#186: 4 Tips from Brain Science for Communications That Boost Attention and Learning
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Dan Schawbel is a New York Times bestselling author, Partner and Research Director at Future Workplace, and the Founder of both Millennial Branding and WorkplaceTrends.com. Previously, he wrote two career books: Promote Yourself and Me 2.0. His new book Back to Human was selected by The Financial Times as the book of the month. Through his companies, he’s conducted dozens of research studies and worked with major brands including American Express, GE, Microsoft, Virgin, IBM, Coca Cola and Oracle. Dan has interviewed over 2,000 of the world’s most successful people, including Warren...
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#185: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation
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Dan Schawbel is a New York Times bestselling author, Partner and Research Director at Future Workplace, and the Founder of both Millennial Branding and WorkplaceTrends.com. Previously, he wrote two career books: Promote Yourself and Me 2.0. His new book Back to Human was selected by The Financial Times as the book of the month. Through his companies, he’s conducted dozens of research studies and worked with major brands including American Express, GE, Microsoft, Virgin, IBM, Coca Cola and Oracle. Dan has interviewed over 2,000 of the world’s most successful people, including Warren...
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#184: Using Storytelling to Lead a Transformation
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The home improvement store chain Lowe’s was named #1 among Fast Company's 2018 Most Innovative Companies, for augmented and virtual reality, as well as #1 for innovation among specialty retailers on Fortune's 2018 World's Most Admired Companies. How did a company in a dusty, old-hat industry (hardware stores) suddenly become known as an innovator?
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#183: Using the Fogg Behavior Model to Drive Change
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When developing a communication strategy to drive change within an organization, we use various models and frameworks to help ensure we create a strategy that actually works. The Fogg Behavioral Model is a powerful framework for driving change. BJ Fogg is a behavior scientist and the founder of Stanford University’s Behavior Design Lab. Fogg is one of the biggest influencers of modern user experience (UX) design – for example, he was influential in the success of Pinterest. He focuses on methods for creating habits, showing what causes behavior, and automating behavior change … all of...
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#182: The Art and Science of Workforce Communication
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A strong, authentic employer brand is key to recruiting, retaining, and fully engaging top talent. The most effective companies build a differentiated employee value proposition (EVP).
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#181: The Art and Science of Workforce Communication
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Organizations that communicate effectively with their workforce deliver better results. According to a study by Willis Towers Watson, companies with high effectiveness in communication and change management are 3.5 times more likely to significantly outperform their less effective peers. They: •Attract top people •Engage employees fully •Achieve a superior bottom line It’s NOT about transmitting information. Workforce communication is listening to people and using key principles to grab attention, inspire trust, and nudge behaviors of people to deliver results that matter ... all...
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#180: Performance Management Truth & Lies
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Boom! That’s the sound of performance appraisal processes being blown up across the country. There’s been a collective lightning flash of realization that the old way of doing it just isn’t doing it. But what’s really happening? In a new piece of research, The Truth & Lies of Performance Management, Michael Bungay Stanier and his colleagues David Creelman and Anna Tavis surveyed senior executives across more than 120 organizations, asking them to share what they’re doing (and not doing) in their organizations. The research was supplemented with qualitative interviews, adding...
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#179: Leading with Emotional Courage
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You have the opportunity to lead: to show up with confidence, connected to others, and committed to a purpose in a way that inspires others to follow. But great leadership — leadership that aligns teams, inspires action, and achieves results — is hard. And what makes it hard isn’t theoretical, it’s practical. It’s not about knowing what to say or do. It’s about whether you’re willing to experience the discomfort, risk, and uncertainty of saying or doing it. In other words, the most critical challenge of leadership is emotional courage. If you are willing to feel everything, you...
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#178: How to Succeed at Work/Life Balance
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Think about two balancing buckets. Separate your work life and personal life into two distinct buckets — not to compartmentalize them, just for counterbalancing. Your work life is divided into two distinct areas—what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it. Your personal life has multiple areas, and each requires a minimum of attention. Drop any one and you will feel the effects. This requires constant awareness. An extraordinary life is a counterbalancing act. Let the...
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#177: Meaningful Work
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This episode is about a true story that is interesting and well told — a story that is important for all leaders and entrepreneurs ... especially those of us who aspire to use business not only to make a living for ourselves but to help make the world a better place. Everyone wants to be fulfilled by their work. We want to feel like we're doing something valuable and making the world a better place. And if we can live out our passion too, well, that's the dream. We want to work with a team that's engaged, in a place where we can come alive, and contribute to something bigger than ourselves....
info_outlineMultitasking doesn’t save time -- it wastes time. When you try to do two things at once, you either can’t or won’t do either well. If you think multitasking is an effective way to get more done, you’ve got it backward. It’s an effective way to get less done. Every time we try to do two or more things at once, we’re simply dividing up our focus and dumbing down all of the outcomes in the process. “Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.” ~ Steve Uzzell Researchers have found these surprising facts about multitasking: •People can actually do two things at once, such as walk and talk, but they can’t focus on two things at once. Their attention actually bounces back and forth. •Bounce between one activity and another, and you lose time as your brain reorients to the new task. We lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness. •The more time you spend switched to another task, the less likely you are to get back to your original task. (This is how loose ends pile up.) •Chronic multitaskers develop a distorted sense of how long it takes to do things. They almost always believe tasks take longer to complete than is actually required. •Multitaskers make more mistakes than non-multitaskers. They often make poorer decisions because they favor new information over old, even if the older information is more valuable. •Multitaskers experience more life-reducing, happiness-squelching stress. Distraction undermines results. When you try to do too much at once, you can end up doing nothing well. Figure out what matters most in the moment and give it your undivided attention. In this episode, Jesse shares what he’s learned from chapter 5 of the book The ONE Thing and provides examples of applying the lessons. His personal tips include: •Jedi mind training (also known as mindfulness meditation) to improve focus and resist distraction •Minimal smartphone notifications •Going off-grid for deep work •Email hacks to minimize distractions