My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

Communication

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Become a Presentologist

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mark_sanborn

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What clients really want to hear from consultants and what audiences want to hear from speakers.
  • Ways in which change itself has changed.
  • A key question that effective leaders ask daily to build a shared sense of vision and progress.
  • How leaders at any level can share what matters most to help an organization move more rapidly towards business success.

Mark Sanborn talks with Bill Ringle about effective ways to navigate uncertainty as you grow personally and professionally.

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Share Your Code to Become a Better Leader

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mette norgaard

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • What leaders who care about the human side of business can be observed doing regularly
  • How the Finnish Broadcasting situation was turned around one lunch conversation at a time
  • What distinguishes a conversation from a Touchpoint opportunity
  • Why sharing your “code” with your team can make you a better leader
  • How to combine your words and energy in an interaction to produce extraordinary impact
  • What you can do to sidestep the myth of “no time to slow down” 

Mette Norgaard talks with Bill Ringle about Touchpoints as a transformative tool in business.

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Having your excellence speak for you

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cal newport

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How “follow your passion” can be counterproductive advice
  • The value and necessity of systematic practice to developing deep skills
  • The two prime characteristics of the most marketable skills
  • Why “mission” creates meaning and opportunities for leverage if sequenced properly
  • That the solution to a mystery is not that complex, unless we oversimplify or overcomplicate it
  • Key steps to selling more than 120,000 copies of his first 3 books

Cal Newport talks with Bill Ringle about the underlying patterns of success in both business and academia.

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Take the Stairs

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rory vaden

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The paradox principle, in which easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences.
  • Why balance is not something that high performers make a top priority.
  • What to focus on to have great fitness, great relationships, and great finances.
  • The perspective of peace as a form of wealth that is undervalued in society.
  • Daily habits that lead to high focus and productivity.

Rory Vaden talks with Bill Ringle about key principles for succeeding in business and in life described in Take the Stairs.

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Cross Cultural Selling

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michael_lee

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The secret to listening to your customers to meet their real needs, not what you assume they want/need
  • Three practical tips to avoid insulting prospective customers that many United States business people do automatically and unintentionally
  • Some of the key cultural differences used in negotiating
  • A subspecialty of the medical industry that is very entrepreneurial
  • What to do instead of ignoring someone’s culture to build a genuine bond and relationship

Michael Soon Lee talks with Bill Ringle about embracing the multicultural market and building long-lasting, profitable relationships with your customers.

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Nanovation

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jackie_freiberg

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • How leadership is really about relationships unfolding
  • What organizations do to make strategy part of their culture
  • How to recognize and avoid “Dead Person Working” syndrome
  • What leading companies do to invest in their people
  • How to use feedback as a gift for growth rather than as a destructive tool

Jackie Freiberg talks with Bill Ringle about what it really takes to create a culture of leadership and initiative.

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Ditch the Pitch

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Steve Yastrow

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Placeholding 1
  • Placeholding 2
  • Placeholding 3
  • Placeholding 4
  • Placeholding 5

Steve Yastrow talks with Bill Ringle about the need to placehold placeholders.

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RubySpeaks – Interview

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ruby_newell_legner

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • Ruby’s journey from swim coach to trainer of world-class companies, organizations, and associations, such as the Olympics, US Open, and the Superbowl.
  • The loyalty and retention trend impacting many industries in the recovering economy.
  • What premium suite ticket holders really value.
  • Why organizations that treat their staff well have happier customers.
  • How staff can inadvertently upset a customer by using the wrong word that is a near-universal hot button.
  • The two-step process Zappos uses to define job criteria to ensure good hires.

Ruby Newell-Legner talks with Bill Ringle about loyalty and retention trends in the hospitality and tourism industries and beyond.

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Sales Autopsy – Interview

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dan seidman

Listen to this interview to learn:

  • The practical importance of creating an emotional context for the buying decision.
  • How taking initiative with ASTD led to writing a much-needed book that helps both the sales industry as well as his career.
  • The importance of attending to language in sales conversations and elsewhere.
  • Top objections can be anticipated and prepared for to allow you to be more confident.
  • Why top sales pros can predict the future.

Dan Seidman talks with Bill Ringle about what top sales pros know and do differently.

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The Improvisation Edge – Interview

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karen_hough

Listen to this interview to learn:

    • How behavioral skills lead to success.
    • The necessity of stepping outside our comfort zone.
    • Why having fun at work is not only more enjoyable, but vital to gaining new insights and developing new forms of collaboration and teamwork.

    Karen Hough talks with Bill Ringle about building trust on individual, team, and organizational levels through improvisation, honesty, and acting in line with your values.

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    How to Click with People – Interview

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    rick_kirschner2

    Listen to this interview to learn:

    • How following your passion opens doors to new opportunities.
    • What Congress can learn about working productively with people with whom you strongly disagree on issues.
    • A three-step process for helping people and organizations change.
    • The risks of social media technology for young people today.

    Dr. Rick Kirschner talks with Bill Ringle about the art of change.

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    UpFront Presentations – Interview

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    marilyn sherman

    Listen to this interview to learn:

    • The choice to not participate in a negative economy
    • Gladys Holm, who left a $18 million gift in her will on a $15,000 annual salary
    • How the right kind of business opportunities lead to great exposure and more business
    • The surprising value of being outrageous with goal setting

    Marilyn Sherman talks with Bill Ringle about how different forms of fear keep people from having more success.

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    Users Not Customers – Interview

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    aaron_shapiro

    Listen to this interview to learn:

      • How a company pivots based on customer feedback.
      • What steps a full-service digital agency take to insure success with high stake assignments from Fortune 1000 firms, including Comcast, Target, and HBO.
      • How the magic of good design leads to rapid product adoption.
      • The demand for a great online experience (and how the bar keeps getting raised) by the generation of consumers now in their 20’s.
      • What Forrester research says about the role of online sales transactions in 2012.

      Aaron Shapiro talks with Bill Ringle about the urgent need for companies of all sizes to make the shift to treating customers as users.

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      Creating Personal Presence – Interview

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      dianna_booher_2

      Listen to this interview to learn:

        • How a Fortune 100 corportation helped launch her business.
        • Mistakes to avoid when running a business meeting.
        • What makes communication more powerful than simply sharing information.
        • The relationship between how you deliver the message and the impact it has on your audience.

        Dianna Booher talks with Bill Ringle about distinctions that make communication more effective in business relationships and cause organizations that follow these principles to be more profitable and productive.

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        Dignity, Happiness, Resilience – Interview

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        jamie_wolf

        Listen to this interview to learn:

        • How to use available resources to bridge the gap between knowing and doing.
        • Important questions to ask about yourself on the road to entrepreneurial growth.
        • The importance of resilience to being a successful entrepreneur.

        Jamie Wolf talks with Bill Ringle about how asking questions of yourself is a critical step on the road to entrepreneurial growth.

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        Attention! – Interview

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        jim_kukral

        Listen to this interview to learn:

        • The top mistakes business owners and executives make when using social media for business, and how to avoid them.
        • The many ways that a business leader can use social media to position the business.
        • Why it is critical to build a “platform” for communicating with social media and how to get started.
        • How to use precise demographic targeting to reach the buyers most likely to appreciate your offers.

        Jim Kukral talks with Bill Ringle about using social media as a business tool with measurable ROI.

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