FIR Podcast Network

Build a culture of healthcare innovations in organizations. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Dr. Bonnie Clipper (http://www.linkedin.com/in/BonnieClipper), founder and managing director of innovation advantage. She is also an influential thought leader, nurse advocate, international speaker, and best-selling author.

Dr. Bonnie conducts strategic coaching for leaders and organizations. She is passionate about providing thought leadership, strategic direction, coaching, and education to clients wishing to change their culture to become more innovative.

If you have a company or healthcare company that needs better customer service and a #HealthcareInnovation, consider reaching out to Dr. Bonnie Clipper by sending her a direct message on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/BonnieClipper.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* Healthcare organizations that want to transform health through innovations should look at the work being done by Dr. Bonnie Clipper. #HealthcareInnovations https://innovationadvantage.com @ThoughtLeaderRN

* When organizations are interested in building a culture of innovation to generate new ideas, I help them put those building blocks in place to actually change the culture. #HealthcareInnovations https://innovationadvantage.com @ThoughtLeaderRN

* Building a culture of innovation leads to the generation of new ideas, change of value propositions, improved work and outcome, and increased engagement of the organization’s staff. #HealthcareInnovations https://innovationadvantage.com @ThoughtLeaderRN

* In healthcare, especially in nursing, nurses don’t realize that they’re innovators. They’re familiar with MacGyvering something but don’t really know the word “Innovators.” #HealthcareInnovations https://innovationadvantage.com @ThoughtLeaderRN

* Teaching teams in orgs through a collaborative functional event brings people together across functional teams. #HealthcareInnovations https://innovationadvantage.com @ThoughtLeaderRN

To learn more about Thought Leadership and how it can help you be successful, visit: https://thoughtleaderlife.com/.

Overcome stress and a state of overwhelm with management coaching. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Lori Karpman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/LoriKarpman), CEO of Lori Karpman & Company. She is also an executive, personal development, and leadership coach.

Lori conducts management coaching for entrepreneurs who are stressed and overwhelmed with the responsibilities that they have, both at work and in their personal lives. She is dedicated to helping her clients overcome stress and being overwhelmed by their responsibilities through a personalized management coaching program tailored to the needs of their individual journeys.

If you are stressed or in a state of overwhelm and need #ManagementCoaching help, consider reaching out to Lori Karpman by visiting her website at https://www.lorikarpman.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/LoriKarpman.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* High-achieving type-A personality clients who are stressed and overwhelmed by the responsibilities they have in work and in life should look at the work being done by Lori Karpman. #ManagementCoaching https://www.lorikarpman.com @LoriKarpman

* I help transform people’s lives, taking them from point A to point B. I give them more time and a quality of life that they didn’t have. #ManagementCoaching https://www.lorikarpman.com @LoriKarpman

* I have my own processes and systems, but the main difference with my coaching is that everything is totally customized. #ManagementCoaching https://www.lorikarpman.com @LoriKarpman

* I meet the client where they are today and work with them to get them where they want to be tomorrow. #ManagementCoaching https://www.lorikarpman.com @LoriKarpman

* I have a whole series of tools that I’ve gained over the past 20 years. I select the appropriate tool for each client for their journey, making it completely customized. #ManagementCoaching https://www.lorikarpman.com @LoriKarpman

To learn more about Thought Leadership and how it can help you be successful, visit: https://thoughtleaderlife.com/.

Build authority by creating a high-value and high-touch program that elevates your positioning in your field of expertise. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Jessica Yarbrough (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicayarbrough-bizconsultant/), a business strategist and consultant for entrepreneurs who want to sell high-value products and services. She creates incredible case studies of her massive results in the businesses of entrepreneurs and individuals with whom she shares the same values on why they want to thrive and be experts in their scope of influence.

Theresa helps her clients build an expert platform that rapidly raises their value and credibility to attract high-paying clients. She is clear in investing mentorship and training only to like-minded individuals who are passionate in taking their business to the next level and are ready to do the work, committed to take action, and willing to do things differently.

If you’re not seeing any new clients coming in and aren’t making the money that you know you should be making in the marketplace, consider reaching out to Jessica Yarbrough by visiting her website, ceobabe.com, and going to https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicayarbrough-bizconsultant.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* Coaches and consultants who need to be seen and get paid because they charge too little and work too much should reach out to Jessica Yarbrough. #ZeroToMillions https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicayarbrough-bizconsultant.

* Do you ask yourself why everyone else seems to be more successful even though you have more skills and experience to offer? I can help you elevate your messaging and positioning in the business to attract more clients. #ZeroToMillions com

* You have more value than your competitors but are not contracting the people who see your value and have the means and ability to pay for it. My role is to raise your credibility in the marketplace. #ZeroToMillions https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicayarbrough-bizconsultant

* I can look at exactly what you’re doing right now, take things off your plate that aren’t getting you to your goals, and help get you laser-focused on your one main thing. Are you ready to be recognized as an expert in your industry? #ZeroToMillions com

* My background in international business and my track record of building multiple startup companies give me the credibility to replicate the same for you and take your company from #ZeroToMillions (or billions!) in no time. com

To learn more about Thought Leadership and how it can help you be successful, visit https://thoughtleaderlife.com/.

