Did you that more than 17,000,000 employees this year will experience some sort of loss that will lead to their grief? Meaning that 47,000 employees today are walking into work in grief having experienced some tragic loss in their life. Did you also know that grief costs companies around $75 Billion in productivity loss a year. The fact is friends …
What the Heck is Leadership and Why Should I Care? Dr. Gary DePaul
There are so many theories on Leadership it can get quite exhausting. In fact Leadership theory is wide and so vast you may find yourself throwing your arms up in the air and saying, “I’m just going to do leadership my way”. Well it is confusing. And it causes us to ask more questions, such as: “Is leadership the same …
Lead and Discover Your Purpose from Your Job – Dr. Michael Colburn
Are you leading from your current job? Why not? Have you discovered what you are purpose in your current job? What? Why? Are you thinking to yourself well I am just a (fill in the blank). You are NOT a “just a”. You are and can be a leader from your current job. Being a leader does not require a …
Relationship Differences: Men Are Like Waffles – Women Are Like Spaghetti – Bill & Pam Farrel
It is no surprise that men and women are different. Not just our physiology, but how we communicate, handle stress, deal with conflict, the differences we see in relaxing, romancing, sex and more. So often we can go so frustrated with these differences we can live in misery, or eventually we may get to the point where we feel like …
Your Career Future in an AI Digital Tech World – Somi Arian – Career Fear
Here are the facts we are in a revolution where artificial intelligence (AI), digital spaces, and technology are speedily influencing our world. So much so that even a seemingly sound career is being affected dramatically. In many cases jobs and careers that were done by humans have been replaced by computers. We are also seeing that many positions salaries have …
How Great Sales Ethics Lead to Greater Profits – Selling Ethically – Joel Malkoff
When you hear the word ethics and sales they really don’t sound like they go together. It is kind of an oil and water thing for most people. As a matter of fact when it comes to business our colleges and universities don’t even teach ethics of sales. It is a topic that is rarely if ever discussed and when …
Resilience When Your Dream is Taken Away – Sean Conley – The Point After
We all have dreams of our future. What happens when we put all of our energy, dedication, mind, body and soul are put into it and then you get there and something outside of your control takes your dream away? What do you do? Especially if you have no plan B. Well in this episode of A New Direction Podcast …
Relationships: How They Affect Us and We Affect Them – Beverly Lessard
Relationships. It really is what makes our life…life. Where would we be without them? Well, first of all you and I would not have been born so there’s that. But, our relationships do add spice to life, and in fact we relate to not just people, but animals, places and things. If you are married or have a significant other …
Stop Flushing Your Marketing Budget Down the Tech Toilet – Steve Brown
“Build me a website, that’s what we need to have a successful business”. Then what happens? They continue to spend money on website design, SEO, and other IT initiatives only to do one thing…run out of money. That marketing philosophy is the “if we build it, they will come”. Like something out of the movie “Field of Dreams”. The only …
Success Strategies from Combat Veterans – Deliberate Discomfort – MAJ Jason Van Camp
Success we all want it, but we often do not want to pay the price for it, or hear the answers on how to ultimately achieve it. So often we think that success is a by product of getting the right breaks in life or business. Some believe that success is just given to people. Others believe that if you …