Learn to Win with Derek Lundsten and Todd Staples

In order to set your organization up for success you need to be able to communicate efficiently and effectively with all departments. Learning and development is crucial in order for a business to succeed. How do you ensure you are practicing the best methods in your training program? Chief Learning Rebel, Shannon Tipton, discusses out of the box thinking and blended learning techniques that will set your organization up for continued growth, development and success.

* – Fighting against the status quo* – The power of content deconstructionY* – You can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s thinking* – Reverse engineering the goal* – Utilizing chatbots in training* – How to solve communication issues * – Defining responsibility* – Creating an equation for success* – How focus groups help solve the underlying issues* – Why reading is the secret to growth & development* – Why we should ask ‘why’ more

Website:

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Todd: (14:17)Shannon, thanks so much for joining on the call today. I’m really excited to catch up.Shannon: (14:21)Me too. I’m super excited. It’s a great day. So let’s get down and dirty with it.Todd: (14:26)Yeah. Fighting the good fight. Right? So learning rebels is Shannon’s company. And why don’t you know at the beginning, I love for the listener to get right in your head and then maybe in your heart a little bit and figure out what led you to start learning rebels. And, and what’s your big why? Why do you do what you do and what is it that you do?Shannon: (14:48)Okay. Well, if you will indulge me, there’s little bit of a backstory here is learning rebels at first was simply a blog. And when I was working for corporate America, and this was Oh, probably about seven years ago I needed an Avenue for my thoughts. You know, so when you’re working in corporate America, you’re a little boxed in and maybe you have some beliefs in your head that you just need to find a voice for. And that’s when I started learning rebels just simply as a blog. Well then the universe came about and decided that I should not be in corporate America any longer and I should be out on my own. So my thought process was, you know, when you go on interviews, it’s, it’s like a date, right? So you have this, you have this situation where I’m trying to figure out if you’re good for me and you’re trying to figure out if I’m good for you.Shannon: (15:53)And just like any other first date, it’s all downhill from the first day, right? So if you don’t connect,

Leaders are often faced with resolving conflict and driving difficult conversations. In order to handle these tasks in the proper manner you must have a certain set of skills. It is important to be able to communicate efficiently and effectively. Communications Skills Specialist, Joel Silverstone, discusses how listening plays a big role in communication + how to become a great communicator & influencer by practicing his M.O.V.E. Framework.

* – The secret to communicating effectively* – Genuine reaction = listening* – Why clarification is important when listening* – The M.O.V.E. Framework* – How breathing helps relieve stress* – How to make people feel understood and validated* – Why communication styles affect listening skills* – Listen without solving a problem* – Being aware of your habits

Website:

http://joelsilverstone.com

Mentioned Book:

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Todd: (02:05)So Joel, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for taking the time to come and connect with me today. Joel: (02:11)Listen, Todd, I think this is going to be fantastic. I look forward to, uh, to our conversation. Todd: (02:16)Awesome. Awesome. So, before we started rolling the cameras here, we had some, some good discussions. I definitely want to get into today some of your past experiences on running Spartan race and uh, some of the other things that, uh, you’ve done that have led you up to this point. But for anyone who is just tuned in, listening or watching, can you tell us a little bit about how you ended up focusing on what you do today and what that is that you provide for clients and for the world? Joel: (02:47)Yeah, absolutely. Well, uh, first of all, start with, you know, the end, which is that basically I lead sessions on communication skills, believing that people can move their conversations forward, that we get stuck in this cycle and it goes round and round. But how do we actually break that cycle and move forward? Uh, and it all started because in my former life I was a professional actor. Uh, in fact, I think it’s 23 years now that I celebrate my six and a half minute claim to fame on the X files. Todd: (03:15)No way. That’s great. So that’s why you recognize my green screen set up right away, your Hollywood background.Joel: (03:22)Hollywood background. Um, but you know, like all actors, I struggled to pay the rent. So I started teaching acting and realized that business people started coming to these classes. Um, they wanted to be better, at thinking fast on their feet. They wanted to be better at making first impress...

Big decisions are hard to make. The back and forth of wondering, ‘will this be the right move,’ is something everyone has struggled with. Before making a purchase the customer often likes to develop some kind of connection, or bond of trust. Principal and Founder of Stories That Work, Gerry Lantz, speaks towards his professional experiences and how a truly passionate story leads to unlimited business potential.

