Podcasts about influencer the new science

In this episode of Orbital Convergence, co-hosts Brian Fox and Gordon Deng shift the conversation from innovation to leadership—specifically, leadership through influence. Drawing from Joseph Grenny's Influencer: The New Science to Leading Change, they explore the principles that make leadership impactful across any era. Brian and Gordon discuss what it truly means to lead, how influence drives transformation, and why the ability to inspire change is critical in government and defense. Whether you're in a leadership role or striving to make an impact from within, this episode offers valuable insights into the science of influence and the strategies that shape successful leadership.

Chapter 1:Summary of Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change"Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change," written by Joseph Grenny alongside Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, is a comprehensive guide on the psychology and strategies behind effective leadership and change management. The book seeks to equip leaders, individuals, and organizations with the tools to successfully navigate and implement change.Key concepts outlined in the book include:1. Focus on High-Impact Behaviors: Instead of attempting to change many aspects at once, the book recommends focusing on a few vital behaviors that will have the most significant positive impact on the situation.2. Engage All Six Sources of Influence: The authors identify six sources of influence that affect human behavior, which leaders can target to implement change effectively:- Personal Motivation: Make the undesirable desirable.- Personal Ability: Surpass your limits.- Social Motivation: Harness peer pressure.- Social Ability: Find strength in numbers.- Structural Motivation: Design rewards and demand accountability.- Structural Ability: Change the environment.3. Measure Results: Monitoring progress is crucial to understand the impact of the changes, enabling adjustments to strategies as needed.4. Create an Environment that Supports Change: Changing the physical environment can also influence behavior significantly, encouraging or discouraging certain actions.5. Leverage Peer Pressure and Influence: Social networks and norms significantly impact behavior, thus, influencing the right group dynamics can help reinforce the desired change.6. Motivate Through Incentives: While intrinsic motivation is important, appropriate use of extrinsic rewards and penalties can play a big role in effecting change.7. Develop Mastery through Practice: Building ability, both through training and practice, is essential for sustainably adopting new behaviors.8. Focus on the Impact of Change: Leaders should clearly communicate the importance of change and its impact on both organizational and personal levels.The authors provide numerous case studies and real-world examples to illustrate how even the most formidable challenges can be overcome by influencing human behavior effectively through these principles. The book asserts that anyone can learn to become an effective influencer, philosopher, and a change-maker within their own environments by systematically using the strategies outlined."Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change" is both a theoretical framework for understanding the process of change and a practical guide to applying its principles in a variety of situations, making it a valuable resource for leaders in any field.Chapter 2:The Theme of Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change Key Plot Points:1. Definition of Influence: The book starts by exploring the concept of influence itself, redefining it as a leadership tool that can drive significant changes. This sets the stage for a deeper examination into how influence can be strategically exercised.2. Six Sources of Influence: The authors introduce a model that incorporates six key sources of influence, which they argue are necessary for successful change. These sources encompass personal and social motivation, personal and social ability, structural motivation, and structural ability. 3. Real-World Examples: Each principle is backed by real-life case studies, ranging from reducing crime rates to improving healthcare practices. These serve as plot-like exemplifications of how theoretical principles are applied practically.4. Skills Development: The narrative progresses to discuss how individuals can develop skills across all six sources of influence to maximize their...

In this episode, Bryan and Kristen talk a little about the book, "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change," discuss how major benefits can come by only changing two beneficial behaviors in a group, and share some of the difficulties of parenting. Life Level 1 is a general topic podcast about life from the humorous perspective of Bryan and his broad, Kristen. Bryan has a background in video game development and Kristen has a background in life. The thoughts and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the individual contributors alone and are not a reflection of their employers.

We can see around us that some people are always able to sway or motivate other people's behavior, no matter if it's in enterprise management, team leading or family planning. This is the power of influence. This book, "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change," reveals the principles and skills employed by many successful influencers. It deciphers influence from several aspects covering methodology, strategy and practice. The aim is to provide a set of tools to help readers identify the keys to become an influencer.

