Real Recognition Radio: Recent Episodes
Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown
You spend 70% of your week in the office. Work should be enjoyed, not endured! We’re going to help you create a better, more positive workplace. A pleasant workplace has much more powerful consequences than you might anticipate – it increases morale, productivity, loyalty and even reduces turnover. This is how the best companies differentiate themselves from the competition.
Real Recognition Radio is going to go back to what recognition is really all about. We’re going to help make better people and create more positive relationships. We’ll look at what’s new and exciting in the field of employee rewards, recognition and incentives. We’ll also talk to people who have lived successes and failures to help us learn what works and what doesn’t. Real Recognition Radio will show you how to get real results in the workplace through meaningful recognition solutions.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Dr. Kim S. Cameron, the Associate Dean in charge of Executive Education in the Ross School at the University of Michigan, and is the author of Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance. His past research has been published in more than 120 academic articles and 14 scholarly books, and he was recently recognized as among the top 10 social science scholars whose work has been downloaded from Google.
Do social comparisons limit us?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina, and the author of Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become.
How do social connections impact our health?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what leaders should do today to make their workplace better.
Do social comparisons limit us?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina, and the author of Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become.
How do social connections impact our health?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what leaders should do today to make their workplace better.
Can high-achievers have it all?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the authors of How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the author of seven critically-acclaimed books. A native of Australia, James Allworth writes for the Harvard Business Review, and has previously worked at Booz & Company, and Apple, Inc. Karen Dillon was Editor of the Harvard Business Review and previously served as deputy editor of Inc magazine, and was editor and publisher of the critically-acclaimed American Lawyer magazine.
How do you stay grounded in purpose while being satisfied and happy in your career?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how we start making things better in our own lives.
How does shame impact organizations? On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, a writer and research professor at the University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work.
Brené is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who We Think We Should Be and Embracing Who We Are and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power. Her newest book is titled, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Her ground-breaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and was the topic of two 2010 TEDx talks.
What does shame sound like inside our heads?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to hear how to change a culture of shame.
Is fear of criticism keeping you from your dreams?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Whitney Johnson, the author of, DARE-DREAM-DO: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream.
Whitney is the president and co-founder of the investment firm Rose Park Advisors. She is a former Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side analyst on Wall Street, a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and a TEDx speaker. Whitney’s work was recently cited as an HBR Editor’s Pick for 2011 and she was also listed on Inc Magazine’s 12 People to Follow on Twitter in 2012.
Why are those who dare to do something, the ones most criticized?
How do you press through your fears? Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how to be happy where you are and leverage what you have.
The Wall Street Journal cited Jim Kouzes as one of the 12 best executive educators in the United States. His book, “The Leadership Challenge,” has sold nearly 2 MILLION copies and he continues to publish and share leadership best practices around the world. You don’t want to miss this interview as Roy & Max ask him to share his thoughts on the leadership challenges of today to create a better workplace. How do you bring out the best in someone? How do you get employees to fulfill their potential? Join us as Jim reveals REAL ways the right kind of leadership, based on thoughtfulness and consideration, can make a world of difference.
Stay tuned on Tuesday March 30th, to learn about how to harness the power of encouraging the heart at work!
Montreal and New York City, September 27, 2011 – What’s wrong with using incentives for results?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Daniel H. Pink, the author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work. His latest is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offer a more effective path to high performance. Drive is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly bestseller — as well as a national bestseller in Japan and the United Kingdom.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what the difference is between Motivation 2.0 and Motivation 3.0. Listen in to also discover what the “hidden costs of rewards” really are.
Montreal and New York City, February 15, 2011 – FIRST TIME EVER... author of Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand appears with subject of book, Louis Zamperini.
With 760,000 copies of Unbroken in print, and the movie optioned by Universal Pictures, hear the first and only interview featuring both the author, Laura Hillenbrand (also the author of NYT bestseller Seabiscuit) and the subject, Louis Zamperini together on the next episode of Real Recognition Radio.
Louis was an Olympic athlete at the Games in Berlin when Hitler was in power. World War II—Louie was a U.S. Air Corps bombardier on a routine search mission over the Pacific when his plane crashed into the ocean. After surviving in a life raft, drifting 2,000 miles for 47 days into Japanese controlled waters, he faced his rescuers who were also his torturers, and suffered the remainder of the war in a series of prison camps. Louie endured incredible hardships almost too unbearable to believe. Today at 94 years of age, Louie is still spry, and full of life.
Montreal and New York City, January 12, 2011 – MOJO is purposeful, powerful and positive. So how do you acquire MOJO and what do you have to do to keep it? On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It, will share the four keys for developing and keeping MOJO.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to get your MOJO working for you.
What is leadership 2.0? Bestselling author and leadership advisor, Robin Sharma is this week’s guest on Real Recognition Radio and will explain how embracing leadership can change the workplace. Robin Sharma is ranked as one of the Top 5 leadership experts and is the celebrated author of 11 bestselling books on leadership, including The Leader Who Had No Title. Successful organizations are those that have high emotional intelligence – they encourage innovation, responsibility, relationships and see leaders in all their employees. Join in on this powerful conversation to learn that it doesn’t matter what your title is, you have the power to change your environment at work and at home.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Steven Snyder, Ph.D, Founder and Managing Director of Snyder Leadership Group, and is the author of Leadership and the Art of Struggle.
His advancements in the practice of leadership also derive from his own leadership experiences as an early leader at Microsoft where he worked closely with Bill Gates, as well as his experience as a CEO of a publicly held company.
How do we become more aware of our blind spots?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how failure can be turned into success.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Maynard Webb, author of “Rebooting Work: Transforming how you work in the age of entrepreneurship.” Maynard is a 30 year veteran of the technology and business community. He serves as a board member at salesforce.com and Yahoo!
What do you say to leaders who don’t feel like culture is there job?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how we can reframe the way we look at work.
What do successful givers do differently that all of us can learn from?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Adam Grant is the youngest tenured professor and highest-rated teacher at Wharton. He has been named one of the world’s 40 best business professors under 40 and one of BusinessWeek’s favorite professors, and he is a leading expert on success, work motivation, and helping and giving behaviors.
Adam also wrote the book Give and Take.
Has your research found any gender differences in givers and takers?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how givers and takers vary in the way they try to influence others.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Amy Rees Anderson who is the Managing Partner and Founder of REES Capital, which she created to provide entrepreneurs and business executives’ critical guidance and support to help their companies grow.
Amy is also an author and serves as a weekly contributor to Forbes and the Huffington Post.
Are there differences in the way men and women lead?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to handle toxic or just arrogant leaders.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Bill Treasurer who is the founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting. Bill is also the author of Courage Goes to Work, a book about how to inspire more courageous behavior in workplace settings.
Bill Treasurer has served as chief editor of Positively M.A.D. (Making A Difference), a compilation of stories from world-renowned experts that inspires readers to make a difference in their organizations.
What are the four skills of an open door leader?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how important recognition and appreciation are in the workplace.
What creates a compelling presence?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Kristi Hedges, the author of The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others.
Kristi writes about leadership for Forbes.com, and penned The Leadership Factor column for Entrepreneur.com. She's been featured in publications as diverse as Washington Post, Reuters, and MSNBC.com. She's been honored as one of the 50 Women Who Mean Business in Washington, D.C. and as an owner of a top 25 Largest Women-Owned Businesses by the Washington Business Journal.
How do our intentions impact our body language?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to go from vision to visionary.
Do social comparisons limit us?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina, and the author of Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become.
How do social connections impact our health?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what leaders should do today to make their workplace better.
What are the NEW RULES?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Josh Allan Dykstra, author of Igniting the Invisible Tribe: Designing An Organization That Doesn’t Suck.
Josh is an author, speaker, and co-founder of Strengths Doctors. His eclectic background spans Fortune 500 companies like Apple, Starbucks, Genentech, Sony, and Viacom/CBS to startups, nonprofits, universities, and government agencies.
Should we focus more on building environments than focusing on culture?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what the new career path looks like.
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Margaret Heffernan the author of Willful Blindness.
Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programs for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the “Top 25” by Streaming Media magazine and one of the “Top 100 Media Executives” by The Hollywood Reporter.
How can appreciation and recognition change a toxic culture?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program and learn how ostracism impact people.
Can bad relationships be realigned? On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Sara Canaday, author of You — According to Them: Uncovering the blind spots that impact your reputation and your career.
As Sara climbed the ladder of corporate America, she repeatedly observed a surprising phenomenon: the most successful people weren't necessarily the ones with the highest IQ or best job skills. She recognized instead that career advancement was much more closely linked with how people applied their knowledge and talents—their capacity to collaborate, communicate and influence others.
What is a leader’s most common blind spot?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to find the answer to that and to learn what to do when someone is being condescending.
Why is understanding our emotions so important and powerful?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Chip Conley, the author of Emotional Equations and the Founder of Joie de Vivre.
At the age of 26, Chip Conley started his own hospitality company, Joie de Vivre, guiding the company as CEO for two-dozen years and expanding it into a collection of over 35 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas – the second largest boutique hotel company in America. Chip is an author, speaker and veteran practitioner of emotional intelligence in business and in his New York Times bestselling book, EMOTIONAL EQUATIONS: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, he takes us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency.
What is flow and how does one find it?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program and learn how to create your own emotional equations that focus on what you're becoming, and not what you're getting.
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Julie Clow, author of The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All.
Julie joined Google in 2006 and spent five years there focusing on team effectiveness, leadership and management, and organizational culture, primarily for engineers. During her tenure, she discovered the power of freedom and autonomy for creating a thriving workplace. She now serves as the VP for Learning and Development for an equally inspired investment management company, Two Sigma Investments.
Have we moved beyond industrial revolution management practices?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to focus more on energy and less on schedules. Julie Clow, author of The Work Revolution
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Erika Anderson, author of “Leading So People Will Follow.”
Erika Andersen is the founding partner of Proteus, a coaching, consulting and training firm that focuses on leader readiness. Over the past 30 years, Erika has developed a reputation for creating approaches to learning and business-building that are custom tailored to her clients’ challenges, goals, and culture.
What are the six key attributes of a leader?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how leaders can improve their skills in recognition.
Erika Anderson, author of Leading So People Will Follow
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Laurence G. Weinzimmer, the author of The Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price.
Dr. Weinzimmer is a highly recognized researcher, an Endowed Professor of Management in the Foster College of Business Administration at Bradley University, and author of 3 books including the best seller, Fast Growth: How to Attain it, How to Sustain it.
What are the consequences and costs of workplace bullying?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the most destructive cultural characteristics in organizations today.
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Dr. Laurence G. Weinzimmer, author of The Wisdom of Failure
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Maynard Webb, author of “Rebooting Work: Transforming how you work in the age of entrepreneurship.” Maynard is a 30 year veteran of the technology and business community. He serves as a board member at salesforce.com and Yahoo!
What do you say to leaders who don’t feel like culture is there job?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how we can reframe the way we look at work.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Nic Marks, author of “A Happiness Manifesto,” and founder of the Centre for Well-being at the new economics foundation (nef). In 2010, he was a speaker at the TedGlobal Conference at Oxford University.
What are the benefits of happy people?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to create a great workplaces.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Paul Spiegelman the Chief Culture Officer of Stericycle, Paul is also the Founder of BerylHealth and The Beryl Institute.
He’s written several books on employee engagement and is the New York Times bestselling author of Patients Come Second: Leading Change by Changing the Way you Lead. Paul was honored with the Ernst & Young 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year award.
