fitness, Progressive Insurance, Harley-Davidson, Chick-fil-A, and many more.
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Dr. Kyra Bobinet explains how to close the gap between intention and behavior to form better, lasting habits.
You’ll Learn:
1) Powerful behaviors that build life-changing habits
2) Just how long it takes to form a habit
3) Quick ways to ease stress and anxiety at work
About Kyra:
When it comes to health engagement, Dr. Bobinet has 5 words of advice: be caring, authentic, and useful. As the CEO-founder of engagedIN, Kyra devotes her life to helping people crack the code of how, what, and especially, WHY we engage.
Kyra has founded several healthcare start-ups, spanning behavior health, population health, and mobile health. She has designed behavior change programs, big data algorithms, billion dollar products, mobile health apps, and evidence-based studies in mind-body and metabolic medicine. All of her designs, whether for at-risk teens or seniors, are rooted in the belief that true caring is our greatest value.
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You'll Learn:
1) Top 3 tactics for noise survival
2) The problem with multitasking and what to do instead
3) How to train yourself to say no
About Joe:
Joe McCormack founded and serves as managing director and president of The Sheffield Company, an award-winning boutique agency.
A passionate leader, he started The BRIEF Lab, a subsidiary of Sheffield, in 2013 after years dedicated to developing and delivering a unique curriculum on strategic narratives for U.S. Army Special Operations Command. He speaks at diverse industry and client forums on the topics of messaging, storytelling, change, leadership, and focus.
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Dr. Roger Firestien shares his simple method for generating more original ideas.
You'll Learn:
1) The four guidelines for generating ideas
2) Why silly warm ups seriously help brainstorming
3) The magic number for creative ideas
About Roger:
Dr. Roger Firestien has taught more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world.
By applying Roger’s work in creativity:
Called “The Gold Standard” of creativity training by his clients, he has presented programs in creativity
to over 600 organizations nationally and internationally.
Roger’s latest book Create in a Flash: A Leader's Recipe for Breakthrough Innovation provides techniques
to grow personal and team capacity for tackling tough challenges and recession proofing any business.
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Charlie Gilkey discusses how to deal with the obstacles that derail your important projects
You'll Learn:
1) The magic number for projects
2) Signs that a project truly matters to you
3) When and how to say no to your family, friends, and bosses
About Charlie:
Charlie Gilkey is an author, entrepreneur, philosopher, Army veteran, and renowned productivity expert. Founder of Productive Flourishing, Gilkey helps professional creatives, leaders, and changemakers take meaningful action on work that matters. His new book is Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done.
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You'll Learn:
1) The surprising cost of avoiding conflict
2) Eight crucial steps for productive disagreement
3) What to do when you disagree with your boss
About Buster:
Buster Benson is an entrepreneur and a former product leader at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon. He's now editor of and writer for the Better Humans publication on Medium, creator of 750Words.com which brings private journaling to a safe place on the web, and developer of Fruitful Zone, an online platform facilitating healthy discourse. He is also author of the Cognitive Bias cheat sheet with over one million reads.
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Dr. Gleb Tsipursky explains why we often make disastrous decisions—and how to make smarter ones.
You'll Learn:
1) The biggest decision-making mistake people make
2) Three handy debiasing techniques
3) Five questions to guide everyday decisions
About Gleb
Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky protects leaders from disasters by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. A cognitive neuroscientist and behavioral economist, Dr. Tsipursky writes for Inc., Time, and CNBC. A best-selling author, his new book, available on Amazon and in book stores everywhere, is Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters.
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Tim Campos discusses how he doubled Facebook’s productivity—and how to double your own.
You'll Learn:
1) The secret to how Tim doubled Facebook's productivity
2) The biggest mistake people make with their calendars
3) The two kinds of time professionals have
About Tim
Tim Campos doubled productivity for Facebook while he was Chief Information Officer between 2010 and 2016. Now, Tim runs Woven. Woven is a digital calendar that helps people get the most out of their time while studying the analytics behind how we’re using our time.