This is the stay at home week due to COVID-19, but we still have an incredible guest with us. He is Edmond Yap. He was a civil engineer, a salesman, a corporate soft skills trainer, an educator and a serial social entrepreneur. In his previous life, he created www.edunation.my with more than 6000 education video contents today that help 160,000 Malaysian students a month. EduNation (now Freeschool) has become Asia's largest free educational resource. Last year, he was helping with Acton Academy, a school with no homework and no exam. With his experience in education, we would like to discuss the motivation within a student when it comes to studying. Recommended books: 1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink (https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprisi...) 2. Don't Shoot the Dog: The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor (https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Shoot-Dog...) 3. Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Joseph Grenny (https://www.amazon.com/Influencer-Sci...) FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Real Parenting Talk is recorded and produced by Turbocharge Learning. We help students to get great results by giving them the study hacks through workshops. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TurboCharge... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/turbochargel... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tclturbocha... Turbocharge Learning workshop: https://tclworkshop.com/tclkl Turbocharge Learning 8-step program: https://tclworkshop.com/signuppage Phone: +6012-5909626 (Text us if you have any questions about study or parenting)

This episode gives an overview of how accountability can shape leadership. Influencer: The New Science or Leading Change: https://www.amazon.com/Influencer-Science-Leading-Change-Second-ebook/dp/B00BPO7710 A Path to Your Best Self https://www.flipsnack.com/wts368/a-path-to-your-best-self.html

When I smell the scent of fresh cut grass it transports me back to my childhood. It is a great smell. It also turns out to be beneficial to most people. I begin this episode by explaining the scientific benefits of smelling a freshly mowed lawn.( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1209360/Why-mowing-lawn-relieves-stressboosts-memory.html)How do you make real change in yourself and others? That’s the topic of my discussion with Joseph Grenny, a social scientist, speaker and one of the authors of a book Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change (https://amzn.to/2XADNeJ) . Joseph explains just how you can influence and change behavior so it benefits you and lasts a long time.Have you noticed when you go to a party that the more people drink – the louder the party gets? There is actually a fascinating reason why – and it has to do with your hearing. Listen as I explain. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031886For your entire life, you learn. Learning is how we grow and improve and find meaning in life. Yet HOW we learn is something that is seldom discussed even though it is critical to how well we learn new skills, facts and ideas. Joining me to discuss how we can all learn anything better is Bradley Staats. He is a professor at the University of North Carolina where his teaching focuses s on how to improve individual learning. He is also author of the book Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive (https://amzn.to/2ImJYN3). This Week's Sponsors-Lively. For $10 off your first order go to www.WearLively.com/something and use promo code: something-LinkedIn. To get $50 off your first job post, go to www.LinkedIn.com/podcast-Capterra. To find the best software solutions for your business for free, go to www.Capterra.com/something-Stroke of Genius Podcast. Subscribe to Stroke of Genius on Apple Podcasts, at www.ipoef.org, or your favorite podcast platform-Fab Fit Fun. To get $10 off your first Fab Fit Fun box go to www.FabFitFun.com and use promo code: something

