Lubar Executive Education Podcast

In this episode, Adam Wickersham, Director of the Lubar Executive MBA   shares six techniques to create and deliver powerful stories that gain the attention of their audience and create a connection to their message.    

Employee's perceptions of your organization are critical in activating their motivation. In this episode, Dr. Jim Bohn , author of  If your water cooler could talk: Organizational Engagement: Getting Beyond Employee Engagement talks about six major elements of what makes your organization tick and how his research is being put to use around the globe.  

Employee's perceptions of your organization are critical in activating their motivation. In this episode, Dr. Jim Bohn , author of  If your water cooler could talk: Organizational Engagement: Getting Beyond Employee Engagement talks about six major elements of what makes your organization tick.  Ever wonder what your employees think of your organization? Do they believe your organization can...

In the final episode of our series on the Key Performance Indicators of Manager Value, Dave Boyer, former CEO, business owner, and chairmen of a hospital proves that improving quality KPIs adds to margins in a big way.  His examples cover multiple lenses (manufacturing and healthcare) and he leaves us with three key takeaways: ·        Do you really know your processes?   ·        Smart managers u...

In part 4 of our series on the Key Performance Indicators of Manager Value, Emilie Poehlmann, HR Manager of OwnersEdge, talks about how to reduce turnover by 2/3 by giving each employee a magic wand to change one thing.  Additional key takeaways from our conversation include: 1.      Do the math :  Loss of time is the biggest cost, 400% of the direct costs of rehiring.   2.      You have to actual...

In part 3 of our series on the Key Performance Indicators of Manager Value, Tim Stewart from the DeWitt Law Firm shares how it’s possible to double its volume and boost margins by redefining productivity metrics. Hear Tim talk about these big ideas to drive success in this episode: ·        Run customer assessments, so each customer gets exactly what they want ·        The drive to work efficientl...

Our latest episode is the second of a five-part series on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of manager value.  We discuss Customer Satisfaction with Susan Dineen of ACS.  Susan proves that improving this KPI correlates directly to improving the Income Statement.   The cost of winning new business is often 10x that for renewals, so a team approach to Customer Satisfaction that covers the points...

This episode is part one in a five part series on the five Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of Manager Value. hosted by Mike Markiewcz (Director of Executive Programs at the Lubar School of Business) and Derrick Van Mell (founder of the Center for Management Terms and Practices).     The first KPI we cover is Sales Growth and we interview Kevin Hickman, Senior Client Executive with Nexus Solution...

Mental endurance is the key to dealing with all of the challenging situations and problems we face.  Hear Major General Vikram Dev Dogra, one of India’s most decorated and respected Army Generals and motivational speaker, share how mental endurance has helped him work through challenging situations along with tips and techniques to develop and enhance your own mental endurance so you are prepared...

This episode is a replay of a recent event hosted by Lubar Executive Education on Optimizing Your Sales Pipeline During COVID-19. As the coronavirus crisis continues to create unprecedented uncertainty, it’s critical that companies figure out how to protect and increase revenues—not default to just containing or cutting costs. Sales teams must be especially careful about how they come across in th...

This episode is a replay of a recent event hosted by Lubar Executive Education on managing a remote workforce.   Being proficient at managing remote employees requires a mental leap, especially for traditionally-minded managers. Managing remote workers takes a new skill set, and employees may feel out of sorts in the beginning, as they adjust to significant shifts in their days. Hear a panel of ex...

In this episode, Derrick Van Mell from the Center for Management Terms and Practices and discusses the topic of managerial power.  We cover what happens when power is used incorrectly and offer a framework and examples of how power can be used for maximum impact.   

In this episode, Neal Sample, Chief Information Officer at Northwestern Mutual shares his thoughts on the latest trends for emerging technologies, benefits of investing in emerging technologies, and how to get started pursuing these for your organization.

In this episode, Dave Wallace, Amazon #1 bestselling author and founder, owner, and Chief Status Quo Prosecutor of Bay Ridge Consulting Group shares his thoughts on how to make the most of the referrals you get from clients.

In this episode, Mike Markiewicz, Director of Executive Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, discusses whether or not productivity levels of remote working seen early on during COVID-19 can be sustained for the long term.

In this episode, Mike Markiewicz, Director of Executive Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business provides some research and tips on how to prevent employee burnout as working from home continues due to COVID-19.

Recent events have hammered home how important contingency planning is to protecting your core business from disruptions large or small.  In this episode, Mike Markiewicz, Director, Executive Programs is joined by Karen Hung, Founder and CEO of Silver Rock Consulting, to discuss a new four-session series available called the Contingency Navigator that will walk you through a detailed and thoughtfu...

In this episode, Adam Wickersham, Director of the Executive MBA program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business takes a look at leaders from history and provides some lessons about what makes a successful leader and can bring about failure.

In this episode, Dick Marcus, Professor of Corporate Economics and Finance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee provides an introduction to Behavioral Economics and explains why people sometimes make poor financial decisions.  #decisionmaking #leadership #management #LubarExecPrograms 

In this episode, Mark Settle, a seven time CIO, two time author, three time CIO 100 award winner, and friend of the Lubar School of Business shares some steps that IT leaders should be taking to prepare their teams for the next phase COVID-19.

In this episode, we use COVID-19 data to highlight why data models are mostly inaccurate, why that’s ok, and how you as a leader can make good decisions with the data models in your business.  Our featured speaker is Tim Rutherford, business consultant and adjunct faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sheldon B. Lubar school of business.  

In this episode, Dave Wallace, Amazon #1 bestselling author and founder, owner, and Chief Status Quo Prosecutor of Bay Ridge Consulting Group discusses how efforts to land new customers can potentially impede your ability to keep existing customers.

In this episode, Jane Dolan, Founder of Jedi Consulting and adjunct faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business talks about what employees are looking for from their managers to be productive and how managers can leverage their emotional intelligence to lead.    

In this episode hear Adam Wickersham, Director of the Executive MBA Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sheldon B. Lubar School of business make a call to action for ethical behavior and decision making by business leaders not only now during COVID-19 but always regardless of the situation.  

In this episode, listen to Brian Thompson, Director of the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and President of the UWM Research Foundation, share a key element of the lean launch approach that provides useful insights for any organization exploring an idea in the marketplace or managing transformation inside the organization.