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Dr. David Krueger, Author of The Secret Language of Money

David Krueger image David Krueger, M.D., is the author of The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life, a guided tour of:

  • The subconscious meanings people give money
  • The conflicted ways the brain deals with money
  • The reasons people tend to make the same money mistakes over and over.
  • How you can change how you subconsciously think about money.

As CEO of MentorPath, an executive coaching, publishing, and wellness firm, Dr. Krueger shares how to make smarter financial decisions and live a richer life by:

  • Rewriting your own money story
  • Finding the balance between wealth, health, and joy
  • Avoiding debt and saving for the future
  • Avoiding repetition of the same money mistakes over and over
  • Increasing your financial intelligence.

For more from Dr. David Krueger, listen to the entire show or visit www.mentorpath.com.

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Dr. Robert Pennington: Managing the Stress of Change in Turbulent Times

Dr. Robert Pennington image Dr. Robert Pennington, executive coach and educational psychologist, walks the talk of someone who knows professionally and personally how to deal well with life’s challenges. He teaches individuals and groups how to:

  • Recognize stress quicker and move through it faster
  • Understand three definitions relating stress and change
  • Discover the Positive Opposite Possibility of Worry
  • Avoid up to 90% of stressful disagreements.

One of the top hurdles to overcoming change is resistance. Rob shares techniques to help you adapt to and embrace change.

For more from Dr. Robert Pennington, listen to the entire show.

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Dr. Angelo Valenti, Consultant & Coach on Unleashing Leadership: Aligning What People Do Best with What Organizations Need Most

Angelo Valenti imageDr. Angelo Valenti, organizational psychologist and coach, is author of Unleashing Leadership: Aligning What People Do Best with What Organizations Need Most. He reveals the most important element of successful organizations: organizational alignment, which involves:

  • Communicating organizational expectations and eliciting employee expectations
  • Profiling positions and projects
  • Profiling competencies of talent
  • Developing a Composite Team for alignment

Angelo’s leadership system provides leaders with a practical methodology to analyze both task requirements and the competencies and styles of their team members to facilitate alignment. With alignment, leaders are able to create synergy and achieve the highest performance.

For more from Dr. Angelo Valenti, listen to the entire show or visit www.thecompanypsychologist.com.

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Dr. Kim Cameron on Positive Leadership

CameronPhoto Kim Cameron, professor and author of Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance, shares how to achieve extraordinary effectiveness and spectacular results. Dr. Cameron describes his four positive leadership strategies and how to implement them:

  1. Enable a positive climate
  2. Develop positive relationships
  3. Promote positive communication
  4. Create positive meaning.

Positive leadership is not about ignoring or minimizing problems and obstacles, but about engendering that which is life-giving, elevating, and virtuous in organizations, and Dr. Cameron demonstrates how a leader’s attitudes and behaviors dramatically impact individual and organizational performance.

For more from Dr. Kim Cameron, listen to the entire show here on April 26, 2010, at 12pm EST/9am PST.

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Developing & Inspiring America’s Leaders: Insights from Colonel Curtis Carver, PhD, Vice Dean for Education at West Point

bioCurtisCarver182x255 Colonel Curtis Carver, PhD, Vice Dean for Education at West Point, shares strategies for developing great leaders. The tradition of the Army’s academy is well respected around the world for producing leaders not only for their military service, but for their contributions to civilian careers upon retirement. Colonel Carver will share some of the Academy’s secrets to educating cadets for their roles as leaders. Colonel Carver is an accomplished officer in his field of information technology as well as in education. As an author and keynote speaker, his expertise not only informs but inspires.

For more from Colonel Curtis Carver, listen to the entire show.

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How to Advance Your Career and Education with Welcome Wilson, Sr., Chairman of the University of Houston System Board of Regents

bioWelcomeWilson182x255 University of Houston System Board of Regents Chairman, Welcome Wilson, is an entrepreneur, statesman and educator whose career spans half a century. His current passion is leading the UH to become a Tier One University, which will create economic and educational benefits for generations to come. Having assisted hundreds of thousands of professionals advance their careers, Welcome Wilson has helped UH become a leader in higher education. Mr. Wilson discusses the importance of education for the economy, communities, and individual success. He discusses tips to help you make educational decisions that fit your career aspirations.

For more from Welcome Wilson, listen to the entire show.

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Margaret Feinberg, Author of “What the Heck Am I Going to Do With My Life?”

Margaret Feinberg image Margaret Feinberg, noted author and speaker, will help you answer the question, “What the heck am I going to do with my life?” Her popular book by the same name is for all ages and all stages of our lives and careers. If you’ve asked yourself that question lately, don’t miss her insights to help you come up with the answer. Margaret is not afraid to try things that are challenging and perhaps risky, and she challenges others to take risks as well, especially when they have the desire to do something that is greater than their fear of the outcome.

For more from Margaret Feinberg, listen to the entire show or visit www.margaretfeinberg.com.

