Inspiring Innovations Inc., LEARNING MOMENTS Podcast

Sometimes advancing professional development pushes you to go back to the basics. This month’s podcast Meeting Preparation… is all about that journey.  Whether it is appropriately AGENDA SHARING   in our transparent times… or strategically building Meeting Preparation OWNERSHIP… improving in these areas is just progress necessary.  Finally, although TIME MANAGEMENT is necessary, and even critical...

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines Global Citizenship as follows:  “The idea that you should show loyalty and support for the world as a whole as much as for the particular country in which you live.”  Whether it’s the steady advances of technological information-sharing… or the increasing number of global, world-wide impacting issues; the need for everyone to realize their Global Citizenshi...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast topic: “ As Much Advice As Possible”… seems to carry a common sense, natural decision-making recommendation action. However, if people take a quick assessment of the steps they take to make a decision on a major issue, their resulting process may not be as “natural” as we would think. President John F. Kennedy has helped me form this mont...

This December 2023 Podcast completes our 7th season of Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS. Each month I have had the GREAT opportunity to share my thoughts, ideas, and recommendations on positively and progressively living through a variety of workplace and just regular life situations.  Well this last podcast contains a VERY Special MOMENTS TOP 10 list of reflections!  It introduces a new “in...

What do Tom Brady… RAM Pick-ups… and Gerber Baby Foods have in common? A GREAT BRAND!  This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast follows the tradition of coming to you from my favorite deer hunting blind. But don’t think for a minute that the Creating Your Brand podcast message doesn’t contain some great professional development thoughts and recommendations (despite opening day d...

Appropriate NETWORKING in and around your employment sector has always been an important action for hiring and promotion purposes. Who you meet, where you go, and what type of relationship-building you accomplish has traditionally been the standards related to effective NETWORKING.  Well this month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast offers a different view of what type of progressive...

Learning valuable lessons from the “Not Right” decisions or actions taken by co-workers, supervisors, and/or leaders… is often not placed in a professional development context… but it should be!  This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast Making Use of the “Not Rights” is all about sifting through example-based learning that comes from assessing “Not Right” experiences. The practi...

Have you ever considered the short and long-term value of "Take Aways" from training sessions, personnel meetings, performance reviews and/or person-to-person agency status discussions? Could you pass a "Take Aways" Test on any of these professional activities and accurately recall the most important LEARNING MOMENTS resulting from each?  This month we are going to use our Insp...

Talking about the negatives of developing and sustaining a progressive workplace culture… sometimes just needs to be discussed. So this month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast is all about those who do the Robotics Minimum and those who standardly are Dissenters… no matter the future initiative?!   Recognition of the Robotics Minimums & Dissenters existence and impacts is a soli...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast takes on a more serious special topic area: Managing Life & Work Expectations. I believe it is important and necessary to periodically review your Expectations in these areas and consider new priorities and appropriate changes that may be timely.   Nothing is or stays the same in our world today. As a result, Managing Life & Work...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast borrows from the movie Field of Dreams with its style of messaging: “Build It & He Will Come” to introduce a valuable innovation start-up strategy.   Show Them & They Will Join!  As you listen to the description of how important it is to recruit organizational colleagues to more successfully introduce “innovativity”, I hope it mot...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast gives my Mother a special voice in providing a unique professional growth message. The “setting” for the MOMENT is classic… and the LEARNING is simple but too often overlooked.   And I am sure you are wondering about the title: “Where are we going… you will know when we get there!” and how it fits as a label for this month’s Inspiring Inn...

The action of Empowerment… “giving” someone/ some group authority or legal power to do something on your behalf” … is a strong professional personnel decision for anyone at all levels. This definition sounds similar to simple delegation… but it is not.   This months Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS Podcast: The EXTRA Factors of Empowerment, goes behind the delegation actions and discusses th...

Innovation Leadership… in my world it is a regular, solid, necessary blended principle in every career and business building initiative. There is less and less room for “that is the way we have always done it” thoughts and action. And the world seems more than ready to seek out something new and special.   This month’s The “First 5” Innovation LEADERSHIP Principles are a group of unique reflection...

I believe it is important to start our new year 2023 out right by offering a message related to one of our principal topic areas: LEADERSHIP. If you look at the title:  Everything-to-Everyone Leadership, you get the introduction idea of the challenge I am going to address. And like many LEARNING MOMENTS we discuss, there are no perfect answers to this expectation dilemma.  However as you listen cl...

It is the final podcast for 2022! And although we have discussed fun, important, thought-generating topics every month… this month is totally special!   Why?   This is the first time I have had a guest/guests on the podcast with me. One of my American Government & Politics classes were very persistent with their request to be part of a podcast discussion… and this month, they “got-their-way.” ...

This months Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS Podcast title speaks for itself and needs no additional explanation. The habit of “Questioning Your Decision-Making” isn’t new, but I believe in recent times it has become a more dehabilitating habit for those in a leadership role. I am assuming everyone will be able to relate to the discussion points raised in this critical podcast. And I also ho...

It is difficult to devise a way to slow down the speed and volume of information that is shared with us every minute of every day. The result is a growing lack of comprehension of the Who - What - When -  Where and Why’s of actions and events going on all around us.  Hence we need to think about our capacity of: Understanding - Understandability!  This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENT...

This month I chose a more serious topic for the Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast: Seasons of Change. Work families are a very important element in building and retaining a great workforce culture. And when someone leaves… for whatever reason… there are good and not-so-good ways of dealing with this transitional action. There are no easy, standardized methods of working through Season...

We have all heard the phrase, “There are always at least two sides to every story.”   Well not only is the “two-sides” part of this phrase very true… but this month's Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast will talk about the importance of Seeing ALL Sides of an issue.  Professionally working to improve your Seeing ALL Sides skills and learning how to strategically apply this critical...

It is always wonderful to get a request from a TRIPLE III TIME Blog reader or Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS Podcast listener. Well this month’s podcast Reaching Back… To Grow Forward is really a combination of both.   Back in December 2016, I penned a TRIPLE III TIME Blog message that included a TOP 10 list of ideas that asked everyone to look back in their pasts… gather up all the “bests...

Do you have a quality style of sharing, giving Praise to someone? Or do you offer Praise in a very routine, standardized fashion that ends up not really conveying the appreciation you were really hoping for? The “Speaking of Praise” Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast is proposed to help everyone give the responsibility of Praise delivery all the special attention it deserves. As always...

Every organization/business is always in search of new and different ways to motivate their employees and often even the customers they serve. There are books, articles, and workshops which all offer ideas and actions to help get everyone motivated… right?  But today I ask, “What about using INNOVATION to be your motivator? This month's Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast: Innovati...

This month’s Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast topic is what some people would call “a flash from the past”! Going back and discussing an IDEAS Guidebook I had prepared for group several years ago was not at all my planned LEARNING MOMENTS topic for April. However when a group of current American Government & Politics students cornered me and asked if I would review it for them… s...

Sometimes in my LEARNING MOMENTS podcasts or my TRIPLE III TIME blog messages I promote the need to “take your job personally.”  And by doing so I am hoping you make your employment experiences all that they can be and possibly more.   This month's Inspiring Innovations LEARNING MOMENTS podcast topic “Are You A Student Of Your Business… Your Job?” … is all about heightening your PERSONAL inte...