How can we make the recognition more meaningful?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how fear impacts performance and the ability to get things done.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Meredith Blake the Founder and CEO of ProSocial, a strategy consulting and management firm in the business of high-impact social change.
Meredith works with clients to create social action campaigns that use entertainment media as a catalyst for movement-building - delivering superior value to businesses, social enterprises and influencers in entertainment and media.
Where does one begin to create positive social change?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how do you deal with conflicts and differences of opinion.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Steven Snyder, Ph.D, Founder and Managing Director of Snyder Leadership Group, and is the author of Leadership and the Art of Struggle.
His advancements in the practice of leadership also derive from his own leadership experiences as an early leader at Microsoft where he worked closely with Bill Gates, as well as his experience as a CEO of a publicly held company.
How do we become more aware of our blind spots?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how failure can be turned into success.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Dr. Kim S. Cameron, the Associate Dean in charge of Executive Education in the Ross School at the University of Michigan, and is the author of Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance. His past research has been published in more than 120 academic articles and 14 scholarly books, and he was recently recognized as among the top 10 social science scholars whose work has been downloaded from Google.
How can leaders focused on the bottom-line, begin to see what’s happening above the line?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the current findings in research on downsizing.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Rob Morris, President and co-founder of Love146, an international human rights organization working toward the abolition of child-sex slavery and exploitation through prevention and aftercare. Rob was named an “Agent of Change” by GQ magazine as well as earning the MySpace Impact Award for social justice. Rob lectures internationally on issues of child trafficking, justice, compassion & human rights. What are the biggest challenges of leading a non-profit organization?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the current worldwide statistics of human trafficking.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Dr. Samuel Culbert, the author of Get Rid of the Performance Review! How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing— and Focus on What Really Matters. Samuel Culbert is a researcher and full-time tenured professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles. Dr. Culbert is winner of a McKinsey Award for an article published in the Harvard Business Review. Do performance reviews force good bosses to become bad managers?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the steps in The Path to Growth”.
How do emotions impact women and men at work? On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will speak with Anne Kreamer, the author of It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace.
Anne has worked as a columnist for Fast Company and Martha Stewart Living, and is a frequent blogger on HarvardBusinessReview.org and NextAvenue.org. Her work has appeared in Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, and Travel + Leisure.
How does chronic stress impact performance?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the Four Workplace Emotion Evaluation Profiles.
What new skills do managers need today? On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Edward T. Reilly, the President and CEO of the American Management Association International, and the editor of AMA Business Boot Camp: Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career.
The American Management Association is a world leader in talent development. Organizations worldwide, including the majority of the Fortune 500, turn to AMA as their trusted partner in professional development.
Has the speed of change added to the complexity managers’ face today?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the mistakes that managers tend to make.
Are all the perks necessary?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Stan Phelps, the author of the amazon Best Seller, What's Your Purple Goldfish?: How to Win Customers and Influence Word of Mouth.
Stan gained his know-how through a career filled with dream jobs for global mega-brands in sports including Adidas, IMG and the PGA of America.
What workplace trends attract, retain, and create more loyal and engaged employees?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the most important element of great recognition.
What have new studies found regarding employee engagement? On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Rodger D. Stotz, CCP, CPT, CPIM Chief Research Officer of The Incentive Research Foundation, and Melissa Van Dyke, President of the IRF. The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation, funds research studies and develops products serving all segments of the global incentive industry. The Foundation focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs. Why has gamification taken off so fast in the Recognition and Rewards arena?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the evidence of which specific recognition practices are more valued than others.
What are the five core values at Facebook?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Ekaterina Walter, author of Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Ekaterina is a social media innovator at Intel. A recognized business and marketing thought leader, she is a speaker and a regular contributor to Fast Company, Huffington Post, and other leading-edge print and online publications. She has been featured in Forbes and Business Review USA and was named among 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2012.
How do leaders avoid being blinded by the inertia of success?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what lies ahead for the next generation of workers.
How do you recruit and hire people that fit within your culture? On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. David “Doc” Vik, the author of The Culture Secret: How to Empower People and Companies No Matter What You Sell, and the CEO of The Culture King. Prior to founding The Culture King, Dr. Vik held the role of Coach at Zappos.com, where he helped drive the culture. During Dr. Vik’s tenure, Zappos received worldwide attention for their culture, including features on “60 Minutes” and “Dateline” and an elevation of their standing on Fortune magazine’s list of “Best Places to Work” from #23 in 2009 to #15 in 2010 to #6 in 2011. Why does transplanting other companies’ ideas into your own rarely work out?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the key factors for crafting company values that drive culture.
After Amazon acquired Zappos three years ago, has the Zappos culture changed in any way?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Jamie Naughton is Zappos.com Speaker of the House.
As Speaker of the House, Jamie works directly with CEO Tony Hsieh, focusing on the culture for which the company has become known. Her role is essential in creating and driving the architecture of the dynamic culture as well as focusing on culture R&D to ensure Zappos.com always stays relevant to both the employees and their customers.
Does Zappos still pay new hires $2,000 to leave?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to get employees to create an emotional connection with every customer.
What are the 5 steps to personal branding? On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Karen Kang, the author of BrandingPays: The Five-Step System to Reinvent Your Personal Brand. Karen is a recognized brand strategist and the founder and CEO of BrandingPays LLC, a corporate and personal branding company. Previously, Karen was a partner with Regis McKenna Inc., the legendary marketing firm that created and launched the Apple brand. She's consulted to more than 150 organizations in the US, Europe and Asia from Fortune 100 companies to non-profits and startups. Why do people need to brand themselves?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the top 3 things that jobseekers can do to brand themselves.
What are the Top 5 Challenges for Bosses?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Jill Geisler, author of Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know.
Jill was among the country's first women to lead a major market TV newsroom when she became news director of WITI-TV in Milwaukee in 1978, at the age of 27. Joining the faculty of the Poynter Institute, she now heads the leadership and management programs.
How do leaders create great workplaces when change is constant?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the top 3 things employees never forgive.
How does one become a better storyteller?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Paul Smith, consumer research executive at The Procter & Gamble Company, and the author of Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire.
Paul is a highly-rated trainer in several Procter & Gamble training colleges for leadership and communications. In addition to corporate clients, he is a lecturer in the MBA programs at Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati.
Why are stories so powerful?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the components of a good story.
Do social comparisons limit us?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina, and the author of Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become.
How do social connections impact our health?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what leaders should do today to make their workplace better.
How do you define courage?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, the author of The Courage Quotient, Practicing Positive Psychology Coaching, Happiness: Unlocking the mysteries of psychological wealth.
Robert’s research on happiness has taken him to such far flung places as Greenland, India and Kenya. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Happiness Studies and the Journal of Positive Psychology. Robert is an instructor at Portland State University; a Certified Mentor Coach, and is co-founder of the charitable mission, The Strengths Project.
How does obedience to authority limit our ability to show courage?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how the fear of failure and procrastination work together.
Why is change so hard?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Kevin Eikenberry, the co-author of From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership.
Kevin is the bestselling author of Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time; and several other books in addition to being a contributor to thirteen Training and Development Sourcebooks. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies and his client list includes the American Red Cross, A & W Canada, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, John Deere, Purdue University, Sears Canada, Shell, Southwest Airlines, the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Mint, Verizon and many more.
What is the DISC Model and how is it beneficial?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the 5Ds of workplace conflict resolution.
What creates a compelling presence?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Kristi Hedges, the author of The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others.
Kristi writes about leadership for Forbes.com, and penned The Leadership Factor column for Entrepreneur.com. She's been featured in publications as diverse as Washington Post, Reuters, and MSNBC.com. She's been honored as one of the 50 Women Who Mean Business in Washington, D.C. and as an owner of a top 25 Largest Women-Owned Businesses by the Washington Business Journal.
How do our intentions impact our body language?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to go from vision to visionary.
What are the NEW RULES?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Josh Allan Dykstra, author of Igniting the Invisible Tribe: Designing An Organization That Doesn’t Suck.
Josh is an author, speaker, and co-founder of Strengths Doctors. His eclectic background spans Fortune 500 companies like Apple, Starbucks, Genentech, Sony, and Viacom/CBS to startups, nonprofits, universities, and government agencies.
Should we focus more on building environments than focusing on culture?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what the new career path looks like.
Why do so many people feel empty despite great financial success?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Patricia Aburdene, author of Conscious Money: Living, Creating, and Investing with Your Values for a Sustainable New Prosperity.
What’s the connection between values and money?
Conscious Money is a blueprint for growing wealth with integrity and making a difference by integrating human values into personal finance. Patricia Aburdene is one of the world’s leading social forecasters, and the co-author of the New York Times number one bestseller Megatrends 2000.
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the antidote to greed.
What are the benefits of learning from failure?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Laurence G. Weinzimmer, the author of The Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price.
Dr. Weinzimmer is a highly recognized researcher, an Endowed Professor of Management in the Foster College of Business Administration at Bradley University, and author of 3 books including the best seller, Fast Growth: How to Attain it, How to Sustain it.
What are the consequences and costs of workplace bullying?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the most destructive cultural characteristics in organizations today.
What is a leader’s greatest responsibility?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Julie Winkle Giulioni, co-author of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want.
What are the biggest workplace hurdles we face today?
Julie Winkle Giulioni has spent the past 25 years improving performance through learning. She’s partnered with hundreds of organizations to develop and deploy innovative training products that are in use worldwide.
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the best questions to generate career conversations.
Why don't employees trust their leaders?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Mark C. Crowley, the author of Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century.
How is the current leadership model failing us today?
According to Mark's research, the evidence that our traditional ways of managing people is
failing overwhelming. In Lead From The Heart, Mark presents compelling evidence that the solution leaders need to re-inspire workers lies in the last place traditional business would seek to find it: the human heart.
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the 4 practices of leading from the heart.
After Amazon acquired Zappos three years ago, has the Zappos culture changed in any way?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Jamie Naughton is Zappos.com Speaker of the House.
As Speaker of the House, Jamie works directly with CEO Tony Hsieh, focusing on the culture for which the company has become known. Her role is essential in creating and driving the architecture of the dynamic culture as well as focusing on culture R&D to ensure Zappos.com always stays relevant to both the employees and their customers.
Does Zappos still pay new hires $2,000 to leave?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to get employees to create an emotional connection with every customer.
Why is credibility the foundation for leadership?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Jim Kouzes, the coauthor of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, one of the 100 best business books of all time.
Jim is also the coauthor of the award-winning Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, which was chosen by Industry Week as one of the ten best management books of the year.
How does listening strengthen credibility and why is it so important? What do leaders do when they lose credibility?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the six disciplines for earning & sustaining credibility.
What can neuroscience teach us about workplace behavior?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Ellen Weber, CEO and President of MITA International Brain Based Center for Renewal in Secondary and Higher Education.
Dr. Weber is an author, lecturer and columnist, and is a global leadership facilitator, who teaches leadership renewal at The Bittner School of Business. Her well respected workplace improvement program includes ground-breaking brain powered tone tools to lead innovation and renewal.
What is the difference between traditional and brain powered leadership?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how stress impacts our ability to do great work.
Where does one begin to discover their purpose?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Nick Sarillo, the author of A Slice of the Pie and the founder and CEO of Nick’s Pizza & Pub, the sixth busiest independent pizza company in per-store sales in the United States.
Founded with the purpose of providing the community with an unforgettable place where families could relax and have fun, Nick’s Pizza & Pub has margins nearly twice that of the average pizza restaurant and boasts an 80 percent employee retention rate in an industry in which the average annual turnover is over 150 percent.
How do values guide you through conflict or disagreement?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how transparency is good for business.
