The People Catalysts: Recent Episodes
Karla Nelson
In business and life…relationships are everything. We host The People Catalysts’ Podcast where we interview top business leaders and learn how they build relationships with their teams, clients, and those that promote and refer them. These 3 relationships are key for every business and organization. We help people learn how to improve all 3 on their path to excellence.
“What we think about, we bring about.” Aaron Ellis shares the story of two amazing mentors in his life and what it took for him to be ready for the right teacher to come along.
If you understand these four truths, in the right order, you can clear a path to connecting with your team and everyone else around you. What are they?
How do you go from a great idea to a reality? Who are the right people to bring in at the right time? These are the questions we answer!
Want to know how to get things done three to eight times faster and not lose the engagement of your people?
Is Happiness really Profitable? Can you measure and prove it? Craig Handley did. Listen in to see how it's done.
Call it a “Pivot,” or “starting over,” but what is really going on is listening to your clients and the market. Kristen Chandler continuously sees a market need, then starts a new business to answer the call.
Why would you willingly go from earning $4K per month to $60 per month?...to learn how to grow your business to $100M+.
How do you go from tagging sharks to being a sales success architect? Jason Cutter knows and shares how sales are like visiting your doctor!
Insight = Foresight + Hindsight. This is the start of a conversation that leads to Telling 4 Truths that transcend technology and delve into leadership.
33 Percent of an employee’s salary. That’s the cost of turnover. Not to mention the lost time and production. Does your employee underperform? Are they a bad hire or are they misplaced?
This is part two on “Implementation.” How are you going to get $#!T done?
33 Percent of an employee’s salary. That’s the cost of turnover. Not to mention the lost time and production. So how can you keep the good one’s around? Your ideation process may very well be the answer.
Does every advertisement look the same to you? How can you stand out? What is the secret to generating the next Big Idea?
What are the keys to success from an incredible serial entrepreneur? Debs has12 great IPOs under belt. So what are her secrets?
How a tornado, COVID 19, and a passion helped transition a former gymnast turned Sales Leader into a successful entrepreneur.
What is the secret motivational reason people make a purchase? Does your message match the reason they would buy your product or service?
The signing of the Declaration of Independence was the first dysfunctional meeting. What can we learn about our meetings from how their meeting went?
What's your story? Everyone has one, and "The Pitch Whisperer" John Livesay teaches us how to tell your story to make sales happen.
Rodney Brown gives 6 steps to take an organization from internal tribes to a dynamic, cohesive team.
How do you go from hating your job and hitting the snooze button all morning long to filming your own advertisements in Vietnam? Listen to Erin’s fun story and learn her secrets!
How is one Italian responsible for over 50,000 companies around the world, and how did that all start from an over-regulated fishing village in Australia?
How do you go from hating your job and hitting the snooze button all morning long to filming your own advertisements in Vietnam? Listen to Erin’s fun story and learn her secrets!
This is part 4 of the podcast series How to Lead Like a Boss, we discuss six different types of hazardous attitudes and how to manage them in your company.
The 6 different hazardous attitudes are:
- Anti-authority
- Impulsivity
- Invulnerability (aka bulletproof sydrome)
- Macho attitude
- Resignation (aka disengagement)
- Get-There-Itis
The 10 traps in working with people: 1. Excessive Professional Courtesy 2. Halo Effect 3. Passenger Syndrome 4. Hidden Agenda 5. Accommodation Syndrome 6. The Accident Zone Model 7. Strength Of An Idea 8. WHO-DO Method 9. Hazardous Attitudes 10. Error Chain
The first 5 (of 10) Human Factors Traps:
- Excessive Professional Courtesy
- Halo Effect
- Passenger Syndrome
- Hidden Agenda
- Accommodation Syndrome
Did you know there are seven sources of your authority? In this episode, we dig into what those sources are and how to tap into them.
Learn how your unique strengths in parenting, leading, and living can bring success, fulfillment, and happiness in all aspects of your life.
