Real Recognition Radio

Montreal and New York City, June 7, 2011 – With innovation comes risk. What is the path from success to significance?

On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Nilofer Merchant the author of The New How & Jesse Lyn Stoner the coauthor, with Ken Blanchard, of the international bestseller Full Steam Ahead: Unleash the Power of Vision.

Jesse Lyn Stoner is the coauthor, with Ken Blanchard, of the international bestseller Full Steam Ahead: Unleash the Power of Vision. She has identified the three elements of a compelling vision and the process to make it come alive in an organization. Jesse also wrote Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard and is the author of Benchmarks of Team Excellence.

Nilofer Merchant is the author of The New How. She is a regular HBR contributor and has written for BusinessWeek, Forbes and AdAge. Through successes and failures, Nilofer has honed a framework for solving tough problems including MurderBoarding™.

Listen in to the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how people should respond to failure and discover how we encourage engagement in a workplace filled with fear.

Montreal and New York City, May 31, 2011 – Your biggest complaint about running a company might actually be your greatest asset.

On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Douglas Conant, president & CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and his co-author Mette Norgaard, a renowned teacher of leaders. Together Douglas and Mette authored TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments.

In TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments, Douglas and Mette reveal how every planned and spontaneous interaction is an opportunity to build engagement and promote an organization’s values, purpose and agenda.

Discover the secret that helped turn around the Campbell Soup Company and lead Nabisco Foods Company during five years of consecutive growth.

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how to use interruptions and other incidental points of contact to move your company forward.

Montreal and New York City, May 24, 2011 – What prompted Gallup to engage in wide-scale research to assess the wellbeing of people worldwide?

On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Dr. Jim Harter, chief scientist for Gallup’s international workplace management and wellbeing practices and the co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements.

Dr. Harter is author or coauthor of more than 1,000 research studies on employee engagement and talent as well as industrial and organizational psychology. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller 12: The Elements of Great Managing, and his research has been seen in the business bestsellers First, Break All the Rules, and How Full Is Your Bucket? and in publications such as USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

On Real Recognition Radio Dr. Harter will explain the five elements of wellbeing, how we can manage each of them and still stay balanced.

Montreal and New York City, May 17, 2011 – Could some organizational challenges be avoided if we had more women leaders?

On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals, and Jodi Krause, the Director of Council and Board Effectiveness at Cisco Systems.

Dr. Grant Halvorson is an expert blogger on motivation and leadership for Fast Company, Huffington Post, SmartBrief and Psychology Today, and a frequent guest blogger for the Harvard Business Review. She is also a regular contributor to the BBC World Service's Business Daily.

As the Director of Council and Board Effectiveness at Cisco Systems, Jodi Krause leads a team that is transforming Cisco through a highly innovative collaborative management structure that has evolved the processes, technology and culture of the company around an innovative business model of shared goals.

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover the biggest differences between women and men in leadership.

Montreal and New York City, May 9, 2011 – Is life largely a matter of perspective? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Dewitt Jones one of America’s top professional photographers and co-author of The Nature of Leadership, created in collaboration with Stephen R. Covey.

Companies need to foster more creativity to be competitive. Dewitt will talk about what leaders can do to reduce the ego and encourage more knowledge sharing.

Twenty years as a freelancer for National Geographic shooting stories all over the globe has earned him a reputation as world-class photojournalist. His work is well known to the corporate world. In addition, as a motion picture director, Dewitt has had two films nominated for Academy Awards.

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover how you can see more than one right answer.

Montreal and New York City, May 2, 2011 – Have you outsourced your family and neighborhood responsibilities? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Peter Block, the author of several bestselling books will discuss his latest work, The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods, co-authored with John McKnight.

What can organizations do to create more community at work? Peter can answer this firsthand as he serves on numerous boards including the Boards of Directors of Cincinnati Classical Public Radio; Elementz, a Hip Hop center for urban youth; and LivePerson, a provider of online engagement solutions. He is on the Advisory Board for the Festival in the Workplace Institute, Bahama, and is the first Distinguished Consultant-in-Residence at Xavier University.

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover the characteristics of community.

Are great leaders more optimistic? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Shawn Achor, former lecturer at Harvard University and author of The Happiness Advantage.

When the economy collapsed, the world's largest banks sent Shawn Achor on a tour of banking crisis centers to restore confidence and forward progress. Listen in to hear what he said to them.

Shawn is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University and has lectured in 42 different countries on how positive psychology can raise happiness and performance. His work has received attention in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes and BusinessWeek. Shawn is currently collaborating with Yale University on researching the link between happiness and performance.

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the seven principles of positive psychology that fuel success and performance at work.

Montreal and New York City, April 13, 2011 – What do managers miss when they think of the distance separating them and their mobile workers? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Michael Kroth & David Clemons, co-authors of Managing the Mobile Workforce. Michael and David will address what the differences in the developmental processes of a virtual team are compared to a more traditional team.

Managing the Mobile Workforce shares stories about organizations that have taken the risk to allow their employees to cut out their commute, break free from cubicles and to set their own business hours. People can work practically anywhere and anytime.

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover what metaskills are and why they matter.

Montreal and New York City, April 11, 2011 – Why do traditional reward and recognition programs do more harm than good? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Dr. Paul Marciano, author of Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work. Dr. Marciano will discuss how most satisfaction surveys fall short, and also how our knowledge of management needs to change and evolve to be competitive in the future.

Paul’s book Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT provides dozens of real world case studies and turnkey strategies to increase employee discretionary effort and reduce turnover in your organization. The book details his acclaimed RESPECT™ Model that has been embraced by schools, medical practices, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturing facilities, sales organizations, consulting firms, and government agencies.

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the 7 critical drivers of the RESPECT model.

Montreal and New York City, April 4, 2011 – How can companies create better measuring sticks for performance so their rewards are more effective?

On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Steve Kerr, the author of Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up? The strength of rewards is determined by the competence of the metrics being used. Rewards can often get a negative connotation in the media and in the office, resulting in clear-cut detachment. Learn why some executives get rewards so wrong?

Steve is a senior advisor at Goldman Sachs and the executive director of Jack Welch Management Institute. In addition, Steve is a member of the board of directors of Harvard Business Publishing and is on the advisory board of the Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania GSE's program in learning leadership.

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover the three-step process for getting rewards right.