Audio Programs

SmartGrowth regularly presents Teleseminars that will help you improve your business. Particpate in these presentations from the comfort and convenience of your home or office. If you miss a presentation, listen to our past teleseminars and book club sessions below, at no charge.

Listen to an interview of Pam Watson Korbel by Dr. Lisa Lang when Pam discusses the 7 Synergies for Business Success.

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Book Review -- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Learn more about strategic communication by listening to a review of the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Other Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Pam Watson Korbel interviews Dan Harris of Wells Fargo Philanthropic Services about how anyone can communicate more effectively, including executives, entrepreneurs and managers.

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Dr. Lisa Lang, Science of Business

Listen to Dr. Lisa Lang of Science of Business talk about how to create a Mafia Offer for your business. This 60-minute audio will benefit any executive interested in growing sales and profit in his/her business.

"Dr Lisa" Lang is the foremost expert in the world at applying Theory of Constraints to marketing and the inventor of the Mafia Offer Boot Camp. She served as the Global Marketing Director for Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt's Goldratt Consulting and is a founding member of TOCICO and is on their Board of Directors. In addition to being the marketing guru Dr Lisa has been described as the Theory of Constraints expert who makes TOC understandable and actionable helping companies with what SPECIFICALLY -- to go and do -- to dramatically increase their profits with her speeches, consulting and affordable on-line programs.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

April 15, 2010: Social Intelligence: The New Science of Success, by Karl Albrecht, with guest reviewer Laura Belsten of CEO Partnership.

About the Book: Human intelligence is not the only trait that determines success. Karl Albrecht gives us his cutting-edge theory about how social intelligence has a greater impact. This book explores how the dimensions of perceptiveness, situational savvy and interaction skills are keys to life and business success.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

March 18, 2010: The Power of Full Engagement, Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, with guest reviewer Sandy Blaha of Sandy Blaha Performance Consulting Inc.

About the Book: Every business and executive needs to figure out how to do more with less time. As the title of this book implies, this powerful, step-by-step program will help you to:

• Mobilize four key sources of energy
• Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
• Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
• Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

February 18, 2010: Neuromarketing: Understanding the Buy Buttons in Your Customer's Brain, by Patrick Renvoise and Crhistophe Morin, with guest reviewer Colleen Stanley, Chief Selling Officer of SalesLeadership, Inc.

About the Book: Neuromarketing is the only book to combine the latest brain research with cutting-edge sales, marketing and communication techniques. You will learn to find your customer’s “buy buttons” and enjoy the tremendous power of creating and delivering messages that influence people over and over again. Learn how sales decisions are driven by emotion and later rationalized.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

January 21, 2010: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, by Simon Sinek. Featuring guest Lee Prosenjak, immediate past president of Entrepreneurs' Organization in Denver and leader of Cherry Creek Dance in Denver. Facilitated by Pam Watson Korbel.

Any organization can explain what it does; some can explain how they do it; but very few can clearly articulate why. Why is not money or profit - those are always results. Why does your organization exist? Why does it do the things it does? Why do customers really buy from one company or another? Why are people loyal to some leaders but not the others.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

December 4, 2009: 10 Business Books Every Executive Should Read in the Next Year. Co-Facilitators Pam Watson Korbel and Sandy Blaha will do 5-minutes reviews on a total of 10 books that address business issues for leaders and entrepreneurs in 2010. A book list will be provided after the teleconference.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

November 16, 2009: Discuss book of the month, Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World, by Ronald A. Heifetz; Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow.

Buy the book now! Sponsored by SmartGrowth, Inc. and Sandy Blaha Performance Consulting, Inc. and facilitated by Pam Watson Korbel and Sandy Blaha.

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Virtual Women's Summit

November 4, 2009: How does the emotional intelligence of your company impact your business valuation? Listen to Pam Watson Korbel's 60 minute explanation here. The interview by Cheryl Cook was part of the Virtual Women's Summit. To order all the CDs from the Virtual Women's Summit, click here.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

October 19, 2009: Discuss book of the month, How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In, by Jim Collins.

Buy the book now! Sponsored by SmartGrowth, Inc. and Sandy Blaha Performance Consulting, Inc. and facilitated by Pam Watson Korbel and Sandy Blaha.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

August 17, 2009: Discuss book of the month: "The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (Or Anything Else) from the Inside Out," by Joe Vitale, published by John Wiley & Sons.

Buy the book now! Sponsored by SmartGrowth, Inc. and Sandy Blaha Performance Consulting, Inc. and facilitated by Pam Watson Korbel and Sandy Blaha.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan:  A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs 

July 20, 2009: Discuss book of the month: "The Inside Advantage: The Strategy that Unlocks the Hidden Growth in Your Business," by Robert H. Bloom with Dave Conti, McGraw Hill, 2008.

Buy the book now! Sponsored by SmartGrowth, Inc. and Sandy Blaha Performance Consulting, Inc. and facilitated by Pam Watson Korbel and Sandy Blaha

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Teleseminar - More Money, Less Work, More Fun™: 7 Synergies for
Business Success

June 22, 2009: Learn how to:

• Grow your sales and profit with ease
• Incorporate other people, employees and advisors, into your growth plans
• Monitor your business for faster growth

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The Executive Stimulus Plan:  A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs 

June 15, 2009:  Discussion of the book of the month: Double Your Profits in 6 Months or Less, by Bob Fifer, published by HarperBusiness.

One reader said, "A must-read, for your company's and your own survival. This is a real book, an important one, about real cost-cutting, in a real world." It has been used by any corporate leaders as a "bible" for increasing profits by cutting costs...all company costs that do not actually create a direct profit.

Buy the book now! Sponsored by SmartGrowth, Inc. and Sandy Blaha Performance Consulting, Inc. and facillitated by Pam Watson Korbel and Sandy Blaha.

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The Executive Stimulus Plan:  A Monthly Book Club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs 

May 18, 2009: Discussion of the book of the month: Influencer: Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler; Macgraw - Hill, 2008.
 
The truth is, we all need to be better influencers. Few of us can articulate a model of what it takes to do so. It’s time this changed. By drawing from the skills of many of the world’s best change agents and combining them with five decades of social-science research, the Influencer model creates a powerful and portable model for changing behaviors that you can learn and apply. Sponsored by:  SmartGrowth, Inc. and Sandy Blaha Performance Consulting, Inc. and facilitated by Pam Watson Korbel and Sandy Blaha

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Balanced Leadership: How to Use Emotional Intelligence to Grow Sales and Profits

May 8, 2005: Featuring Dr. Laura Belsten, founder of the Emotional Intelligence Profile and CEO Partnership.

• Learn about the business case for emotional intelligence
• Can you really measure its impact on a company?
• How does emotional intelligence impact your company's valuation?

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The Executive Stimulus Plan: A monthly book club for CEOs, Executives and Entrepreneurs

April 20, 2009: Discussion of the book of the month: Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.

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