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David Wood shares his process for making difficult conversations more manageable.
You'll Learn:
1) What makes difficult conversations so difficult
2) The four-step blueprint for tackling difficult conversations
3) The simplest way to receive more quality feedback
About David
After life as a consulting actuary to Fortune 100 Companies, David built the world's largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for "life coaching."
He wants every human to play the best game they possibly can in work AND life and to have zero-regrets when they die. David coaches both high performing leaders, and soon-to-be-released prison inmates, to higher levels of Truth, Daring and Caring.
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Susan Fowler explains what we get wrong about motivation and how to make the shifts to master it.
You'll Learn:
1) Major misconceptions about motivation
2) The three keys to mastering your motivation
3) An overlooked leadership practice to improve engagement
About Susan
Susan Fowler is dedicated to helping others master their motivation and achieve their highest aspirations. A sought-after speaker, consultant, and motivation coach, she has shared her message on optimal motivation and thriving together in all fifty states and over forty countries. Susan is the bestselling author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work... and What Does, and coauthor of Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager with Ken Blanchard. Her latest book, Master Your Motivation: Three Scientific Truths for Achieving Your Goals, released last June. Susan is also a professor in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program at the University of San Diego.
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Professional poker player Alec Torelli shares his tips for making wise decisions during high-stakes situations.
You'll Learn:
1) How to keep emotions from overtaking logic
2) When to go with your gut
3) How to better read people and situations
About Alec:
Alec Torelli is a professional high stakes poker player turned digital entrepreneur and keynote speaker, who shares how the lessons he learned from poker can be applied to life and business.
Alec is the founder of Conscious Poker, a popular poker training platform, and after spending the last 14 years making decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single hand, he now gives talks in which he dissects the anatomy of decision making to help others hone the way they make choices.
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Lee Hartley Carter discusses why facts alone won’t persuade others—and what does.
You’ll Learn:
1) Why you need more than just facts
2) The foundations of compelling persuasion
3)How to craft your master narrative
About Lee
Lee Hartley Carter is president of maslansky + partners, a language strategy firm based on the single idea that "It's not what you say, it's what they hear." As a television news personality and researcher, she doesn't rely on traditional polling for her unique insights into U.S. politics; rather, she analyzes voters' emotional responses to help understand and empathize with them on a more visceral level. The reaction matters, but the "why" behind it matters more. It was this approach that allowed her to accurately predict the results of the 2016 presidential election and primaries.
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Matt Tenney discusses how mindfulness vastly improves the way we lead and relate with others.
You’ll Learn:
1) How an emphasis on goals hurts your leadership
2) A monastic practice that improves engagement
3) Why mindfulness is the ultimate success habit
About Matt
Matt Tenney is a social entrepreneur and the author of Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom. He is also an international keynote speaker, a trainer, and a consultant with the prestigious Perth Leadership Institute, whose clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies. He works with companies, associations, universities, and non-profits to develop highly effective leaders who achieve lasting success by focusing on serving and inspiring greatness in the people around them. Matt envisions a world where the vast majority of people realize that effectively serving others is the key to true greatness. When he’s not traveling for speaking engagements, he can often be found in Nashville, TN.
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Gregg Clunis discusses the small leaps you can take to make massive changes in career and life.
You’ll Learn:
1) Why self-help is often inadequate
2) Just what you can achieve with one tiny leap
3) What to do when motivation fails you
About Gregg
Gregg Clunis is the host, author, and creator of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, a podcast turned book and community whose goal is to help people become better versions of themselves in practical ways. A maker and entrepreneur, Gregg explores the reality behind personal development—that all big changes come from the small decisions we make every day. Using scientific and psychological research, he shows the hidden factors that drive our behavior and shares habit-forming and goal-oriented tools.
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Dr. Janice Presser discusses how to build better teams using the science of teaming.
