Brainwaves Video Anthology
Robert Waldinger, MD - The Importance of Relationships
Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School, leads the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest study of adult life ever conducted. Over 85 years, the study has focused on relationships and their...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Robert Waldinger, MD - The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School who oversees the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest study of adult life ever conducted. Initiated in 1938 with 724 young men from diverse...
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Madeleine Albright's Brooches
The U.S.’s first female Secretary of State used her collection of brooches to get her point across when meeting with foreign leaders, a practice that became known as “Pin Diplomacy.”
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6 Important Things to Consider Before Accepting a Six-Figure Offer
In this video I share 6 important reasons not to accept a six figure offer.
Seven Dimensions
5 Lessons in Understanding and Developing Empathy
5 Lessons in Understanding and Developing Empathy is an important video for anyone wanting to build relationships. Empathy is acknowledging another person’s situation and feelings and communicating your awareness. It is being aware of...
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Julius Caesar 3.3 Interview: Cinna the Poet
In this video, a mix-up leads to a humorous yet tense situation where Cinna the poet is mistaken for Cinna the conspirator. As he tries to explain his identity and defend his innocence, the misunderstanding escalates, highlighting the...
Seven Dimensions
Prioritizing My Mental Health
Recognize that our mental health deserves the same care and attention as our physical health; Learn to do a mental health audit; Discover the importance of sleeping and eating well and exercising regularly (not excessively); Nurture and...
Wonderscape
Exploring Nature's Biomes: The Tundra
This video introduces viewers to the concept of biomes, ecosystems, and habitats, focusing on the tundra biome. It explains how the harsh conditions of the tundra, both alpine and arctic, shape the life there, including animals like the...
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Account Management: What is Account-based Selling?
A lot of business-to-business selling is strategic. It is not a one-off or tactical endeavor. It is likely that you will want to maintain and build your relationships over the months and years to come. Managing this ongoing relationship...
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The Complex Sale: 101
Complex Sales are, by nature… Complex. And that means this is a big topic. In the late 1990s, I went on a 2-day course, so this video is, necessarily, the 101 version of what has stuck with me.
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The Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid
Robert Blake and Jane Mouton took the idea of task versus relationship focus and turned it into a full-blown model of five leadership styles: their Leadership Grid.
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The Fiedler Contingency Theory of Leadership Effectiveness
Fred Fiedler developed a contingency model of leadership that suggests a leader’s effectiveness is contingent on the fit between their leadership style and the situation they face. 🧭 This video is part of course module number 3.11.3 🏢...
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Rensis Likert and High Producing Managers - Process Models of Motivation
Rensis Likert studied different systems of management and the things that 'high-producing managers' do to achieve the results they get. His conclusions build a helpful model of motivation and how to get the best from the people who work...
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Basics of Motivation: Incentives - do they work?
One thing most people 'know' about motivation is the value of incentives. The problem is... Incentives don't always work. So, in this video, we'll look at when incentives do and do not work and understand why.
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Team Leadership and the Tuckman Group Development Stages
In an earlier video, we looked at the Tuckman Model of Group Development. Now, we'll tie the different stages to the style of team leadership that will work best in each stage.
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Four Quadrants of Team Leadership
A team can focus on two things: task and relationship. And, for each, there are 2 elements: the content and the process. This gives us 4 quadrants of team leadership.
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Supporting Your Team Under Pressure: Return to High-Performance
When you have a team under pressure, what can you do to support them and return them to a high-performance state?
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Introduction to Cross-Cultural Teams
Diversity can improve results. But plenty of research shows that multicultural teams and diverse teams tend to perform less effectively than homogenous teams, when not managed well. In this video, I introduce the topic of cross-cultural...
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Self Motivation: What is it and How to Build it?
Self Motivation is your ability to get up and get going when you’d really rather curl up and let it go. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A Management Courses Introduction https://geni.us/FsuCDrK
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Social Skills: What are they and How to Build Them
Managers need to get the best from their teams. They need to win cooperation, resolve conflict, and communicate ideas. These lie in the Emotional Intelligence domain of Social Skills. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course:...
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Wellbeing: What to do to Increase Your Productivity
You cannot work effectively and be highly productive if you are not well. So your wellbeing is vital to your personal productivity. In this video, we will look at the four essential components of your wellbeing and how they aid you in...
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Organizations as Structures: Understanding an Organization as a Structure
One way to understand the nature of an organization is as a structure (the other is as a process). In this video, we look at Organizations as Structures.
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Chairing Meetings - Meetings as Conversations
Meetings are conversations - sometimes a series of conversations. So, in this video, we consider meetings as conversations and look at the five types of conversation that can make up a meeting.
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Attending Meetings - Reduce Wasted Meeting Time
We all know how much time gets wasted in meetings. And when it's your time; it hurts! So, what can you do about it? In this video, I'll suggest 14 ways you can reduce wasted meeting time.