"What Color is Your Parachute?" by #Richard Nelson Bolles has sold more than 10 million copies since its introduction in 1975. Once you get a job, something more important takes over, how to keep a job. And better yet, how to be a high performer.
Brian Buffini said, “you can only love others in direct proportion to how much you love yourself.” The question is, how can you work toward loving yourself?
It’s the beginning of a new year. How are your 2021 goals looking? Do you actually want to achieve them?
Are local radio stations really in the radio business? Chris Millers talks about how they are really the life blood for the local family of businesses!
What is the best way to GET? You start with GIVING, as John David Mann, the co-author of The Go-Giver and Karla discuss on The People Catalysts podcast.
Can you list “what is wrong with your team?” If so, have you also asked “what am I doing to create that?”
Glenn Lundy went from homeless drug addict to the 2nd largest used car dealership in America…through organic social media! Want to hear his story?
Everyone knows when they were born. Only a lucky few find out WHY. Before you do anything else in your life or business, you need to know your WHY.
Does a degree give you the coding skills employers need? Not really. V School links training directly to market skills required.
Rodney Brown gives 6 steps to take an organization from internal tribes to a dynamic, cohesive team.
Movers, Shakers, Provers, and Makers. We need them all at the right time. Who are they really? This is the second in a four-part series that will go in depth on the strengths and characteristics of each of the four strengths. In this episode, Karla interviews Allen Fahden on what it means to be a Mover.
Movers, Shakers, Provers, and Makers. We need them all at the right time. Who are they really? This is the first in a four-part series that will go in depth on the strengths and characteristics of each of the four strengths. In this episode, Karla interviews Allen Fahden on what it means to be a Shaker.
Is Happiness really Profitable? Can you measure and prove it? Chris Handley did. Listen in to see how it's done.
"What I can do, you can do." Those are powerful words coming from a world leader. He story and a powerful SECRET are in this episode.
How can you maintain resilience as an individual and as an organization? Can leaders help their team to be more resilient? Eileen McDargh has that answer!
Is resilience just the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties? Or is there something more? Eileen McDargh has that answer!
How do you go from tagging sharks to being a sales success architect? Jason Cutter knows and shares how sales are like visiting your doctor!
What's your story? Everyone has one, and "The Pitch Whisperer" John Livesay teaches us how to tell your story to make sales happen.
Do you know your target market? Is there a market for your product? Lara Fordis, a Market Research expert, knows how to find the answers!
“If I had a dollar for every time a student asked to play with my crutches, I would be a millionaire. It I had a dollar for every time a student asked about my disability, I’d be dirt poor.”
Do you now how to leverage or finance assets the most efficient way? Dr. Stephanie Ardrey (aka Dr. Money) can teach you how!
What is the key to Project Management? The right software? The right PMP? No, RELATIONSHIPS! So how do we start those in a socially distanced world?
How is one Italian responsible for over 50,000 companies around the world, and how did that all start from an over-regulated fishing village in Australia?
FEAR.....what is the actual thing you are afraid of? Morry and Karla talk about this and how you can overcome your fear by identifying what that fear is.
Deb Gabor is the brand guru who has studied how brands create irrational loyalty...that loyalty that survives any crisis. Want to know her secrets?
George learned all about going from hero to zero and back to hero. Now he recruits and trains executives. Are you ready to learn from failing forward?
Is your expert the best leader? How do you pick the best people? Executive Velocity CEO Beth Miller and Karla explain how and why to be Talent Obsessed.
How can you automatically populate your sales pipeline with only people matching your ideal client? Jeff Koser has the answer.
No one trains like the United States military. What can we learn from an international trainer with almost 30 years’ experience who now coaches professional speakers and trainers?
Your Message to the world is a combination of the Message, the Messenger, and Management Habits. What is your message to the world?
Going remote is not just about your team, but also about your customers. Clare Price has been working remotely since the 80s and talks with Karla about how to Make Remote Work.
