The People Catalysts

The third of an 8-part series exploring how to be a People Catalysts.  In the series we focus on “ME”, your individual core nature; “WE” being two people with different strengths interacting; “US”, a team working together; and “ALL”, how to work as an entire organization.

This episode focuses on The Prover: what a prover's strengths are, what is your peak work, what motivates you, and what you need to stay away from.

The Prover is the late adopter who likes to think big thoughts and identify problems with an idea.  The Prover is the rewind button on your remote control.

Listen in as Karla Nelson interviews Allen Fahden as a Prover.

• What parts of the work will bring out your magnificence?
• What should you say “YES” to?
• What should you say “NO” to?
• WHO is your natural inbox?
• WHO is your natural outbox?
• What phase of work do you excel at and what leaves you energized?
• What phase of work drains you?
• What can you do to not take on weak work?

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

This is the second of an 8-part series exploring how to be a People Catalysts.  In the series we focus on “ME”, or on your individual core nature; “WE” being two people with different strengths interacting; “US” which is a team working together; and “ALL” which is how to work as an entire organization.

This episode focuses on being a Shaker: what your strengths are, what is your peak work, what motivates you, and what you need to stay away from.

The Shaker is the early adopter who likes to think big thoughts and create new ideas out of thin air.  The Shaker is the power button on your remote control. They energize the entire innovation process. If you don’t have a Shaker on your team, you are doomed to live the definition of crazy, that is to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results.

This episode is hosted by Karla Nelson, definitely a Mover, and she interviews Allen Fahden, definitely a Shaker!

• What parts of the work will bring out your magnificence?
• What should you say “YES” to?
• What should you say “NO” to?
• WHO is your natural inbox?
• WHO is your natural outbox?
• What phase of work do you excel at and what leaves you energized?
• What phase of work drains you?
• What can you do to not take on weak work?

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

This is the first of an 8-part series exploring how to be a People Catalysts.  In the series we focus on “ME”, or on your individual core nature; “WE” being two people with different strengths interacting; “US” which is a team working together; and “ALL” which is how to work as an entire organization.

This episode focuses on being a Mover: what your strengths are, what is your peak work, what motivates you, and what you need to stay away from.

• What parts of the work will bring out your magnificence?
• What should you say “YES” to?
• What should you say “NO” to?
• WHO is your natural inbox?
• WHO is your natural outbox?
• What phase of work do you excel at and what leaves you energized?
• What phase of work drains you?
• What can you do to not take on weak work?
• Does peak work really out-perform weak work

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

Have you ever felt stuck in a position you weren’t passionate about and struggled knowing there has to be a better way? Join us for today’s episode of The People Catalysts Podcast to find out how you can ditch your inner critic at work.

Susan is an executive coach who has a passion for helping individuals thrive in their career. Having made four career changes herself, Susan knows what it’s like to feel stuck in a job you hate as well as the self-recrimination that goes along with it. Frequently quoted, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review are some of the publications that have tapped her for career advice.

Susan transformed her career and developed a scientifically-validated approach to help others do the same that she teaches in her best-selling book “Ditch Your Inner Critic at Work,” and she’s here today to share some tips with all of you.

• Susan’s book: “Ditch Your Inner Critic at Work”
• The feeling of being a cog in the wheel that pushed Susan out of her high-tech sales and marketing job and into entrepreneurship
• Susan’s work coaching a consulting people, mostly executives, to get to the next satisfying step
• Why people always blame themselves when they get laid off, even if it’s a business decision that had nothing to do with their performance
• How Susan helps people see themselves with clarity when the narrative they have about themselves is inaccurate
• Why only 30% of people feel engaged at work
• What happens when you match people to their strengths
• The assessments Susan uses with her clients to figure out their strengths and how to apply them
• Recrafting your role with your manager to both match your strengths and fill the business’ needs
• Finding happiness or satisfaction by focusing on finding internal meaning with our work

• Website: positiveworkplacepartners.com
• Book: “Ditch Your Inner Critic At Work”
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/susanpeppercorn
• Twitter: @susanpeppercorn
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/PositiveWorkplace
• Instagram: @speppercorn

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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Join us for this week’s episode of The People Catalysts Podcast as Allen Fahden and I discuss the six week pilot we facilitated with 12 small business owners and what we discovered about the WHO-DO Method and small business.

Anyone who knows Karla Nelson describes her as an experience. She is as close as a human being can ever be to a human doing. It’s simple. She finds an idea that’s different and valuable, and then she builds it with a team. Swiftly, and relentlessly. She does this by a rare process of how to fit people together, that goes far beyond just connecting them. Karla has built several businesses since her early twenties and learned that in business and in life, “Relationships Are Everything.” And now she has put it all in a form that’s easy to learn and use: The People Catalysts.

When the world zigs, Allen Fahden zags. His first book introduced the unifying theory of creativity. Using his own method he created the one-book bookstore, and got media exposure in front of 50 million people without doing anything. Next, he launched the first strength-to-strength work process that gets three to eight times more done in less time. He beat Gallup and the Strengths Finder by five years. One company used his method to take their division from $20 million to $60 million in two years, while the rest of the company was flat. His clients include Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and dozens more.

