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Jun, 4 2025

Think About What Could Go Wrong

By |2025-06-01T21:19:48+00:00June 4th, 2025|Categories: 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast|Tags: , |0 Comments

Leaders who take the time to think about what could go wrong will often prevent big problems from happening. It's possible your high-performing team has overlooked something important that could [...]

Jun, 2 2025

First-Time Leadership Skills: Why Listening Might Be Your Superpower

By |2025-06-08T22:24:34+00:00June 2nd, 2025|Categories: Articles by Ken Okel|Tags: |0 Comments

Imagine you’ve earned your dream job, in charge of a team, but you’re missing any first-time leadership skills. Stepping into your first leadership role can feel like being handed the [...]

May, 21 2025

Play the Missing Employee Game

By |2025-05-18T17:17:58+00:00May 21st, 2025|Categories: 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast|Tags: |Comments Off on Play the Missing Employee Game

Smart leaders embrace the chance to play the missing employee game. This simple task can help you better prepare your business for unexpected employee absences.  In life, unexpected things can [...]

May, 14 2025

How To Communicate With an Email Skimmer

By |2025-05-01T21:17:44+00:00May 14th, 2025|Categories: 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast|Tags: , |Comments Off on How To Communicate With an Email Skimmer

In a world of increasing workloads and shrinking attention spans, it's important to know how to communicate with email skimmers. These are the people who quickly scan your messages but [...]

May, 7 2025

Did You Miss the Artificial Intelligence Honeymoon?

By |2025-04-23T19:27:55+00:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast|Tags: , |Comments Off on Did You Miss the Artificial Intelligence Honeymoon?

If technology is not your area of expertise, then you may feel like you've missed the Artificial Intelligence honeymoon. The bad news is that you're likely behind a lot of [...]

Apr, 30 2025

How to Unlock the Potential of Others

By |2025-04-13T14:47:08+00:00April 30th, 2025|Categories: 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast|Tags: , |Comments Off on How to Unlock the Potential of Others

In this jumbo edition of the podcast, you will learn how to unlock the potential of others. This is important because at some time, you may need the members of [...]

Apr, 28 2025

How to Fix the Most Annoying Meeting Behaviors

By |2025-04-28T11:24:56+00:00April 28th, 2025|Categories: Articles by Ken Okel|Tags: , |Comments Off on How to Fix the Most Annoying Meeting Behaviors

Meetings are meant to be productive, yet many are hurt by annoying meeting behaviors. You may know how they can become exercises in frustration. Recently, I asked my LinkedIn followers, [...]

Apr, 23 2025

Prevent Mistakes at Work

By |2025-04-13T14:32:43+00:00April 23rd, 2025|Categories: 2 Minute Takeaway Podcast|Tags: , |Comments Off on Prevent Mistakes at Work

Some focused review of your policies and procedures can prevent mistakes at work. These are the problems that cost you valuable time and money.  Why should you do this? Sometimes [...]

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