Daily Influence

Humility is being able to recognize one's self-worth without exaggeration or a need to be boastful.  Listen and learn how to employ more humility in your area of influence. 

Accountability is the thing that keeps humanity's tendency to do stupid things in check.  There are different types of accountability; Self-Accountability and Third-Party Accountability.  

Do you take the high road?  Did you know that the high road can be very subjective?  Let's review that path best traveled.  

Understanding how your composure influences us during communication can be a powerful understanding. Listen as we talk about how self-control and composure can help our influence.  

Do you know what your micro-communications are?  What do your tones and your body language tell?  We dive into how our micro-communication influences us and others.

One of the most profound understandings of our Influence is shared by Rene' in her forward to our second book, we share this with you as we launch our discussions about Being your best influence. 

Join us to review our first 50+ episodes and close out our first book; Individual Influence: Find the I in Team topics.  

Being situationally aware is more than knowing your surroundings. It's knowing yourself and those people in your area of influence to a point where you support them.  Being aware takes focus and (i)individuals that are situationally aware provide opportunities and advantages within their area of influence to be best-self.  

Earning respect can take a lifetime; losing respect can take a moment.   We are going to dive into the issue of respect and how important it is in our ability to be effective (I)individuals.  

Consistency in what we do can be another subjective aspect in our lives; be consistent in bad behavior or good and see what the consequences may be.  We will unpack being consistent and how we can work (I)individually to maintain consistency through all aspects of (I)individualism.  

Understanding what accountability is should be a mandatory lesson for everyone. There are two types, internal (self) accountability and outsourced accountability. And the understanding of what these mean and how they can be positive - negative and neutral - is important to being an amazing (I)individual.  

It's fitting that we would be diving into one of the cornerstones of our work this week on the anniversary of 9/11 -  Individualism.  9/11 defined for me the power of true (I)individualism, where the best individuals combined to be our best in situations all across our country.   Understanding the power of being best-self so when combined with other best-self individuals, we create a best-self...

Halfway to 100 episodes today!   As we enter the weekend, we reflect on the importance of Communication, the most important influence we have as humans.   Understanding how we communicate with self and use that to both uplift and deceive ourselves is important to have clarity with.   Using communication to justify poor behavior is generally a byproduct of not wanting to be held accountable and usi...

The written word is powerful.  One thing we can use the written word for that enables effective communication is clarification of context.   When we engage in conversations between people, using the written word to identify your understanding is a powerful tool in ensuring effective communication is happening.   Our discussion offers tips and examples of where the written word has become a powerfu...

One of the negative aspects of self-communication is self-deception. Humans often struggle with accountability and deceive ourselves and others with justification.  When we justify our actions, we are deceiving ourselves and creating an opportunity for negative influence.   We will dive into what self deception looks like and how to combat people in our lives who self deceive and justify poor beha...

How we communicate with ourselves is as important as how we communicate with others.  One of the pitfalls we humans have is lying to oneself about the status of a situation, oftentimes due to emotions.   We will unpack the importance of effective and positive self communication and what that actually looks like.

Communication is the foundation of human connection and understanding the foundational aspect of communication influence is essential to positive individual influence.   We begin to dive into the foundation of how humans communicate and what effective communication looks like in high performing relationships.

We close out our specific discussion about Bias and set us up for our move to Communication next week.   Our recap will recall the initial discussion about the three biases we have to deal with as (I)individuals: Conscious, Subconscious and Unconscious Bias.   We then review identification of those biases and how we react to bias within our specific areas of influence.   We then unpack the actual...

Every bias we deal with has the potential for unintended consequences.  Learning about these for our conscious bias is powerful as it shines a light on influence we may not know we have been wielding.   Understanding the unintended consequences of our sub/unconscious bias is also powerful and can be more dramatic.  We unpack this issue here. Produced by NOVA Media

In this episode, we will be unpacking the different bias we live with. All of them can be conscious, subconscious and unconscious biases.   The list includes:  Confirmation Bias Affinity Bias Similarity Bias Beauty Bias Halo or Horn Effect Bias Contrast Bias Gender Bias Age Bias Performance Bias Likeability Bias Attribution Bias Maternal Bias Intersectionality Bias As we unpack these, we will disc...

Understanding how and why we react to the different biases in our life is important.  We unpack the responses we experience and how making them known and understood is another positive individual influence that can help us be our best self. Produced by NOVA Media

Episode 41 is our focus on identifying Bias as Conscious, Subconscious or Unconscious Bias.   Each bias is unique in that how we identify them and what we can do with them once identified is different.  Conscious bias is easy. We are conscious of the bias and understand why we are biased towards whatever it is we have the bias on.  Subconscious bias is a bias that, oftentimes, is exposed without a...

Episode 40 begins our deep dive into human bias and specifically conscious, subconscious and unconscious bias.   We all have this bias, and we all can benefit from understanding our own and other's biases in the effort to have a more positive individual influence.   We will challenge the difficult discussion and often time-volatile topic and how we can move this issue forward in its most posit...

In this episode, we review and reflect on the power of Individualism.  This is a cornerstone of The I in Team Series and why the Daily Influence is so important to us.  Our individualism is made up of our Attitude and how we think can set our attitude.   Our maturity is defined by our individualism and how we perceive and interact within our individual and collective selves.  Maturity can be uniqu...

In our opinion, Prosperity is the positive cumulation of all we do.  What this means is that prosperity is not defined by the same things for all people; it is itself very individual.   When we finally define our own prosperity, we finally set ourselves free and become more individual in a way that makes us our best self.   Prosperity can be defined for companies in much the same way and when the...