Rise Above Your Best

Chris Littlefield from Acknowledgement Works, www.acknowledgementworks.com, talks about the power that acknowledgment can have on any one of your relationships both personally and professionally.

Understanding how habits, deliberate practice and grit impact your success will provide you with a roadmap to maximize your success in any goal you set.

Too much focus is placed on the resume and the cover letter for getting your next job and not enough on the skills and science that will be more beneficial to your efforts of getting the job you deserve! Learn the power of understanding how to prepare, persuade and progress in your next interview. This will maximize your chances of hearing the phrase, "you're hired".

To maximize our development as a leader, the most important tool we can use is the mirror. Being able to honestly look at ourselves and question how we behave is a critical exercise in one's leadership development

Listen to how harnessing the power of a mastermind group can propel you to greater levels of success by surrounding yourself with people that are in harmony with the goals and values that you share. You will reach higher than on your own. Guaranteed

Author Tom Dahlborg speaks about his journey coaching his son in sports and the parallels between poor behaviors by sports coaches and poor behaviors in healthcare. He discusses the journey in his new book, The Big Kid...And Basketball.

The most effective way to gaining agreement often involves understanding why someone would say "no" to our requests. This is an acronym called GREAT, which identifies the five reasons someone says "no".

There are many superfoods that provide us the ability to get healthier. This episode is about the superfoods of leadership behaviors that inspire other to rise above their best.

Luke Mickelson, his family and his (Sleep In Heavenly Peace) chapters are on a mission to prevent children from having to sleep on the floor. You can vote for him to be CNN Hero for 2018 here. Vote Here for CNN Top 10 Heroes 2018       Luke.:               We're just humans helping humans and these are little humans and they need our help. Pat V.:              Hey everybody. I'm Pat V. and you're...

This episode provides a solid plan for getting off to a great start in 2019 as well as providing research, resources and tools to insure that you achieve your goal. No excuses!

This episode is about identifying developing and creating the behaviors that inspire employee engagement. Most get cynical when they here a company say it's employees are "it's most valuable asset" but it doesn't have to be that way. This episode will lead the way.

A conversation with Laurie Ann Murabito as she speaks about her journey from growing up "painfully shy" to becoming a professional speaker, coach and author.

This episode presents the The CABLES model that is used to build great teams at both work and at home. When we understand the impact of our behaviors on building trust, we can be more intentional in building healthy relationship bridges with our counterparts, our children, our significant others or anyone else.

Patrick:            Hey everybody, Pat V. here, and you're listening to the Rise Above Your Best podcast, where I'm not only obsessed with identifying and understanding the habits, strategies, techniques, secrets that have made other people successful, but also in uncovering and identifying the research that demonstrates that great success is available to anyone. And it all starts when we believe...

A great conversation with Larry Barker, CEO of Machias Savings Bank, around his company's commitment to employee engagement at all levels of the organization. A lesson that many organizations can benefit from applying.

Learning the skills behind managing the emotions of others as well as how to gain control of our own emotions has a powerful impact in our personal and professional relationships. Emotional intelligence is a need to have skill.

Being able to manage our emotions has incredible benefits in any are of our lives. There are four strategies you can apply that will help you show up as your best self more often. Do you manage your emotions like a thermostat or a thermometer?

Understanding how to manage our emotions is critical in developing the most effective personal and professional relationship. Developing our emotional intelligence provides the insight and outline to be our best in any situation.

The ability to read others provides and incredible benefit to both personal and professional relationships. Yes it can be learned. Listen to how you can strengthen your skill in reading others.

Whether personally or professionally, the research continues to expand and reinforce the benefit that emotionally intelligent behaviors provide to an individual's and organizations success. More importantly, they are behaviors that can be learned.

Lisa Whited from WTF, Workplace Transformation Facilitation, discusses the power of combining vision, people and place to create office environments that allow people to thrive.

Unless you have never held a job, you have inevitably worked for a bad boss. The good news is that there are effective ways to navigate a "bad boss" trip and make it work in our favor. The choice is your and this episode will discuss the strategies to benefit from a bad boss.

From the Boston Celtics to City Hall and many places in between. Jon Jennings speaks about growing up in Indiana, life lessons from his mother and his desire to serve others at a very young age.

Our unconscious expectations of others often have the power of playing out in reality. Whether you are a teacher, manager, parent or anyone else that places expectations on others in a relationship. This episode will help uncover your unconscious biases

Author and leadership coach Phil Giordano discusses how "going all in" in everything we do provides the greatest opportunity for us to rise above our best. Listen to how he chronicles his journey of discovering significance in a conversation between him