The Marketing Nerds Podcast, How to Make Your Brand Fascinating with NYT Best-Selling Author Sally Hogshead was first published on SearchEngine Journal. Joining them just after the release of her revised book, FASCINATE: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist (affiliate link), Sally Hogshead…
Your opening line makes all the difference. This article by Ashley Hamilton of OWN was first published on Huffington Post. The next time you walk into an important meeting, think carefully about your first few words. According to positive psychology…
In The Happiness Advantage, I describe an experience with a leader at a Fortune 100 company who told me, “We don’t need a happiness program; we pay people to be engaged.” This is a surprisingly common refrain from unenlightened leaders, an assumption based…
Think for a minute... What’s your LEAST favorite type of communication? For example, do you dislike networking events? Or speaking in front of a crowd? Or explaining the same exact process, over and over? We all have certain types of…
Many people assume any group of people can automatically be a team, but teams often fail due to personality differences among its members. To improve your team's chances for success, use the four "DISC" behavioral styles when building a team…
Conflict can rip a team apart, skyrocketing resentment against management or even pitting co-workers against each other. But office conflicts will calm down, or even dissolve entirely, once people understand each other’s differing Advantages. Once you know someone’s Advantages, you…
Help people fall in love with your company. In any line of work, there’s a good chance you do your fair of selling. You’re selling your ideas, your products, even yourself. Maybe you’re not in sales—but don’t forget to sell…
Your DNA is 99.9% the same as everyone else’s. The teeny, tiny .1% that’s different is your distinct value. It describes the best of how the world sees you, and how you are most likely to rise above and stand…
I recently spent a week in Manila with one of my favorite clients. The trip was fantastic, but getting there was, to put it mildly, a bit of a nightmare. After many hours of hopelessly boarding and deplaning a Hong…
This article by Deborah Mitchell was originally published on Entrepreneur. When working in broadcast news, whether as on-air talent or behind the camera as a producer, you have an incredible amount of power to determine the type of information shared with viewers…
Make Yourself Immune to Secondhand Stress by Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan was first published on Harvard Business Review. Over the past decade, we have learned how our brains are hardwired for emotional contagion. Emotions spread via a wireless network…
If you're a manager, you should be very aware of your management style and how it can affect others. Being conscious of the extremes of your behavioral type will allow you to work more effectively with your direct reports, and…
Imagine this. You’re in a BIG meeting at work. You speak up to make a point. You clear your voice, and all eyes turn to you. Suddenly you realize… …everyone is fascinated. They’re listening to you, impressed by you, and…
Why Leaders Must Broadcast Happiness by Dr. Michael Wood was first published on FOXBusiness. As our work and personal lives continue to blend together so too has our understanding of happiness. Creating a happier life isn’t just about reading self-help books…
Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change. Based on new research from the field of positive psychology, she shares case studies of real…
Everywhere you turn, you hear about the importance of customer satisfaction. From the bank to the phone company to the video store, every business seems to proclaim "The Customer Is King," that "People Are Our Business," and that "Your Satisfaction…
Why do some teams get extraordinary results, while others struggle just to finish mundane tasks? Why do certain teams glide to victory, while others can’t even cross the finish line? What’s the difference? Here you go: 50% of the difference…
This article by Locke Hughes was originally published on Greatist. Ask us how we're doing at the end of a long, stressful workday, and chances are you’ll hear, “I’ve been better” or some equally snippy response. Although it may be unintentional,…
This interview with Sally Hogshead was first published on storyboardmagazine.com. World-class branding expert and best-selling author Sally Hogshead believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself. She identified seven forms of communication, detailed in her book,…
10 ways to be better at both sides of the conversation There are two sides to every conversation, and both are essential to the art of communication. So, how are your conversation skills? Think about it: Are you a smooth…
