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The Golden Circle with David Mead

You won’t want to miss this episode of The People Catalysts Podcast as David Mead shares his story and more.  Ten years ago, David’s employer brought in a little-known speaker, at the time, Simon Sinek, to train their team. David “Got” what Simon was teaching after only one session.  In response to David’s enthusiasm, Simon asked David what he was doing at 5AM ‘before his REAL job’…and the rest is history.  David worked with Simon ...

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Movers, Shakers, Provers, Makers ; Part 4 Advanced Makers

  Movers, Shakers, Provers, and Makers.  We need them all at the right time.  Who are they really?  This is the fourth in a four-part series that will go in depth on the strengths and characteristics of each of the four strengths.  In this episode, Karla interviews Allen Fahden on what it means to be a Maker. Listen to the podcast here: Advanced Maker with Allen Fahden Karla Nelson:  And welcome to the People Catalyst ...

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Movers, Shakers, Provers, Makers ; Part 3 Advanced Provers

Movers, Shakers, Provers, and Makers.  We need them all at the right time.  Who are they really?  This is the third in a four-part series that will go in depth on the strengths and characteristics of each of the four strengths.  In this episode, Karla interviews Allen Fahden and Kevin Nothstine on what it means to be a Prover. Listen to the podcast here: Advanced Prover with Allen Fahden   Karla Nelson:  And welcome to ...

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Movers, Shakers, Provers, Makers ; Part 2 Advanced Movers

Movers, Shakers, Provers, and Makers.  We need them all at the right time.  Who are they really?  This is the second in a four-part series that will go in depth on the strengths and characteristics of each of the four strengths.  In this episode, Karla interviews Allen Fahden on what it means to be a Mover. Listen to the podcast here: Advanced Mover with Allen Fahden Welcome to The People Catalysts Podcast, Allen Fahden. It’s ...

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Movers, Shakers, Provers, Makers ; Part 1 Advanced Shakers

  Movers, Shakers, Provers, and Makers.  We need them all at the right time.  Who are they really?  This is the first in a four-part series that will go in depth on the strengths and characteristics of each of the four strengths.  In this episode, Karla interviews Allen Fahden on what it means to be a Shaker. Listen to the podcast here: Advanced Shaker with Allen Fahden And, welcome to the People at Catalyst podcast, ...

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The Sales/Ops Tug-of-War

  There is an age-old conflict between sales and operations.  Every organization has some instance of this, where one group is pressing forward and making promises to the world, while another group is saying those promises cannot be met.  How do you solve this problem? Once you know The WHO-DO, it only takes a couple of minutes to get everyone on the same sheet of music! In this episode, we hear about using the WHO-DO ...

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The Gap Between Technology And Sales

  It’s not the notes that make the symphony, it’s the spaces between the notes. It’s the same thing in business. It’s the spaces between technology and sales, between operations and sales. To get new technology adopted to get integrated in a sales process, it has to revolutionize the way work is done. Sales is usually the early adopters and operations is usually the later adopters. There’s that big chasm there, that big conflict. Author ...

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The Dos And Dont’s Of Implementing Technology – Part 1

  The ideation of adopting new technology is that 15% of the population will say yes to an idea right away, but after you’ve got it working, it’s time for implementing the technology and making iterations going forward. The early adopters are usually the ones who are open to using the new process and the late adopters are the ones who push back. The paradox is the more slowly you teach it, the faster it ...

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Conflict Management In The Workplace with Dave Gerber

Sometimes it’s just the small things that impact major parts of relationships. Conflict Healer Dave Gerber’s work is around connecting with progressive leaders that want to solve obstacles, people problems and need solutions such as leadership coaching, dynamic training, effective facilitation, mediation and more. Dave and his company will help you grow high performance teams throughout the organization and improve the way people treat one another in the workplace while increasing revenue. Dave will help ...

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The Crisis of Leadership

Episode 41: The Crisis of Leadership Why do 65% of Americans say getting rid of their boss would make them happier than a pay raise?  Via a Gallup Poll: 79% of employees are agnostic (basically, they don’t care), 12% are working for your cause, and 9% are working against you.  This represents a crisis of leadership. We are in the 21st century with a 19th-century work model. If you see your team as a bunch of square pegs and nothing but round holes, DO NOT provide “roundness training!”  The answer: Know what the core nature and strength of work for everyone on your team and make the work fit your team members. Don’t make the team members fit the work.”

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