Great Points Podcast Series: Recent Episodes
Marsha Egan
Small changes can make big differences in your journey to success. We call these "Great Points." Join Marsha Egan, CSP, PCC, professional coach and success strategist for brief yet hard hitting suggestions that can make your life even more productive, fulfilling and prosperous.
Here is one of our best tips on how to craft your email message so that the reader “gets” your most important point. For just 2 1/2 minutes of your … Continue reading Clean Out Your Inbox Week, Day 3: Podcast: How to Make Sure Your Recipients “Get” Your Email Message
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Found yourself working from home unexpectedly? Struggling with setting up a new routine? Challenges managing distractions? Join us for a free one hour Zoom webinar that’ll give you tips and … Continue reading Webinar: Work at Home Strategies and Insights for COVID 19ers
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Check out these few "Great Points" about managing the guy/gal in charge of your paycheck... a 3 minute listen...
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Listen to these brief but powerful tips about managing your relationship with your boss!
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This not-to-miss 10 minute audio gives you tips on how to engrain new behaviors, and also answers many of your questions about how to give effective feedback. It is the audio from our video #3 - which can be found at https://www.marshaegan.com/fbformula-video.
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Here is the audio of our second “Feedback that Works” video… Feedback discussions are tough to have. Many managers and supervisors avoid them. Listen to this 12 minute audio (or … Continue reading Great Points Podcast: Feedback that Works – How to have the Difficult Discussion
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Hate giving employees feedback? Wishing it away rather than doing it? This is the first of several brief videos that can help you unlock the key to improving performance throughout your organization.
Listen to the audio of our recent "Feedback that Works" video.
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Do you blurt? Or can a pause before responding save you from wanting to swallow that comment? Listen to this 2 minute podcast!
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"Press Pause!" That's something we all need to do! Listen to this 2 minute podcast to understand why...
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Having trouble with life balance? Start with your priorities first! Here are some questions that can help... Take a quick listen.
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Here is more about why using the priority funnel can help you with your life balance... a 2 minute listen!
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Listen to this brief podcast challenging your assumptions about life balance, and reap a few tips to increase your...
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Here are some great points about how to clear the decks so that you can focus on what's important. A 2 1/2 minute listen, give it a try!
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Focus Focus Focus! It will help you achieve your dreams. Listen to this brief (3 minute) podcast to jog your thoughts...
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Do you REALLY need to be attached 24/7? Here are some thoughts...
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Being connected 24/7 isn't healthy. Listen to this brief podcast for some great tips on how to disconnect!
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Do you find it difficult to reward yourself? Pat yourself on the back? It is important! Listen to this brief podcast for why and how...
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It is so easy to reward and appreciate the people in your life, yet sometimes hard to get to it. Listen to this quick podcast for a quick energizer!
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As we strive to assert rather than attack, and even when we hone our assertiveness skills to the max, there are risks. Listen to this podcast for perspective...!
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There is one huge difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness. Listen to this quick podcast to find out...
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If you are a giver, you might benefit from boundaries to defend against the "takers" in your life. Listen to this brief podcast for the why and how. And learn about a "boundary cocoon."
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Should you set boundaries at work?! Of course. Listen to this brief podcast for the why and how!
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If you feel like a plate spinner - too much to do - too many things to do - all at the same time, setting boundaries will rescue you! Listen to this 3 minute podcast for the why and how...
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Whether a meeting should take a half hour, fifteen minutes, an hour or 90 minutes, you can almost bank on that meeting taking the dreaded one hour. Listen to this Great Points podcast on how to debunk the dreaded one hour meeting.
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Listen to this "Great Points" podcast on the three most important words that create action and accountability, and... RESULTS!
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Wonder when in your business conversation to ask for a business card? Listen to this brief podcast for the answer… and hints about how to manage the biz card once … Continue reading Great Points Podcast: When to Ask for a Business Card, and More…
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This week’s “great point” is about two words that are just magical when used. Correctly. Listen to this brief podcast to discover a tool you should never forget.
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Here’s a “great point” that you shouldn’t miss!
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Listen to this eye-opening podcast about WHY you need to be VERY concerned with the quality of each email you send… then click here to watch our latest email productivity … Continue reading Great Point Podcast – Why Your Email Messages Should Be AWESOME, Every Time…
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Here is your Friday “Great Points”podcast on the difference between values and goals, and even some sample values! Also, be sure to visit my iTunes channel for a lot of 1-3 … Continue reading Great Points Podcast: Values? Goals? What’s the Difference?