Highlights Discussed in This Episode:

* – The benefits of reading more in depth* – The two important decisions customers make * – The value of learning & education* – The secret of professional & personal development* – How watching others develop brings joy* – The David Ogilvy culture* – Why telling a story is the best way to make a recommendation* – Why good taglines resonate with you* – How authentic success stories outline one’s integrity

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Mentioned Books:

Ogilvy On Advertising – David Ogilvy

Scientific Advertising – Claude Hopkins

The Human Brand – Chris Malonehttps://www.amazon.com/Human-Brand-Chris-Malone/dp/1622312961

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Derek: (01:55)Gerry, it’s great to have you on the learn to win show. Uh, as always, it’s, it’s fun talking with you. And I’m excited for the listeners too and viewers to hear your story and just your journey. And, you know, one of we were talking about early on is the fact that you had, uh, you’ve had and continue to have an amazing career, uh, in the world of creative branding and, and, uh, I joked when they called you one of the original mad man and you said, no, I’m way too young for that. So, and I, so I give you credit and I said, you missed all the fun, but tell us what about, you know, how you started in the world of creative branding and then I’ll kind of take it down another path from there. But yeah. Gerry: (02:28)Well, thanks for having me. Thanks for the introduction. Um, I was kinda mad men late. Um, we didn’t do three martini lunches. We, uh, I got in time to have two martini lunches and I had a couple of those, um, and was late getting back to work. Um, I was actually a teacher to start. I taught high school in Ohio and then here in Pennsylvania. And then I went, you know, I really want to be a filmmaker and um, media kind of person. I went to temple university right up the road here and got a master’s in film making and um, cinema studies now that in a nickel would have bought me a cup of coffee back then. Um, but I did manage to get up to, uh, New York. And I did not actually started Ogilvy and Mather, which is a major global ad. I’ve worked at three of the five large, largest global addings. He’s started as a trainee. I mean, literally a trainee in Ogilvy and McCann Erickson was there about a year and a half and a head Hunter came along and said, I want to go to Ogilvy and be an account executive. And I desperately wanted to go there because I knew I could get the training that I needed. As I say,

Tune into Part 2 with Michael Gelb (Episode 1 is here) as he discusses his new book “The Healing Organization,” the conscious capitalism movement, and how businesses that commit to making a positive wholistic impact on all stakeholders can reap massive financial rewards. Learn how efficiency also plays an important role in any business and why plain old good is no longer good enough. 

  Big Ideas Discussed in This Episode:

* Healing means to return to wholeness* The birth of the conscious capitalism movement* Seth Godin’s idea about “Atmospheric cancer”* Why “Good to Great” model is no longer good enough* How freedom yields prosperity* How to become a healing leader

Website:

MichaelGelb.com

Book Referenced:

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business – John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia and Bill George

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business – John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia and Bill George

https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Capitalism-Liberating-Heroic-Business/dp/B00JELN61Q/ref=as_li_ss_tl?crid=1DAEE8CMUFP4I&keywords=conscious+capitalism&qid=1578553032&sprefix=conscious+capit,aps,137&sr=8-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=learntowin02-20&linkId=929c02bd0bd18bdcd382902cf507cb57&language=en_US

Watch the full video interview here!

How To Use High Performance Learning To Set Your Organization Up For Success With Michael Gelb

Understanding and developing a corporate culture that people stand behind and really believe in, is not an easy task. How do leaders learn to learn while inspiring their employees to grow and be successful? Author, Michael Gelb shares his background on how creativity + innovation lead to positive learning experiences and continued success.

Big Ideas Discussed in This Episode:

* The passion to learn how to learn* How to re-educate the mind & body* The real purpose of education* Developing the skills to be an independent thinker* How to learn to win in business* Why diverse opinions are important* Creating a culture of respect* Developing a sustainable competitive advantage* Meeting needs more efficiently* Making connections in everything

Want more Michael Gelb? Listen to Part 2 where Michael discusses his new book, The Healing Organization.

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Book Referenced:

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business – John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia and Bill George

The younger workforce of today is known for job hopping, so how do you attract and retain the right candidates? Developing a scalable business plan that keeps the company’s core values in mind is a must. CEO and Co-Founder of Vengreso, Mario Martinez discusses his company’s core values (#Don’tDoNormal, #BuildToScale and #BeAwesome) and how they are utilized to develop, engage and motivate everyone to bring their A-game. 

