Teach Your Kids This: Kindness

Dear Parents, You are the model for your children. The government is not the model. The actors and actresses on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon are not the models. Reality television people are not the […]

How to Set Your Kids Up for Success in Tomorow’s Workforce

Parents, your mission is to not only prepare but train your children to be PRODUCTIVE members of society. This starts when they are young. If you wait until they are teenagers, then they will absolutely […]

Podcast: What Makes a Leader – Activity over Passivity

http://media.blubrry.com/alexvann_leadership_podcast/www.alexvann.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20160608-090451.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS   “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”  -Thomas Jefferson     *Leaders have followers.  You are […]

Different by Choice

Do you want to have influence? Do you want to make a difference in the world in which you live? Then, you have to be really, really intentional about doing it–especially when you don’t seem […]

Talent Summit – Day 2 – Mindset

“Overwhelm a problem with talented people” –Rob Morris Leaders that are outstanding at recruiting, developing, retaining and launching new leaders have a different mindset than those who don’t. Spend ten minutes with one of these […]

Talent Summit – Day One – Recruiting

Do you find it difficult to hire, recruit, develop and retain great people?  Good news, you are not alone. It is increasingly more and more difficult to seemingly acquire and keep the best talent. There […]

5 Things that will help your kids change the world

Parents are parenting harder than ever. Look around. Look in your own home. It’s like the harder we parent, the greater the frustration.  Do you know why? Raising children is harder than ever. The problem […]

Moving Your People from Workers to Followers

Workers show up. Followers show out. Leaders show the way. That’s it. Simple really, a statement that defines the three levels of engagement in your organization. Everyone in your organization is showing something, even if […]

Leaders Go to Work, Losers Show Up

Leaders go to work.  If you are a leader, then you have work to do. Your work never stops. The reason your work never stops is that your influence doesn’t stop. Your influence may fade […]

The Secret to Developing Great Leaders

Why can some people produce great leaders and for others it’s like trying to find their way across a busy street blindfolded? There is a secret to producing the next generation of leaders. But, first […]