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Podcast Episode #45 — Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, and Other Great Tips to Improve Your Leadership with Vinny Tafuro

By Brandon W. Jones on April 9, 2018 0

Hello, and welcome to the Leadership Done Right Podcast, Episode 45: Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, and Other Great Tips to Improve Your Leadership with Vinny Tafuro.

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Get to Know Vinny

Our guest today is a visionary economist, thinker, and entrepreneur. He is know for saying, ”I see distant horizons clearly and work meticulously towards them.”

Leadership Background

Our guest has held a variety of leadership positions and is currently the founding president of Conscious Capitalism Florida Chapter and the Author of Corporate Empathy and Unlocking the Labor Cage.

Leadership in Economics

Not only that, he is a pioneering advocate for the twenty-first century economy, disrupting society’s most rigid institutions and beliefs. His economic theories explore the societal and economic shifts being catalyzed by corporations as a result of technology, corporate personhood, and evolving human cognition.

Our Connection

I met him through the husband of my previous guest, Meg Zampino, and am very excited to have him on the show. Our guest today is Vinny Tafuro. Vinny, welcome to the show! [Read more…] about Podcast Episode #45 — Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, and Other Great Tips to Improve Your Leadership with Vinny Tafuro

Podcast Episode #26 — Learning the Human Side of Organizations with Duke Okes

By Brandon W. Jones on November 27, 2017 0

Hello, and welcome to the Leadership Done Right Podcast, Episode 26: Learning the Human Side of Organizations with Duke Okes.

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Get to Know Duke

Our guest today is a knowledge architect specializing in quality management. He has been in private practice since 1985 working with organizations in the U.S., Canada, Caribbean, Asia and the EU. He was formerly a quality professional in TRW’s automotive sector.

Duke’s Accomplishments

He was elected Fellow of the American Society for Quality and holds degrees in technology, business, and education, and completed doctoral coursework in applied management and decision sciences.

Duke has served as an adjunct university faculty member teaching statistics and management research. He is also a graduate of the international program in the Gestalt approach to organization and system development.

Duke the Author

He is the author of three books and more than 60 articles on quality management topics, and is a frequent speaker for professional and trade audiences.

Seminars

He conducts seminars for a variety of professional societies, training organizations and universities, and has served as an examiner for the Tennessee Performance Excellence award. He has also worked as a volunteer SCORE counselor to small business.

My Connection To Duke

I had the privilege of attending one of his classes on root cause analysis and it was evident that he is very talented, knowledgeable, and a leader in his field. Our guest today is Duke Okes. Duke, welcome to the show!

Leadership is Influence

Duke’s lifelong desire has always been to find out how things work. He accomplishes that by studying, reading, and learning. “I am always fascinated with learning. Always doing this since I was a kid. I’ve been taking things apart, trying to figure out how things work. Obviously when you get into leadership it’s more complex, because people are not nearly as predictable as the laws of physics.”

His desire to learn how things work transitioned into learning more about leadership to influence others. He had to learn leadership skills to effectively influence others with his technical skills. [Read more…] about Podcast Episode #26 — Learning the Human Side of Organizations with Duke Okes

What Do Most People Forget About Effective Communication? Learn here!

By Brandon W. Jones on November 4, 2017 0

Whether you are a leader, follower, neither, or something in between, effective communication is an essential part of life. You communicate with your spouse, people at the store, your children, friends, coworkers, neighbors, employees, and many others. Communication is a constant part of life. In this post, we are going to discuss what most people forget about effective communication!

Your communication with others will have a positive or negative impact on your life. It can lead to you accomplishing your goals and dreams or frustration and anger.

Let’s Learn About Effective Communication!

What’s important is knowing how to effectively communicate with each person. To be an effective communicator, we will focus on:

Why you should know your audience
Appropriate methods for effective communication
Communication breakdowns
Effective listening habits

Why You Should Know Your Audience

Effective communication starts with knowing your audience. To understand why you should know your audience, here are questions you can ask.

Who is your audience?

