Everyday Improvement

Find Yourself Interesting - Find Engagement & Joy

Many of us struggle with making our meetings or presentations more engaging. We also struggle with pushing through work and tasks we are not excited about. What's the result? Lackluster outcomes or loss of engagement. In this episode we talk about 1 tip to push past that and how to apply it in 3, different, everyday situations.

Confidence from the Stoics

In this episode we explore two passages from great Stoics, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. These passages give insight into how we can gain the confidence to be a better presenter or shake off a nervous situation. Are you looking to overcome the fear of public speaking or gain confidence to do something you're anxious to approach? Give this episode a listen and look at your situation differently!

Scratch your BUT!

When you have a conversation and someone gives you their opinion or an objection, are you HEARING them or SHUTTING them down? In this episode we look at the power of one word and why we should be more careful when we choose to use it. My challenge for you will be to stop.

Make your next virtual meeting STICK!

We have all sat in that one virtual meeting to only sit in the next conference call to then jump onto another one. No? What about only having one call for the day, yet you still can't remember what they said or if you have anything to do after? Are these meetings not sticking with you. The good news is, it's not YOUR fault, the bad news is, it is YOUR fault when you're running the meeting!

In this episode we take a look at two sections of your meeting, and 4 questions to answer to make your meetings stick with your audience. Now when they leave, they will not only remember what you said, but be glad they attended!

Rock your next virtual meeting!

In a world where we are living in virtual meetings and calls, we see the effectiveness of these meetings slip. In this episode, we discuss 3 tips to help make your virtual meetings more engaging. Whether that engagement is increased participation or making it easier for your audience, we can make our meetings more efficient and achieve more.

Get ready to set expectations, bring the energy, and hear the BEST word you'll ever hear in your life. Let's rock our next virtual get together.

Make better decisions, achieve MORE!

How has the new year been treating you? Are you overwhelmed by too much? Do you feel like you're not getting done what needs to be done? Maybe our problem isn't that we're not productive enough, maybe we don't know what productivity really means let alone achieve it!

In this episode, Todd breaks down 3 things - What is Productivity / A tool to become more accomplished / Building a culture around you.

This podcast is broken into these three sections to allow you to go back and listen to what you need to without going through the whole thing again....unless you want to!

Section 1- What is Productivity? time - 4:25

Section 2 - The new tool to use. time - 8:35

Section 3 - Building a culture. time - 23:28

This is a great podcast to listen on your own, with your leader, or with your team! It is informative and action oriented. 

Buckle up and dive in to becoming more Accomplished with your productivity!

Resources mentioned:

www.ispeak.com/blog

www.artofmanliness.com

Franklin Covey 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity - Book

Simple Goal Setting!

Start your new year, project, or any vision with a simple goal. We all get confused, concerned, or "curfuffled" with complicated goals! Many of us make goal setting too complicated from the beginning. 

Join me in this episode as we learn a method for simplifying the goal setting process as I learned from another great organization.

Start Your Year RIGHT!

As the New Year approaches (or is here now) we must Start Our Year RIGHT! In this episode I break down how to start your year, project, or meeting the RIGHT way to give you more confidence. I then go into 3 situations of how you apply this new mindset. 

Join me in kicking off 2020, The RIGHT Way!

Are you reading out loud? Do you use Filler words?

Do you use filler words like um, uh, like, so, you know, etc.? We all know that we need to use silence instead of a filler word, bu do you?! In this edition we talk about a tip that will not only train you to stop using filler words but also increase cognitive and communication performance! Tune in to this short episode and find how you can improve your ability to not use fillers.

But WHAT IS Corporate Storytelling and where can I start?

Join the co-founders of iSpeak, Kevin Karschnik and Russ Peterson Jr., in a webinar that was delivered in July 2019 about our newest workshop, Corporate Storytelling. This is a continuation of our Storytelling series. Previous episodes include an interview with Russ and the Two Paths template. This episode is the audio pulled from the webinar and gives you tools and ways to tell better stories with PURPOSE in your business environment. Follow to the end and find out how to get some Freebies!