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Active Listening: How It Can Make You a Better Leader
What is active listening? Explore active listening tips and techniques and how they can make you a better leader.
2021 Year in Review
When I reflect on 2021, I see an image of a pendulum swinging back and forth directly at us. Just when it was moving away and we experienced some relief, it swung back again in full force.
NextGen on KPI Cafe with Reunion Marketing
Reunion Marketing invited NextGen Center founder Brian Alvo to speak on their podcast, KPI Cafe.
What to do before you create a New Year’s resolution
Whenever I do a workshop about goals, people often ask, “How can I hold myself accountable? How do I stick to my goals?”
The practice of positive feedback
The research is pretty clear around this as well — it takes a good amount of energy and effort to stay positive and give praise.
Webinar wrapup: Create a path to leadership
Over the course of this discussion, Brian Alvo and Karne Weeks explored opportunities that leaders have to create conversations around career development, as well as why that matters and how to do it.
Mindset and Andy Roddick
In the first round, my opponent was a young, skinny kid who had a big serve. He was well-known at the time, but not nearly as famous as he would become. His name was Andy Roddick.
Confidence + Humility Community Module
Dr. Sackeena Gordon-Jones presented a fascinating discussion on the 5th level of leadership in our recent Community Module. More than 20 professionals joined us and all the proceeds were donated to Activate Good.
NextGen goes to NextGen HQ
When one NextGen joins another…. Brian was the featured guest of NextGen HQ for a webinar to talk about connecting over technology.
Moments That Matter with Gen. Maureen LeBoeuf (Ret)
In her presentation, General LeBoeuf took the audience through memories from her own life in which she knew something pivotal had happened or a transformative lesson had been learned.
How Recognizing Different Perspectives Can Drive Organizational Success
It’s not surprising that we each like our own way. It's comfortable for us. It's how we prefer to do things. And because it's comfortable and has “worked” for us, we develop this mindset that our way is most effective overall.
On Coaching
Coaching is problem-solving. Strategic thinking. Taking action. Making change. When we approach it from the people side in addition to the challenge side we can turn what might seem like an ordinary situation into possibilities and potential.