What are the most important findings in current HR global research?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Wayne Brockbank, the co-author of HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources.
Wayne is the co-author of six books on HR strategy and competencies and a Clinical Professor of Business at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. At the Ross School of Business, Dr. Brockbank is a co-faculty director and core instructor of the Advanced Human Resource Executive Program, the world’s number one rated HR executive program.
How does an HR leader master competitive value from the “outside in”?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the essential steps for upgrading individual abilities to compete in today’s marketplace.
Can bad relationships be realigned? On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Sara Canaday, author of You — According to Them: Uncovering the blind spots that impact your reputation and your career.
As Sara climbed the ladder of corporate America, she repeatedly observed a surprising phenomenon: the most successful people weren't necessarily the ones with the highest IQ or best job skills. She recognized instead that career advancement was much more closely linked with how people applied their knowledge and talents—their capacity to collaborate, communicate and influence others.
What is a leader’s most common blind spot?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to find the answer to that and to learn what to do when someone is being condescending.
Why is understanding our emotions so important and powerful?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Chip Conley, the author of Emotional Equations and the Founder of Joie de Vivre.
At the age of 26, Chip Conley started his own hospitality company, Joie de Vivre, guiding the company as CEO for two-dozen years and expanding it into a collection of over 35 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas – the second largest boutique hotel company in America. Chip is an author, speaker and veteran practitioner of emotional intelligence in business and in his New York Times bestselling book, EMOTIONAL EQUATIONS: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, he takes us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency.
What is flow and how does one find it?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program and learn how to create your own emotional equations that focus on what you're becoming, and not what you're getting.
What does a healthy organization look like?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Scott Keller, the author of Beyond Performance: How Great Companies Achieve Ultimate Competitive Advantage.
Scott writes a monthly column for HBR.com and regularly hosts CEO, CXO roundtables on leadership and change management. He is a Director in McKinsey & Company’s Los Angeles office where he leads McKinsey’s Transformational Change Practice in the Americas. Scott has been awarded the ASHRM Strategic leadership Award, AMCO’s Business Transformation Award, and Leadership Excellence Magazine’s 'Top 25' award for developing leaders.
What can mid-level managers do to create positive change in the work environment?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the Five Frames of Performance and Health.
How does shame impact organizations?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, a writer and research professor at the University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work.
Brené is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who We Think We Should Be and Embracing Who We Are and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power. Her newest book is titled, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Her ground-breaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and was the topic of two 2010 TEDx talks.
What does shame sound like inside our heads?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to hear how to change a culture of shame.
What is the biggest thing people tend to take for granted?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Chad Hymas, author of Doing What Must Be Done.
At the age of 27, Chad Hymas’ life changed instantaneously when an accident left him a quadriplegic. Since that time Chad has been recognized by the state of Utah as the Superior Civilian of the Year. He is the president of his own communications company and an internet marketing company and is the youngest person ever to receive the CPAE award and be inducted into the National Speaker Hall Of Fame.
Why is it important to value and appreciate the people around you?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to turn a bad day around to good.
How do we make generosity the engine room of every business? On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with David Lapin, the author of Lead by Greatness, and CEO of Lapin Consulting International.
David worked alongside some of South Africa’s greatest business leaders who, together with Nelson Mandela and his government, transformed the country from apartheid to a vibrant, new democratic economy. He was the founder of the South African Institute of Business Ethics, architect of the Code of Ethics for the King Commission on Corporate Governance and the Institute of Directors for Southern Africa.
What is the connection between greatness of character and business achievement?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the key to cultural intelligence.
What are the warning signs of a low trust environment?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Greg Link, the co-author of Smart Trust written with Stephen M.R. Covey and contributor Rebecca R. Merrill.
Greg is the cofounder of CoveyLink, FranklinCovey’s Global Speed of Trust Practice, and the former Covey Leadership Center. He led the strategy that propelled Covey's father's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to be one of the two most influential business books of the 20th century.
Are we incentivizing the right things to build trust?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the five actions of Smart Trust.
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Brook Manville, coauthor of Judgment Calls, and Dan Rockwell, the author of Leadership Freak.
In Judgment Calls, Brook and his coauthor share twelve stories of organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep knowledge to build an organizational decision-making capability—a competence they say can make the difference between success and failure.
Dan Rockwell is the author of Leadership Freak, a daily leadership blog designed to help leaders reach higher in 300 words or less. Leadership Freak currently surpasses a million views a year.
What are the four trends that will shape and define good decision making in the future?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how leaders institute a collaborative environment, while managing the complexity and diversity of multiple locations around the world.
What is the #1 leadership skill?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Julie Clow, author of The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All.
Julie joined Google in 2006 and spent five years there focusing on team effectiveness, leadership and management, and organizational culture, primarily for engineers. During her tenure, she discovered the power of freedom and autonomy for creating a thriving workplace. She now serves as the VP for Learning and Development for an equally inspired investment management company, Two Sigma Investments.
Have we moved beyond industrial revolution management practices?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to focus more on energy and less on schedules.
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Mark Oakes the CEO of Intellimar, Inc. and its two wholly owned subsidiaries; Concentric Security, LLC, and Blue Ember Technologies. He and his team were awarded the Maryland Ernst & Young Business Services Entrepreneur of the Year, The Baltimore, Maryland Future 50 Award and his company was listed in both the 2004 and 2005 INC 500 list of the fastest growing privately held US companies.
Is there anything you wish you would have learned earlier in your career?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the biggest stumbling blocks to get around as you move up the leadership ladder.
Does Social Media impact how we work together?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Steve Richardson, CRP, manager of employee recognition efforts at RBC—Royal Bank of Canada, Gordon Green, CRP, Chief Strategy Officer at Rideau Recognition Solutions, and Steven Green, founder of TemboSocial Inc. Together they will discuss how employees react when using and receiving social recognition.
Where does social media fit into a well thought out recognition strategy?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the benefits of utilizing social media in the realm of employee recognition.
How does shame impact organizations? On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, a writer and research professor at the University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work.
Brené is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who We Think We Should Be and Embracing Who We Are and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power. Her newest book is titled, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Her ground-breaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, and was the topic of two 2010 TEDx talks.
What does shame sound like inside our heads?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to hear how to change a culture of shame.
How do you get the job you want and keep the one you love?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Harvey Mackay author of six New York Times bestsellers including Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and his newest book, The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World.
Harvey is a nationally syndicated columnist for United Feature Syndicate with weekly articles appearing in 100 newspapers and magazines around the country.
So what is the secret for getting hired today?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to hear what our current economy demands of salespeople more than anything else and learn the elements of effective networking.
Are you other focused?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will open the doors to recognition and leadership. Listen in as they interview each other to reveal how to achieve Real Recognition and Real Leadership.
S. Max Brown, CRP, Principal, Leadership Directives at Rideau’s Recognition Management Institute, will define the four core attributes leaders must develop to achieve Real Leadership. Max has made nearly one thousand presentations in locations all around the world. With his extensive experience in leadership training, speaking, and facilitating, Max brings a global perspective to the challenge of providing Real Leadership.
Are you on the “dark-side” of recognition or are you giving Real Recognition? Roy Saunderson, CRP, is the author of GIVING the Real Recognition Way, 101 Ways to Give EVERYDAY Real Recognition™, and How to FOCUS on Success! The president and founder of the Recognition Management Institute, Roy will explain how to give your people the recognition uplift they need, in addition you’ll hear to how to effectively recognize remote workers.
Listen in this week to Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio to discover exactly how you look for and promote success of those around you.
How do you instill hope and purpose in those around you?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Billy Ray Taylor, Plant Manager at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Billy is the recipient of the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Award and The Shingo Prize Silver Medallion – the Nobel Prize of manufacturing. Billy has been recognized as one of the Most Admired CEO’s in Oklahoma.
If success breeds arrogance, what should leaders do to stay grounded?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the leadership team characteristics that are key indicators for promotion.
Does recognition on the executive agenda give a competitive advantage? Do your recognition programs accommodate different cultures?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Bill Buckner, Senior Vice President and Chief Recognition Officer of Cargill, Inc. and Karen Sachs, Cargill’s Transportation & Logistics Business HR Leader. With over 139,000 employees located in 65 countries, Cargill believes in the importance of recognition. Bill and Karen will tell us how to get and keep recognition in the C-Suite.
What are Cargill’s seven guiding principles?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn about Cargill’s award winning methods.
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Greg Link, the co-author of Smart Trust written with Stephen M.R. Covey and contributor Rebecca R. Merrill.
Greg is the cofounder of CoveyLink, FranklinCovey’s Global Speed of Trust Practice, and the former Covey Leadership Center. He led the strategy that propelled Covey's father's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to be one of the two most influential business books of the 20th century.
Are we incentivizing the right things to build trust?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the five actions of Smart Trust.
What can leaders do to foster a healthy workplace?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Staffan Rydin, Leadership Coach and Management Consultant at The Integral Business Leadership Group. Prior to becoming a consultant and coach, Staffan was CEO of a preeminent international online lead-generation subsidiary that worked as a strategic partner with industry-leading affiliate websites and portals.
How does coaching help good leaders become great?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to coach people to higher performance.
Your biggest complaint about running a company may be your greatest asset.
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Douglas Conant, president & CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and his co-author Mette Norgaard, a renowned teacher of leaders. Together Douglas and Mette authored TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments.
In TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments, Douglas and Mette reveal how every planned and spontaneous interaction is an opportunity to build engagement and promote an organization’s values, purpose and agenda.
How can you use interruptions and other incidental points of contact to move your company forward?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to discover the secret that helped turn around the Campbell Soup Company and lead Nabisco Foods Company during five years of consecutive growth.
What are your highest priorities?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Mark Oakes the CEO of Intellimar, Inc. and its two wholly owned subsidiaries; Concentric Security, LLC, and Blue Ember Technologies. He and his team were awarded the Maryland Ernst & Young Business Services Entrepreneur of the Year, The Baltimore, Maryland Future 50 Award and his company was listed in both the 2004 and 2005 INC 500 list of the fastest growing privately held US companies.
Is there anything you wish you would have learned earlier in your career?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the biggest stumbling blocks to get around as you move up the leadership ladder.
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Chade-Meng Tan, Google’s Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny) and author of Search Inside Yourself.
One of Google's earliest engineers, Meng has helped build Google's first mobile search service, and headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google's search quality. After a successful 8-year stint in Engineering and 2 years as GoogleEDU's Head of Personal Growth, he now serves with Google's Talent Team. His current job description is, Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace.
Meng was featured on the front page of the New York Times and delivered a TED Talk at the United Nations.
What are the benefits of resilience, mindfulness, and self-awareness?
What are the highest traits of influential leaders?
Don’t miss Rideau’s next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the three assumptions.
What are the big challenges people in HR are facing today?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Kim Reese, Vice President Human Resources at Skogen's Festival Foods.
Kim is an accomplished Human Resource and Operations Leader with twenty (20) years of experience focused on positively impacting and leading change to achieve business strategies. In 2011, Kim joined Festival Foods, a family-owned company operating stores strategically throughout Wisconsin, operates 16 full-service, state-of-the art supermarkets and employs over 4,200 associates.
What are ways to retain and build your workforce?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to make recognition effective and personal for recipients.
What are the top 10 reasons companies fail to innovate?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Saul Kaplan, author of The Business Model Innovation Factory.
Saul is the founder and chief catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory, a real-world laboratory for exploring and testing new business models and social systems. Saul shares his innovation musings on Twitter and his blog (It’s Saul Connected), and as regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
What’s the biggest misconception to innovation?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to take risks in a risk adverse work environment.