Retired Colonel Bill DeMarco shares four pillars to being a great leader: Be humble, hungry, a hero, and have a heart. Join Karla and the Chair for Leadership in the USAF Senior Leader’s College as they discuss lessons on leadership.
Your call to purpose wouldn’t be inside you if it wasn’t meant to come from you. In this episode, we discuss how to move forward in the midst of fear and turn your thoughts into things and strategies, by buillding a passionate team who can make it happen.
There’s never been a better time in history to buy a business or make yours worth buying. More people are made millionaires during times of distress than any other. Are you ready to recover from the COVID crisis?
Who do we need? Who do we know? How do we connect the dots? That is what Strategic Relationships are all about. Listen in as David and Karla discuss the power in building relationships.
As a 25-year entrepreneur, business coach, keynote speaker & author, Todd Palmer made it his WHY to Improve Lives. He does this by teaching, guiding & empowering entrepreneurs, CEOs and leaders on how to take the complex and make it simple regarding human capital. He guides us to adopt a growth mindset, while teaching necessary business skills, to create a business & life by design.
In this episode Karla, Alina and Andrew discuss how important it is that an employee’s passion is aligned in the workplace and how productive they are when they feel comfortable and supported in their surroundings.
In this episode we discuss Peter Drucker's quote that says, "Innovation is easy. Just put people in teams and have them work together. The problem is nobody knows how to do it."
Do you know what you don’t know? Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham developed the Johari Window. So how can we gain a competitive advantage by understanding the Johari window?
There are 10 rules of business which we believe should stand true for any business owner, not matter how small or large. These rules will get you through rough and great times.
The 10 Rules of Business are:
- Always keep your cool
- Get up when you get knocked down
- Relationships are everything
- Anything worth doing is worth doing well
- Always be coachable
- Attitude determines how far you will go
- Focus, focus, focus
- Listen, listen, listen.
- Gratitude is always the best policy.
- Never be afraid to ask for help.
This is part 4 of the podcast series How to Lead Like a Boss, we discuss six different types of hazardous attitudes and how to manage them in your company.
The 6 different hazardous attitudes are:
- anti-authority
- impulsivity
- Invulnerability (aka bulletproof syndrome)
- macho attitude (aka disengagement)
- listen to your mentors
- Get there-itis
In part three of this series of How to Lead Like a Boss, we discuss how to work as a team like a boss. There are 10 "traps" in working with people and we discuss the last 5 this week!
In part two of this series of How to Lead Like a Boss, we discuss how to work as a team like a boss. There are 10 "traps" in working with people. We discuss 5 this week and another 5 next week!
Did you know there are seven sources of your authority? In this episode, we dig into what those sources are and how to tap into them.
95? of businesses don’t have a marketing strategy…do you? Know your audience. Does your process start at step 1 or step 5? Listen in and find out how to start at step 1.
33 Percent of an employee’s salary. That’s the cost of turnover. Not to mention the lost time and production. Does your employee underperform? Are they a bad hire or are they misplaced?
33 Percent of an employee’s salary. That’s the cost of turnover. Not to mention the lost time and production. So how can you keep the good one’s around? Your ideation process may very well be the answer.
90% of corporations know they need to become agile in today’s environment. Only 10% are. Fabian Schwartz is a leading author and speaker on Agile and Scrum. Listen in as Karla and Fabian talk about Scrum and how it’s not just for tech anymore.
In the next 15 years, 40 trillion dollars of inter-generational wealth will be transferred. Most of it in small businesses. Are you ready?
Andrew Sherman talks about succession and transition planning for the coming tsunami of businesses changing owners.
Jarrod Haning allows you to access your next breakthrough on demand by learning to think at a higher level. He is an award-winning speaker who was featured on Nightline and has 4 TEDx talks to this credit. Karla and Jarrod dive deeper into the Nobel-nominated MindScan.
