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4 Content Marketing Mistakes That Will Wreck Your ROI

Crack The Behavior Code - January 25, 2020 12:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
4 Content Marketing Mistakes That Will Wreck Your ROI Here’s what we know: content marketing is a massively effective method of increasing ROI and overall customer engagement. Also: content marketing is not as easy as whipping up some content and tossing it into the oven of the Internet. Caref...

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Busting 3 Massive Myths About Employee Engagement

Crack The Behavior Code - January 18, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
There’s a lot of buzz about employee engagement these days. But the sad truth is that engagement stats worldwide are still dreadfully low. And to throw some fuel on the fire, myths about what actually creates engagement are rampant—and are making the problem worse.  Here’s what I know for sure ...

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3 Ways Leaders Can Improve Work-Life Balance

Crack The Behavior Code - January 11, 2020 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
What is your life experience when the work day is complete? Are you spending time doing things that you love or are you too drained to do anything other than recoup before the next workday begins? We spend a lot of time at work and the tools that I teach my executive coaching clients show the...

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Are you telling the 5 types of truth?

Crack The Behavior Code - January 04, 2020 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
How much truth do you tell? The whole truth? The partial truth? The preferred truth? I’ve been noticing how uncomfortable truth can be for people to hear, and I’m getting really curious as to why we lie so often. When did it become “not ok” to say what was really going on? When did we start da...

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How to Feel Better in 12 Minutes

Crack The Behavior Code - December 28, 2019 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Have you ever considered using neuroscience to optimize engagement, performance, recruiting, and retention in your organization? At SmartTribes Institute, we continually strive to apply cutting edge neuroscience tools and resources to modern day businesses and people. If you'd like a taste, chec...

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3 Strategies to Help with Millennial Management Troubles

Crack The Behavior Code - December 21, 2019 12:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Millennials (the generation born between 1980 and 2000) are perhaps the most social--and yet the most surprisingly isolated--employees in history. And no surprises here: they’re taking over the workforce.    Raised in a very different world than prior generations, millennials grew up surrounde...

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Why Leaders Need to Stop Their Thoughts

Crack The Behavior Code - December 14, 2019 12:15 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Humans have one hundred billion available neurons...yet only 15% are activated, according to Heart Math Institute. Why? Because we tend to focus so heavily outside of ourselves. Today, I'd like to talk more about what mindfulness is, and how we might use it. Last week, I mentioned how there wa...

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Working Through Personal Hardship

Crack The Behavior Code - December 07, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Once you reach your 40s, or possibly even earlier, you’re likely to have experienced a profound personal hardship, which you had to navigate through while keeping your job. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, a divorce, a life-threatening disease, a significant injury or something else, perso...

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Combining Leadership & Gratitude

Crack The Behavior Code - November 28, 2019 12:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
It is extremely powerful to combine leadership and gratitude. For starters, gratitude helps you feel generally better. Choosing to recognize and acknowledge all the good things in life (which is what gratitude practices help you do), creates a more positive outlook. In addition, when you estab...

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Why Mindfulness & Meditation Matter in Leadership

Crack The Behavior Code - November 23, 2019 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
What pushes your buttons? What makes you lose your equilibrium? Even when we know we should stress less over the small things, get more sleep, or handle a situation better...we're all human. And we all have issues that we can't control, or life events that take us off guard. So how can we protec...

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The 6 Phrases For Better Communication Skills

Crack The Behavior Code - November 16, 2019 13:24 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Why do people struggle in relationships and with their communication skills? It’s because they don’t use the right words. Well, they might be the right words for you, but are they the right words that the other person needs to hear? Language structures reality. Language sets the tone for respec...

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3 Steps To Access Your Hidden Brain Power

Crack The Behavior Code - November 09, 2019 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Spidey sense. Gut feel. Whatever you call it, it’ll make or break the most important decisions in your life. The most successful executives I coach have it in spades. We're talking about intuition, and digging into what it is and how it actually works. Oprah has it. Steve Jobs had it. Mark Zu...

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One Powerful Tool to Create the Reality You Desire

Crack The Behavior Code - November 02, 2019 15:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
As a leader, in what area of your life do you need to shift from being disempowered to being empowered? We form our own reality based on visual, auditory, and kinesthetic cues. These cues recall our beliefs about the world and ourselves (our identity), which results in either feeling good or fe...

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The 7 Most Common Ways Leaders Unknowingly Sabotage Their Team

Crack The Behavior Code - October 26, 2019 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Sometimes leaders call me saying they want help to fix their team. That’s always a red flag for me. A CEO of a west coast food company called me a while back. He said his team lacked accountability and he wanted me to “fix them”. As I asked him questions a disturbing trend appeared: his retenti...

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Emotions Have Energy

Crack The Behavior Code - October 19, 2019 15:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Emotional agility and resilience give leaders the edge they need to quickly pivot during stressful situations. Emotions Have Energy  Thanks to the late great  David Hawkins, MD, PhD, we have proof that emotions contain measurable energy, which can either foster or negate actual cell life. Dr. ...

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The 5 Organismic (Fundamental) Rights

Crack The Behavior Code - October 12, 2019 16:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
We all have rights as human beings.  But if we don’t know or acknowledge our fundamental rights, or if we don’t understand them, we’ll often suffer, cause others to suffer, and worst case, self-sabotage (which in turn sabotages those around us that count on us).  To live in a state of emotiona...

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Propel Employee Engagement To Sky-Rocketing Levels

Crack The Behavior Code - October 05, 2019 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Often leaders are focusing so intensely on growth that we miss the fact that our team’s emotional experience is suffering. And when they’re suffering, they’re in their Critter State (versus the ideal of being in their Smart State.)   Why?  Most likely because safety, belonging or mattering are...

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Reframing: A Tool That Will Empower Your Team Everyday

Crack The Behavior Code - September 28, 2019 11:39 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Our words shape our reality. And they are based on the stories we tell ourselves about the world, ourselves, and others. This is why Reframing is crucial for leaders and human beings overall: it’s a terrific tool to shape the reality you want. Reframing is a way of viewing and experiencing even...

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Are You Emotionally Agile?

Crack The Behavior Code - September 21, 2019 05:03 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Have you noticed that life is moving at light speed and it’s only getting faster? Have you also noticed that people are more stressed out than ever? If you’re emotionally agile, you have not only noticed, you’re in a good position to not only survive, but to thrive. Emotional Agility is, simply...

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