Real Recognition Radio

Are you other focused?

On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will open the doors to recognition and leadership. Listen in as they interview each other to reveal how to achieve Real Recognition and Real Leadership.

S. Max Brown, CRP, Principal, Leadership Directives at Rideau’s Recognition Management Institute, will define the four core attributes leaders must develop to achieve Real Leadership. Max has made nearly one thousand presentations in locations all around the world. With his extensive experience in leadership training, speaking, and facilitating, Max brings a global perspective to the challenge of providing Real Leadership.

Are you on the “dark-side” of recognition or are you giving Real Recognition? Roy Saunderson, CRP, is the author of GIVING the Real Recognition Way, 101 Ways to Give EVERYDAY Real Recognition™, and How to FOCUS on Success! The president and founder of the Recognition Management Institute, Roy will explain how to give your people the recognition uplift they need, in addition you’ll hear to how to effectively recognize remote workers.

Listen in this week to Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio to discover exactly how you look for and promote success of those around you.

How do you instill hope and purpose in those around you?

On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Billy Ray Taylor, Plant Manager at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Billy is the recipient of the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Award and The Shingo Prize Silver Medallion – the Nobel Prize of manufacturing. Billy has been recognized as one of the Most Admired CEO’s in Oklahoma.

If success breeds arrogance, what should leaders do to stay grounded?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the leadership team characteristics that are key indicators for promotion.

Does recognition on the executive agenda give a competitive advantage? Do your recognition programs accommodate different cultures?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Bill Buckner, Senior Vice President and Chief Recognition Officer of Cargill, Inc. and Karen Sachs, Cargill’s Transportation & Logistics Business HR Leader. With over 139,000 employees located in 65 countries, Cargill believes in the importance of recognition. Bill and Karen will tell us how to get and keep recognition in the C-Suite.

What are Cargill’s seven guiding principles?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn about Cargill’s award winning methods.

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Greg Link, the co-author of Smart Trust written with Stephen M.R. Covey and contributor Rebecca R. Merrill.

Greg is the cofounder of CoveyLink, FranklinCovey’s Global Speed of Trust Practice, and the former Covey Leadership Center. He led the strategy that propelled Covey's father's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to be one of the two most influential business books of the 20th century.

Are we incentivizing the right things to build trust?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the five actions of Smart Trust.

What can leaders do to foster a healthy workplace?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Staffan Rydin, Leadership Coach and Management Consultant at The Integral Business Leadership Group. Prior to becoming a consultant and coach, Staffan was CEO of a preeminent international online lead-generation subsidiary that worked as a strategic partner with industry-leading affiliate websites and portals.

How does coaching help good leaders become great?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to coach people to higher performance.

Your biggest complaint about running a company may be your greatest asset.

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak 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.

How can you use interruptions and other incidental points of contact to move your company forward?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to discover the secret that helped turn around the Campbell Soup Company and lead Nabisco Foods Company during five years of consecutive growth.

What are your highest priorities?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Mark Oakes the CEO of Intellimar, Inc. and its two wholly owned subsidiaries; Concentric Security, LLC, and Blue Ember Technologies. He and his team were awarded the Maryland Ernst & Young Business Services Entrepreneur of the Year, The Baltimore, Maryland Future 50 Award and his company was listed in both the 2004 and 2005 INC 500 list of the fastest growing privately held US companies.

Is there anything you wish you would have learned earlier in your career?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the biggest stumbling blocks to get around as you move up the leadership ladder.

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Chade-Meng Tan, Google’s Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny) and author of Search Inside Yourself.

One of Google's earliest engineers, Meng has helped build Google's first mobile search service, and headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google's search quality. After a successful 8-year stint in Engineering and 2 years as GoogleEDU's Head of Personal Growth, he now serves with Google's Talent Team. His current job description is, "Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace".

Meng was featured on the front page of the New York Times and delivered a TED Talk at the United Nations.

What are the benefits of resilience, mindfulness, and self-awareness?

What are the highest traits of influential leaders?

Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the three assumptions.

What are the big challenges people in HR are facing today?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Kim Reese, Vice President Human Resources at Skogen's Festival Foods.

Kim is an accomplished Human Resource and Operations Leader with twenty (20) years of experience focused on positively impacting and leading change to achieve business strategies. In 2011, Kim joined Festival Foods, a family-owned company operating stores strategically throughout Wisconsin, operates 16 full-service, state-of-the art supermarkets and employs over 4,200 associates.

What are ways to retain and build your workforce?

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to make recognition effective and personal for recipients.

What are the top 10 reasons companies fail to innovate?

On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Saul Kaplan, author of The Business Model Innovation Factory.

Saul is the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory, a real-world laboratory for exploring and testing new business models and social systems. Saul shares his innovation musings on Twitter and his blog (It’s Saul Connected), and as regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

What’s the biggest misconception to innovation?

Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to take risks in a risk adverse work environment.