It’s no secret that people are canceling conferences and other events left and right due to the coronavirus pandemic, so what can you do to host a virtual conference?

In this episode of AMP Up Your Digital Marketing, Glenn Gaudet speaks with Armen Najarian, CMO and Chief Identity Officer at Agari, an email security company. Armen recently had to make the tough decision of canceling his company’s annual customer conference, Trust 2020, and quickly organized a virtual conference to take its place. He walked us through the entire process, what he learned, and how he views the end result. You’ll learn:

* How to message this decision to your organization, your attendees, speakers, partners, and others.

* What the lasting effect of virtual conferences becoming so common in 2020 will be. 

* What the benefits are of a virtual conference over a physical event. 

Trust 2020, was slated for mid-April at a luxury resort in Los Angeles, where Armen has hosted large events in the past. Unfortunately, there will not be a Trust conference this year at any physical venue. Instead, Armen and his team decided to pull the trigger and cancel the physical event and transform it into a virtual conference that will take place on May 5.

Of course, this was not an easy decision. There were a lot of factors to consider, but unfortunately, this is a path many companies and event organizers have to walk down this year.

Making the Tough Decision

At the end of the day, Armen is happy with the way his team adjusted its plans into a virtual conference. Of course, he would have liked Trust 2020 to take place in LA as a physical conference, but considering the circumstances, it’s on track to be a very valuable event to all involved.

But as you can imagine, this was a difficult decision to make.

“We had a lot of angst in the week leading up to making the decision to transition from physical to digital,” Armen said on the podcast. “We psyched ourselves out thinking, ‘oh my goodness the sky is falling, no one will want to show up, our entire workforce is going to be angry,’ and that’s not the case.”

Armen says that despite the inconvenience of being forced to make the transition to a virtual conference, this experience showed him that people are resilient and flexible.

“People understand and embrace the opportunity and are excited about this,” he said. “Don’t get too stressed out about having to make this transition. It’s something that if done reasonably well, is still very valuable, and people get that.”

Breaking The Big News

Anyone who has organized a conference before knows there’s a lot that goes into it and a lot of people behind it.

This means you have to tell everyone about the big change you’re making towards a virtual conference including attendees, speakers, everyone in your organization, the broader market, and the venue.

Of course, this news disappoints many people internally. There were a lot of people at Agari involved in putting the physical conference together, including salespeople who drove many registrations, people who worked hard on content, and more.

Your message to everyone at its most basic level has to be that you’re making a difficult but necessary decision to cancel the physical event, but the show will go on digitally. You will follow up with more information.

What this does is it gets the word out quickly in order to give people plenty of time to cancel travel arrangements and hotel stays, while giving the organizers time to logistically put together the virtual conference.

This is the route Agari took,

Strategize change by identifying the gaps blocking the growth and productivity of your organization. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Theresa Gale (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-gale-cec-crc-68181a/), a speaker, consultant, certified executive coach, and co-founder of Transform, Inc. with Mary Anne Wampler (they also co-wrote a book: “Wake Up and Sell”). She helps transform businesses to run like well-oiled machines, with responsible and accountable leaders fostering an environment where all employees are fully committed to the company’s success.

Theresa is certified in conversational intelligence and licensed in administering several tools designed to achieve maximum benefit from training and consulting, including Enneagram — one of the top of the leading-edge ideas. She helps design organizational systems for businesses, define policies and procedures (and even training guides), and create the benchmarks needed to collaborate and track the success of organizations.

If you’re a business owner and recognize that your business is not scalable, consider reaching out to Theresa Gale by visiting her website, https://transforminc.com/, and going to https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-gale-cec-crc-6818a/.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* Business owners who realize that their business is not scalable should reach out to Theresa Gale. #StrategicGrowth https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-gale-cec-crc-68181a/

* There are many constraints obstructing productivity in businesses. I can design comprehensive and customized solutions for your organization to have a cohesive and strategic team. #StrategicGrowth https://transforminc.com/ [email protected]

* What are your priorities that fuel growth in your business? I can help your business grow by having the right people and the right processes in place, with the right strategies applied. #StrategicGrowth https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-gale-cec-crc-6818a/

* My role is to lessen, even eradicate, unnecessary problems brought about by you doing everything. Learn how to delegate to your managers what they need to do in order to perform up to and above your expectations. #StrategicGrowth https://transforminc.com/ [email protected]

* My constant quest for learning and a long list of companies I’ve worked with over the decades gives me the credibility to mentor you about how businesses tick. I can identify gaps and help you create a roadmap to address them. https://transforminc.com/ [email protected]

To learn more about Thought Leadership and how it can help you be successful, visit https://thoughtleaderlife.com/.