Jorgen Hesselberg and Steven Wolff on Agile Amped, Melissa Perri on Agile Uprising, Eric Elliott on Simple Leadership, Liz Keogh on Being Human, and Alex Schladebeck on Test Talks. I'd love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most interesting and wanted to share links to during the two week period starting March 4, 2019. These podcast episodes may have been released much earlier, but this was the week when I started sharing links to them to my social network followers. JORGEN HESSELBERG AND STEVEN WOLFF ON AGILE AMPED The Agile Amped podcast featured Jorgen Hesselberg and Steven Wolff with host Howard Sublett. I liked what Steven had to say about how new norms can come into being simply through inaction and how we want to be more intentional about creating norms. This comment reminded me of the discussion of norms in the book Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Grenny et al., a book I highly recommend. In my own work, I use working agreements with my team to intentionally develop team norms and hold each other accountable for them. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/change-the-norms-to-change-the-culture/id992128516?i=1000429382285&mt=2 Website link: https://solutionsiq.podbean.com/e/change-the-norms-to-change-the-culture/ MELISSA PERRI ON AGILE UPRISING The Agile Uprising podcast featured Melissa Perri with hosts Colleen Johnson, Troy Lightfoot, and Chris Murman. This episode caught my attention because I enjoyed Melissa’s last appearance on Agile Uprising which motivated me to pre-order her book The Build Trap back in November last year. I learned a lot from the book and it introduced me to the book The Art Of Action by Stephen Bungay, which I talked about in the last podcast episode. I liked Melissa’s description of product managers as bad idea terminators. I see this as more of a behavior during the convergent thinking phase of product design. Lack of focus is definitely a problem I see on product teams, so I can appreciate the idea of having someone to keep people focused on the most valuable problems to solve. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/escaping-the-build-trap-w-melissa-perri/id1163230424?i=1000429120613&mt=2 Website link: https://agileuprising.libsyn.com/podcast/escaping-the-build-trap-w-melissa-perri ERIC ELLIOTT ON SIMPLE LEADERSHIP The Simple Leadership podcast featured Eric Elliott with host Christian McCarrick. I appreciated Eric’s comment about the myth of the individual contributor engineer because I have seen developers being judged on simple, easy-to-measure metrics like closed ticket counts when a more appropriate metric would be one that takes into account their time spent mentoring and the benefits that such mentoring had on the team. Over the long term, I have seen the damage that judging engineers by closed ticket count does to a culture where everybody is incentivized to work in their individual silo and almost no mentoring takes place even from senior engineers for whom mentoring and coaching should be, in my opinion, a large part of their day. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/how-culture-can-help-your-teams-scale-with-eric-elliott/id1260241682?i=1000429163879&mt=2 Website link: http://simpleleadership.io/how-culture-can-help-you-scale-with-eric-elliott/ LIZ KEOGH ON BEING HUMAN The Being Human podcast featured Liz Keogh with host Richard Atherton. Liz talked about the Cynefin framework, psychological safety, and real options. I particularly liked her story of a team that invested in making changes easily reversible by creating a rollback mechanism for when a production release goes awry. She remarked on how this technical safety net provided psychological safety as well. I also liked her description of real options, which I have recently been reading about in the book Commitment by Olav Maassen, Chris Matts, and Chris Geary. Liz told a story about how conference organizers gave themselves options by over-ordering on the engraved trophies. The very affecting second half of this podcast episode was focused on the #metoo movement. Liz shared her experiences of being harassed and Richard confessed to his own poor behavior. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/47-1-complexity-2-exploring-metoo-with-liz-keogh/id1369745673?i=1000429964823&mt=2 Website link: http://shoutengine.com/BeingHuman/47-1-complexity-2-exploring-metoo-with-liz-keogh-73971 ALEX SCHLADEBECK ON TEST TALKS The Test Talks podcast featuring Alex Schladebeck with host Joe Colantonio. The title of the episode, “How to Listen to Your Tests”, immediately caught my attention since I have been encouraging co-workers to develop this skill ever since I read Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided By Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce, even going so far as to create a 10-minute YouTube video tutorial on how to Listen To The Tests last April. Joe and Alex talked about how she applies her training in linguistics in her career in software testing. It turns out that such training was actually helpful as it taught her how to move back and forth between detailed and abstract ways of thinking. They got into a discussion of test data management, which Alex likened to continuous integration because it is something that starts out being painful when you don’t address it often enough or when you push it onto the testers and it becomes easier the more often you pay attention to it and when you make it everyone’s responsibility. I also liked Alex’s story of a pelican encounter on an early-morning run coming to represent to her the unknown unknowns that exploratory testing helps you discover. