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Love 'Em or Lose 'Em
Crack The Behavior Code - January 13, 2022 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat happens when a person leaves? Do you know it in advance? In a prior blog I wrote about the often unknown reasons that blindside employers when a rock star quits. Today, let’s look at taking a more proactive approach: checking in on what it’ll take to keep your stars at your organization. G...
Do Your Employees Have Buyer's Remorse?
Crack The Behavior Code - December 30, 2021 14:15 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsUnemployment in the USA is now at 3.7%. Great employees are harder to find than ever before—and if you’re hiring, chances are really good that you’re raiding another organization’s rock stars. So once you get great hires on board, you need to keep them. In past blogs I’ve shared proven too...
Want More Meaning at Work?
Crack The Behavior Code - December 16, 2021 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNow more than ever we want to find and feel meaning in our work. And a cornerstone of meaningful work is who we are together, how we show up for one another, how our environment supports this, and how we know we are safe, belong, and matter at work. These prerequisites enable us to expand our id...
Beat Zoom Fatigue in 4 Neuroscience-Savvy Steps
Crack The Behavior Code - December 02, 2021 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDo you often find yourself drifting off after only a few minutes in a Zoom meeting? Why? Most likely it’s because we’re not emotionally engaged at an optimum level. And when it comes to group meetings, it’s often due to the Ringelmann Effect. Ringelmann proved that there’s an inverse relations...
3 Common Mistakes That May Be Killing Your Sales
Crack The Behavior Code - November 18, 2021 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe all want better sales results—so what’s the secret? It lies in the brain, and knowing how to guide our sales people out of their Critter State, where they are overwhelmed, stressed, in fight/flight/freeze, and into their Smart State where they have fresh insights, are ready to tackle the d...
Two Myths About Strategy
Crack The Behavior Code - October 21, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThank you for listening to Crack the Behavior Code. Here is a bonus for you! Get an exclusive look at one of the documents from our Culture and Talent Playbook: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a5c5d1b8-15b8-42d2-a4c8-0adbd81d16bd Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
Onboarding Optimized
Crack The Behavior Code - October 07, 2021 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTo learn more about onboarding, click here to visit our Forbes page. Here We Grow! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Surprising Link Between Customer Experience And Employee Engagement
Crack The Behavior Code - September 23, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHow would your customers describe their experience with your firm? Please take a moment and rate the Customer Experience (CX) that you believe you deliver: Better than all companies in any industry The best in our industry Considerably above average in our industry Slightly above average in...
Right Person, Wrong Role?
Crack The Behavior Code - September 09, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPeople get into the wrong roles for a number of reasons. Perhaps there was a reorganization and the company didn’t want to lose them, so they were reallocated without consultation or training. Maybe they were promoted beyond their capability without a training plan. Or maybe they were hired to ...
Special Episode: Inside Leadership with Guest Cheryl Farr
Crack The Behavior Code - August 26, 2021 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingslVgmTpZYO7Rr41hS0E1x Cheryl Farr, Founder & Chief Brand Officer of Signal.CSK, is our special guest for this insightful episode of the Crack the Behavior Code podcast where we discuss the importance of finding opportunity in times of crisis and much more. Who is Cheryl? Cheryl builds accessib...
Why Smart People Make Stupid Decisions
Crack The Behavior Code - August 12, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe’ve all been there. We make what we think is a rational decision. And then seconds, minutes, or days later we wonder “What was I thinking?!” Was it a temporary lapse of sanity? Were we just distracted and decided anyway? We knew it wasn’t the right decision or the best decision, but in tha...
The Neuroscience of Recruiting
Crack The Behavior Code - July 29, 2021 13:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhy do we make hiring and recruiting mistakes? Or even role assignment/placement mistakes? Often it’s because we’re rushed, we don’t have a process that has been proven to be successful, or we don’t have a clear profile of who we truly need in a specific role. But also it’s because we don’t le...
Don't Make Your Brain Dumb
Crack The Behavior Code - July 15, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat makes a person successful? Having a growth mindset? Being a visionary? Being born into the ‘right’ family? These may help, but a healthy brain is foundational. Without it, success is going to be far harder to come by. So what is a healthy brain, a successful brain? It’s one that has high ...
The Future of Work
Crack The Behavior Code - July 01, 2021 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI won’t start by saying 2020 was a rough year. We know that already. We know that 2020 brought many businesses to their knees, requiring profound pivots, workforce and workplace changes, policy changes, and how it significantly altered how humans work. As an executive coach for mid-sized to la...
Three Fast, Easy, Neuroscience-Based Ways to Get Unstuck
Crack The Behavior Code - June 22, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAs an executive coach, I invest a great deal of time in helping people get unstuck. And I repeatedly see 3 key areas where they are ensnared. We all want to be happy, to get along, to have great lives. The tricky part is we don’t live in a vacuum, so for better or worse, we must interact wit...
Why We Lie
Crack The Behavior Code - June 15, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhy We Lie, And The Neuroscience Behind It I’m fine. Of course, I love you. I’ll call you. No, you don’t look fat in those jeans. We are liars. All of us. We lie to save face, to avoid hurting other people’s feelings, to impress others, to shirk responsibility, to hid...
