Parenting can be tough. Parenting teens can be even tougher. In this week's Breakfast with Bacon (family edition) Whit and Jackson talk about how understanding each other's Strengths eased conflict and allowed them to "be who they are".

In this week's Breakfast with Bacon we discuss the importance of good team work when prepping for, and during, vacation.

Chris Berger, VP of Enterprise Communications at Atrium Health, joins us this week. He speaks to his Achiever Strength and the importance of having diversity of thought on your team with folks who think differently.

Four months into the pandemic and working remote, it's as important now as it was in the beginning to connect with each other...even if it's still via Zoom.

When looking at Strengths it's often easy, and natural, to default to what we lack. In this week's Breakfast with Bacon, Doug helps us focus less on what we don’t have and more on what we do.

Looking to increase meeting impact? We are! Introducing a new product, Making Meetings Work. It's an easy-to-use app that collects anonymous data from meeting participants. We've been using it for our own weekly meeting for 60 days and have already implemented changes to increase impact. Hear what we're doing in this week's Breakfast with Bacon.

Strengths are great unless taken to the extreme. When that happens they can impact the person and others around them adversely, what we refer to as being "in overdrive". In Doug's 22 conversations last week, several Strengths (Achiever, Restorative, Maximizer) took center stage.

MC explains how diving into her Strengths helped lessen her career anxiety and gave her the confidence (and freedom) to live out who she truly is.

Know of someone who relocated during the pandemic and has done 100% of their onboarding virtually? We do! Meet the new CFO at the CRVA, Anthony Shelborne. He is this week's Breakfast with Bacon guest and he shares his experience with adjusting to beginning a new job, in a new city , in a vastly different working environment.

Influencing when you don't necessarily have influencing Strengths....