Tech After Five

Ever heard about the Six Thinking Hats? It’s a decision quality framework you can use to make better decisions. We’ve all been in situations where groups (or even just us) make poor quality decisions because we failed to take into account other options, or we didn’t check the data. There is an established tool for helping us avoid these problems. It’s been around for many years, and we’d like to be the ones to introduce it to you. Welcome to the Tech After Five conversation about Six Thinking Hats.

Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

We think you can organize your networking plan. There are tools you can use to focus your efforts. One class of these tools is called "personal knowledge management."  To introduce us to the idea and a couple of tools that we'd never spent any time with, we brought in Sandra Halling of The Data Mavens.  She helps her clients come up with a plan to use the data at their fingertips to accomplish their big goals. 

About Our guest:

Sandra Halling,  President, The Data Mavens, https://thedatamavens.com/

The apps she tells us about:

Roam Research: https://roamresearch.com/

Notion: https://www.notion.so/

Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

The Carolinas' Premier Gathering of Entrepreneurs & Venture Capitalists is September 15-17. 

It's three, half day events filled with learning and an exciting first look at a number of companies looking for funding in a Shark Tank like event. 

We wanted to learn more about who should be there and why, so we asked conference director Alex Estevez to tell us everything we and you need to know. Join us for this informative conversation about an exciting upcoming event.

more info: https://www.nextventurepitch.com/

NEXT Venture Pitch is the best place to get your company’s lucrative ideas in front of the largest group of VCs from the state of South Carolina. It's also a place to learn from experienced entrepreneurs about getting your company ready for funding.

In its 5th running year, NEXT Venture Pitch will bring out top principal VCs, angel investors, and community leaders to hear pitches from entrepreneurs and innovators just like you. Look forward to fireside chats, CEO workshops, keynote speakers, and more.

About our guest: 

C. Alex Estevez is the Conference chair, NEXT Venture Pitch and a Venture Partner at Accel. 

Your hosts:

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Are your Zoom meetings even harder than regular meetings used to be? Does it seem like the wrong people are in the “room” and nobody can figure out how to pay attention? In business meetings, this can be a killer. Things don’t get done. Decisions aren’t made, and it’s all because we haven’t quite yet adapted to the new technology. You can do this. We’ve brought in a leadership expert, Manfred Gollent to tell us how he counsels business leaders to get the most out of their meetings, and what special techniques you need in the world of the teleconference.

Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Our guest is Manfred Gollent of QLI International. Manfred Gollent, MBA, CBC is a Certified Business Coach, supporting clients to enhance their business results, expand their personal potential, reach their goals more consistently, and lead more successful lives with less stress. Working with individuals, leadership teams and groups, his focus is on business optimization, leadership development, team building, influencing and sales proficiency as well as the facilitation of business strategy development. https://www.qli-international.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/manfredgollentcbc/

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Looking for funding for your business? Want to promote to investors? Next Venture Pitch is coming up on September 15th, but you can apply until Friday, Aug 21.  Listen for the details with Alex Estevez, Chair of the Next Venture Pitch. Apply at https://www.nextventurepitch.com/.

Have you got a big idea that's going nowhere? What are you afraid of? Something is holding you back.  Do you know what it is? We reference a Stoic exercise, Premeditatio Malorum, which means premeditation of evils. Tim Ferriss did a TED talk proposing an exercise he calls Fear Setting. We take those ideas and discuss what's going on in our heads. Why do we get stuck and how do we overcome it? We talk about Resistance and how we can make our fears specific and analyze them and overcome them.

Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Kanika Tolver, author of How to Rehab Your Career is our special guest on this extra special edition of the Tech After Five podcast.

Kanika Tolver says this is a great time to "Turn your Anxiety into Accomplishments." Yep. She opens strong. If you are in IT or wanting to get into IT or pivot your career, this IS the time to do it. She is a practicing IT professional herself who also offers career tips and coaching on Linkedin and to her private clients. She opens with her own experiences of moving from the Federal government IT to commercial practice. She gives us specific, actionable advice on how to make a career change, especially in IT.

In addition to our regular crew of Carol Hamilton and Scott Pfeiffer, we've got a guest questioner with Chris Lockhart, host of the Consultants Saying Things podcast. It's a special crossover with lots of great advice. Grab a pencil. You're going to learn something about making a change in your mindset, life, and career.

Looking to learn more about Kanika, her book, and booking her for speaking? Check out her website at https://kanikatolver.com/.

Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

And you should really go looking for Chris Lockhart on the Consultants Saying Things podcast at http://www.consultantssayingthings.com/.

Are you trying to be useful? Do you know what that means? Is this why we are really here? This all started with a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Is that true? Does being useful make us happy?

Watch and then tell us what you think.

Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Did you know you can update your job skills with practical knowledge even when you are working from home? Did you know that there is a path for employers to bring on employees into new roles while providing them with the skills training they need to be successful? The program at Arkansas Center for Data Sciences is bridging the gap for candidates and employers in what has to be one of the most innovative programs in the country. There is more opportunity to find the employees you need. There is more opportunity to get job training in the high tech sector in Arkansas than you probably imagined. This program surely can be a model for other states to bring motivated employees into higher paying high tech jobs. Listen as Bill Yoder and Lonnie Emard describe Fully Remote Apprenticeships facilitated by ACDS.

Learn more about ACDS & Remote Apprenticeships: https://www.acds.co/

Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Are we done with shaking hands? We are worried about germs like we never have been before. A handshake was supposed to mean “you can trust me.” Now it feels like our hands might be unwitting biological weapons. What’s worse, we can’t even shake hands on a Zoom call. What are we to do?

Are you on the Tech After Five mailing list? http://eepurl.com/KLhj

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.