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The Balance Equation 

By Glenn Newson & Peter Hazelrigg
What do you do when there are too many things to do? For many professionals, the demands of work and life continue to expand as their careers advance. The ability to find a way to both manage the expanding scope and responsibilities of life and to also feel fully engaged eludes most. However, some have figured it out and solved this problem. 

​The Balance Equation is informed by the authors' work with thousands of busy, successful people with too much to do. It's an examination and thoughtful analysis of those who have struggled to manage it all, and those who have developed ways to make it all work. It's a guide for people who want to create both success and satisfaction in their life and work. It's a framework for those who want to find a way to live an impactful, meaningful, fulfilled life without sacrificing their sleep, health, relationships, or well-being. Like a tricky math problem, the solution isn't always obvious; but for those who are willing to examine the variables, structure the steps, and do the work, the balance equation can be solved.
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More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovation Team

By Bob Eckert & Johnathan Vehar
More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovation Teams Introduces the fundamental behaviors and specific attitudes necessary to function in a team environment to drive innovation. It's designed to help you work more effectively with others to create innovative results and bottom-line improvements. Mere tools and techniques are not enough to change the way people and organizations work together. Innovation demands that individuals adopt specific behaviors and attitudes in order to flourish within teams. This book shares how to spark your brain and your teams to generate more creative results with strategies, tools, and techniques to help you and your team adjust your mindset to ensure innovative results.
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Manage Your Boss

The relationship between you and your boss is important in determining your success at work. However, having a good relationship isn't just a matter of lucking out with the right boss. It takes a focused effort by both parties to forge a strong working relationship that achieves results. Just as it's your boss's job to manage you, it's up to you to manage your boss. By taking an active role in managing your boss, you can decrease misunderstandings, improve day-to-day communication, and become even more successful in meeting the needs of your boss and your organization.
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This concise guidebook provides guidance for working more effectively with your manager, along with strategies and techniques to ensure a productive working relationship.
By Jonathan Vehar
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How to Make Meetings Not Suck: Tips and Tools to Run Effective Meetings

A 2023 survey found that when a meeting was perceived as a waste of time, only 30% of participants pay full attention. A recent survey by Salary.com found that “too many meetings” was rated the number one time-waster in the office by 47% of respondents.  One analysis estimates that the cost of meetings in the US alone is $1.4 trillion per year, equaling close to 10% of the US GDP.

Clearly there is a lot at stake regarding the work. Plus, leaders who run effective meetings are viewed more positively than those who don’t.

This book lays out practical methods and techniques that enable leaders to reduce the amount of wasted time and resources spent on meetings, have more effective and efficient teams, and increase their team’s ability to accomplish their goals and objectives.

Reading this will help you improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the meetings that you run including status meetings, tactical meetings, strategic planning meetings, problem-solving meetings, project team meetings, informational meetings and social connection meetings.

In this book, you will learn:
  • How to structure meetings to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness, demonstrating awareness and respect for the participants as well as the work.
  • How to create your meeting’s purpose and agenda. Without these, it’s like hosting a dinner party without food
  • How to build in follow-up structures to ensure that the meeting is a platform for getting things done, not just sitting around talking.
  • How to run virtual or hybrid meetings more effectively
  • How to lead the five different types of meetings
  • How to create a cadence of meetings that actually reduces the overall number of meetings and accomplishes tasks much more quickly.
  • Tools for generating sufficient options and how to make the best decisions with a group
How to plan the meeting, including the roles, rules, and logistics to ensure success.
By Jonathan Vehar and Cathi Brese Doebler
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Articles and White Papers 

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5 Reasons to Meet

By Glenn Newsom Ph.D.
​Leaders who run effective meetings are viewed more positively than those who don’t.  Every day in the US there are fifty-five million meetings, and a substantial percentage of them are inefficient time-wasters. To address this problem of meetings that suck, this white paper offers tips, suggestions, practical  guidance and even ten (plus one) commandments to help you ensure that the meetings you run won’t suck the life, time, and energy out of your people.
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How to Make Meetings Not Suck

By Jonathan Vehar
​Leaders who run effective meetings are viewed more positively than those who don’t.  Every day in the US there are fifty-five million meetings, and a substantial percentage of them are inefficient time-wasters. To address this problem of meetings that suck, this white paper offers tips, suggestions, practical  guidance and even ten (plus one) commandments to help you ensure that the meetings you run won’t suck the life, time, and energy out of your people.
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Physician Development: Why It Matters

By J. Scott Young and Paige Bentley
​Physicians today face rapidly mounting workplace pressures.  Although stressors vary across settings, changes in the healthcare landscape as a whole have resulted in a loss of physician-led care and autonomy and a concomitant increase in regulatory scrutiny, workload, and performance demands.  This article explores the variety of challenges faced by medical professionals and our approach to supporting them through coaching and assessment.  
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Great 1-on-1 Meetings

By Glenn Newsom & Peter Hazelrigg
​Leaders who run effective meetings are viewed more positively than those who don’t.  Every day in the US there are fifty-five million meetings, and a substantial percentage of them are inefficient time-wasters. To address this problem of meetings that suck, this white paper offers tips, suggestions, practical  guidance and even ten (plus one) commandments to help you ensure that the meetings you run won’t suck the life, time, and energy out of your people.
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  • Programs
    • Executive Leadership Program
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    • Innovation Leadership Program
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