Updates Why You Need To Please Just Shut Up And Listen Do This When You Are Up Against A Deadline Wondering When The Perfect Time To Speak Up Is? A Unique Chance For You To Share Your Stories With Others Surprise! You Just Are Not That Valuable Anymore Can Positive Encouragement Actually Work For You?

Topics: Business, Leadership, Consulting, Coaching, Communication, Speaking, Innovation, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development

About: Internationally acclaimed innovation expert Val Wright was named as one of the top 50 resources for Chief Operating Officers by ClickSoftware. She is one of only 64 experts inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame. The global clients who have requested her help include Starbucks, LinkedIn, and Financial Times. Val’s corporate experience includes tenures during dramatic growth periods at Amazon, BMW, and Microsoft. Val participated on the small team that created the fastest-selling device of all time, Kinect for Xbox, which won a Guinness Book of World Record, selling over 20 million devices. Val’s books include: Thoughtfully Ruthless: The Key to Exponential Growth, named best business book by Independent Press Awards and NYC Big Book Awards, and The Innovation Trifecta: How to Catapult Innovation by Creating a Symbiotic Relationship between Creative, Business, and Technical Minds. She is a regular contributor on CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, LA Times, and Today.

Updates The Value Proposition of Entrepreneurs Knowing Your Serengeti Animal Skill Is Just The Beginning

Topics: Business, Management, Leadership, Success, Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Books, Executive Coaching, Relationships

About: Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business & Life (Wiley; hardcover; March 1, 2011) will refine how you view and comprehend people. Africa-born, New York Times bestselling author, Stefan Swanepoel shares the different parallels between our concrete jungle and the real jungle. Take the surprisingly accurate 3-minute quiz and discover whether you are an enterprising crocodile, a strategic lion, a risk-taking mongoose or another one of the 'Serengeti Seven.' Learn to develop your own strongest survival skill, identify and understand the strengths of those you work with -- all while having fun and developing an extraordinary team.

Updates It's About How You Make Them Feel 4 Questions That Will Improve the Uptake From Learning & Development Activities Never Stop Recruiting! Yes, Organizational Fit Still Matters Improve Your Talent Hunts… Get Good With Crayons Are You Listening, or Just Waiting to Talk?

Topics: Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Author/Speaker, Employee Retention, Employee Relations, Turnover, Workplace Issues, Morale

About: No organization can compete in today's tough economy without the willing, enthusiastic engagement of everyone on the payroll. When it comes to the topic of people and profit, we wrote the book...literally. Based on years of research on the leadership and employee relations practices of some of America's best managed companies, plus 30 years' combined management experience, we address and can comment knowledgeably on: workplace issues, turnover, morale, leadership, retention, recruitment, and HR best practices.