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Rita Connor , Licensed Professional Coach | Keynote Speaker | Author
During her hospitality industry career working in corporate America, Rita Connor represented some of the top Four and Five Star resorts and hotels in the world. Rita served as Vice President of Education for Society of Incentive Travel Executives and as a Board member of Meeting Professionals International. In the year 2000, Rita’s passion for the transformative powers of spa resorts inspired her to create her own successful company, Elite Resorts & Spas where she promoted meetings and incentives to some of the finest, independent hotels and resorts in North America.
In Rita’s Act 3, she became a Licensed Professional Coach, Author, Certified Seminar Leader and Keynote Speaker. Rita shares cutting-edge insights from her bestselling book, Your Wow Years - Supercharge the Second Half of Life as a speaker and workshop leader. Rita and her boyfriend are avid travelers. She also enjoys her current role as Vice President of Beach Cities Toastmasters Club in Manhattan Beach. Her passion is to help others live their best chapter ever!
Are you apart of a high-functioning team? Can a company be transformed to increase production, impact, and employees? What can you do to increase the impact you have on a business? Tune in today for Merle’s Pearls of Business Wisdom to find out!
You are aware that seeking for work involves...work! So treat it like you would a job.
How can we strengthen and promote the positive aspects of a job? What is it about one individual that connects with you and not the other?
Listen now to Merle's Pearls of Business Wisdom for additional questions and answers!
The COVID-19 crisis has created an imperative for companies to reconfigure their operations—and an opportunity to transform them. To the extent that they do so, greater productivity will follow. And to the extent they do not do so, sluggish productivity will follow, and so will the insecurity of your job as the company withers.
How to integrate your job into your life rather than having it rob you from your life.
What is an ILN? It's an Informal Learning Network. What is an Informal Learning Network? Tune in to find out.
I am very excited to announce my first guest on Merle's Pearls of Business Wisdom. He is Chad Eaves , an expert on the value of meaningful communication in corporate leadership. Tune in to solve the ILN mystery.
Chad's work in communication spans over three decades in the areas of team communication, strategic communication, and public speaking.
This experience includes working with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, small businesses, and service in the US Navy.
He has a Master of Science in Communication from Northwestern University, an MBA from University of Phoenix, and an engineering degree from the University of Florida.
Chad has co-written a published article on informal learning networks and authored several books. He is the publisher of the Communication Newsletter, and hosts the Communication Newsletter podcast.
Chad and his wife live in the Chicago suburbs where they follow Formula 1 racing and University of Florida athletics.
Check out Chad's article here: https://www.stemcommunicator.pro/informal-learning-article
When you aren't the team's leader, how can you help your team get along? Find out here on another episode of Merle's Pearls of Business Wisdom podcast.
Join me as I talk about why relationships at work are important.
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