Thriving in Business and Life
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago -Tune in for great interviews, conversations, and dialogue about the secrets and proven techniques for thriving in business and life. The hosts combine their two lifetimes of experience coaching and consulting successful individuals and organizations to share what it takes to be in the "zone" in your life and business.
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How Inclusion Saves Us Time and Money
May 31, 2019 19:00 - 30 minutes - 27.4 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore the topic of inclusion and how organizations are learning how to use it to save time, money, resources while generating better buy-in and engagement. For more on this topic, you can read their book, Thriving in Business and LIfe, available in paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon.
Does the Role You Play Really Allow You to Be Your Best Self
February 18, 2019 20:30 - 30 minutes - 26.7 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore how the roles we take on in life can shape our identity and sometimes limit how well we show up in life. For more information about this topic, you can read the authors' book Thriving in Business and Life available on Amazon.
Creating and Maintaining a Thriving Mindset
February 17, 2019 02:30 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MBJoin authors and consultants Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding as they share tips they've learned about creating and maintaining a thriving mindset even in the midst of challenging circumstances. Through the use of imagination and power of story, you'll learn to change your state of mind to increase your success ratio dramatically. For more information about this topic, you can read the authors' book Thriving in Business and Life available on Amazon.
How Quantum Responsibility Ensures the Power of a Group
October 30, 2018 16:00 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share a highly effective technique employed by high-performing organizations that optimizes the power of individuals and teams. Drawing upon concepts and experiences from their own role as leadership coaches and consultants Will and Chris share concepts also covered in their book Thriving in Business and LIfe and in their online course.
How Love Plays a Vital Role in Business Success
October 23, 2018 16:00 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MBJoin authors, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore how the Power of Love plays a vital role in business success. Based on recent studies regarding high performance and the human brain and neurology, Will and Chris explore the impact of creating an environment where people feel loved and appreciated. For more information on this topic, you can refer to their book Thriving in Business and Life available on Amazon or their online course.
How Inclusion Makes Us Smarter
October 16, 2018 07:30 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBJoin Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding as they share what top organizations do to optimize the intelligence of their teams. Drawing upon their work as consultants and coaches for leading companies, Will and Chris share the reasons and techniques used by market leaders to ensure that the decisions they make are not only brilliant but also well-vetted. For more information on this topic, you can read Will and Chris' book Thriving in Business and Life available on Amazon or access their onl...
How to Use Assessments Like a GPS for Your Goals
October 04, 2018 20:00 - 29 minutes - 26.3 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore the art of making accurate assessments that help you achieve your goals. Drawing upon their experience with leading organizations, Will and Chris share how an effective assessment can function like a GPS, guiding you toward the fulfillment of your vision and goals. For more information about this topic or the authors, you can read their book Thriving in Business and Life, available at Amazon, or check out th...
Creating Powerful Visions That Actually Work
September 26, 2018 18:30 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore the process of vision-casting. Drawing upon practices that they've learned over the years from mentors and experts on vision-casting, Will and Chris explore specific techniques to help individuals create visions and vision statements that truly become living organic compasses that help shape the decisions we make and how we can impact and enroll others. For more information about this topic, you read their b...
How to Determine What Really Matters
August 06, 2018 19:30 - 29 minutes - 26.2 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they take a look at core values, how to identify them and what gets in the way of living them. Calling upon their own experiences and challenges of living a value-filled life, Will and Chris dive into a confessional of the lessons they learned along the way. For more information on this topic, you can access their popular book Thriving in Business and LIfe in both Kindle and paperback formats at Amazon.
How Biases Can Fool Us Into Making False Assumptions
July 30, 2018 15:00 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they look into the phenomenon of implicit bias and how it impacts our perceptions and decision-making. After having worked as senior executives and leadership coaches and consultants for over a decade, Will and Chris explore how our brains actually play into social memes and biases in ways that create skewed filters that can prevent us from seeing the full truth about people's potential or possible outcomes of our decisi...
How to Become the Hero of Our Own Story
July 16, 2018 22:30 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share techniques and practices for shifting our roles and our stories into ones that generate success. Drawing upon years as executive coaches and leadership consultants, Will and Chris also dive into the archetypal storytelling formulas used in movies and television dramas to provide a backdrop and methods for shifting how we perceive situations, others, and ourselves in order to more successfully navigate life's c...
Secrets to Ensuring That Our Actions Are Powerful and Effective
July 05, 2018 17:00 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore keys to taking action effectively. In our action-oriented society, we often jump into task mode without some simple, but truly important preparation steps that can enable us to get in the zone so that our actions are far more powerful and effective. For more information about this topic and others on this program, you can also refer to their book, Thriving in Business and Life, available on Amazon, or their...
Three Keys to Successfully Implementing Empowerment
June 29, 2018 18:00 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore the topic of empowerment and why it so often fails. Based on their own experience as executives and leadership consultants Will and Chris discuss the misconceptions about empowerment and how a process the call "The 3 Cs of Empowerment" can assist leaders and individuals in setting themselves and others up to succeed. For more information on this topic, check out their popular book Thriving in Business and LI...