How do you measure effectiveness?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with J. Keith Dunbar, Vice President and Director at Science Applications International Corporation. After a 21 year career as a U.S. Naval Intelligence Officer, Keith now serves as the Director of Learning & Talent Development within the ISR Group at SAIC supporting over 12,000 employees.
Has the field of positive psychology impacted the way leaders work?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the cost of having a fear based workplace culture.
Can high-achievers have it all?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the authors of How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the author of seven critically-acclaimed books. A native of Australia, James Allworth writes for the Harvard Business Review, and has previously worked at Booz & Company, and Apple, Inc. Karen Dillon was Editor of the Harvard Business Review and previously served as deputy editor of Inc magazine, and was editor and publisher of the critically-acclaimed American Lawyer magazine.
How do you stay grounded in purpose while being satisfied and happy in your careers?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to start making things better in our own lives.
Do Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives really motivate employees?
On the next episode of Rideau’s Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Josh Goldman, Vice President, Human Resources for Conifer Health Solutions. Josh is responsible for leading all aspects of human resources management, including talent acquisition, compensation, workforce development, performance management, and employee relations.
How do you measure your program’s success?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the key steps to starting a Corporate Social Responsibility program.
Can you be optimistic when you’ve lived through evil?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Caroline Stoessinger, author of A CENTURY OF WISDOM, Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor.
What was life like in the concentration camp?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how one Holocaust survivor has been able to appreciate the gifts of life and to never give up.
Do the stories we tell ourselves make things worse?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Cy Wakeman, author of Reality Based Leadership – Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace and Turn Excuses Into Results.
How do we restore sanity to the workplace?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the five steps for getting back on a positive track.
How do we uncover the hidden agenda?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Kevin Allen, author of The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way To Win Business and Create A Following.
Why do some sales pitches work while many fall flat?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what Brutal Simplicity of Thought is and how this should direct our communications.
Are hand-written thank you notes obsolete?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with John Kralik, author of A Simple Act of Gratitude – How learning to say thank you changed my life.
John practiced law in Los Angeles for 30 years, including at the firms of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Miller Tokuyama, Kralik & Sur and Kralik & Jacobs, as well as Kralik & Associates. In September 2009, John was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to be a Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Is it true that until you learn to be grateful for the things you have, you will not receive the things you want?
Have we lost the ability to acknowledge the simple things people do for us?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how the act of physically writing a thank you card can change your perspective of people.
What are the best influencers doing to stand out in social media?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Sean Gardner, one of the top 100 most influential people on Twitter according to Twitter Grader. Sean, also known as Twitter’s 2morrowknight, manages social media at SeeYourImpact.org, and is an author and social media correspondent who blogs for Huffington Post and Smedio.
What are some of the biggest mistakes organizations are making in social media? And where should people focus their time on social media?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what organizations should be doing to be more effective in getting their message out.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Dr. Mollie Marti, author of Walking with Justice: Uncommon Lessons from One of Life’s Greatest Mentors. Dr. Marti is a psychologist, lawyer, and adjunct professor at the University of Iowa, Department of Psychology. She speaks around the globe in the areas of leadership resilience, servant mentorship, life design, and business ethics.
How does humility make you better?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn why so many with title, power, or a little success, become so arrogant.
Montreal and New York City, September 27, 2011 – What’s wrong with using incentives for results?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Daniel H. Pink, the author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work. His latest is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offer a more effective path to high performance. Drive is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly bestseller — as well as a national bestseller in Japan and the United Kingdom.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what the difference is between Motivation 2.0 and Motivation 3.0. Listen in to also discover what the “hidden costs of rewards” really are.
Does leadership differ in Europe vs. North America?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Petteri Tarkkonen, the Managing Director, CEO, and President of Finn-ID Oy.
An accomplished senior executive, Peter delivers extraordinary results with high tech business units in Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Finn-ID Ltd provides automatic identification based enterprise solutions for logistics that links transactions and information. Since assuming the role of CEO of Finn-ID, Peter has earned the moniker, “The CEO Centurion” and has demonstrated exemplary leadership in the firm’s global expansion.
Are leadership styles changing?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how to celebrate your employee’s great work.
Is fear of criticism keeping you from your dreams?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Whitney Johnson, the author of, DARE-DREAM-DO: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream.
Whitney is the president and co-founder of the investment firm Rose Park Advisors. She is a former Institutional Investor-ranked sell-side analyst on Wall Street, a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and a TEDx speaker. Whitney’s work was recently cited as an HBR Editor’s Pick for 2011 and she was also listed on Inc Magazine’s 12 People to Follow on Twitter in 2012.
Why are those who dare to do something, the ones most criticized?
How do you press through your fears? Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how to be happy where you are and leverage what you have.
What are the signs of a “sucky workplace environment”?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Ted Coiné and Shawn Murphy.
Author, speaker, and business heretic, Ted Coiné is one of the most influential business leaders on Twitter, with a following of over one hundred thousand and growing rapidly. His leadership was recognized on the Forbes list of Top 50 Power Influencers in Social Media.
Shawn Murphy is president of Achieved Strategies. Shawn and Ted recently melded minds to start a new leadership blog, SwitchandShift.com. Shawn and Ted believe there’s a better way to do business. Better from the human side; the customer side; and as it turns out, better from the profit side as well.
What would you tell someone to do who says they’ve got stress induced health problems because of work demands?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how a leader gets their employees to love their job and love working for them.
Why is it important for women to support each other in the workplace?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Mary Davis Holt, the co-author of Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking that Block Women's Paths to Power.
Mary is an executive coach and expert on business, women and leadership, and is the managing partner at Flynn Heath Holt Leadership whose mission is to help women and organizations move forward, faster. Her firm has coached over 5,000 women and conducted more than 1,700 interviews with Fortune 1,000 executives.
How do women project personal power without coming across arrogant?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the biggest challenges women face in the workplace, and to discover the strengths & benefits women bring specifically because of their gender.
What is the biggest mistake a person makes when trying to influence others?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Dr. Michael Pantalon, Research Scientist at Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. Pantalon is a clinical psychologist and an award-winning faculty member at Yale University School of Medicine. He maintains a practice as a motivation expert, working as an executive coach, consultant, speaker, and therapist, and is the author of a book on how to motivate anyone, quick, titled, INSTANT INFLUENCE: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything—Fast!.
What are the SIX steps to instant influence?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the six steps and to discover why celebrating success so important.
What causes people to feel so unappreciated at work?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Dr. Paul White the co-author of The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, which was written with Dr. Gary Chapman, the author of The Five Love Languages.
What’s the difference between the 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace and the 5 Love Languages?
Dr. White lectures around the world, and his expertise has been requested by the Milken Institute, Princeton University, Dartmouth University, and numerous national organizations. He has been published extensively in professional journals including the Journal of Diversity, the Journal of Financial Planning, Individual Psychology, and the Journal of School Psychology.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover what your primary and secondary Language of Appreciation really is.
What are the 4 power types?
How can people gain so much power over others but lose so much power over themselves?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Maggie Craddock the author of Power Genes: Understanding Your Power Persona and How to Wield it at Work.
In addition, Maggie is the author of The Authentic Career: Following the Path of Self-Discovery to Professional Fulfillment and has written several nationally syndicated articles on behavioral dynamics in the workplace. Her work has been discussed in publications ranging from Harvard Business Review to Oprah Magazine. She has been featured on CNBC, National Public Radio and quoted in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how you as a leader can become more effective and how emotional triggers may be limiting your ability to respond in a proactive way.
Why do we sabotage ourselves? Why do we do what is NOT in our best interest? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with David DiSalvo, the author of What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite.
David has served as a consulting research analyst and communications specialist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and several other public and private organizations in the U.S. and abroad, spanning from Boston to Beijing. His work appears in Psychology Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. David has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, CNN’s Headline News, and his work is referenced in news outlets worldwide.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how many self-help and motivational books mislead us and why our desire for perfection derails us.
What is the role of a Chief Customer Officer?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Vala Afshar, the Chief Customer Officer for Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company.
Vala and his team have successfully implemented an award winning cloud computing customer relationship management framework that enables Enterasys to use business and performance management analytics to achieve best-in-class customer satisfaction and employee retention. Enterasys' strong technical service and support capabilities are recognized globally by customers, partners and industry analysts as a true company differentiator.
What can you do when customer requests cannot be met? Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how you can stand out from the competition.
What are some of the most pressing challenges as an executive in the health care industry?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with R. Alan Gleghorn, Chief Executive Officer at Christie Clinic, one of the largest physician-owned, multi-specialty group medical practices in Illinois.
Alan has more than 30 years of progressive health care experience. At Christie, he has led a cultural transformation, committed to developing strong leaders throughout the organization and initiated the clinic’s lean journey.
How does culture impact outcomes? Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how lean principles make an organization better.
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Clint Greenleaf, the founder and CEO of Greenleaf Book Group. Greenleaf Book Group, an Inc 500 Company, is a leading publisher and distributor with several New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers.
Clint is also the author of The Unwritten Rules of the Workplace, A Guide to Etiquette and Attire for Businessmen. Clint (a CPA) sits on the University of Texas Libraries Board, blogs for Inc.com, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc magazine, Fox Business, CNN, MSBNC, Money magazine, Forbes, and Entrepreneur.
What pressures does a CEO face that others don’t know? Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how this CEO defines leadership.
Montreal and New York City, December 27, 2011 – What prompted Gallup to engage in wide-scale research to assess the wellbeing of people worldwide?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Dr. Jim Harter, chief scientist for Gallup’s international workplace management and wellbeing practices and the co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements.
Dr. Harter is author or coauthor of more than 1,000 research studies on employee engagement and talent as well as industrial and organizational psychology. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller 12: The Elements of Great Managing, and his research has been seen in the business bestsellers First, Break All the Rules, and How Full Is Your Bucket? and in publications such as USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
On Real Recognition Radio Dr. Harter will explain the five elements of wellbeing, how we can manage each of them and still stay balanced. We’ll also discover what Community Wellbeing is and why it is the most overlooked facet of personal wellbeing.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn if there is one wellbeing element out of the five that is more important than the others.
How do you “redefine” the rules for 21st Century success?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Sophia A. Nelson, author of Black Woman Redefined which examines the inner lives of accomplished black women.
Sophia is a much sought after speaker, media/political commentator, national columnist and first time author who is “redefining” the rules for 21st Century living and success. As one of only a handful of African American female national opinion writers and political/cultural pundits, Sophia contributes to The Washington Post, CNN Opinion, NPR, and is featured regularly on all of the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) as well as Cable outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and BET.
What makes this message unique to black women specifically?
Listen in this week to Real Recognition Radio to learn how to break common stereotypes.
Montreal and New York City, December 13, 2011 – How do you define success as a leader?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be speaking with Craig S. Belnap the former President of Alcoa Architectural Products—a $350M business with operations in the US and France. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese with shameful French, Craig is deeply experienced with Joint Ventures, well versed in Mergers & Acquisitions and enthusiastic about enhancing the competitiveness of global enterprises by developing long-term organizational, operational, and financial capabilities.
How do leaders gain & sustain credibility? Craig will answer this and much more, including what are some of the biggest challenges leaders face and what characteristics are required to deal with them.
Listen in this week to Real Recognition Radio to discover what managers need to know.
Are you other focused?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will open the doors to recognition and leadership. Listen in as they interview each other to reveal how to achieve Real Recognition and Real Leadership.