Your audience is the person or group of people you are speaking with or directing your communication towards. When you talk to your significant other, he/she is your audience. While you speak to a large group, they are your audience. When you write an email or letter, the recipient is your audience.

Why should you know your audience?

To answer this question, let’s consider the following questions. Have you ever gone to a store to learn about a product and the store representative spoke to you as if you didn’t know anything about their product when you actually knew a lot about it? Or, have you spoken to someone that acted as though you knew exactly what they were talking about, but you didn’t have a clue? If you have experienced either of these situations, the person speaking to you failed to know their target audience before opening their mouth.

Find out all you can about your audience before you communicate with them. This is key teachings when you are in sales. Salesman that know their audience and speak to them appropriately are exponentially more successful than those that don’t. This is equally important to all professions and situations. [Read more…] about What Do Most People Forget About Effective Communication? Learn here!

What You Need To Know To Create Effective PowerPoint Slides

By Brandon W. Jones on January 4, 2015 0

Mary Fernando is a specialist in academic consultancy and is providing experienced educational insights to students struggling with their academic work or projects.

In the age of modern technology and science, it is a proven fact that visual appeal is far more impactful and reaching than something which is written in words or paragraphs. The strength of visual based material also is so strong that it registers with your mind much quicker than a normal piece of information comprising of several hundred words.

This is why we have seen a sharp rise in the use of graphs, charts, tables and pictures to present something important, for example, facts and research. This is just the basic change we are talking about here. Modern day presenting of information consists of high magnitude of visual appeal, which just baffles any audience sitting around and increases the rate of learning or interactivity to three folds.

PowerPoint slides and presentations have changed the way everything is presented, both in the educational institutions and professional world. Using presentations to highlight different avenues of learning in both aspects of the world is highly recommended and encouraged as well as appreciated.

The justifications of presentations will and can continue on for several pages, the topic for discussion today is how to incorporate that level of creativity within the PowerPoint slides, something which can entice the audience and make them remember your presentation. The later sections of this debate will continue to define several ways through which one can attain high creativity within slides. [Read more…] about What You Need To Know To Create Effective PowerPoint Slides

5 Practical Ways To Overcome Your Leadership Fear

By Brandon W. Jones on October 12, 2014 2

This is a guest post by Andrew Alpert. He is a professional coursework writing expert and provides coursework writing services online for students and underprivileged youth.

In order to master any skill, you need to first battle off all your fears related to it. Some people say leadership is a skill that comes naturally while others believe that if you are able to overcome your fears, you can surely become a great leader at any workplace. Improving leadership skills does not only help you achieve targets at work but also benefits the person in every aspect of life.

So, if you think that you need to polish up your leadership skills, prepare yourself to overcome all the fears that stop you from taking the lead. Some of such fears and factors along with their suitable solutions are:

1. Fear Of Facing Criticism

Nobody loves getting criticism for their work and performance. But, in order to become a great leader, you need to learn how to handle criticism positively and use it for improving your quality of work. There are always going to be people who constantly criticize your leadership skills because it is never easy to impress each and every individual at workplace with your leadership qualities. So, build your self-confidence and learn to accept positive criticism in your life. [Read more…] about 5 Practical Ways To Overcome Your Leadership Fear

Learn To Be Fearless

By Brandon W. Jones on May 8, 2013 0

As a leader, learning to be fearless is invaluable. The fearless leader is not afraid of what others think. He doesn’t get paralyzed by fear. The fearless leader thinks outside the box. He fears nothing and changes when necessary for improvement. The fearless leader doesn’t use or think about words like “challenge” or “problem,” but instead talks of “opportunities” and “blessings.”

The Fearless Culture

Several years ago, I was a missionary for my church. During that time, I spent 12 hours a day teaching people about Jesus Christ. I spent time walking up and down the streets and going door-to-door to find people to teach. People regularly ignored me and/or reject me because of the message I shared. Sometimes people even yelled and were very rude.

In that environment, I was very fear or discouraged at first because of the rejection. I didn’t like being rejected. The leaders that I worked under, however, created a fearless culture. Each week he taught us the importance of being fearless. His goal was to change our mindset so we only thought about being fearless.

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