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With change all around us, and our natural tendencies to resist it, learning to accept and embrace change faster rather than slower can be a real career asset. Listen to … Continue reading 5 Ways to Embrace Change
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Don’t let the holidays (or any other days) stress you out… Here is a quick, 3 minute “listen” with some tactics that will help.
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One of the missing strategies in many peoples’ time management practices is that they are hesitant to let others know what their time management plans and needs are. Listen to … Continue reading Time Management? Tell others!
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Taking things personally, in business, can be a real detriment to a budding career. Business is business. Listen to this podcast for some “great pointers” that can help you stick … Continue reading Why Take Things SO Personally?
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We all know that volunteering can be a positive career strategy. Let’s take it one step further. The more quickly you volunteer, the better. We’ve all been in meetings when … Continue reading Want to Get Ahead? Volunteer Quickly!
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Why are so many people afraid to ask for help? Do they think they will appear weak? Actually, the reverse is true. Listen to this brief podcast to find out … Continue reading Asking for Help Actually Helps YOU!
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One of the best motivational tools in existence is FREE, easy to use, and unfortunately, not used enough. Listen to our podcast, and learn the secret. Wink Wink.
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Okay, so you think you know the importance of daily planning… I get that. Here are some tips and new ideas that might help you do it even better. Take … Continue reading Hot Tips on How to REALLY Plan Your Day…
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Everyone agrees that stabbing someone in the back is nasty behavior. Sometimes I just don’t get how or why anyone in business thanks it is a positive strategy… yet we … Continue reading Are You a Back Stabber? Here’s FFT…
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It’s been 5 years. We’ve offered bi-weekly chats on coaching topics here in Nantucket, and were lucky enough to have Steve Savino of WACK-FM interview me about this week’s discussion. He … Continue reading Have You Heard about Coaching at The Corner?
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BUT is a swear word. Well, almost… If you want to create a barrier in a conversation, just use the word “but.” Here is an 82 second podcast that could stop … Continue reading But, But, But, But, But… NO BUTS!
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People love to hate going to meetings. Let’s flip this one around. Have you ever considered that meetings could be your biggest career opportunity? Listen to this 90 second podcast … Continue reading Make Meetings a Career Strategy!
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So many times, we get distracted from working on what is truly important. And many times, it is the “important but not urgent” stuff that gets pushed aside. Listen to … Continue reading Finding it Tough to Get to Your Important Tasks?
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Do you respond to others by saying “no problem?” If you do, it most likely IS a problem, or at minimum, NOT the best response. Listen to this podcast to … Continue reading No Problem? That’s a Problem
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Playing “Gotcha” in the game of life just doesn’t work. Listen to this 83 second podcast to understand why, and to motivate you to NEVER do it again.
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Want to influence others positively? Let your enthusiasm do the work… Here is an 84 second podcast that can show you how.
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We’ve all heard how energizing praise can be. Well, NOT SO FAST! Praise works when it is specific. Listen to this brief (less than 2 minutes) podcast for tips on how … Continue reading The Magic of Specific Praise
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We are all eager. Eager to hear ourselves talk. So eager, that many times, we interrupt. We just can’t wait!This isn’t so good for relationship building, and business in general. … Continue reading STOP Interrupting!!! 82 Seconds That Can Change Your Career
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We all struggle with self confidence, at one time or another. Here are 3 “Great Points” to help you with that struggle. Listen to our podcast, and let us know … Continue reading Three Points to Help Build Your Self Confidence
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The early bird gets the worm. Or--the early arriver gets the advantage! Listen to this one minute podcast to find out why...
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One of the biggest challenges to our productivity is to decide how to spend our time. And that means how to decide what to work on once you’ve completed the … Continue reading How to Decide What to Work on Next…
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Poor leaders have a hard time letting go. Great leaders share the load. Listen to this 2 1/2 minute podcast that will energize you to share the load even more, … Continue reading Great Leaders “Share the Load!” Do You?
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Do you find yourself being drawn off your most important tasks? Do you finish your day, looking back on your to do list, and lament the fact that you have … Continue reading 6 Points to Enhance Your Ability to Plan Even Better!
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Why Extreme Self Confidence can help you make the right decisions.
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