S. Max Brown, CRP, Principal, Leadership Directives at Rideau’s Recognition Management Institute, will define the 4 core attributes leaders must develop to achieve Real Leadership. With his extensive experience in leadership training, speaking, and facilitating, Max brings a global perspective to the challenge of providing Real Leadership.
Are you on the “dark-side” of recognition or are you giving Real Recognition? Roy Saunderson, CRP, author of GIVING the Real Recognition Way, & President, Recognition Management Institute, will explain how to give the recognition uplift your people need.
Listen in to Real Recognition Radio to discover how to look for & promote success of those around you.
According to the authors of “The Why of Work”, Dr. Dave Ulrich and Dr. Wendy Ulrich, we all seek a sense of purpose, contribution, connection, value, and hope through our work, this is what drives us and keeps us engaged. On this Real Recognition Radio episode, the Ulrichs will help you unravel the root of what motivates your employees and learn how to create leaders that will change the workplace. Listen in this week to discover how to become a “meaning maker” and how this helps you improve productivity, customer satisfaction and your bottom line.
Montreal and New York City, November 22, 2011 – How do you get senior leader buy-in for your wellness initiatives?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Diane Wiesenthal, Vice President, People and Organizational Services for the Canadian Wheat Board will be speaking with Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown.
Once you have buy-in, what’s the most important step leaders must make to move forward with wellness initiatives?
The Canadian Wheat Board has been designated as a ‘Top 25 Employer’ in Manitoba in 2008, 2010 and 2011, and as a member of the corporations’ executive team, Diane has led the human resource function of the CWB to be consistently recognized as a strategic and innovative leader in its HR programs.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to find what is beyond workplace wellness.
Montreal and New York City, November 15, 2011 – What are the top reasons leaders lose their leadership abilities?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with bestselling author and leadership advisor, Robin Sharma. Robin is ranked as one of the Top 5 leadership experts and is the celebrated author of 11 bestselling books on leadership, including The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life. His work has been published in over 60 countries and nearly 75 languages, and has sold millions of copies.
Are we in the Decade of Leadership?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to hear if organization’s leaders should skip the title and instead learn how to discipline themselves to positively influence others regardless of their position.
Montreal and New York City, November 8, 2011 – How do you get the job you want and keep the one you love?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Harvey Mackay author of six New York Times bestsellers including Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and his newest book, The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World. Harvey is a nationally syndicated columnist for United Feature Syndicate with weekly articles appearing in 100 newspapers and magazines around the country.
So what is the secret for getting hired today?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to hear what our down economy demands of salespeople more than anything else and learn the elements of effective networking.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Alexandra Levit, the author of Blind Spots. A former nationally syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Alexandra has authored several books, including the bestselling They Don't Teach Corporate in College, How'd You Score That Gig?, Success for Hire, MillennialTweet, and New Job, New You.
Tired of reading silly theories and platitudes dispensed by business and career authors? Learn the biggest myth being told.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to hear how you can self-promote without going over the line and what to do to get paid fairly for your work.
Montreal and New York City, October 25, 2011 – How do you instill hope and purpose in those around you?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Billy Ray Taylor, Plant Manager at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Billy is the recipient of the Association of Manufacturing Excellence Award and The Shingo Prize Silver Medallion – the Nobel Prize of manufacturing. Billy has been recognized as one of the Most Admired CEO’s in Oklahoma.
If success breeds arrogance, what should leaders do to stay grounded?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the answer and to learn the characteristics you should look for in your leadership team that are key indicators for promotion.
Montreal and New York City, October 18, 2011 – How much does an out of control ego cost an organization?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Steven Smith the author of Egonomics and BusinessThink. Voted as one of the top 100 business thought-leaders in the country, Steven’s work has been adopted by several universities across the country as an example of what the real business world is about. He teaches 3 unique sessions for G5 Leadership which is offering Real Recognition Radio listeners a complimentary one- year G5 membership: go to this page and use the promo code: realrecognitionradio.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the warning signs that ego could be affecting us in a negative way. And hear what the balance is between ego-empty and egotistical.
Montreal and New York City, October 11, 2011 – Why is credibility the foundation for leadership?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Jim Kouzes, the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, one of the 100 best business books of all time.
Jim is also the coauthor of the award-winning Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, which was chosen by Industry Week as one of the ten best management books of the year.
How does listening strengthen credibility and why is it so important? What do leaders do when they lose credibility? Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the answers to these questions, and learn the six disciplines for earning & sustaining credibility.
Montreal and New York City, October 4, 2011 – What are the best influencers doing to stand out in social media?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Sean Gardner, one of the top 100 most influential people on Twitter according to Twitter Grader. Sean, also known as Twitter’s 2morrowknight, manages social media at SeeYourImpact.org, and is an author and social media correspondent who blogs for Huffington Post and Smedio.
What are some of the biggest mistakes organizations are making in social media? And where should people focus their time on social media?
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the answers to these questions, and learn what organizations should be doing to be more effective in getting their message out.
Montreal and New York City, September 27, 2011 – What’s wrong with using incentives for results?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Daniel H. Pink, the author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work. His latest is Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation and offer a more effective path to high performance. Drive is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly bestseller — as well as a national bestseller in Japan and the United Kingdom.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what the difference is between Motivation 2.0 and Motivation 3.0. Listen in to also discover what the “hidden costs of rewards” really are.
Montreal and New York City, September 19, 2011 – How does a company become a more democratized workplace?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Traci Fenton the Founder and CEO of WorldBlu, Inc. WorldBlu, Inc.’s vision is to see one billion people working in free and democratic workplaces worldwide. As a leading expert in organizational democracy, Traci is recognized as one of the business thought-leaders of her generation as well as of the next generation of business.
What are the top 3 things that trip up leaders? Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the answer, and to hear what can be done to change a workplace from toxic to a non-toxic, sound environment.
Montreal and New York City, September 13, 2011 – Why is fear-based leadership still so pervasive in the workplace?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Steve Keating, manager of selling skills for the Toro Company, author Dave Carpenter and author & speaker Ted Coiné
If servant leadership is the most effective, why is it perceived as weak? Together they will discuss the topic of leadership and the importance of emotional intelligence.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what today’s biggest obstacle to great leadership is.
Montreal and New York City, September 6, 2011 – What does it take to become more successful in life?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Shevaun Voisin, Owner and Publisher of MOTIVATED Magazine. Shevaun is passionate about challenging widely accepted beliefs concerning pursuing a life of mediocre success versus passionate significance, and is dedicated to mirroring back the beauty and greatness of others.
Shevaun will tell our audience how we can increase our emotional intelligence. She will also identify the leadership characteristics that truly deliver results and motivate people.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn if there actually are trends when it comes to the obstacles people face?
Montreal and New York City, August 30, 2011 – WestJet Airlines is one of the most profitable airlines and yet has a Culture Built on Caring. How do they do it?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Ferio Pugliese, the Executive Vice President of People and Culture at WestJet Airlines, and Michelle Dupont, Senior Leader, Organizational Learning and Development at WestJet Airlines will give our listeners the answer.
A corporate culture impacts the bottom line and can be influenced by the language you use. Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how strong the power of language is to a corporate culture.
Montreal and New York City, August 23, 2011 – What are the five leadership types of multipliers and diminishers?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown speak with Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown, coauthors of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. Together they will be discussing the pronounced business impact multiplier versus diminisher leaders have on your organization.
Don’t miss this incredible Real Recognition Radio program to learn the behaviors multiplier leaders demonstrate to utilize people to their fullest.
With 760,000 copies of Unbroken in print, & the movie optioned by Universal Pictures, hear the 1st & only interview featuring both the author Laura Hillenbrand, and the subject, Louis Zamperini on Real Recognition Radio.
Laura Hillenbrand’s book about Louis Zamperini titled Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption has been #1 on the NYT Bestseller list for six weeks, tying it with her previous work Seabiscuit.
Louie, as he likes to be called, was an Olympic athlete at the Games in Berlin when Hitler was in power. World War II broke out & Louie joined the U.S. Air Corps as a bombardier. On a routine search mission over the Pacific his plane crashed. After surviving in a life raft, drifting 2,000 miles for 47 days into Japanese controlled waters, he faced his rescuers who were also his torturers, & suffered the remainder of the war in a series of prison camps.
Montreal and New York City, August 9, 2011 – What are the six universal needs that connect people?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program Roy and Max will be speaking with Michael Lee Stallard author of the bestselling book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion Creativity and Productivity.
Michael, President of the consulting firm E Pluribus Partners, speaks, teaches and coaches leaders at organizations including GE, Google, Johnson & Johnson, NASA, the U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to help them boost productivity, innovation and organizational performance. Michael will discuss how leaders can create a feeling of connection for the people they work with and further facilitate connection to their organization. In a business-world of inconsistent ethics and immoral practices, leaders need to practice universal character strengths. Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to hear how a connected culture contributes to greater sense of wellbeing for an individual.
Montreal and New York City, August 2, 2011 – Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Positive Tickets apply to managers and employees in the workforce.
On the next Real Recognition Radio program Roy and Max will be speaking with Ward Clapham, the author of Lead Big: Discovering the Upside of Unconventional Leadership and also Breaking with the Law: The Story of Positive Tickets.
Superintendent Ward Clapham is a 28-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the third largest detachment in Canada. Ward’s detachment has been celebrated as one of the most progressive police organizations in Canada. More than 53 countries have studied his leadership approach to policing, and his model has been championed by government and private institutions as the key to successful community safety and public reassurance.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to hear the results of the Harvard Business Review study that focused on “What Happens on a Great Workday” and learn how leaders using the 9 Break with Insights can see and do things differently.
Montreal and New York City, July 26, 2011 – How will women impact the workplace of the future? On the next Real Recognition Radio program Whitney Johnson, a Harvard Business Review blogger and president of Rose Park Advisors, will discuss this and explain how companies with women leaders are performing compared to their peers.
Prior to co-founding Rose Park Advisors, Ms. Johnson was Merrill Lynch's Senior Telecom and Media analyst for Latin America and was rated by Starmine as a superior stockpicker vis-à-vis her peers, and became an Institutional Investor all-star within a year of becoming an analyst -- an honor she was accorded for eight consecutive years.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn what women seeking executive positions should do.
How important is it that job candidates fit well into a company’s culture?
Zappos, one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” knows the answer. Real Recognition Radio’s next guest is Jamie Naughton, Zappos leader of the Cruise Ship Operations Department within Human Resources.
Zappos was established in 1999 and has since quickly become a leader in online apparel and footwear sales by striving to provide shoppers with the best possible service and selection. In 2008, the company’s gross merchandise sales exceeded $1 billion. Zappos.com currently stocks millions of products from over 1000 clothing and shoe brands. Zappos.com was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in 2009.
Tune in to the next episode to hear Jamie discuss how she works to ensure that Zappos has a “fun and a little weird” work environment every day and to learn what to do to get culture right.
Montreal and New York City, July 12, 2011 – How can leaders help people bring their “best selves” to work?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Roy and Max will be speaking with Shirley Moulton & Kat Tansey about the biggest obstacles we face when trying to be our best at work and how we can overcome them.
Shirley is the President and CEO of Tuck Shop, LLC and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the Women’s Presidents Organization (WPO) an international organization for women business owners with average annual revenues exceeding $15 million.
Kat is an award-winning author who believes in the power of a well-told tale that teaches while it entertains. Her books include, Winning the Change Game, and Choosing to Be: Lessons in Living from a Feline Zen Master. Choosing to Be has been awarded the Independent Publisher’s Bronze Medal.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn practical steps to take that will help to release the pressure at work.
