The key to uncovering your potential is self-awareness. Accurately appraising ourselves gives us a starting point and roadmap for personal development. These podcasts unveil the places where we can start that journey.
Ann Holm joins colleague Mike Temple, CEO of Temple Executive Coaching/ to share her insight on Zoom taking over personal interaction within the workforce. As many employees demanded more of a work/life balance, have remote meetings blurred the lines even more so?
Is there such a thing as Zoom fatigue? Is it possible that working from home is more stressful than not As in all things, is there a balance to remote work? Let us know what you think.
Procrastination keeps us from tapping into our true excellence. Learn how procrastination and its tag team brothers Distraction and Rationalization can be identified, understood, and conquered. Placed in the context of sales, this podcast has broad implications for individuals who are trying to lead or influence.
The term “A game” is typically used in athletics and it means to bring your best game, the right attitude, a winning, focused, positive mindset. “A game” is now used broadly and refers to the attitude, effort, and skills required to slay the moment. You must find ways to act even when you are not feeling confident and positive. Your A game doesn’t come like a lightning bolt from the sky, you must learn to create your A game when you need it.
I was a guest on the Exploring Possibility podcast hosted by Christopher Geel in South Africa. The key takeaways included:
- Becoming an entrepreneur will expose the things that you need to pay attention to that you normally wouldn’t.
- Self awareness is not a one-way thing. It can also be referred to as other-awareness.
- The more self aware you are, the more other-aware you are.
The term “A game” is typically used in athletics and it means to bring your best game, the right attitude, a winning, focused, positive mindset. “A game” is now used broadly and refers to the attitude, effort, and skills required to slay the moment. You must find ways to act even when you are not feeling confident and positive. Your A game doesn’t come like a lightning bolt from the sky, you must learn to create your A game when you need it.
The journey toward peak performance and life satisfaction can encounter bumps along the way. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy and we don’t even know it! These podcasts give the perspectives you need to navigate and persevere in the face of the challenges you might encounter.
Joe Lynch and Ann Holm discuss the psychology of solving big problems. Ann provides a step-by-step process for solving big problems based on the teachings of Shirzad Chamine, who is the best-selling author of the book, Positive Intelligence.
It’s important to know when we’re getting in our own way. We keep trying to use strategies to manage our world that simply are not working. The Positive intelligence that I’m talking about today is based on the work of Shirzad Chamine.
Developing grit creates a growth mindset that recognizes that you can continuously improve your attitude, skills, and knowledge. Grit means you can treat setbacks as an opportunity to grow and improve. In this podcast, learn more strategies for developing grit in your business life.
Saboteur type comes from the book, Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours. You deploy certain strategies that have been with you since you were very young, that you used to navigate your life. The strategies helped you meet three basic needs: independence, acceptance, and security by asserting, earning, or avoiding. They become a hindrance rather than a useful strategy as you become an adult and your life becomes complex.
Joe Lynch and Ann and discuss using resilience to get out of your own way. COVID has increased the stress levels for logistics and supply chain people and when people are stressed they may fall into predictable self-sabotaging behaviors. In times of stress, people need to become even more aware of their mental fitness. In this interview, Ann describes some of the challenges people face when under stress along with some strategies to become more resilient.
As we return to work after the pandemic, we are facing new challenges. Despite our best-laid plans, there is still an enormous amount of uncertainty about what it will look like when we return. In this episode, we explore 9 different mindsets known as “saboteurs” that, at first glance, look like helpful strategies to use during these uncertain times. What we will learn is that they actually get in our way of the outcomes we seek, and what’s more, make our relationships stressful as well. The end of this episode will outline the first steps you can take to silence your saboteurs.
Learning to adjust your communication style to connect with others is a must-have skill. It is especially important in the era of remote work where we have limited access to the full range of non-verbal cues that make for smooth interactions. These podcasts help you effectively bridge any communication gaps that will result in increased influence and trust.
- How do you approach sales from lead to close?
- Knowing the sales personalities of your team is invaluable.
- Communication needs to be adjusted between different personality types.
- This is an easy to understand overview of emotional intelligence
- It has broad implications for work and life
- Additional focus and examples are explained in the contest of sales
- Disconnect in “digital body language”
- Contextual “anchors” & why context matters
- Why communication calibration matters for both digital and non-digital communication
High stress environments never bring out the best in any of us. With higher levels of stress, we are not slowing down to see if we are making a connection, or impact we want. In this episode we learn how to recognize 4 different types of personalities, and how to communicate with them.
When it comes to customers, knowing how they think and feel is key. In this episode, we will explain how temperaments are key to understanding differences in how people think. It’s easy to remember, and the tips are immediately helpful. All customers think differently; however, temperament is being able to take a calibrated guess on how they will feel.
In this episode, Joe and Ann discuss 5 ways 3PL (third-party logistics) sales have changed and they provide suggestions on how best to navigate these changes. They also discuss their sales improvement course specifically for people in the logistics industry that Joe and Ann are co-facilitating.