Between them and their team, Karla and Allen have used the WHO-DO Method with 25 of the Fortune 100 and dozens of mid market companies and startups. Typically, The WHO-DO Method cuts 50-80% off cycle time and produce better results with happier people. The Who-Do Method’s client list includes Target, Best Buy, Disney, Comcast, 3M, Amazon, General Mills, HP, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Cargill, Chase, US Bank, State Farm Insurance, IBM and many other corporate market leaders.

• The experiment we did a couple months ago where we paused the podcast to teach the WHO-DO Method to small businesses
• Why it’s easier for small businesses to incorporate the WHO-DO Method than it is for large corporations
• Why activity doesn’t equal productivity
• The reason our pilot attracted Movers and Shakers
• The Titanic game: using the WHO-DO Method to save everybody on the Titanic when in reality half of the people died
• The communication game: a game where we had someone describe a picture to the rest of the group that only they could see and how using the WHO-DO Method turned this game from a failure of communication into a repeatable process for success
• Why almost all failure in business is process failure, not people failure (and why leadership loves to blame people, not process)
• The bridge game: a game for taking plans for a bridge, bidding the amount of time it would take, and then building the bridge
• Some of the other games/tasks we completed during the pilot
• The biggest “A ha!” moments from the pilot
• Why people have the tendency to jump right into action instead of using the system
• Predicting what’s going to happen based on who you have in the room
• Making sure you have a Mover in the room to remind everyone else to stick to the process
• Remembering to use the 80/20 rule and spending 80% of the time planning and 20% of the time implementing
• Building a team with a Mover, Shaker, Prover, and Maker and using them at the right times in the process

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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Don’t miss this episode of The People Catalysts Podcast, where Allen Fahden and I talk about how you can turn those long, boring and ineffective meetings into short and engaging in order to get things done.

Anyone who knows Karla Nelson describes her as an experience. She is as close as a human being can ever be to a human doing. It’s simple. She finds an idea that’s different and valuable, and then she builds it with a team. Swiftly, and relentlessly. She does this by a rare process of how to fit people together, that goes far beyond just connecting them. Karla has built several businesses since her early twenties and learned that in business and in life, “Relationships Are Everything.” And now she has put it all in a form that’s easy to learn and use: The People Catalysts.

When the world zigs, Allen Fahden zags. His first book introduced the unifying theory of creativity. Using his own method he created the one-book bookstore, and got media exposure in front of 50 million people without doing anything. Next, he launched the first strength-to-strength work process that gets three to eight times more done in less time. He beat Gallup and the Strengths Finder by five years. One company used his method to take their division from $20 million to $60 million in two years, while the rest of the company was flat. His clients include Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and dozens more.

Between them and their team, Karla and Allen have used the WHO-DO Method with 25 of the Fortune 100 and dozens of mid-market companies and startups. Typically, The WHO-DO Method cuts 50-80% off cycle time and produce better results with happier people. The Who-Do Method’s client list includes Target, Best Buy, Disney, Comcast, 3M, Amazon, General Mills, HP, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Cargill, Chase, US Bank, State Farm Insurance, IBM and many other corporate market leaders.

• Changing the culture around workplace meetings
• Movers, Shaker, Provers, and Makers: How they act in meetings that don’t engage with their unique strength
• Creating the right sequence between the four strengths
• Understanding your employees’ strengths and identifying weaknesses in order to empower them
• Focusing on who people are rather than who they are not
• Setting expectations before the meeting begins
• Best practices for facilitating meetings to maximize engagement
• How to spend 20 minutes on a meeting and accomplish everything instead of 2 hours and accomplish nothing
• How to keep things moving once the meeting ends
• Fit and sequence: Why these two words are crucial to running an effective meeting

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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How do you rate your emotional intelligence? On this episode of The People Catalysts Podcast, emotional intelligence expert Caroline Stokes shares her secrets to emotional intelligence in the age of artificial intelligence.

Caroline Stokes is an executive headhunter, certified executive coach, and certified EQ 2.0 trainer for global technology and entertainment leaders.

Caroline is an expert on a number of topics including emotional intelligence for recruiters in the age of AI, talent acquisition and development, executive coaching and headhunting, and workplace culture development.

She is the founder of FORWARD, the first executive search and first-quarter coaching firm to expedite the integration of all talent placements; and the host of the new podcast, The Emotionally Intelligent Recruiter, which interviews top leaders in the field to support evolving recruiters to adapt in critical collaborative and analytical environments.

• Why emotional intelligence is so important
• How Caroline got her start in the field of emotional intelligence
• What an emotional intelligence assessment tells you about a person
• How employers benefit from emotional intelligence assessments
• Understanding who your ideal client is and how to connect with them
• How to take an emotionally intelligent approach to company communication
• Taking your ego out of the way you communicate
• The importance of emotional intelligence in building great relationships
• The one thing people can do to build better relationships

• Website: www.carolinestokes.co
• Twitter: @ocarolinestokes

• Forbes profile: www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/people/carolinestokes1/#5c4487dd122b

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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On this episode of The People Catalysts Podcast, Matthew Pollard shares with us the importance of a unified message in selling. And how you can sign up to receive the 5 steps to creating your unified message at matthewpollard.com/growth.