Montreal and New York City, July 5, 2011 – Can vulnerability make us better at work?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, author and research professor at the University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work, will give our listeners the requirements for wholehearted living and explain why these requirements are referred to as gifts of imperfection.
When we live wholeheartedly it opens us up to vulnerability. Dr. Brown is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who We Think We Should Be and Embracing Who We Are and I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power . Her newest book released in 2011 is Wholehearted: Spiritual Adventures in Falling Apart, Growing Up, and Finding Joy. She is also the author of Connections, a psychoeducational shame resilience curriculum that is being facilitated across the nation by mental health and addiction professionals.
Dr. Brené Brown’s ground-breaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, and CNN.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn why our constant need to fit in sabotages real belonging.
Montreal and New York City, June 28, 2011 – What are the Seven Essentials of encouraging?
On the next Real Recognition Radio 2011 Summer Series program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Jim Kouzes, cited by Wall Street Journal as one of the twelve best executive educators in the U.S. Jim is the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge. Jim has coauthored over thirty other publications. His books are extensively researched-based, and over 400 doctoral dissertations and academic studies have been based on his original work. In this episode, Jim will address what it means for a leader to find his voice and why recognition stories resonate so well in organizations.
Listen in to the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders.
Montreal and New York City, June 21, 2011 – How do CEO’s stay connected with their employees?
On the next Real Recognition Radio 2011 Summer Series program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Peter R. Aceto, President and Chief Executive Officer of ING DIRECT Canada and Kate Johnston, ING DIRECT’s Senior Manager of Communications and Learning and Development. They will address what the real payoff is for leaders that do invest the time and effort to hold town hall meetings and those that get out to talk with their employees.
How much of your time should be spent creating and building relationships? Peter will speak to this. He is a passionate leader and committed consumer advocate. As the senior leader of ING DIRECT Canada, Peter provides his relentless focus on delivering an outstanding customer experience and the cornerstones of success for ING DIRECT. Kate is responsible for the planning and execution of all internal communication strategies and for establishing and maintaining a full range of effective training resources for the entire organization.
Montreal and New York City, June 14, 2011 – When is selfishness good?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with John Hope Bryant the author of business bestseller LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear Based World. John is the founder, chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and vice-chairman of the non-partisan U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy.
Kicking off Real Recognition Radio 2011 Summer Series, John will address what employers can do to retain their talent as the economy improves and job markets open. He will also be defining short-termism and tell us what causes it.
Listen in to the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the five principles of LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear Based World and discover how emotions impact our performance.
Montreal and New York City, June 7, 2011 – With innovation comes risk. What is the path from success to significance?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Nilofer Merchant the author of The New How & Jesse Lyn Stoner the coauthor, with Ken Blanchard, of the international bestseller Full Steam Ahead: Unleash the Power of Vision.
Jesse Lyn Stoner is the coauthor, with Ken Blanchard, of the international bestseller Full Steam Ahead: Unleash the Power of Vision. She has identified the three elements of a compelling vision and the process to make it come alive in an organization. Jesse also wrote Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard and is the author of Benchmarks of Team Excellence.
Nilofer Merchant is the author of The New How. She is a regular HBR contributor and has written for BusinessWeek, Forbes and AdAge. Through successes and failures, Nilofer has honed a framework for solving tough problems including MurderBoarding™.
Listen in to the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how people should respond to failure and discover how we encourage engagement in a workplace filled with fear.
Montreal and New York City, May 31, 2011 – Your biggest complaint about running a company might actually be your greatest asset.
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Douglas Conant, president & CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and his co-author Mette Norgaard, a renowned teacher of leaders. Together Douglas and Mette authored TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments.
In TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments, Douglas and Mette reveal how every planned and spontaneous interaction is an opportunity to build engagement and promote an organization’s values, purpose and agenda.
Discover the secret that helped turn around the Campbell Soup Company and lead Nabisco Foods Company during five years of consecutive growth.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how to use interruptions and other incidental points of contact to move your company forward.
Montreal and New York City, May 24, 2011 – What prompted Gallup to engage in wide-scale research to assess the wellbeing of people worldwide?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Dr. Jim Harter, chief scientist for Gallup’s international workplace management and wellbeing practices and the co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements.
Dr. Harter is author or coauthor of more than 1,000 research studies on employee engagement and talent as well as industrial and organizational psychology. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller 12: The Elements of Great Managing, and his research has been seen in the business bestsellers First, Break All the Rules, and How Full Is Your Bucket? and in publications such as USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
On Real Recognition Radio Dr. Harter will explain the five elements of wellbeing, how we can manage each of them and still stay balanced.
Montreal and New York City, May 17, 2011 – Could some organizational challenges be avoided if we had more women leaders?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals, and Jodi Krause, the Director of Council and Board Effectiveness at Cisco Systems.
Dr. Grant Halvorson is an expert blogger on motivation and leadership for Fast Company, Huffington Post, SmartBrief and Psychology Today, and a frequent guest blogger for the Harvard Business Review. She is also a regular contributor to the BBC World Service's Business Daily.
As the Director of Council and Board Effectiveness at Cisco Systems, Jodi Krause leads a team that is transforming Cisco through a highly innovative collaborative management structure that has evolved the processes, technology and culture of the company around an innovative business model of shared goals.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover the biggest differences between women and men in leadership.
Montreal and New York City, May 9, 2011 – Is life largely a matter of perspective? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Dewitt Jones one of America’s top professional photographers and co-author of The Nature of Leadership, created in collaboration with Stephen R. Covey.
Companies need to foster more creativity to be competitive. Dewitt will talk about what leaders can do to reduce the ego and encourage more knowledge sharing.
Twenty years as a freelancer for National Geographic shooting stories all over the globe has earned him a reputation as world-class photojournalist. His work is well known to the corporate world. In addition, as a motion picture director, Dewitt has had two films nominated for Academy Awards.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover how you can see more than one right answer.
Montreal and New York City, May 2, 2011 – Have you outsourced your family and neighborhood responsibilities? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Peter Block, the author of several bestselling books will discuss his latest work, The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods, co-authored with John McKnight.
What can organizations do to create more community at work? Peter can answer this firsthand as he serves on numerous boards including the Boards of Directors of Cincinnati Classical Public Radio; Elementz, a Hip Hop center for urban youth; and LivePerson, a provider of online engagement solutions. He is on the Advisory Board for the Festival in the Workplace Institute, Bahama, and is the first Distinguished Consultant-in-Residence at Xavier University.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover the characteristics of community.
Are great leaders more optimistic? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Shawn Achor, former lecturer at Harvard University and author of The Happiness Advantage.
When the economy collapsed, the world's largest banks sent Shawn Achor on a tour of banking crisis centers to restore confidence and forward progress. Listen in to hear what he said to them.
Shawn is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University and has lectured in 42 different countries on how positive psychology can raise happiness and performance. His work has received attention in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes and BusinessWeek. Shawn is currently collaborating with Yale University on researching the link between happiness and performance.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the seven principles of positive psychology that fuel success and performance at work.
Montreal and New York City, April 13, 2011 – What do managers miss when they think of the distance separating them and their mobile workers? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Michael Kroth & David Clemons, co-authors of Managing the Mobile Workforce. Michael and David will address what the differences in the developmental processes of a virtual team are compared to a more traditional team.
Managing the Mobile Workforce shares stories about organizations that have taken the risk to allow their employees to cut out their commute, break free from cubicles and to set their own business hours. People can work practically anywhere and anytime.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover what metaskills are and why they matter.
Montreal and New York City, April 11, 2011 – Why do traditional reward and recognition programs do more harm than good? On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Dr. Paul Marciano, author of Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work. Dr. Marciano will discuss how most satisfaction surveys fall short, and also how our knowledge of management needs to change and evolve to be competitive in the future.
Paul’s book Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT provides dozens of real world case studies and turnkey strategies to increase employee discretionary effort and reduce turnover in your organization. The book details his acclaimed RESPECT™ Model that has been embraced by schools, medical practices, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturing facilities, sales organizations, consulting firms, and government agencies.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the 7 critical drivers of the RESPECT model.
Montreal and New York City, April 4, 2011 – How can companies create better measuring sticks for performance so their rewards are more effective?
On the next Real Recognition Radio program, Roy and Max will be speaking with Steve Kerr, the author of Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up? The strength of rewards is determined by the competence of the metrics being used. Rewards can often get a negative connotation in the media and in the office, resulting in clear-cut detachment. Learn why some executives get rewards so wrong?
Steve is a senior advisor at Goldman Sachs and the executive director of Jack Welch Management Institute. In addition, Steve is a member of the board of directors of Harvard Business Publishing and is on the advisory board of the Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania GSE's program in learning leadership.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to discover the three-step process for getting rewards right.
Montreal and New York City, March 25, 2011 – How important is recognition, dignity, and respect in China’s culture? On the next Real Recognition Radio program Li Cunxin, the author of Mao's Last Dancer, will discuss the importance of leaders seeing the potential in others.
Mao's Last Dancer is the inspirational story of Li’s life. This international bestseller won the Book of the Year Award in Australia and receiving the Christopher Award for Literature in the USA. His incredible story is now a multi-award winning feature film.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn what sustained Li Cunxin during his most challenging circumstances?
Montreal and New York City, March 21, 2011 – How will women impact the workplace of the future? On the next Real Recognition Radio program Whitney Johnson, a Harvard Business Review blogger and president of Rose Park Advisors, will discuss this and explain how companies with women leaders are performing compared to their peers.
Prior to co-founding Rose Park Advisors, Ms. Johnson was Merrill Lynch's Senior Telecom and Media analyst for Latin America and was rated by Starmine as a superior stockpicker vis-à-vis her peers, and became an Institutional Investor all-star within a year of becoming an analyst -- an honor she was accorded for eight consecutive years.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn what women seeking executive positions should do.
Montreal and New York City, March 14, 2011 – What are the steps to a successful social media campaign? On the next Real Recognition Radio program Jennifer Aaker the co-author of The Dragonfly Effect reveals how everyday people achieve unprecedented results through harnessing the incredible power of social media.
A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research spans time, money and happiness. She states, “Promoting a personal goal is inherently social. To be successful, you must translate your passion into a powerful story and tell it in a way that generates “contagious energy,” so that your audience reflects on your tweet, blog post, or email, long after they leave their computers.”
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn how to compete with all the social media noise.
Montreal and New York City, March 4, 2011 – Why is being open so hard? On the next Real Recognition Radio program Charlene Li will explain why it is in our best interest to be open. Charlene is the coauthor of the critically acclaimed, bestselling book Groundswell, which was named one of the best business books in 2008 and also is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership.
Charlene was named one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company in 2010 and one of the most influential women in technology 2009. Charlene is a frequently-quoted expert and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC.
Open Leadership is the key to transparency, authenticity, and being real. Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn the mind-sets and skills required for open leadership.
Montreal and New York City, February 28, 2011 – March 1st is World Compliment Day heralded as the most positive day in the whole world. On the next Real Recognition Radio program the originator of this encouraging day, Hans Poortvliet from the Netherlands, will explain why nobody wins commercially, but everybody gains emotionally. Hans will also discuss what kinds of compliments are appropriate in the workplace.
Also featured on this program is Laura Goodrich, author of Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future. Laura will show us the outcome of focusing on what we want to have happen rather than on what we don't want to have happen.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio to learn why driving yourself, your team and your organization to a positive future is so important especially now as we come out of the recent recession.
Montreal and New York City, February 15, 2011 – FIRST TIME EVER... author of Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand appears with subject of book, Louis Zamperini.
