Author: Staff

  • Expert Tips for Building Your Professional Network

    Think You’re Linked In?

    It takes connections to get ahead and, in some ways, we’re more connected than we’ve ever been. But in today’s plugged-in world, developing a business contact who’s something more than your 7,891st Facebook friend requires strategy and effort. How much, you ask? Less than you think, say Ron Sukenick and Ken Williams.

    It’s graduation season: Is your grad ready to find a job?

    Sukenick and Williams have studied and taught successful networking approaches for years, and they can teach anyone how to extend, deepen, and effectively utilize their own personal and business networks, in three short weeks. In their book, 21 DAYS TO SUCCESS THROUGH NETWORKING, they identify real-world situations that lead to networking success.

    Have Sukenick and Williams on your show to talk about:

    • Proven methods for building a successful network.
    • How to help recent grads develop their networks.
    • Why social networks are only effective tools if you know how to use them.
    • Three things you can do that will make people want to help you.
    • Why everyday encounters are fertile ground for developing contacts.

    CREDENTIALS: Ron Sukenick, speaker, business coach, consultant, and author of several books, is one of America’s leading authorities on networking and business relationship strategies. He is the president and founder of the Relationship Strategies Institute, a global training and business development company. Ken Williams is the founder of a marketing agency and a dynamic speaker with a history of teaching, coaching, and training teams to achieve success.

    AVAILABILITY: Indiana, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
    CONTACT: Rob Colding, (609) 654-6500, ext. 330 (NJ); rcolding@infotoday.com; www.infotoday.com; www.ronsukenick.com

     

  • Don’t Kill Yourself with Harmful Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout at Work

    There’s Hope

    What helps people manage stress and anxiety in order to feel more valued and happier at work? According to Lisa E. Papp, the answer is astoundingly simple: having management express their gratitude for contributions employees make. The same goes for the company’s clients, who may leave if they feel taken for granted.
    Using the latest scientific research from the Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley, and her years of experience in sales and customer service, Lisa can stimulate a discussion on proven ways gratitude can increase your audience members’ on-the-job happiness and productivity. As leader of PracticalGratitude.com, she can discuss:

    • What gratitude is (it’s more than just manners or expressing appreciation for a gift).
    • Why companies need to focus on looking for the good in employees rather than what they do wrong.
    • The two most important words often missing from texts, phone messages and e-mails.
    • Why it’s important to treat your employees as well as you treat your customers.

    Attention Producers:

    Listeners can apply to participate free in a Beta version of the online program The Productive Power of Gratitude. Also, a free trial of gratitude greeting card creating/mailing software and more free downloads at PracticalGratitude.com.

    CREDENTIALS: Lisa E. Papp, PracticalGratitude.com founder, has 25 years’ experience in direct and retail sales including Nordstrom, retail management, customer service, and marketing for organizations including the American Institute of Architects. Jamie L. Olson, M.Ed, PracticalGratitude.com program director, has 15 years’ experience educating youth and adults in various settings.

    AVAILABILITY: Washington State, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
    CONTACT: Lisa Papp (206) 335-1278 or (360) 312-4326 (WA); practicalgratitude@gmail.com; www.PracticalGratitude.com

  • The Catholic Church is Losing Millions of Parishioners

    Meet the Former Priest Who Says the Vatican is to Blame

    Tom Kane knew his calling was to be a priest. And from his days in a seminary through his early years serving at a college, he couldn’t have been happier. But the longer he remained a priest, the more disillusioned he became with the Vatican’s conservative doctrines, its disconnect with the poor and its male-dominated authoritarianism. Finally, after a decade of service, he left the Church, and for a time, became an atheist.

    Kane isn’t alone in his dissatisfaction with the Church. In recent years millions of 18- to 29 year-old Catholics—fed up with the sexual abuse scandals and the bias against gays and women—have also rejected Catholicism and left the Church.  The problem is so bad, says one study, that if ex-Catholics were counted as their own religious group, they would be the third-largest denomination in the U.S.

    Invite Kane on your show to examine this growing problem to discuss:

    • 3 things the Church needs to do to become relevant in 2014.
    • What Pope Francis I is saying about the Church’s shortcomings.
    • How the Vatican continues to alienate nuns and Catholics, worldwide.

    CREDENTIALS: Former priest Tom Kane left the Church after becoming disillusioned with the Vatican’s out-of-date doctrines. Since then he’s been a professor, public relations executive, consultant and newspaper
    editor. His second book is GOOD CHURCH BAD CHURCH: One Priest’s Indictment Against the Vatican.

    AVAILABILITY: PA, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
    CONTACT: Tom Kane, (570) 253-8475 (PA); tkane@ptd.net; www.tomkane.net

  • Your Qualifications Aren’t What Matter Most

    5 Interviewing Secrets Your Competition Doesn’t Know

    Roughly 11 million Americans are unemployed and there are about 8 million fewer jobs than we need. Hundreds of applicants are going after every position you want. How can you make sure you’re the one who wins the job?

    Tom Payne says the most important thing is to forget everything you think you know about interviewing because nearly all job seekers go about it all wrong, blowing it at the most basic level. For more than 10 years, people who have learned his secrets have beaten the competition… even competitors with more impressive backgrounds and qualifications.

    Payne will share:

    • The No. 1 thing that influences hiring decisions.
    • The 5 biggest interviewing mistakes that nearly everyone makes.
    • Winning answers to “suicide questions” like, what are your weaknesses? (Follow Payne’s advice and they won’t remember you have any.)
    • How to be the one applicant who doesn’t botch the response to “Tell me about yourself.”
    • Style trumps substance: Why the way you tell your story is the key to making an impression and getting hired.

    CREDENTIALS: Tom Payne is president of Essential Growth Solutions, a management consulting firm. He has coached thousands of people in his interviewing system through workshops, individual sessions and his own Web Talk Radio show, You’re Hired!. He is a volunteer coach for the Career Transitions Center of Chicago and the Elam Davies Social Services Center. His book is NO MEDAL FOR SECOND PLACE. Visit www.tompayne.com and
    www.webtalkradio.net/internet-talk-radio/youre-hired/.

    AVAILABILITY: IL, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
    CONTACT: Tom Payne, (312) 420-0730 (IL)