Matthew Pollard is an internationally-recognized consultant, speaker, blogger, mentor, coach, and serial entrepreneur with five multi-million dollar business success stories under his belt, all before the age of 30.

He is the founder and CEO of Rapid Growth, LLC, dedicated to achieving maximum ROI for businesses of all sizes; the founder and Executive Director of Small Business Festival, named a Top-5 must attend business conference by Inc, and the author of The Introverts Edge.

Though his client list includes multiple Fortune 500 companies, his real passion is helping small business owners end the overwhelm, eliminate the stress and guesswork, and get on a clear path to Rapid Growth. Called the real deal by Forbes, his methods have transformed over 3500 businesses to date.

• Why “leading with a give” leads to better interpersonal relationships in the long run
• How Matthew accidentally got into sales
• The stigma associated with sales that prevents people from getting good at it
• Why you need to be able to explain who you are and what you do concisely
• How to create a unified message throughout your branding that explains your value
• Developing rapport with prospects
• Using stories as a vehicle for helping prospects retain important information in a sales pitch
• Crafting a message that excites your potential customers
• The rise of permission-based marketing and the fall of push marketing

• Website: www.matthewpollard.com
• Twitter: @MatthewPollard_

• Book: www.theintrovertsedge.com

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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Join us for this exciting episode of The People Catalysts Podcasts as we discuss the book, “Trap Tales: Outsmarting the 7 Hidden Obstacles to Success” with author David M.R. Covey, the son of legendary author and trainer, Stephen Covey.

David Covey is the 3rd son of Stephen R. Covey, author of the groundbreaking book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” David was the chief operating officer of FranklinCovey. He then left FranklinCovey to start his own company, now called SMCOV. SMCOV works with the best intellectual property content experts on the planet and helps distributes their content globally through licensees. David loves working with impactful IP and setting up distribution systems around the globe. He is the author of the book, “Trap Tales”.

• David’s path to entrepreneurship
• Inspiring and motivating people to think bigger and challenge the status quo
• How a lot of people make mistakes when it comes to taking their business global
• Strategies to use when building out your team
• Why you need to have unique, good content
• How you really see the character of a person when they are put into challenging circumstances
• How to effectively communicate with your clients and customers
• Why you need to keep communication channels open in order to create win/wins in partnerships
• The importance of staying in the game and not giving up hope
• Why you should value experiences over things

• Website: www.smcov.com
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/david-m-r-covey-10410239
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016790921672

• Book: “Trap Tales”

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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In order to get things done three to eight times faster, you need to find a Mover. This is a person who uses the boundaries between people of different strengths to move the team ahead. If you don’t have this person, nothing of value gets done.

Get a Mover, use the WHO-DO Method to become a People Catalyst, and change becomes your ally.

WHO TEACHES YOU THE WHO-DO, AND WHY SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO THEM?

Anyone who knows Karla Nelson describes her as an experience. She is as close as a human being can ever be to a human doing. It’s simple. She finds an idea that’s different and valuable, and then she builds it with a team. Swiftly, and relentlessly. She does this by a rare process of how to fit people together, that goes far beyond just connecting them. Karla has built several businesses since her early twenties and learned that in business and in life, “Relationships Are Everything.” And now she has put it all in a form that’s easy to learn and use: The People Catalysts.

When the world zigs, Allen Fahden zags. His first book introduced the unifying theory of creativity. Using his own method he created the one-book bookstore, and got media exposure in front of 50 million people without doing anything. Next, he launched the first strength-to-strength work process that gets three to eight times more done in less time. He beat Gallup and the Strengths Finder by five years. One company used his method to take their division from $20 million to $60 million in two years, while the rest of the company was flat. His clients include Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and dozens more.

Between them and their team, Karla and Allen have used the WHO-DO Method with 25 of the Fortune 100 and dozens of mid market companies and startups. Typically, The WHO-DO Method cuts 50-80% off cycle time and produce better results with happier people. The Who-Do Method’s client list includes Target, Best Buy, Disney, Comcast, 3M, Amazon, General Mills, HP, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Cargill, Chase, US Bank, State Farm Insurance, IBM and many other corporate market leaders.

• The 10 You-Do’s and examples of each
• How to find and talk to the Movers when you’re in the implementation stage
• One of the biggest challenges in the implementation stage
• How the Mover is the one who is going to make sure that the WHO-DO Method is used
• Role reversal in the implementation stage
• The three sides of the implementation triangle
• Change: the contextual word that will offend a Shaker
• What a Shaker can say to a Prover who points out everything that can go wrong with an idea
• How to solve and address one of the biggest fears between Movers, Shakers, and Provers
• How a Maker is at ease with the doing the same thing every single day

• Email: [email protected]
• Schedule a Strategy Session: meetme.so/Karla-Nelson

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