With 760,000 copies of Unbroken in print, and the movie optioned by Universal Pictures, hear the first and only interview featuring both the author, Laura Hillenbrand (also the author of NYT bestseller Seabiscuit) and the subject, Louis Zamperini together on the next episode of Real Recognition Radio.
Louis was an Olympic athlete at the Games in Berlin when Hitler was in power. World War II—Louie was a U.S. Air Corps bombardier on a routine search mission over the Pacific when his plane crashed into the ocean. After surviving in a life raft, drifting 2,000 miles for 47 days into Japanese controlled waters, he faced his rescuers who were also his torturers, and suffered the remainder of the war in a series of prison camps. Louie endured incredible hardships almost too unbearable to believe. Today at 94 years of age, Louie is still spry, and full of life.
Montreal and New York City, February 14, 2011 – Are first impressions really that big of a deal?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Mike Brent & Fiona Elsa Dent, authors of Influencing: Skills and Techniques for Business Success and directors at Ashridge Management College in the UK will help us understand how can we can manage your reputation with others.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn the four approaches to developing an influencing discussion with others.
Montreal and New York City, February 4, 2011 – How do you get senior leader buy-in for your wellness initiatives?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Diane Wiesenthal, the Vice President, People and Organizational Services for the Canadian Wheat Board will give our listeners the answer.
Once you have buy-in what is the most important step that leaders must make to move forward with wellness initiatives?
The Canadian Wheat Board has been designated as a ‘Top 25 Employer’ in Manitoba in 2008, 2010 and 2011, and as a member of the corporations’ executive team, Diane has led the human resource function of the CWB to be consistently recognized as a strategic and innovative leader in its HR programs.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to find what is beyond workplace wellness.
Montreal and New York City, January 28, 2011 – Westjet Airlines is one of the most profitable airlines and yet has a Culture Built on Caring. How do they do it?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Ferio Pugliese, the Executive Vice President of People and Culture at WestJet Airlines, and Michelle Dupont, Senior Leader, Organizational Learning and Development at WestJet Airlines will give our listeners the answer.
A corporate culture impacts the bottom line and can be influenced by the language you use. Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how strong the power of language is to a corporate culture.
Montreal and New York City, January 20, 2011 – Can vulnerability make us better at work? When we live wholeheartedly it opens us up to vulnerability.
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, author and research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, will give our listeners the requirements for wholehearted living and explain why these requirements are referred to as gifts of imperfection.
Dr. Brown’s ground-breaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, and CNN. Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn why our constant need to fit in sabotages real belonging.
Montreal and New York City, January 12, 2011 – MOJO is purposeful, powerful and positive. So how do you acquire MOJO and what do you have to do to keep it? On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It, will share the four keys for developing and keeping MOJO.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how to get your MOJO working for you.
Montreal and New York City, January 5, 2011 – It seems everyone is familiar with social media for personal use but what about social media’s impact on employee recognition? How do companies get managers and employees to use and like their organization’s social media recognition programs?
On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio Steven Green, the Founder and CEO of PollStream Inc., will discuss the value social media adds to giving recognition that doesn’t exist in regular reward and recognition programs.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn how social media makes a real difference to recognition programs.
Montreal and New York City, December 29, 2010 – What can leaders do to encourage people to be present in the workplace, in other words, bring their “best selves” to work? On the next episode of Real Recognition Radio, Shirley Moulton, President and CEO of Tuck Shop, and Kat Tansey, the award-winning author, will define what it means to be present at work and will reveal the biggest obstacles each of us must overcome to be our best.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to learn what practical steps you can take to release workplace pressure and move ahead to be your best.
Montreal and New York City, December 22, 2010 – In today’s workplace does a positive influence and a sizable social network make a difference? Rebel Brown, the author of Defy Gravity, Phyllis Mufson, certified Life Coach, and Jane Perdue, the co-author of Yes You Can, join together on the next episode of Real Recognition Radio to answer this and much more.
Learn what you can do to improve your own work environment. Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to hear three compelling women discuss the power of positive influence and defying gravity.
Montreal and New York City, December 15, 2010 – Can recognition ceremonies in all industries be held to the high standards of the Oscars® and Emmy’s®? This week’s Real Recognition Radio guest, Mary Taylor DeChambres, Emmy® Award winner for Outstanding Picture Editing for Reality Programming will discuss what it feels like to be honored in this way.
Don’t miss the next Real Recognition Radio program to hear how a TV studio is the same as most workplaces and what stands out as being uniquely different. Walk with Mary on the red carpet to learn how much it really means to an individual to receive an award of this magnitude.
Companies that place Employee's First and Customer's Second actually come out on top. This is a hard concept for many organizations to embrace. Real Recognition Radio’s next guest Vineet Nayar, the CEO of the $2.3 billion HCL Technologies Ltd is convinced it works. Accepting this philosophy has helped him drive growth in the IT Services industry.
Tune in to the next episode to find out if this profound change of view can work at your organization too.
Organizations grappling with a toxic culture can go beyond making a profit to making a difference. Real Recognition Radio’s next guest Tim Sanders, New York Times and international business best-selling author will examine the external relationship between a business and society.
Tune in to the next episode to discover how Fortune 500 executives follow corporate social responsibility and sustainability principles and still make a profit.
How important is it that job candidates fit well into a company’s culture? Zappos, one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” knows the answer. Real Recognition Radio’s next guest Jamie Naughton, leader of the Cruise Ship Operations Department within Human Resources at Zappos, will discuss how she works to ensure that Zappos has a “fun and a little weird” work environment every day.
Tune in to the next episode to learn what to do to get culture right.
One out of five Americans lives with a disability, and 70 percent of Americans with disabilities are unemployed. On the next Real Recognition Radio Robert Stack, chief executive of Community Options, Inc., will discuss how we can be more inclusive of disabled Americans in the workplace. Tune in to the next episode to learn how to utilize employee recognition programs as a tool to promote inclusion for employees with disabilities.
How do people discover what drives winning performance? On the next Real Recognition Radio show, Diana Whitney Ph.D. and Kae Rader, co-authors of Appreciative Leadership, will tell us how to focus on what works to drive winning performance and build a thriving organization. Tune in to the next episode to learn their five core strategies to create more positive and enduring change.
Does having recognition on the executive agenda give you a competitive advantage? With over 131,000 employees located in 66 countries, Cargill believes it does. On the next Real Recognition Radio show, Bill Buckner, Senior Vice President and Chief Recognition Officer of Cargill, Inc. and Karen Sachs, Cargill’s Manager of Global Diversity & Inclusion will tell us how to get and keep recognition in the C-Suite. Tune in to the next episode to learn more about Cargill’s award winning methods.
Montreal and New York City, October 20, 2010 – What are the biggest challenges leaders face in the future? Mike Myatt, author of Leadership Matters...The CEO Survival Manual and top CEO Coach to Fortune 100 companies will discuss this and much more on the next Real Recognition Radio. Mike’s theories and practices have been taught at the nation's top business schools, and his work has been noted in numerous publications including The Wall Street.
Learn how to successfully align your actions with your management speak. We all know, people don’t leave companies they leave their leaders. Don’t be left behind. Listen in this week to Real Recognition Radio.
If C-level leaders were to dig down into the trenches and work side by side with their employees for just a day, would they change their leadership practices? Next week’s Real Recognition Radio guest, Rick Arquilla, President and COO of Roto-Rooter Services Company, will provide an answer with first-hand experience. Rick may be best recognized as the featured “boss” on an episode of CBS Television’s Undercover Boss program, which aired in the United States, and in international markets.
Tune in to next week’s episode to learn how Rick works with general and regional managers utilizing employee recognition practices to ensure that Roto-Rooter continues to be North America’s largest provider of plumbing repair and drain services.
David Stillman and Debra Fiterman are this week’s Real Recognition Radio guests. David Stillman, author of The M-factor: Dealing with a Millennial Generation in the Workplace has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and the Today Show. One of the book’s key contributors, Debra Fiterman is a sought –after commentator and keynote speaker on generational issues. Organizations now grapple with how to connect with four distinct generations. Don’t miss this week’s show that highlights the trends leaders need to be ready for when the 76 million Millennials show up on the job.
The author of Why is Everyone Smiling? The Secret Behind Passion, Productivity and Profit, Paul Spiegelman, CEO and founder of the Beryl Companies is on this episode of Real Recognition Radio. Paul will share his secrets on how his company has been consistently recognized as a “best place to work” by top organizations. Learn how creating a positive environment, appreciating your people, and creating real relationships can help your company thrive!
Real Recognition Radio welcomes Tony Meloto, founder of Gawad-Kalinga, a non-profit organization that builds houses for poor communities and helps rehabilitate the lives of people in need. Through Tony’s story you’ll learn what real leadership is and what the power of positivity can accomplish in and out of the office. So join in next Tuesday and discover how to create a better workplace and develop positive relationships where people can thrive.
Kerry Patterson, coauthor of the New York Times bestsellers—Influencer, Crucial Conversations, and Crucial Confrontations is this week’s Real Recognition Radio guest. Kerry, along with hosts Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown, will be discussing the power of “influential conversation” in a business setting. Using communication effectively can help you bring out the best in your employees through leadership and coaching. Learn how to use this tool you already possess to build a better more performing workplace!
Could the best leaders be the ones who make everyone ELSE smarter? Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown authors of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter join hosts Roy Saunderson and Max Brown on this episode of Real Recognition Radio to shed some light on the subject. Discover these new types of leaders and find out how you yourself can become a leader than inspires those around you to create a better workplace!
Why are managers having such difficulty giving effective recognition? Real Recognition Radio invites Paul Nolan, editor of SalesForceXP magazine, and Lorri Freifelf, editor-in-chief of Training and Sales & Marketing Management magazines to discuss the fine points of training managers to dispense genuine recognition that produces results. Tune in to deconstruct recognition and discover the different methods of recognition training and education that leads to better business practices!
It is possible to ensure your work is fulfilling and to create a great workplace. Each of us can foster higher levels of positivity and self-growth by changing ourselves and learning to serve others. Bob Burg is a speaker and author of Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales, and co- author of Go-Givers Sell More. Lolly Daskal is a life coach, teacher, speaker and a force for positive changes in the lives of those she encounters. Bob and Lolly are this episode’s guests and will inspire you to change the way you think about your workplace and will encourage you to become a leader for change. Listen this week to discover powerful insights for creating positive workplaces and relationships.
How do you motivate your employees? William Ng, managing editor of Incentive Magazine, will help you re-think the importance of incentives. Incentives have been hard hit in the media lately, but if used properly, incentives are an important and effective tool to have under your belt for employee morale. Incentives can help increase your ROI by increasing productivity, engagement and decreasing absenteeism. Tune in next Tuesday to join in the conversation!
What does leadership mean to you? Is it a position? Is it the way you carry yourself? Is it the difference you make every time you interact with someone? Real Recognition Radio welcomes Mike Henry Sr., founder of the Lead Change Group and leadership development coach, and Erin Schreyer, President of Sagestone Partners, who will dissect what authentic leadership means and how this can positively affect the workplace and those around you.
This week’s show brings you inside the world of ING DIRECT CANADA with Peter Aceto, President & CEO and Kate Johnston, Senior Manager of Communications. How do you build a strong culture of recognition for engaged employees? Discover ING DIRECT’s secrets to creating an environment of positivity and cooperation through the power of relationships. It takes a lot of strategy and a little elbow grease, but the result is an enviable engaged, top performing workforce.
This episode of Real Recognition Radio invites Marilyn Veincentotzs, author of How Organizations Empower Bully Bosses: A Criminal in the Workplace, to talk about the troubling trend of “bully bosses.” Learn what your leaders may unconsciously be doing to encourage this kind of behavior and what they can do to be proactive to ensure your employees are living your corporation’s values. So join in on the conversation and discover how to create a positive work environment you can be proud of!
