Let's Get Lit With - Dr. Kay & Dr. H: Recent Episodes
Dr. Karen E. McCray
Mother and daughter team providing "Strategies to Elevate the Mind" (STEM). Drs. K & H encourages listeners to renew, reassess, and reactivate skills and abilities required to shift paradigms and break galss ceilings. Our aim is to ignite flames of change, innovation, creativity, and A+ Leadership so that our listeners will go and positively influence and impact their local and global communities. Let's Get Lit, activate, elevate and become a change agent today.
Professional development, certifications, and continuing education are required in various industries. Will your company accept a blog for CE or are is blogging simply a marketing tool? What are the advantages and disadvantages owners as well as employees?
Staying abreast of resources is as imperative for companies with fewer than 500 workers as those with 500+. 89% of businesses in the US have fewer than 500 workers.Do you know the many "FREE" resources available to help small business owners and the self-employed? Are you a minority owned business? How about woman in business? Listen as Drs. Kay and H discuss key free resources available in the USA to help sustain and grow your business in an ever evolving economy.
Which will aid in your professional development? Which one is best for you? Sometimes these professions are interchanged, but are they really the same? Listen as Dr. Hughes and Kay discuss the advantanges of mentors and coaches in life as well as professional development.
Change is not coming; it is here. Readily assessable information, technology, activism, customer and supply demands are forcing us to rethink leadership and how we manage in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times. What actions will you take to fulfill these current trends?
Strategies to Elevate the Mind (STEM) is Dr. Kay's approach to encouraging people and organizations to not only look at traditional methodologies BUT to expand MINDSETS for growth and prosperity. Dr. Kay and Dr. H, the Global Mentor Coach, discuss this emerging trend in leadership and its compatiblitiy to the traditonal Horizontal Leadership Development
The world is evolving, and so must business practices. A company that fails to incorporate the priorities and social values of their customers and workforce may not thrive.
Innovators are more than creators. They use their innovative ideas to shift paradigms and provide solutions to what others see as impossible. Innovators come from all walks of life, i.e. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and the list goes on. Tune in as we discuss how this leadership skill will payoff for you and your organization.
Never let your witty ideas remain on a shelf. Overcome barriers as past inventors. Make money while solving problems in society.
Should emoji's be used at work? Are emoji's at work considered professional or non-professional? Are emojis harmful to users vocabularies? Listen and weigh in as to whether emoji's should be used in a professional environment or remain as social media communique.
Interested in influencing your community, the nation, or even the world? As technology and consumerism change, so does the advertising platforms for businesses, organizations, institutions, brands, governments, and even individuals. Listen as we discuss “influencer marketing”.
The more things change the more they remain the same is as relevant today as it was yesterday. As much as business and politics are evolving, the skills required to lead and direct are not. Dr. K and H discuss evolving leadership competencies.
Access to various types of technology gives everyone the ability to record audio and video. Whether at home or in the board room what you say matters, especially if you are a person of influence. Today, not only must we re-assess our vernacular BUT also what and when we say things. Insensitivity to diversity, ethnicity, ethics, etcetera has the potential to negatively impact your livelihood, SO, watch what you say. Drs. Kay and H discuss conversations which have had a negative impact and cautions listeners to become more aware of how they use their words.
Words are exchanged more than money. Value your words as much as you do your money. improve your arsenal of words and better position your self for success in the marketplace and life.