* – The big thing missing from business plans* – The 3 business elements that cover ‘everything’* – The components of building a scalable business plan* – How to continuously achieve AWESOMENESS* – How to remotely celebrate company WINS* – Why LinkedIn is the ‘new’ resume

Website:

Vengreso.com

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Todd: (00:01)Mario, thank you so much for joining the show today. It’s great to see you buddy. Mario: (00:28)Todd, my man, I’m excited to be here with you. Thanks so much for having us. Todd: (00:32)Yeah, yeah. So, um, I know that we, we talked a little before the show and we wanted to get really into sort of this, this cool three-part approach. You have I guess a framework, I’m not sure exactly what you would call it, but, um, the don’t do normal, build to scale, and is it awesome? Mario: (00:51)So I would thunder you took all my thunder. Todd: (00:54)Well you probably say a much better, a lot more fanfare and pizazz, but, um, I, I really am curious how you bring those things that are, that are really playful, which is great for the topic of this show. Because it’s all about how you can play to win and, uh, and bring sort of a fun and engaging approach to work, especially in a corporate environment. So, share away, man, what are these three things and how have you, how do you approach improving corporate culture and sales growth with this, this process you have? Mario: (01:26)Yeah, I think it’s probably good ideas. Todd. Maybe to, to let your listeners just get a little background about myself and that is, I’ve spent out of 22 years, I spent 18 of them in corporate, right? So everything I’m talking about, it has a mindset of what, what life is like as a leader. And my last stop was a VP of sales for a technology, software, SAS company and um, what life was like there. Um, versus what life is like. Now I’m being the CEO of a, well what I call a small business. I’ll be at, we are the world’s largest digital sales training and consulting company. Um, and, and how do these worlds like blend together, especially when you’re thinking about going to market and accelerating growth and those types of things. But you know, inside of inside of big organizations and corporation...

A great trainer, teacher, coach or mentor is unforgettable because of the positive impact they have on your life. When done right, a training program not only helps you develop the skills needed to perform your role to the best of your ability, it improves your outlook on life—and this transcends the workplace and makes for a more happy life at home.

How do you find the right people and develop the right framework to lead your organization to continuous success?

Sr. Director of Leadership & Organizational Development, Jason Zeman, discusses his passion for training and explains how commitment, courage and support are the key ingredients for developing new skills.

* – How great trainers inspire* – Why learning the ‘basics’ is important* – What is needed to develop new skills* – The difference between changing and ingraining behavior* – The components to building a strong curriculum * – The reasons behind ‘priming’ people* – The three phases of the human brain* – Why spacing out learning programs leads to success* – How to become proficient in coaching* – Overcoming coaching roadblocks* – The elements of a good coaching module* – Creating a continuous coaching culture

Books Mentioned:

The 5AM Club – Robin Sharma

https://www.robinsharma.com/book/the-5am-club

It’s The Manager – Gallup

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 Derek Lundsten

06:42

It’s awesome to have you on the Learn to Win podcast obviously we’ve known each other and been friends a long time and its been fun to just watch your career grow and all that you’re doing in terms of leading and coaching and growing people. And I think that our audience could receive a lot of value from and those people who are part of the LTEN community. It’s awesome to have an LTEN member of the year on. so welcome to the show.

 Jason.Zeman

07:06

Thank you so much Derek. Happy to be here.

 Derek Lundsten

07:12

And with that, you know, obviously this is a chance for you to meet Todd.

07:16

And Todd. Maybe I’ll turn it over to you to ask the first question here. And in terms of getting know Jason, a little bit.

 Todd Staples

07:23

Yeah, let me jump right in. So Jason, I love coming across someone like you, whether it’s through an intro, or just through, you know, being online being on LinkedIn.

07:33

Because as I was going through your profile. I was like, my, my hot words were popping up in your profile like transformation and, you know, organizational development, all these great things that have a big impact on companies.

07:49

Have you always been on that path or was it a very convoluted way to get here and why, why are you doing what you’re doing right. Why are you in the role you are in?

 Jason.Zeman

08:01

Yeah, thanks. It’s a great question. I mean, I’ve been fortunate because I’ve always

08:08

Had such clarity.

Understanding and practicing emotional intelligence is an important skill for everyone to master. Being able to control emotions and using them to benefit yourself as well as others is the goal. What are the steps we can take to make this goal attainable? Educational Specialist, Kris Macc (Macchiarola), explains why emotional and social skills should be taught at an early age and how you can develop strong relationships with these powerful skills.

* – The benefits of teaching emotional and social skills in the school system* – Why separating emotions from work is a negative* – Leveraging emotions to inspire others* – Creating a psychologically safe environment* – Understanding personality traits and communication style preferences* – How self-reflecting on emotions keeps us in check* – Why being the lead character in your life is important* – We are more alike, than we are different* – Creating mutually beneficial relationships* – It’s ok to be vulnerable

Websites:

https://kmaccsolutions.com

https://krismacc-author.com

Book:

#NoApprovalNeeded – Kris Macchiarola

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Todd: (05:09)So Kris, tell us, tell us a little bit about your why. Like what is drawing you and what has drawn you to your profession recently and over your whole life. What is the reason you do what you do? 