According to the authors of “The Why of Work”, Dr. Dave Ulrich and Dr. Wendy Ulrich, we all seek a sense of purpose, contribution, connection, value, and hope through our work, this is what drives us and keeps us engaged. On this Real Recognition Radio episode, the Ulrichs will help you unravel the root of what motivates your employees and learn how to create leaders that will change the workplace. Listen in this week to discover how to become a “meaning maker” and how this helps you improve productivity, customer satisfaction and your bottom line.
A global revolution is under way in philanthropy and organizations that do good for others are doing well for themselves too! Our guest, Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist, and the author of several books including, “Philanthrocaptialism.” According to former U.S President Bill Clinton, “This is an important book. Our interdependent world is too unequal, unstable, and unsustainable. We have to transform it into one of shared responsibilities, shared opportunities, and a shared sense of community.” Listen and learn how making the world better makes perfect corporate $ense.
What is leadership 2.0? Bestselling author and leadership advisor, Robin Sharma is this week’s guest on Real Recognition Radio and will explain how embracing leadership can change the workplace. Robin Sharma is ranked as one of the Top 5 leadership experts and is the celebrated author of 11 bestselling books on leadership, including The Leader Who Had No Title. Successful organizations are those that have high emotional intelligence – they encourage innovation, responsibility, relationships and see leaders in all their employees. Join in on this powerful conversation to learn that it doesn’t matter what your title is, you have the power to change your environment at work and at home.
How does one take a standard industry turnover rate of 150% and reduce it to less than 30? On this episode of Real Recognition Radio you’ll learn what it means to “create great corporate culture one slice at a time” with founder and CEO of Nick’s Pizza & Pub Nick Sarillo. He will share his secrets on how the successful creation of a deep corporate culture engenders an environment with a strong sense of belonging, with high morale and high productivity. Tune in and learn how embedding recognition in corporate culture results in success!
Real Recognition Radio welcomes Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden who will explain what contented cows have to do with happy employees. Bill And Richard are the best-selling authors of the book Contented Cows Move Faster, they also speak to, train, and coach managers on leadership practices for better business outcome. This episode will teach you how having a focused, fired-up, and capably led workforce is one of the best things any organization can do for its bottom line.
Arriving on Real Recognition Radio this week is Southwest Airlines’ Sunny Abercrombie and Leslie Shults. Air travel is seldom pleasant, with continuing cutbacks one has become accustomed to disgruntled customs agents and flight attendants. But when customers fly Southwest Airlines, travelers are often pleasantly surprised. Their vibrant corporate culture has created a positive workplace and flyers are reaping the benefits. Sunny is the Senior Director Culture Services and Leslie is the Team Leader/Planner Culture Activities. The two will show you how to create a recognition culture that filters down to your customers. And you’ll be happy to learn there’s a financial benefit to all the fun Southwest has!
Real Recognition Radio welcomes David Zinger, founder and host of the 2,500+ member Employee Engagement Network! This episode will teach you how engagement can change a company, but more importantly what engagement can do for you on a personal level. David is a world traveled speaker, educator, coach and consultant focused on achieving results through engagement. Listen in and learn the value of online communities, the power of Zen-gage and the best and most effective methods of communication!
Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown welcome the Chairman and CEO of The Og Mandino Group, David Blanchard to Real Recognition Radio. David’s amazing success story has led him from award winning writer and director to a career where helping people succeed and creating a more fulfilling work and life space is his bread and butter. During this episode you will gain insight on the importance of self-improvement, real leadership, communication and how this leads to innovation and a happier, healthier, more productive workplace. Join in on the conversation on the next episode of Real Recognition Radio!
Real Recognition Radio welcomes Dr Jack Phillips. Dr Phillips is the chairman and co-founder of the ROI Institute, and was named one of the 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings and Events Industry. You will learn how simple, cost effective, and important measuring return on investment for your recognition program can be. Join us next Tuesday to learn how to turn your intangibles to tangible dollars and cents.
How is your recognition program fairing? Failure to launch? Bumpy roads along the way? Sue Warwick, Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare’s chairperson of the Reward and Recognition committee, and Carole Erken, HR Director for Kaiser Permanente will be letting you in on their journey towards a successful recognition program. They’ll let you in on the obstacles they’ve faced and the successes they’ve had. You’ll learn some lessons on program sustainability, unions, and how to overcome participation challenges. Tune in to leverage their recognition best practices and apply them today!
Join Roy Saunderson and Max Brown as they interview former governor Arne Carlson, and Kevin Cronin, President of Recognition Professionals International about new trends and views of recognition in the workplace. This is your opportunity to leverage their vast experience in the recognition industry! Governor Carlson is currently the Vice-Chairman Board of Directors of Rideau Recognition Solutions, and the Chairman Emeritus of River Source Funds. Prior to serving as President, Kevin, was the Recognition and Reward Executive for Bank of America. In that role, Kevin led the successful design, implementation, delivery and management of recognition and reward programs globally for 200,000+ associates.
Kevin Hall is a highly sought after business consultant, speaker, coach and author. His book—Aspire: Discovering Your Purpose through the Power of Words— has received national acclaim and unprecedented positive reviews from readers and critics. Join hosts S. Max Brown and Roy Saunderson as they interview Kevin on this very engaging episode of Real Recognition Radio. Kevin’s words will inspire you to dream, to create, and to achieve. His words will encourage you to unlock the potential within. Once your authenticity is tapped, only then can you learn to truly be engaged in your work and in your life. Once you find your potential, your authenticity, you will pay it forward, and be able to engage those around you and positively affect their life. Tune in on Tuesday at 1PM and join in on the conversation with Roy, Max and Kevin to gain new insight you can apply to your life today!
Relationships are the basis of employee engagement. On this episode “Regaining the Passion to Value Others “, Roy Saunderson and S. Max Brown will be interviewing Monica Diaz, author of the book, Otheresteem: Regaining the Passion to Value Others, also speaker, trainer and executive coach. Their discussion will shed new light on how real relationships and real leadership can engage both you and your employees creating a more efficient, productive and dynamic work environment. “Learn more about Monica here” and links to http://www.otheresteem.org/realrecognition.html
Shake up your organization today! This week’s Real Recognition Radio’s guests are Matthew J. Grawitch, Ph.D. Director of the Organizational Health Initiative at Saint Louis University as well as David W. Ballard, PsyD, MBA, Assistant Executive, Director for Marketing and Business Development at the American Psychological Association and the APA Practice Organization. Drs. Grawitch and Ballard will tell us how to make your organization a high performing workplace and a positive work environment. Discover how recognition, incentives and wellness programs can be leveraged to transform your organization into an engaged, productive and healthy one. Join us for a great conversation that will add value to your current efforts.
Re-Engage with Best Selling author Leigh Branham & his co-author Mark Hirschfeld on Real Recognition Radio. Addressing their book Re-Engage: How America’s best Places to work inspire extra effort in extraordinary times, Leigh and Mark will tell how to keep your best people engaged, and relay their recent research findings of companies identified as “Best Places to Work”.
Learn the six universal drivers of employee engagement and what gets in the way of leaders valuing employee contributions. Real Recognition Radio is going to help you get your employees engaged so you can create a positive and productive workplace environment!
By discovering the roots of turnover, employee disengagement, absenteeism and presenteeism, guests Mark and Leigh will be showing you how to hold on to your most precious resource, your employees.
“What’s wrong with being nice? How does enthusiasm build morale at work? Why do leaders forget the power of appreciation? Real Recognition Radio welcomes Barbara Glanz, leadership expert and author of eleven books, including The Simple Truths of Service As Inspired by Johnny the Bagger® to share her secrets on how to spread “Contagious Enthusiasm” in the office.
Barbara has worked with organizations around the globe, and her client list includes Honda, Disney, and Southwest Airlines just to name a few! Her work focus is on how to improve morale, retention, and service. Most importantly, she works with people who want to rediscover the joy in their work and in their lives while acknowledging that we will all face challenges.
During this uplifting Real Recognition Radio episode, you too will learn how to inspire others to achieve great things and transform the workplace as well as live a better, fuller, more engaged life.
You’ve discovered the power and potential of an engaged workforce, but how do you create that in your office today? Michael Lee Stallard, the author of the bestselling book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion Creativity and Productivity, will be sharing his strategies on how to get a motivated workforce through “Connection Cultures.” “Connection Cultures” increase each employee’s sense of connection to their work, their colleagues and their overall organization.
Tune in on April 6th to equip yourself with the tools you need to be able to transform your organization into an impassioned, innovative and thriving workplace!
The Wall Street Journal cited Jim Kouzes as one of the 12 best executive educators in the United States. His book, “The Leadership Challenge,” has sold nearly 2 MILLION copies and he continues to publish and share leadership best practices around the world. You don’t want to miss this interview as Roy & Max ask him to share his thoughts on the leadership challenges of today to create a better workplace. How do you bring out the best in someone? How do you get employees to fulfill their potential? Join us as Jim reveals REAL ways the right kind of leadership, based on thoughtfulness and consideration, can make a world of difference.
Stay tuned on Tuesday March 30th, to learn about how to harness the power of encouraging the heart at work!
Stories are the most powerful and effective form of communication today. Everyone knows that stories go in deep and last a long time. So why don’t we tell more stories? Too often we’re driven to deliver data, facts and information that is dry and boring. Companies that want to engage and motivate their employees and be on the leading edge of change need to tell more stories. The impact of a story is immediate and visceral. They get into our bones and more importantly they stay with us long afterwards. If you want to make an impact in your communication, develop instant rapport and present yourself with authenticity and credibility then you need the power of a good story. Join us in an engaging and lively discussion about the power of story to make an impact in every area of your life.
On this new episode of Real Recognition Radio, our hosts S. Max Brown and Roy Saunderson interview feedback expert Sonia Di Maulo and business coach Tanveer Naseer, who teach companies how to improve people, performance, and business growth and development. They will share advice on how to create a better workplace, how to get the most out of your employees while helping to create a positive and productive workplace through the power of communication and feedback.
Don’t miss Real Recognition Radio’s guest John Hope Bryant, author of the book “Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World,” as he shares the five principles of Love Leadership and why they are so important today in your daily life, as well as in the workplace. Mr. Bryant is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, America’s first non-profit social investment banking organization, now operating in 68 U.S. communities and South Africa, having raised more than $500 million from the private sector to empower the poor. Drawing on the lessons he’s learned through a lifetime of achievements, John believes we can all do something now to make our world better inside and outside the workplace. Don’t miss out on this powerful conversation.
How’s your recognition program doing? Looking for some point of comparison? Listen in and learn as Tommy Lee Hayes Brown, the first corporate recognition chairperson for MetLife and their current Lead of Multicultural Sales and Service Division, shares recognition lessons that drive corporate recognition and employee engagement.
You know how important recognition is, but do your employees? How do you get your employees to buy in and participate in your recognition strategy? Real Recognition Radio’s premier show will be featuring Brenna Garratt, CEO of The Delve Group, Inc. and member of Rideau Recognition Solutions’ board of directors. Having been active in both the recognition field and marketing, Brenna will be discussing the importance of branding and communication within your recognition program so your program touches your employees and achieves the goals you intend it to. Discover the behind the scenes secrets of great marketing and branding campaigns. Armed with the information Brenna shares with us you’ll go away with the subliminal difference for making an award winning recognition program. Get ready to experience “Real Recognition”!