Welcome to Brilliant Business Insights™!

This vodcast solves your greatest business, leadership, and professional development challenges.

We realize there isn’t one solution to every problem.

So, we bring you proven strategies, best practices, and expert insights to get you, your business, and your employees where you want to go by

Removing the BS!

(business stress)

BBI Episode Guide:

“6 Keys to Accomplishing Your Professional Goals” (click on the episode # or topic to watch!)

In the first episode of the Brilliant Business Insights™ vodcast, we’re talking all about goals…the biggest challenge with them, strategies to accomplish them and the neuroscience around them.

This episode features a guest Segment with Michelle Anne – Master Coach, Harvard trained in Neuroscience, Forbes Coach, “The Brain Trainer” – where she shares a wealth of knowledge including the neuroscience definition of a goal and how your brain is like a V8 engine.

Most importantly we discuss how you can get yourself, your team and your company where you want to go by Removing the BS around accomplishing goals.

“Help, My Co-worker Sucks the Life Out of Me: Emotional Energy at Work”

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In the second episode of the Brilliant Business Insights™ vodcast, we’re talking all about emotional energy…what it is, why it happens and tips and strategies to manage and replenish it.

This episode features a guest segment with Melanie Amini-Hajibashi – LPC and Wellness Coach – where she shares the most important aspects to managing your emotional energy at work.

Most importantly we discuss how you can get yourself, your team and your company where you want to go by Removing the BS around emotional energy at work.

“A Cautionary Tale of Assessments”

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In this episode we discuss the well known and oftentimes Overused and Underutilized Assessment Tools.

Assessments are not the end all be all and are not the solution to your talent challenges. There are a lot of employers out there who think this is the THING that’s going to solve their most pressing talent issues. They’re looking at it like “if I just had this understanding of my people it would all make sense.” WE WISH!

However, there are some things we discuss that will help you get the most value out of assessments.

1. Assessment Shortfalls

2. Benefits of Assessments

3. Mitigating Pitfalls/Optimizing Results

Our guest, Amy Curler, is a Gallup-certified StrengthsFinder coach and Learning & Development Manager.

“Work-Love Balance”

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In this episode we discuss the importance of showing up to work in love.

It’s February and Love is in the air… Sorry, we’re not talking about the latest juicy company romances. Although we might broach the topic at another time.

But what we are discussing is: Showing up from a place of love.

We start by addressing the issues with not showing up in love at work and how it negatively impacts employees and businesses. Then we move into why it’s an imperative ingredient to the success of your people and your culture. This includes the infrequent pitfalls that can occur. Like anything in life there is a balance point – even regarding love at work.

Then we wrap up with what it looks like to show up at work in “love.”

Our guest, Vicki Lipinski, is an experienced Marketing and Fund Development professional with 20 years experience supporting mission driven organizations shares how showing up to work in love supports her and the organizations that she supports makes the experience of work – and the success of organizations – better.

“Do You Hear Me? Being Heard at Work.”

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In this episode we discuss the importance of being heard (and listening) at work.

My manager isn’t listening to my strategy ideas!

No one on my team listens to my ideas or opinions!

I feel like I’m talking to a wall!

I can never get a word in edgewise!

If you’re tired of being ignored, dismissed or interrupted…

This episode of Brilliant Business Insights is for you!

We’re covering:

– Reasons You May Not Be Heard at Work

– Ramifications to Not Listening and Not Being Heard

– AND strategies to: BE Heard!

Our guest, Jay Olstad, is a TV personality and Storytelling Expert and shares his tips on being heard at work!

“Business Is Serious? Break On Through to the Other Side.”

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Let’s face it, people don’t want to do things that aren’t fun…even if we have to.

You don’t hear people saying, “Oh, that project sucks, put me on it!”

In this episode we explore:

➥ The problem with being too serious in business

➥ The benefits of humor at work

➥ How to effectively infuse humor – in others words…

How to “Break On Thru To The Other Side!”

Our guest is Pat Dwyer. Speaker. Comedian. outright delight.

Aside from being a professional speaker, comedian and writer, Pat has worked, toured, performed and taught with comedic institutions The Second City, iO Theater, and ComedySportz for over 20 years.

He’s spearheaded leadership teams at a number of tech startups, including Groupon, and has been a key culture, creative and leadership consultant for multiple fortune 500 companies.

“Stuck In the Middle: The Dilemma of Middle Managers”

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Middle management is a tough gig. The dynamics they experience seem to be far more complex than the rest of the organization.

They find themselves dealing with:

➥ Far more responsibilities

➥ Trying harder to prove themselves, their value, and their contribution

➥ An added layer of fear

➥ Scattered attention from a myriad of things

➥ Taking on too much or not appropriately delegating

There’s just so much going on here which is why we brought in our expert on the subject matter…Lauren Pagenkopf.

Lauren, Owner & Principal, Laurus Consulting LLC, knows that great leaders never stop learning and growing. Driven by a desire to help leaders and organizations realize their potential, Lauren brings 25 years of broad business experience to her executive coaching, leadership development and consulting practice, along with firsthand knowledge of today’s quickly evolving business environment and the challenges leaders face.

So middle managers, take a look at the episode! Here’s to NOT being “stuck in the middle!”

“Reaching Peak Performance by Releasing Tension & Stress”

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In this episode we discuss peak performance and how to reach it by releasing tension and stress – which is a BIG part of BS! (business stress).

We talk about:

➥ peak performance in terms of flow

➥ ways to get into flow (hint: it has to do with engaging your parasympathetic nervous system)

➥ how to use your body as your stress gps

➥ the importance of self-alignment within your body and yourself to reach peak performance

Joining us is Laura Donnelly, founder of “Dancing With Ease” and the “Body-Brain-Business Balance” method. Laura is a teacher, performer, mentor, choreographer, writer, business coach and founder of Dancing with Ease. She teaches Body-Brain-Business Balance based on her 35+ years as a performer and teacher of the Alexander Technique, Movement Fundamentals, Somatics and Business Management.

So what does movement have to do with your Body-Brain-Business Balance?

“Race Against Time. How to Get More Hours In Your Day.”

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Is that even possible?

Having enough time has been a challenge since the beginning of time and it would have been solved by now if it were possible…

You may not be able to add more hours to your day…but you can certainly get more done in the hours you do have. This episode explores time management from several perspectives so we all can IMPROVE our relationship with time:

➥ It’s not about time management…rather it’s how we manage ourselves within time.

➥ Emotional Management

➥ Managing Your Energy State

➥ Developing Skills to Drop Into Your PNS

➥ How our perspective shapes our experience of time…are we really the ones creating our own lack of time?

➥ How to get more hours out of our day. It’s all about efficiency. (Getting more done within the time we do have).

We learn about tangible tools to help with time management with guest, Tim Schmitt, co-founder of Dinvy Ascent, a time tracking and billing software company. In the guest segment we also call BS on multi-tasking, explore the difference between time tracking and time management, chat about mindfulness component of time tracking and The Beatles.

“Multigenerational Office Dynamics”

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When we talk about multigenerational dynamics let’s start out by saying we’re all speaking the same language. But, we miss this when the focus becomes about our differences.

It’s not about teaching the generations how to “get along” or how to communicate with each other…but more about helping them see and understand how we’re all on the same page.

At the core of humanity we all want the same things – to feel:

➥ Happy

➥ Healthy

➥ Loved

➥ Valued

➥ That we matter

➥ That we’re contributing to something greater.

To share her expertise on the topic, Kristin Gupta – the HR recruiter of SE WI, founder of Defining leaders and connector of people – joins the episode.

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