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High Impact Leaders
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258 episodes
Employee Development Program: Ways to Make Training Stick
An employee development program only works if the people we are developing actually change what they do at work. Most programs never get that far. The content is solid. The instructor is engaging. Evaluations come back positive. Then Monday arr...
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How to Motivate Your Employees in Hard Times
Keeping team members motivated during periods of high growth is pretty easy. There's natural excitement around the office. Everyone is busy, and there is energy in the air. But sooner or later, every business hits a plateau. And ge...
Claude Skills Make Sure the Work You Assign Is Done Your Way
This is week five and the last week of our how to use Claude.AI in your small business series. In the last four weeks we've shown you how to set up Claude and create the connections with your office software. Then, we started using an analogy t...
The Staff that Claude Bring with Him (Cowork, Chrome, Code and 365)
For the last couple of weeks, I've been sharing with you a series on how to use Claude.AI in your small business. We started with how to set up Claude so he can have access to your system and do work for you. In that episode, we s...
Understanding the Claude AI Tools - Chat, Projects, and Artifacts
For the last couple of weeks, I've been sharing with you a series on how to use Claude.AI in your small business. Last week, we went through the set up process and finished by explaining the Connectors. Just as a refresher, we are...
How to Setup Claude AI to Increase Profit Margins in Your Business
Part 1) Setting Up Claude and Connecting It to Your Workspace Last week, I started a series on how to use Claude.AI in your small business. this week, I'll take you step-by-step through the different parts of Claude, because it can...
What is the Best AI for Small Businesses in 2026?
About a month ago, one of my executives had me download the Claude.AI app. Since then, it has completely revolutionized the way my small business works. Interestingly, the thing that won me over wasn’t better content creation or sm...
How to Improve Employee Engagement - Part 2
Our topic today is about how to improve employee engagement at your company and we are continuing a two part series that we started last week. If you recall, last week, I mentioned that most HR directors and executives know engagement is a prob...
How to Improve Employee Engagement - Part 1
If you want to know how to improve employee engagement at your company, you are not alone. Most HR directors and executives know engagement is a problem. They just are not sure what is actually causing it or what to do about it. The good news i...
Five Ways that Poor Leadership Ruins Your Team's Morale
Poor leadership skills can ruin team morale. As a manager, you hold more power than you might think. Obviously, you can hire and fire your subordinates. You can also promote them… or not promote them. You may also have the ability to approve a ...
What is Effective Communication, and Why do You Need it?
If you’ve ever worked on a team that had a crazy amount of chemistry, you already know the answer. Everything they touched was gold, they produced more than any other team combined, and they had fun doing it.Unfortunately, you know that...
5 Steps to Give an Impromptu Speech
Looking for the best way to deliver an effective impromptu speech? You will want to master two components. First, you want to reduce your nervousness so your audience sees your response as credible. Then, you want to deliver a credible response...
5 More Neccessities to Being an Effective Leader
Last week I introduced the first 5 skills that every single leader needs to have to be effective, and some of them were probably surprises. I'm sure after taking the survey you realized that a lot of those skills are often overlooked. Things th...
Are You a Good Leader? Answer These 5 Questions
Leadership is not a singular skill. You're not a good leader if you just know how to discipline well, or delegate well, or coach well, or set goals well, you are only a good leader if you can fulfill all of these roles simultaneously. The probl...
What Really IS Team Building?
The term “team-building” is thrown around quite often describing any type of activity that is likely to build some type of camaraderie or team environment. However, the specific activities and games that make up a good event can be lumped into ...
Generating Secondary Sources of Income
Welp, we're finally here, the last secret to building wealth. Maybe "secret" is the wrong word because, especially in this case, this is a tip that I'm sure you've heard before. It's almost universally known as the biggest factor in building su...
Increasing Your Main Source of Income
Last week, on the first episode of this 3 part series, I went over how to develop the right mindset to start building personal wealth, and the pitfalls such a mindset brings with it. But just a way of thinking isn't enough to make money, it's t...
Improving Your Mindset to Grow Wealth
Get rich schemes are scams. I'm sure this is something we all know and looking at the title of this series may lead you to believe this is just another one, but I will tell you right now listening to this podcast won't make you rich overnight.&...
5 Simple Tips to Being an Amazing Supervisor
Here are a few tips for new supervisors that can help you motivate your team and increase efficiency. This is a continuation of our “soft skills” series. In the first session, we talked about what soft skills are and why they are important in a...
Why Adaptive Communication Is Important in the Workplace
This week, Roma is filling in for Doug to talk about something she and everyone else has experienced in every workplace out there. Miscommunications!Speaking to different people, in different circles, doesn’t seem like a big deal. It’s ...
What is Strategic Thinking?
I remember going on an important job interview decades ago. The person interviewing me asked, “In this company, we like to hire strategic thinkers. How much time per week do you spend on strategic thinking?” I had been on a number of different ...
Experience is (NOT) the Best Teacher
Who said that experience is the best teacher? Well, just about everyone who has ever taken a class on a subject and who later struggled to apply the content. In fact, one of the reasons why we attract so many people to our leadership classes is...
The 5 Steps to Group Problem Solving
Looking for a way to get a group to solve challenging problems without coming to blows? In this session, I’m going to cover a few effective group problem solving techniques. One of the more challenging leadership skills is getting a...