Learn how to manage people in this mind-intensive knowledge economy. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert David Grebow https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgrebow/, an author, speaker, workshop leader, and CEO of the Knowledge Star.

David has been in the tech industry for over five decades, helping companies learn a new management style that drives success in the mind-intensive world of work.

If your company does not have the needed energy in its workforce and you can’t figure out how to transition into a mind mentality, reach out to David Grebow by sending him an email at [email protected].

Here are a few AHA messages from this episode:

* Managers who have experienced change and are feeling lost and overwhelmed should look at the work being done by David Grebow at https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgrebow/. #TechImpactOnWork

* I studied Bureau of Labor statistics from around the world. There was a massive shift from labor-intensive work to what I call mind-intensive work. https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgrebow/. #TechImpactOnWork

* What I try to do for companies is to explain to them what’s changed since the 1980s. People work with their minds these days and not with their hands. https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgrebow/. #TechImpactOnWork

* There are companies that focus on managing hands, and there are new companies around the world that focus on managing minds. What does your company manage? https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgrebow/ #TechImpactOnWork

* The frustration of managers comes about because their companies are locked into an old industrial model of management that was developed to manage people who work with their hands. https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgrebow/. #TechImpactOnWork

To learn more about Thought Leadership and how it can help you be successful, subscribe to the channel: http://youtube.com/user/thoughtleaderlife.

Our second weekly Zoom Chat included a robust discussion of criticism leveled at the increasingly popular videoconferencing tool, Zoom, and the response from the company’s CEO.

Reduce credit card processing fees and save more money for your company. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Jeff Shavitz https://aha.pub/JeffShavitz/, who is a senior entrepreneur and has spent the majority of his career in the payment processing merchant services industry.

He helps business owners save money on their credit card processing fees without needing to change their existing credit card processor or bank.

If you’re a CEO or CFO who pays more than you should on credit card processing and you want to figure out how to save that money, you should reach out to Jeff Shavitz by sending him an email at [email protected].

Here are a few AHA messages from this episode:

* CEOs and CFOs who are paying more than they should on credit card processing fees should reach out to Jeff Shavitz at https://aha.pub/JeffShavitz. #CreditCardFeeReduction

* We want to help business leaders, executives, CEOs, CFOs, and office managers take control of their credit card expenses. https://aha.pub/JeffShavitz #CreditCardFeeReduction

* Most business executives just don’t understand what they’re paying to VISA, Mastercard, AmEx, and Discover on a monthly basis. Do you know how much you can save when you learn #CreditCardFeeReduction? https://aha.pub/JeffShavitz

* Our business model is that we don’t ask our clients to change anything. We let them stay with their existing bank while we discover ways to save money for them. https://aha.pub/JeffShavitz #CreditCardFeeReduction

* Our clients give us a piece of the pie when we make or save them money through #CreditCardFeeReduction. If we saved them zero, then they pay us zero. Very simple. https://aha.pub/JeffShavitz

To learn more about Thought Leadership and how it can help you be successful, subscribe to the channel: http://youtube.com/user/thoughtleaderlife.

Giving your employees the work-life synergy they need with change management. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert, Steven Crawford (http://aha.pub/StevenCrawford), Director of Sales and a senior consultant at McGhee Productivity Solutions.

Steven conducts change management programs for individuals and orgs. He helps empower individuals, teams and orgs so that they can increase their performance and work-life balance. He is dedicated to helping his clients create a culture of productivity, alignment and accountability.

If your employees are not aligned or effective in the ways they need to be, there is a #ChangeManagement approach that you can use. You should consider reaching out to Steven Crawford by visiting his website at https://www.mcgheepro.com or http://aha.pub/StevenCrawford.

Here are a few AHA messages from this episode:

* Clients who have employees who lack an alignment to the company’s goals and objectives should look at the work being done by Steven Crawford. #ChangeManagement https://www.mcgheepro.com @StevenDCrawford

* Clients who are facing challenges with workflow management, email overload and too many meetings and interruptions should consider getting the help of an expert in dealing with those challenges. #ChangeManagement https://www.mcgheepro.com @StevenDCrawford

* Get your work-life synergy by focusing on training and your personal workflow management. That training process enables you to set up your day and manage what matters most. #ChangeManagement https://www.mcgheepro.com @StevenDCrawford

* Get work-life synergy for your organization with #ChangeManagement programs that will drive alignment and accountability within the org. https://www.mcgheepro.com @StevenDCrawford

* Getting people truly aligned is more important than their just agreeing to company goals and missions. #ChangeManagement https://www.mcgheepro.com @StevenDCrawford

To learn more about Thought Leadership and how it can help you be successful, visit: https://thoughtleaderlife.com/.

There’s no need to sugarcoat it. These are challenging times. But agencies can and should continue to engage in business development.

It requires a delicate balance, so Chip and Gini address how to thread the needle appropriately to make sure you are meeting the needs of prospects without unnecessarily alienating those who may be less receptive to your message right now.

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