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Ben Dansker, Israeli Business Consultant: How to Create Successful Business Opportunities in the Middle East

bioBenDansker182x255Ben Dansker, a business consultant in Israel for small to mid-size organizations, discusses how entrepreneurship, venture capital, research and development, an educated workforce, and government, industry and university collaboration have put Israel on the global economic map. Gain insight into:

  • Opportunities in various markets and sectors
  • The potential in Israel and the region for U.S. manufacturers
  • Qualifying and developing partners for success
  • The analysis of local markets for launching businesses
  • Qualifying potential distributors or importers
  • Logistical and administrative aspects of doing business in Israel and the region

Israel is opening its doors to the global market and organizations are entering. To help them optimize their potential in Israel and elsewhere in the region, Ben applies his knowledge of U.S. and Middle Eastern business to enable them to succeed.

For more from Ben Dansker, listen to the entire show.

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Considering Temporary or Contract Employment?

Get tips and strategies for researching contract positions, and discover how temporary employment can help you advance your career.

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Lewis Howes, Professional Athlete, and Author of LinkedWorking: Generating Success on Linkedin

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Lewis Howes is a professional athlete and author of LinkedWorking: Generating Success on Linkedin. He is developer of SportsNetworker.com, where he has put into practice the techniques he recommends to business people, consultants, and professionals to help them take their businesses, practices and careers to the next level. Besides his own success in applying relationship building strategies, Howes presents numerous success stories to demonstrate winning techniques in a variety of industries. He shares how to:

  • See opportunities in everyone
  • Identify capstones and weak ties
  • Lead a life of altruism
  • Harness the power of reconnection
  • Be concise, compelling and value driven
  • Persist patiently.

For more from Lewis Howes, listen to the entire show on Monday, April 19, at 12pm EST/9am PST or visit www.lewishowes.com.

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Dave Guerra: How to Become a Superperformer

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Optimism is essential to maximizing your potential and avoiding a ride on the unemployment train. On “Total Career Success”, Dave Guerra, a business consultant, corporate culture expert and the author of Superperformance, talked about how the right habits, attitude and approach to your job can improve your staying power in the “employed” status by enabling you to become a “superperformer.”

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Kerry Patterson on Communicating and Influencing to Get Results

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Kerry Patterson, author of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High, shows people how to communicate to obtain healthy results: think before speaking, be aware of the context and conditions of a discussion, and maintain respect even when disagreeing. These skills are essential for individual, family, and organizational success. Individuals and groups should learn to:

  • Focus on goals when emotions run strong;
  • Increase awareness of warning signs that a conversation is about to take a turn for the worse;
  • Make it safe to talk about anything;
  • Create healthy dialogue even when scared, angry, frustrated or hurt;
  • Say potentially hurtful things in a way that minimizes defensiveness;
  • Listen effectively when others blow up or clam up;
  • Move from discussing tough issues to taking healthy action

To learn more from Kerry Patterson, listen to the entire show.

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Dr. Dalton Conley: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms and Economic Anxiety

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Dr. Dalton Conley, sociologist and author of Elsewhere, USA, examines, “How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners and the Age of Affluence to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms and Economic Anxiety.” Today’s professional is constantly dogged by a feeling that he/she should be “elsewhere,” whether back at the office, at a party full of potential clients, home with the kids or at social function with the spouse. Always on the go, people feel like they are in the right place at the right time only when in transit, moving from point A to B. Dalton shares how we can redirect our economic incentives, reverse our negative savings trend and invest for a better future.

For more from Dr. Conley, listen to the entire show.

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Dr. Ivan Misner, Chairman of BNI, on Networking Like a Pro: Turning Contacts into Connections

Dr. Ivan Misner image On March 8, 2010, Dr. Ivan Misner, chairman of BNI and New York Times bestselling author of Networking Like a Pro: Turning Contacts into Connections, joined Ken and Sheryl Dawson on the Total Career Success VoiceAmerica Internet radio show to discuss why meeting new people is only half the battle in networking. Dr. Misner provided advice, tips and action plans for leaving a lasting impression. Contrary to popular belief, it takes more than an elevator pitch and a business card. Successful networking is about cultivating and maintaining strong relationships, and the courting begins the first time you meet someone. Dr. Misner presented five excellent questions to go beyond sharing what you do. Apply these techniques to your job search and career for success.

For more insights from Dr. Ivan Misner, click here to listen to the entire show.

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Be a Leader for Life!

We often reserve the title “leader” for bosses, teachers, and presidents, who are leaders in the “official” sense of the word. However, if we think about it everyone is a leader or has the potential to be one. Whether we are aware of it or not, even seemingly insignificant actions impact the people around us, and we often base our own actions on what we see those around us doing. So how can you become an effective, influential, and positive leader? Doug Gehrman recently published his book Leadership for Life: Your Guide to Becoming a Transformational Leader and joined us this week to share his insights on leadership in the workplace and in daily life.

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Dr. Bill Pepicello, President, University Of Phoenix, on Career Advancement through Education

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As the sixth president of the University of Phoenix, Dr. Bill Pepicello is responsible for the leadership of the largest private university in the United States. He has extensive experience in higher education, having served as Provost for the University, Dean of the School of Advanced Studies, as well as in executive, administrative, and faculty positions with a number of prestigious institutions. He holds both master’s and doctorate degrees in Linguistics from Brown University. Dr. Pepicello serves on a number of national, state, and local Boards and is recognized as a leader in the changing landscape of American higher education.

Dr. Pepicello spoke about his perceptions on how education positions one for success in their field of choice, how the current economic conditions will challenge various career aspirations, how global competition impacts career choices and addressed questions from the audience.

For more from Dr. Pepicello, listen to the entire show!

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