Dr. Jarrod Haning allows you to access your next breakthrough on demand by learning to think at a higher level. He is an award-winning speaker who was featured on Nightline and has 4 TEDx talks to this credit. Karla and Jarrod introduce the Nobel-nominated MindScan.
How do you use the WHO-DO™ Method to develop your strategy and tactics? Karla and Kevin discuss your "WHO to go to" during both Ideation and Implementation.
Malcolm Gladwell defines The Tipping Point as the moment ideas hit critical mass and spread like viruses. We define The Tripping Point as the moment you trip over yourself because you are asking the starters to finish something.
Do you know Scrum? Do you use it? Combining Scrum with the right person in the right place at the right time is powerful for managing all of your projects.
Myers-Briggs measures personality and identifies four categories. They are Introversion/Extraversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling and Judging/Perception. WHO-DO measures your core nature of work: Mover, Shaker, Prover and Maker. The two complement each other very well!
The DiSC Test measures personality and identifies your Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness. WHO-DO measures your core nature of work: Mover, Shaker, Prover and Maker. The two complement each other very well!
Your leadership team must know who is on the team for great development. We at The People Catalysts compiled over 100 years of research into the law of diffusion of innovations and mixed in our own experience to develop the WHO-DO Assessment™.
Join us as we introduce the WHO-DO and talk about just some of its awesome power!
“Getting Things Done” is a method for organizing your to-do list, this allows you to focus on actually accomplishing the tasks. The method has some great techniques, but they may not work for everyone.
If you can't "Cross The Chasm", it can cause entrepreneurial spasm! So what does it mean to cross the chasm, and how can we do that effectively?
Your goal: Win Friends and Influence People! The Reality: You Wound Friends and Incinerate People. How can you make reality meet your goal?
How can you ensure you get #FirstThingsFirst done, rather than #worstthingsfirst? Stephen Covey takes a deeper look into one of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and we show how to put gasoline and a match on your checklists...
Mike Gerber wrote the E-Myth. 9 years later he Revisited the E-Myth. He immediately set the tone of the book by saying: "If your business depends on you, you don't own a business, you own a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic."
We loved Think and Grow Rich from @napoleonhill but we changed our title to Drink and Grow Rich, because with 70% of the people hating their jobs, there's a lot of drinking going on. #thinkandgrowrich #Leadership
The One Minute Manager spends one minute on goals in the morning, one minute praising people, and one minute on reprimands (or re-directs as changed in The New One Minute Manager). The One Minute Mangler can throw people under the bus in less than a minute.
Stephen Covey shared the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in 1989. Karla Nelson and Allen Fahden add a little to his great discourse, looking at what are the habits of Highly Defective people. They answer questions like “How do you not put the sin in synergy?” “Are you being broactive instead of proactive?” and “Do you put the worst or first things first?”
1/3 of our founders wanted the Declaration of Indepence, 1/3 wanted to stay with the crown. The rest didn’t want their names even mentioned. Does this sound like your meetings?
Start with Why is brilliant. But it can still blow up in your face. Inspiration can make someone decide to follow you, but the most inspired fish in the world still can’t ride a bicycle. There’s nothing worse than a highly motivated incompetent.
When 70% of the people hate their jobs and 90% of CEOs fail because they can’t implement new ideas in their own company it’s time to take a new look at the way we do our work.
Is your organization “In Search of Extra Lunch” instead of “In Search of Excellence”? The clock and the calendar determine who should be the leader, not your organizational structure. Learn more with Allen and Karla!
Should “Good to Great” have been “Good to Grave?” In 2001, Jim Collins wrote this book about why some companies achieve greatness, but most do not. He listed 11 companies that were all GREAT….at the time. How have they faired since then?
“Who Moved My Cheese,” by Dr. Spencer Johnson, sold over 26 million copies. It’s an incredible best-selling book. Join us on this episode of The People Catalyst Podcast where Allen Fahden and Karla Nelson discuss how you can remove the frustration of bottlenecks within your business when dealing with change.