Kris: (05:40)Well, I mean, we have to really go back to, it’s probably been about 20 years where I started as a psychologist for the school systems. And at that point I was exposed to emotional intelligence for the first time. But from a student and teacher perspective, we used to do train the trainer back then and we would go around the entire school faculties and teach them the emotional and social skills that they could teach the students because we knew that there were fewer behavior problems, lower absentee rates, and they did better academically. And so fast forward into my career in corporate where I spent close to 20 years and I was exposed to emotional intelligence from a business standpoint when I decided to go out on my own and thought about, all right, what are the things that I’m passionate about and how can I make a difference? Emotional intelligence and leadership development together were very much in my wheel house. And you know, I just seen that there is such a need with organizations and leaders that there are all these blind spots that exist. And it seems like people sometimes want to operate in silos, but that’s not realistic for the way that we work. And we don’t, uh, we don’t necessarily teach people these skills that they need to be successful at work. And if they didn’t get it at home, all of a sudden they’re put in these work environments they are working in teams, cross-functionally, matrix organizations and problems arise and they are not confronting them in a way that’s beneficial. You know, they, I like to say that they are politely being passive aggressive.

The passion for learning starts at a young age. You are rewarded and cheered on for crawling, walking and learning new words. As we get older, we are critiqued, told what we could improve upon, and do better at. The positive feedback waivers along with our interests. How do we keep the youth of today motivated to learn? 

Author and Entrepreneur, Seth Godin, shares educational experiences along with his ongoing project of helping individuals transform into their best possible selves. He has written 19 best sellers, was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame and continues to motivate and inspire people all over the world.

* – Why interacting is the secret to learning* – Extending emotional labor to learn hard tasks* – What you can learn in public school, and what you must learn elsewhere* – The importance of socialization* – Creating a dynamic that makes people WANT to learn* – How positive feedback drives learning* – The need for teaching leadership* – You’re Ready, Now Is The Time: Benefits of the Alt MBA program* – Learning from relationships

Websites:

https://www.sethgodin.com

https://www.akimboworkshops.com

https://altmba.com

https://themarketingseminar.com

Podcast:

https://www.akimbo.link

Blog:

https://seths.blog

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Derek: (01:52)So the way I recognize you, or I appreciate about you is you identify yourself as a teacher and that you work on projects. What’s the next project in your mind that you kind of see coming down the line? I mean, you have so many between the podcast fellowship, between Alt MBA, between everything, the you’ve written, everything that you’ve worked on. I mean, what’s the future for you? Seth: (02:14)I really don’t feel like I’m working on a lot of projects right now. I feel like I’m working on one project right now. When I was a book packager, we did a book a month. And in order to do a book a month, we had to have four books a month in the works. That’s a lot. Right? And cause the information please, Business Almanac doesn’t have a lot in common with Buzzword Bingo. Right. Now the mission is really coherent, which is the technology has changed such that, it doesn’t make sense to pursue education anymore. Education is compliance-based and accreditation based. It’s a piece of paper that proves you put up with a lot of nonsense and paid a lot of money that is clearly going away. And the alternative is what would happen if you learned something. But learning doesn’t come from being lectured at learning comes from interacting. So that’s my project and there are lots of flavors of that project, but that’s my project.Derek: (03:13)Well that’s fundamentally why we’re here then because that’s...

Imagine what you could learn if you had over 600 mentors. If you could sit with each of them for 30-60 minutes and ask them about the key principles they’ve learned that have made them so successful, what do you think that would do for you?

Well, today’s guest Jeremy Ryan Slate has been interviewing people for nearly 5 years on his “Create Your Own Life” podcast—over 600 so far—and we were lucky enough to have a great conversation with Jeremy about what he’s learned from this experience.

If you are looking for frameworks on how to live with purpose, build a personal brand, and surround yourself with people who can support you on your journey, you are in for a great episode!

A few key takeaways from this episode:

* – Why you need someone to remind you of your pitfalls* – How the media space is changing* – The importance of authenticity * – Understanding how to utilize your skillsets effectively * – Important lessons learned from history* – Using curiosity to learn new things* – Why purpose is so important to younger generations* – How a ‘different’ mindset & consistency helps to achieve goals* – The power of concentration* – How a mentor keeps you on track

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