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Leading Through The Power of Stories

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Why do the most successful leaders tell stories?  

Regardless of the size of your company, listen now as we welcome back Jim Blasingame, master story teller and author of the best-selling book The Age of the Customer®—Prepare for the Moment of Relevance. Jim is one of the world’s foremost experts on small business and entrepreneurship, and the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated weekday radio program, The Small Business Advocate Show® with Jim Blasingame. 

Find out:

  • The reason why every leader needs to be an effective story teller
  • How using the “Four Cs of storytelling” can increase your power of connecting through stories
  • What you can immediately do to strengthen your storytelling mastery

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What CEOs Need to Know About Emerging Trends in C-Suite – Board Relationships

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It’s time for CEOs, C-Suite Executives, and Boards to Engage in New Ways

Be sure to listen to our conversation with Peter R. Gleason, President of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and a recognized expert on board leadership and corporate governance.

With increasing complexity and uncertainty in the business environment, there are a number of forces driving what is rapidly becoming a necessary shift in the relationship between CEOs, C-Suite executives, and their Boards of Directors.

The more that all of us who lead companies, large or small, public or private, understand these issues and recommendations from the Board perspective, the more power we’ll have to build the most effective working relationships and raise the performance of our companies.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • The forces driving new trends in board-C-Suite relationships, and the advantages of a different kind of Board / C-Suite engagement
  • Examples of the new ways in which the Board can add valuable perspective to build more powerful strategies
  • Three ideas you can immediately use for strengthening the strategic engagement of the Board and C-Suite in your own company

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Establishing Work-Life Balance – Advice From A Professional Juggler

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Maintaining a healthy balance between all the parts of our lives can be a real challenge − e.g. deciding when to start or stop for the day, whether to respond when someone calls your mobile number with an urgent and important issue, or resisting the urge to check email “one last time” at the end of the day.

We explore the art of keeping a healthy balance in our challenging world with Jen Slaw, a speaker and educator who also holds three world records in juggling physical objects as well as various aspects of life, and has appeared in various venues ranging from TEDx to David Letterman.

We discuss:

  • Jen’s journey from a career as a structural engineer to a life of entertaining and improving lives though the juggling arts
  • Using the “B.A.L.L.” formula for increasing work/life balance
  • Three things you can immediately start doing to create more balance and success in your personal and work lives

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The Keys to Leading a Change of Corporate Norms

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How did a new CEO navigate leadership succession — and transform cultural norms?

Listen now to our conversation with Sabrina Parsons as she tells the story of her transition to CEO of Palo Alto Software, and shares how she has been leading a change of corporate norms not only in her own company but in the technology industry as a whole, and even in the world.

We discuss:

  • The keys to her successful transition to CEO of the company her father founded
  • How her passion to “treat employees as people first” led to a transition of cultural norms
  • Two ideas you can immediately use for creating new beneficial norms in your company

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What Can You Do To Accelerate Major Transformation?

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Successful transformation takes more than a great strategy and execution plan.

In response to listener requests, we’re sharing a few of the most critical lessons we’ve learned from our own and our clients’ experiences about what makes the most difference for getting successful outcomes during major company transformations (such as M&A, reorganizing, entering new markets, and changes of leadership). We discuss:

  • The #1 deciding factor in the success of any major transformation
  • Finding and overcoming hidden resistance to change
  • 3 steps you can take to dramatically accelerate successful transformation
Pamela S Harper
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Pamela S. Harper is founding partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc. She is an internationally recognized expert on business performance, an acclaimed author, and a professional speaker. She is author of the Critically acclaimed book,  Preventing Strategic Gridlock®: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High Performance Results

Scott Harper
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D. Scott Harper, Ph.D.,  is Sr. Partner with Business Advancement Inc. He is an internationally recognized innovation expert with a unique ability to blend technical and business insights. With a commitment to innovation, Scott has helped clients overcome “organizational inertia,” enabling them to become faster and more effective, gaining millions in top and bottom line growth.

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How New Trends in Executive Learning Can Increase Your Success

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The world of executive learning is changing – how can you take advantage of it?

Listen to our conversation with Bart Jackson, CEO of Prometheus Publishing, LLC, a prolific author, and Founder of Bart’s Books Ultimate Business Guides.

We discuss:

  • The role of business book and journal publishers and new media in executive learning today
  • The options for executive learning “beyond the book”
  • Specific ways that you can expand your learning options for new knowledge and inspiration

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Three Keys to Happiness at Work

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Have you ever wondered “How can we increase happiness at our company?”

We address this question with Gayle Lantz, Founder of WorkMatters, Inc. and author of the book Take the Bull By the Horns, and co-author of the new Amazon best-seller, Happiness Recipe (see bio below)

Learn:

  • Why increasing happiness at work is not a “nice to do” but a “must do” to increase top and bottom line performance
  • Why parties, money, and benefits alone are not enough to sustain happiness at work
  • Three immediate steps we can take to start increasing our own and others’ happiness and effectiveness at work

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Achieving Business Goals Through For-Profit – Nonprofit Partnering — with guest Karen Eber Davis

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Did you know you can create new value for your company through philanthropy?

If you are searching for new ways to increase your marketing clout, strengthen you ability to attract and retain talent, or meet other business goals, listen to this conversation with Karen Eber Davis, a leading authority on income growth strategies for nonprofits, and author of the book, 7 Nonprofit Income Streams: Open the Floodgate to Sustainability!

Simply click play above to listen now, or download to listen at your convenience – whether you’re commuting, traveling, or exercising.

We explore how for-profit companies can use new approaches to partnering with nonprofit organizations to create unprecedented value for both.

Find out:

  • How innovative partnering with non-profits can enhance a for-profit company’s business goals
  • How large and small companies have partnered with nonprofits to dramatically increase their strategic outcomes
  • Three increasingly effective ways that you can start partnering with non-profits to advance your specific business objectives.

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Why Conversational Intelligence is a Game Changer in Business

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Pam Harper and Scott Harper have a conversation with Judith E. Glaser, CEO of Benchmark Communications, Inc. and Chairman and Co-Founder of the CreatingWe Institute. She is also the award winning author of the best selling book, Conversational Intelligence, How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results. Learn about:

  • What “Conversational Intelligence” is, the science behind it, and why it’s so important to every aspect of our lives
  • How Conversational Intelligence has become a complete game changer for business leaders
  • How you and others in your organization can immediately begin to put conversational intelligence to work building strong, trusting relationships that lead to extraordinary results

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