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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