You'll learn:
1) The 10 ways people contribute to a team
2) Three questions to resolve team friction
3) Two strategies for managing up
About Janice:
Dr. Janice Presser spent her formative years researching how people team together, and found answers in systems theory and physics. Having written her first line of code in high school, she was positioned to architect a system to measure how people work together and develop the underlying theory and practice of Teaming Science. The author of seven books on teaming, she consults to executives and is currently working on the question of how spatial technology will impact human relationships in the future..
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Todd Davis explains why people are bad at managing—and what to do about it.
You'll Learn:
1) Where most managers fail
2) How to overcome the fear of feedback
3) A productivity hack to keep your week from spiraling
About Todd
Todd Davis has been with FranklinCovey for more than two decades and serves as the chief people officer. As the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work, Todd has delivered keynote presentations and speeches around the globe, including at the renowned World Business Forum. Todd has been featured in Inc. magazine, Fast Company, and the Harvard Business Review. He and his family reside in Holladay, Utah.
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Ron Price delivers insights on how to build your character and grow your influence to unlock your full leadership potential.
You'll Learn:
1) The four keys to landing your next promotion
2) Two approaches to getting excellent feedback
3) How to get others to listen to you
About Ron
Ron Price is an internationally recognized business advisor, executive coach, speaker, and author. Known for his creative and systematic thinking, business versatility, and practical optimism, Ron has worked in 15 countries and served in almost every level of executive management over the past 40 years.
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Alex Banayan shares unconventional approaches to creating new opportunities.
You’ll learn:
1) The ultimate cold email template to recruit mentors
2) Creative “third door” approaches that nobody takes
3) Communication secrets from Maya Angelou and Larry King
About Alex
Alex Banayan is the author of The Third Door, the result of an unprecedented seven-year journey interviewing the most innovative leaders of the past half-century, including Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Larry King, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Quincy Jones, and more. He has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world, including Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Snapchat, Salesforce, and Disney. When he was 18, Alex hacked The Price is Right, won a sailboat, and sold it to fund his adventure. He was then named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list.
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Tonya Dalton explains how to overcome the fear of missing out and stop wasting time on things that don’t matter.
You’ll Learn:
1) Why you should embrace JOMO
2) How to determine worthwhile opportunities
3) How to say “no” without feeling guilty
About Tonya:
Tonya Dalton is a productivity expert, author, speaker and founder of inkWELL Press Productivity Co, a company centered around productivity tools and training. She released her first book, The Joy of Missing Out, with Harper Collins this month.
Tonya’s messages about business management, productivity, and the pursuit of passion have impacted thousands and inspired her to launch her podcast, Productivity Paradox which has surpassed more than 1.5 million downloads.
Tonya has been featured on Real Simple, Entrepreneur, Inc., Cheddar, Lauren Conrad, and Fast Company among other places. In 2019, Tonya received the Enterprising Woman of the Year Award and was named North Carolina's Female Entrepreneur to Watch by The Ladders.
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Nancy Duarte explains how to combine data with story structures to create inspiring presentations.
You'll Learn:
1) The three-act structure of data
2) The true hero of your presentation
3) How to make magical moments for your audience
About Nancy:
Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Time Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. She’s written five best-selling books, four of which have won awards. She’s been ranked #1 on a list of the World’s Top 30 Communication Professionals.
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Karl Staib shares how gratitude leads to a more pleasant and productive work life.
You'll Learn:
1) How gratitude improves productivity
2) How to cut negativity and boost gratitude
3) How to find more energy for your goals
About Karl:
Karl Staib is an author that seeks out growth at every turn. When his father passed it was focusing on gratitude that helped him get through one of the most difficult times in his life. That's why he wants to bring more gratitude into the workplace. His work inside a fortune 500 company that regularly ranks in the top 10 for best places to work has shown him the importance of gratitude and how it increases productivity and communication. If you enjoy his writing, he encourages you to reach out to him at BringGratitude.com.
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