Keynotes & Training
Sometimes the key to success is hearing a fresh voice or learning about a new approach. How will you energize the future of your organization…or your life?
Branding & Marketing
Branding doesn’t start with a pretty logo. It starts with a powerful story that motivates employees, builds communities, and compels people to act.
Consulting
Your passion moved you to start your business, or join your company, but now what? Do you have a clear plan on how to get you where you want to go?
Coaching
A psychologist works on the past to fix the present. A good coach works on the present to create a better future. It’s all about making the invisible visible to you.
5 Simple Steps to Success
How do you create the kind of success you want in your business, your career, and your life? It’s a question most of us spend a lifetime trying to figure out, yet we never seem to be satisfied with the answers we find. The answer to the question actually is very simple, but we don’t really want to hear that. Too frequently, if we’re honest, the question we actually want answered is, what’s the easy way to success? The steps to success are simple, but that doesn’t mean they’re easy. And as human beings, we love to make even simple things much harder than they need to be. Let’s look at 5 steps to success and try to figure out how to keep them simple.
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Get Ahead Faster – Find Your Lane of Least Resistance
Who would have thought an interesting career/business concept would come to me while letting my son practice his driving in preparation for getting his license? We were driving on a usually busy four-lane street when I noticed that the lane we were in was fairly tightly packed while the lane next to ours had long gaps between cars. I was reminded of something I learned early in my college career when I was paying the bills by being a driving instructor, and I told my son to, “take the lane of least resistance,” and move over. He changed lanes and, instead of being tensed up with cars close in front and behind, I could see him relax and start enjoying the drive. That’s when it struck me, taking the lane of least resistance could be a good metaphor for business.
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10 Ways to Build Employee Involvement
By John Hagerman Business owners and managers tend to spend a fair amount of time thinking about how to increase productivity, profits and retention. They recognize that happy employees tend to be more productive, making more profits for the company, and they stay with the company longer, meaning the company doesn’t have to spend as much on hiring and training new employees. Better working conditions, more generous paid time off, and other enhanced benefits are just of the few ways employers are looking at to accomplish these goals. Fortunately, more and more of them are also beginning to understand that one way to these goals actually comes from letting employees to step away from work. They’re discovering that encouraging employees to volunteer in the community, and actively supporting community projects, is good for business.
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Inspiration & Fun
My newest book, Learning to Fly: Lessons From a Real Life Superhero, helps you discover wholehearted engagement in work, and in life. My first book, A Parent’s Guide to Santa Claus: 101 Ways to Create Christmas Magic, helps you recover and share all that is most memorable and inspirational about Christmas.
John…I am impressed by your willingness to state your truth…I can learn from you on that account.
Stephen Lundin, PhD, Author of FISH!, the mega-bestselling series of business books