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/240-how-to-listen-to-your-tests-with-alex-schladebeck/id826722706?i=1000429560907&mt=2 Website link: https://www.joecolantonio.com/testtalks/240-alex-schladebeck/ FEEDBACK Ask questions, make comments, and let your voice be heard by emailing podcast@thekguy.com. 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Joey Kissimmee says that he's not techy, but he has created iPhone apps, SaaS products, WordPress themes, and is now working on WordPress plugins. He says that he has always been a hard worker. His first job was washing dishes in a beat up old sandwich shop in Chicago when he was twelve. In 2000, he started working at Walmart and doing a little business online to make some extra money to have fun with his wife and kids. “At first,” he says, “it was just selling junk on eBay.” But he found some mentors, he listened, he learned, and he implemented the things he learned. He created a few tools that he couldn't find and then turned these tools into products. Somewhere around 2008 or 2009, he realized he was making some pretty good money from his online business and decided to take it seriously. By early 2010, he was able to retire from his job at Walmart to work his online business full-time. Please see Disclosure* (below) concerning affiliate links on this page. Key Segments [03:00] Joey is not a developer, so how did he get into the SaaS world? He says he's not techy. Joey wasn't even sure what SaaS meant until long after he was creating SaaS products. [03:55] He didn't set out to become an entrepreneur; he just wanted to sell some junk on eBay. [04:25] When he first started to get involved with marketing, his mentors were creating little tools to perform tasks. [05:05] He started creating iPhone apps in 2011, and that's where he really learned to hire people to create things. [06:25] Anything he had to do repeatedly, he would pay someone to automate for him. He systematized his processes and created tools for himself. [07:00] In about 2010 a buddy in the affiliate marketing world told him: “Dude, you could sell this stuff.” [07:40] He was a good listener, and he took action. He just implemented what worked. He created TubeSlicer.com as a tool to do the five things he knew how to do with Photoshop for creating YouTube thumbnails and then turned this into a product. He did the same thing to create Image Ad Creator a product to create images for split testing Facebook ads. [09:15] Every product he created was to solve his own problems, and then he figured out a way to turn it into a viable product. He created Tube Slicer, Image Ad Creator, TimelineSlicer, and Podcast Artwork Slicer out of his own needs. Appendipity, his premium WordPress theme, was created the same way and turned into a huge success. [10:00] “I don't care who says what, outsourcing is an art form.” When you're outsourcing you don't have to know coding, you have to know the lingo. [11:30] Rule #1: Know how you want to use the product. The coder doesn't really care about or understand the Ux (user experience). Your problems aren't unique. There's a good chance that a dozen other people have the same problem; so if you can figure out how to solve it for yourself, you just solved it for a dozen other people. [12:14] Rule #2: Know the lingo. [13:00] To communicate Ux to the designer for his WordPress designers he draws on a legal pad and then scans it and sends it to them. For iPhone apps, he used Balsamiq to do wireframes. 14:30 Once it's working the way you want it to work, fiddle around with the look of it. Once the mock-up's done and you've got a working prototype, send it to the designer. [16:00] His go-to place for designers was oDesk. He also used Freelancer and eLance. (Note: oDesk and eLance merged in 2015 and formed Upwork.) [16:40] You could get hosed in many ways. The developer and the designer could overcharge you. People could also steal your ideas. One way Joey protected himself was not to give too much information on the job posting. [17:00] Joey gives an example of how he does a job posting and then explains his filtering process for hiring. [18:50] Once he has filtered out the best candidates, he shares more detail privately with them. If he has a good feeling about an individual, he does a live Skype session with them. You have to trust your gut. No matter how qualified someone may seem, if you don't feel right about it, and there's just something off, forget it. [21:55] For design work, he now goes to 99designs but uses a slightly different process because of their crowd-sourcing-like model. [23:00] Now, he can also put the word out to his email list that he needs people and use a survey on Google Forms to collect responses. Requirements are in a question format. He doesn't use a code word in these surveys, but the rest of the process is the same. [24:50] Joey has developed four different types of software products but uses one well-refined process to find people in all cases. Joey picked these things