Five Ways To Get Optimal Outcomes From Your Team
Crack The Behavior Code - June 08, 2021 13:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat makes a team optimal? Alignment, communication, collaboration, energy management, leverage, trust, and what else? Google did some comprehensive multi-year research on this topic. I’ll refer to it below and map it to my work during the past 30 years in the areas of safety, belonging, and m...
Are You Getting Enough Hugs?
Crack The Behavior Code - June 01, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAre you getting enough hugs? Virginia Satir, a world-renowned family therapist, is famous for saying “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” How many hugs are you getting each day? With social distancing, dramatically reduce...
Special Episode: Inside Leadership with Guest Caroline Cory
Crack The Behavior Code - April 13, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCaroline Cory and Christine Comaford discuss the intersection of consciousness and energy medicine with leadership. "We have a big thing in common, we both want to help people remember how unlimited they are." Caroline Cory is an award-winning filmmaker and the visionary author of best-selling...
Why Resisting Change Isn’t A Bad Thing: The Social Change Adoption Path
Crack The Behavior Code - March 30, 2021 10:06 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCompany Z, a financial services firm with nearly $100 million in annual revenue, was changing their business model. It was a big change—they were dumping one entire business unit and launching a new one. The team was none too happy about it. Some were fearful because they were employed in the n...
Yes you CAN buy happiness -- and it's cheaper than you think
Crack The Behavior Code - March 23, 2021 10:48 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBut there’s no storefront, no website, no vendors or purchase orders required. And the wealth isn’t wired—but it is transferred. If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a month—get married. If you want happiness for...
Why We Self-Sabotage – Are You Doing it, Too?
Crack The Behavior Code - March 16, 2021 10:24 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsGeorge wants to double his company’s revenue this year. He’s been stating this goal for the past 3 years and still hasn’t achieved it. Why? Because it’s not ecologically safe for him to have this outcome. There is a subconscious tug o’war we all experience between our desires and our ecology....
The 4 Crucial Mistakes Companies Make During Downturns
Crack The Behavior Code - March 09, 2021 11:02 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNow that we’re starting to see signs of economic recovery, it’s key to assess where we’ve been, the mistakes we’ve made, and how to course-correct for the next burst of growth. Here’s the reality: companies make mistakes all the time. In an economic downturn, however, avoiding the big slip ups ...
75% of Workers are Affected by Bullying – Here’s What to do About it
Crack The Behavior Code - March 02, 2021 11:33 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWorkplace bullying is frighteningly common and takes an enormous toll on our businesses. Research from Dr. Judy Blando (of the University of Phoenix) has proven that almost 75% of employees surveyed had been affected by workplace bullying, whether as a target or a witness. 75%. That’s huge. So...
How to Lead and Empower Your Team Through a Crisis
Crack The Behavior Code - February 23, 2021 11:19 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHow to Lead and Empower Your Team Through a Crisis Our ability to navigate change is directly correlated to the meaning that we make about what happens to us. The power that we have is in choice. What meaning would you like to make? According to Harvard Business Review’s Management Tip Of The...
Resistance is Necessary for Optimal Organizations
Crack The Behavior Code - February 16, 2021 11:50 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsResistance is Necessary for Optimal Organizations You may be familiar with the Chinese finger trap. It’s a toy that traps the victim’s fingers (often the index fingers) in both ends of a small cylinder woven from bamboo. The initial reaction of the victim is to pull their fingers outward, but t...
Why Your Team Doesn't Care
Crack The Behavior Code - February 09, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhy Your Team Doesn’t Care: The 4 Ways You’re Crushing Your Culture Are your team members highly accountable? Do they have a “Thank God It’s Monday” attitude? Do they take tons of initiative? If not, you’ve likely got Crushed Culture. It’s a disease. And it’s going to become an epid...
I Stalked Steve Jobs
Crack The Behavior Code - February 02, 2021 11:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI was a young CEO and I needed answers. Steve Jobs had them. There was only one thing to do. So I sent a FedEx letter. Then I sent another. Then I started calling. Then I sent another FedEx, and called some more. Finally, after 7 FedExs and 12 phone calls, Steve’s assistant said he wanted to...
Why Change Initiatives Fail and How to Fix Them
Crack The Behavior Code - January 22, 2021 13:45 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhy do so many change initiatives fail? In my coaching practice, I constantly help clients navigate change. And to navigate change successfully, we need to understand all the levels in which changes occur in humans. Otherwise, your change efforts will either fail, or be superficial—and you’ll ...
Best of 2020
Crack The Behavior Code - January 12, 2021 12:21 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this best of 2020 episode, we have compiled the key excerpts from our top 5 most downloaded episodes in 2020: 1 - Become a More Emotionally Intelligent Leader in 3 Simple Steps 2 - What Being Excluded Does to Your Brain 3 - 12 Stress Busters Happy Health People Know 4 - Reframing: A Tool ...
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