How to Keep Blame From Neutralizing Responsibility
June 14, 2018 21:00 - 30 minutes - 27.2 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they address key steps to keeping blame from neutralizing responsibility. In our current business climate, responsibility and accountability are more important than ever. Will and Chris share essential distinctions around responsibility and accountability and how leaders and employees alike can tap into a greater level of power and effectiveness by avoiding the blame game and sharing in the true benefits of what they ref...
Leveraging the Genius of Inclusion
June 07, 2018 14:00 - 30 minutes - 26.6 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding as they explore strategies for optimizing the talent and intelligence of your people. Based on their years of experience as senior executives and consultants, Will and Chris explore how the practice of inclusion originated and how top companies are now utilizing the practice to mine the intelligence and leverage the genius of their people. For more information, you can also explore their popular book Thriving in Business and...
How to Find Solutions That May Be Just Off Your Radar
May 23, 2018 16:00 - 30 minutes - 26.7 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share methods they've learned for optimizing visible and hidden resources that help to accomplish goals and visions. Based on their work as executive coaches and consultants to some of the world's leading organizations, Will and Chris delve into the reasons we overlook valuable resources and methods used by highly effective people to discover and maximize all sorts of resources. For more information on this topic, c...
How Asking for Help Increases Group Intelligence
May 16, 2018 21:30 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore the topic of asking for help. Based on their own experience as executive coaches and consultants, Will and Chris share what they've learned from truly strong leaders who understand the value of engaging a broad variety of people in their decision-making processes. Based on material also found in their book, Thriving in Business and Life and their course from the Thriving Leadership Academy, you'll learn the ...
How to Discover the Hidden Ripple Effects of Your Own Goals and Vision?
May 11, 2018 17:30 - 30 minutes - 27.1 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share what they've learned about unintended consequences of our own visions and goals. Drawing upon their experience as company leaders and as executive coaches and consultants, Will and Chris provide listeners with an entertaining half-hour program about the little-known secrets of increasing the power of goal-setting and visioning. For more information, about this topic, check out Will's and Chris' book, Thriving ...
How the Right Kind of Visualization Can Keep Us Motivated
May 02, 2018 21:30 - 30 minutes - 27 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share a novel approach to visualization that's being used by high performers to keep them motivated especially when times are challenging. Drawing up the latest in brain research and the science used by top athletes, Will and Chris explore how emotions and visualization actually program our mind to stay on track toward the goals and visions we pursue.
The Art of Getting Real -- How to Accurately Assess Your Situation
April 24, 2018 22:30 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore the art of assessment -- an often forgotten step in avoiding or dealing with obstacles along the road to success. Drawing upon their experience working with organizations around the globe, Will and Chris highlight areas from their book, Thriving in Business and Life available in Kindle and paperback formats on Amazon.
Why So Many Visioning Processes Fail
April 18, 2018 19:00 - 28 minutes - 25 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share vital ingredients often missing from most people's (and company's) visioning processes. Drawing upon their own experience and that of their own mentors, Will and Chris walk through the steps of creating visions that are not only compelling, but that also engage the brain in the fulfillment process. For more about their work and the Vision First process they describe, check out their book Thriving in Business a...
How Infusing Your Values into Mundane Moments Changes Everything
March 30, 2018 18:00 - 29 minutes - 26.4 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share techniques they've learned for turning difficult or mundane moments into rich experiences. Based on their own consulting and coaching work Will and Chris provide examples of how each of us can become more clear about what our own authentic values are and how to utilize those values to enhance the quality of our lives. For more information about this topic, refer to their book Thriving in Business and Life avai...
How to Diffuse Unconscious Bias Cycles
March 23, 2018 16:00 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they discuss tools and approaches used by top leaders to diffuse bias cycles. Unconscious or implicit bias is an ongoing challenge in organizations and in our personal lives. Such cycles prevent us from fully seeing the whole picture and thus making the best decisions. Based on years of experience working with organizations in the U.S. and around the globe, Will and Chris share the methods they've used and seen skillful ...
The Power of Story -- How We Unconsciously Shape Our Future
March 14, 2018 16:00 - 29 minutes - 26.3 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore the brain science behind the unconscious stories that can determine how we experience reality. Drawing upon the legacy of their own mentors and the experience they've gained consulting organizations and individuals around the world, Will and Chris share practices for reshaping our own narratives so that we more naturally generate better outcomes for ourselves and those around us. For more information, you ca...
How a Learning Game Can Change the Trajectory of Your Life
September 28, 2017 19:00 - 30 minutes - 27.1 MBJoin authors and consultants, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they take you inside the thought process behind their new learning game of self-mastery for leaders. As they close in on the final development stages of the full immersion leadership game, Will and Chris share how brain science and the latest research in habit formation has informed and guided their process. Filled with interesting anecdotes and discussion, you'll gain insight into the creative process and a preview of s...
The Essential Elements of a Thriving Culture
May 12, 2017 23:00 - 30 minutes - 27 MBJoin authors, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they explore the essential elements for creating a Thriving Culture in your business or at home. Taped in front of a live audience at their recent book review and signing, Will and Chris draw from their experience as consultants and coaches to share the key characteristics needed to ensure that you and the people around you are at your vital best. For more information about the topics covered in this episode, you can refer to the hosts'...