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Jan 18
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107: Stay Interviews with Dr. Beverly Kaye

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Dr. Beverly Kaye says: "Ask for what you want in a way that a manager has a hard time saying 'No.'"

Dr. Beverly Kaye discusses how to get great employees to stick around with “stay interviews” and more…whether the great employee is you or your direct reports!

You’ll Learn:

  1. Why should conduct a stay interview instead of an exit interview
  2. How to ask your manager for what you really need to stay
  3. The top reasons employees stay or go

About Beverly

Founder and Chairwoman of Career Systems International, Dr. Beverly Kaye is an international bestselling author and a leading authority in the world of modern workplace performance. She has dedicated her life’s work to helping individuals and organizations grow in a workplace that fosters greater commitment, fulfillment, and humanity.

Beverly Kaye and the CSI team provide cutting-edge and award-winning talent development solutions primarily to Fortune 1000 companies. Her work and research are distinguished and widely recognized for helping others discover greater meaning in their work and gain greater control over their career destinies. Dr. Kaye completed her graduate work at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and holds her doctorate from UCLA.
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Nov 04
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081: Lessons from Thousands of Employee Observation Hours with Dave Nevogt

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Dave Nevogt says: "Make your beliefs known and take a stand... Stand for something; show what you know."

Dave Nevogt’s company Hubstaff earns its revenue from observing how people work. Here’s what he has learned about workers’ best practices along the way.

You’ll Learn:

  1. Two questions to ask yourself before handing over your deliverables
  2. One quick trick to get 1,000 LinkedIn connections in 60 minutes
  3. An improved approach to initiating tasks that delights managers and stretches employees

About Dave
Dave Nevogt is the co-founder of Hubstaff.com which helps virtual teams communicate better through automatic time tracking and activity tracking. He’s been running online businesses since he was 23, and now manages a team of 30 remote employees. Dave has been honored as one of Indianapolis’s top 40 under 40 entrepreneurs, and focuses on teaching others to manage remote teams. His writing can be found here.

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Oct 03
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068: Performing like a Champion with Molly Fletcher

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Molly Fletcher says: "Stay curious, be a sponge and recognize that there's mentors everywhere around you in the work that you do."

Molly Fletcher, the sports agent known as “the female Jerry Maguire,” shares key ingredients to stardom gleaned from her experience working with superstar athletes and business folk.

You’ll Learn:

  1. Two key practices Molly sees in all her star athletes that make them great
  2. The critical trait needed to maintaining strong workplace relationships
  3. A simple trick to use in negotiations to make them less nerve-wracking and more successful

About Molly

Dubbed by CNN “the female Jerry Maguire,” Fletcher rose to the top of a male-dominated field to become a leading ($500 million lifetime contracts) sports agent with unique access to hundreds of successful athletes, coaches, and broadcasters across the sports of baseball, basketball, football, and more. Whether at the contract negotiation table with a team’s top brass or behind the scenes with her players, Fletcher is keenly positioned to spot patterns in peak performers. She’s the author of three books, founder of the Betterment institute, and a sought-after speaker.

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Sep 12
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059: Growing People with Jeff McManus

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Jeff McManus says: "I can choose to spend the time in preventative maintenance, and do that, and invest in my people, or I can do it in the end when I start having a lot of drama."

Director of Landscape Services at Ole Miss (and author), Jeff McManus offers fresh insights on “growing people.”

You’ll Learn

  1. A powerful storytelling approach to connect your team to a larger purpose
  2. How to massively stretch the impact of your learning & development dollar
  3. Why you might not want to fire that underperformer just yet

About Jeff
Jeff McManus grows things.  As the Director of Landscape Services at the University of Mississippi, he grows plants….he grows people….he grows ideas.  Taking his grounds staff, affectionately known as “weeders”, and developing them into “leaders” has been a joyous challenge that reaped acres of rewards in the form of national recognition by the Princeton Review, PGMS, Newsweek and every faculty, staff, student and visitor who has walked onto the Ole Miss Campus.  Building on that momentum, Jeff has designed a professional development plan for his Weeders called Landscape University – a replicable training program that promotes the individual’s innate ability to GROW.

Jeff has spoken at Caterpillar Inc, the Biltmore Estates, Leadercast, SRAPPA, Trent Lott Leadership Institute as well as the SEC Ole Miss Athletics.  He has also worked with Memphis University, the University of Tennessee, the University of Georgia and private firms in developing their own training programs.

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Aug 31
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055: Coaching Questions of Mass Instruction with Michael Bungay Stanier

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Michael Bungay Stanier says: "In some ways what strategy is, it's saying no to the stuff that you kind of want to say yes to. Strategy is making choices."

Irreverent Great Work coach Michael Bungay Stainier provides mindset and questions to inspire your teammates–10 minutes at a time.

You’ll learn:
1. Why being a coach at work is a lot quicker and easier than you might think
2. How to give less advice while getting more results
3. 7 powerful questions for transforming your team

About Michael
Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps people and organizations all over the world do less Good Work and more Great Work. Michael left Australia 25 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He has written a number of books. His latest, The Coaching Habit, has been praised as one of the few business books that actually makes people laugh out loud. He was recently named the #2 Coaching Guru in the World, which caught him by surprise as he’s not entirely sure why.

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