up by paying attention, listening, being connected to a few good people, and doing it. [27:40] Joey recommends The 4-Hour Workweek, The ONE Thing, and Influencer (see Resources Mentioned below for additional details). [29:00] Joey takes the end of one year and beginning of the next to spend with his family and to reflect on his business. He reflects on how things have gone in the past year and what he might want to try in the next. [32:15] He is fortunate to be able to take himself out of the equation. He learned to create evergreen businesses that don't need his name or his face to make money. Create brands that can stand on their own. [35:15] Don't become brand dependent. Don't become the brand because you won't make any money if you take yourself out of the equation. Build the product as the brand. [35:45] You can create a SaaS product, and you don't have to be the actual product. Be behind the scenes. Let the product breathe. Build the product into a brand. Make it the best thing possible. [36:55] You don't have to make it the best thing possible at the beginning. The beauty of SaaS is the ability to release versions. Build a working prototype, release it for free or dirt cheap, and then get feedback from the customers. Let the customers build the features into it then package it up, raise the price, and sell it. People will buy it because it's customer driven. They built the product. [38:20] You will get a lot of crazy requests from guys who think so far outside the box, they lose the box. Filter by the majority of requests. [41:15] “You just gotta go out there and do it. I always tell people, and I preach this off the rooftops: ‘You must listen. It doesn't matter where you're listening from. You have to listen to everything that they say. Learn as much as you can. There's no possible way you can learn everything that they say and jot everything down. Just jot down and take mental notes of the things that resonate with you. Then when you're done listening and learning, go out there and implement it. That's the freakin' key thing right there. If you don't implement, if you don't take action, the only guaranteed results to zero is if you do nothing. You might as well do something. If you're gonna get zero anyway by doing nothing, you might as well go ahead and try to do something so you'll get some kind of result.'” [42:05] “Do something. That's the way I go about it. You know, hey, it's gonna be zero anyway if I do nothing. So I might as well get a zero by doing something. ‘Cause at least, I gave it a whirl.” [42:55] “If you can use your own product, you've got something good to share with people.” Resources Mentioned 99designs – web-based service for design freelancers. Appendipity – premium WordPress theme created by Joey Kissimmee. Appendipity is particularly well-suited to podcasting. This site uses Appendipity. Balsamiq – wireframing app. Freelancer – web-based service for freelancers of all kinds. Google Forms – online form app from Google. Results transfer into a spreadsheet. Image Ad Creator – app created by Joey Kissimmee “that allows you to create beautiful and professional looking image ads to use with your Facebook advertising.” IncomePress.com – Joey Kissimmee's primary personal website and podcast. Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition – book by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler about making change happen. Photoshop – SaaS for processing images. Podcast Artwork Slicer (server move in progress) – product by Joey Kissimmee to create inexpensive album artwork for iTunes. The 4-Hour Workweek – book by Tim Ferriss free yourself from as many tasks as you can so that you can live differently, doing only the things that you alone can do. The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results – book by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan describing a simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most. TimelineSlicer (server move in progress) – app created by Joey Kissimmee to “create custom cover photos for your Facebook Timeline.” TubeSlicer.com (server move in progress) – app created be Joe Kissimmee to create thumbnails for YouTube videos Upwork – web-based freelancers of all kinds. *Disclosure: Some of the links on this page may be affiliate links. I may earn a commission if you purchase through these links. These commissions help to cover the cost of producing the podcast. I am affiliated only with companies I know and trust to deliver what you need. In most cases, affiliate links are to products and services I currently use or have used in the past. I would not recommend these resources if I did not sincerely believe that they would help you. I value you as a visitor/customer far more than any small commission I might earn from recommending a product or service. I recommend many more resources with which I am not affiliated than affiliated. In most cases where there is an affiliation, I will note it, but affiliations come and go, and the notes may not keep up.

At it’s most basic level, leadership is about creating change. It’s about having the influence to move everyone in the same direction toward the same goal. Learn how in this recap of episodes 251-254, where guest Kerry Patterson shared insights from his book, “Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change.”