Real Recognition Radio

What is a leader’s greatest responsibility?

On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Julie Winkle Giulioni, co-author of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want.

What are the biggest workplace hurdles we face today?

Julie Winkle Giulioni has spent the past 25 years improving performance through learning. She’s partnered with hundreds of organizations to develop and deploy innovative training products that are in use worldwide.

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the best questions to generate career conversations.

Why don't employees trust their leaders?

On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Mark C. Crowley, the author of Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century.

How is the current leadership model failing us today?

According to Mark's research, the evidence that our traditional ways of managing people is

failing overwhelming. In Lead From The Heart, Mark presents compelling evidence that the solution leaders need to re-inspire workers lies in the last place traditional business would seek to find it: the human heart.

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the 4 practices of leading from the heart.

After Amazon acquired Zappos three years ago, has the Zappos culture changed in any way?

On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Jamie Naughton is Zappos.com Speaker of the House.

As Speaker of the House, Jamie works directly with CEO Tony Hsieh, focusing on the culture for which the company has become known. Her role is essential in creating and driving the architecture of the dynamic culture as well as focusing on culture R&D to ensure Zappos.com always stays relevant to both the employees and their customers.

Does Zappos still pay new hires $2,000 to leave?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to get employees to create an emotional connection with every customer.

Why is credibility the foundation for leadership?

On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Jim Kouzes, the coauthor of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, one of the 100 best business books of all time.

Jim is also the coauthor of the award-winning Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, which was chosen by Industry Week as one of the ten best management books of the year.

How does listening strengthen credibility and why is it so important? What do leaders do when they lose credibility?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the six disciplines for earning & sustaining credibility.

What can neuroscience teach us about workplace behavior?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Ellen Weber, CEO and President of MITA International Brain Based Center for Renewal in Secondary and Higher Education.

Dr. Weber is an author, lecturer and columnist, and is a global leadership facilitator, who teaches leadership renewal at The Bittner School of Business. Her well respected workplace improvement program includes ground-breaking brain powered tone tools to lead innovation and renewal.

What is the difference between traditional and brain powered leadership?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how stress impacts our ability to do great work.

Where does one begin to discover their purpose?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Nick Sarillo, the author of A Slice of the Pie and the founder and CEO of Nick’s Pizza & Pub, the sixth busiest independent pizza company in per-store sales in the United States.

Founded with the purpose of providing the community with an unforgettable place where families could relax and have fun, Nick’s Pizza & Pub has margins nearly twice that of the average pizza restaurant and boasts an 80 percent employee retention rate in an industry in which the average annual turnover is over 150 percent.

How do values guide you through conflict or disagreement?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how transparency is good for business.

What are the most important findings in current HR global research?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Wayne Brockbank, the co-author of HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources.

Wayne is the co-author of six books on HR strategy and competencies and a Clinical Professor of Business at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. At the Ross School of Business, Dr. Brockbank is a co-faculty director and core instructor of the Advanced Human Resource Executive Program, the world’s number one rated HR executive program.

How does an HR leader master competitive value from the “outside in”?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the essential steps for upgrading individual abilities to compete in today’s marketplace.

Can bad relationships be realigned?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Sara Canaday, author of You — According to Them: Uncovering the blind spots that impact your reputation and your career.

As Sara climbed the ladder of corporate America, she repeatedly observed a surprising phenomenon: the most successful people weren't necessarily the ones with the highest IQ or best job skills. She recognized instead that career advancement was much more closely linked with how people applied their knowledge and talents—their capacity to collaborate, communicate and influence others.

What is a leader’s most common blind spot?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to find the answer to that and to learn what to do when someone is being condescending.

Why is understanding our emotions so important and powerful?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Chip Conley, the author of Emotional Equations and the Founder of Joie de Vivre.

At the age of 26, Chip Conley started his own hospitality company, Joie de Vivre, guiding the company as CEO for two-dozen years and expanding it into a collection of over 35 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas – the second largest boutique hotel company in America. Chip is an author, speaker and veteran practitioner of emotional intelligence in business and in his New York Times bestselling book, EMOTIONAL EQUATIONS: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, he takes us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency.

What is flow and how does one find it?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program and learn how to create your own emotional equations that focus on what you're becoming, and not what you're getting.

What does a healthy organization look like?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Scott Keller, the author of Beyond Performance: How Great Companies Achieve Ultimate Competitive Advantage.

Scott writes a monthly column for HBR.com and regularly hosts CEO, CXO roundtables on leadership and change management. He is a Director in McKinsey & Company’s Los Angeles office where he leads McKinsey’s Transformational Change Practice in the Americas. Scott has been awarded the ASHRM Strategic leadership Award, AMCO’s Business Transformation Award, and Leadership Excellence Magazine’s 'Top 25' award for developing leaders.

What can mid-level managers do to create positive change in the work environment?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the Five Frames of Performance and Health.