Don't make this common mistake when you begin a presentation, workshop or meeting. 🛑

When is your audience most cynical? At the beginning of a presentation or workshop or the end? 🤨
When are you the most nervous? At the beginning of the presentation or the end? 😰

Personal Development, Business, Professional Development, Productivity, MarketingDan KussMay 15, 2024Dan Kuss + Strengths Academyactivity, wellbeing, presentation, faciliate, facilitation, present, workshop, business, sales, marketingComment

Reading from the slides is presentation suicide.

Let’s be honest, there are times when perhaps we all need to read a little from a slide. The content might be technical, or you might be paraphrasing. But, in general, we should keep it to a minimum. Let’s explore why we do and what to do about it.

Personal Development, Business, Professional Development, Productivity, MarketingDan KussMay 6, 2024Dan Kuss + Strengths Academyactivity, wellbeing, presentation, faciliate, facilitation, present, workshop, business, sales, marketingComment

What if your audience loses interest?

Two really important questions that we need to start with:
1. Why would your audience lose interest?
2. How do you know they’ve lost interest? What are signs?

Personal Development, Business, Professional Development, Productivity, MarketingDan KussApril 26, 2024Dan Kuss + Strengths Academyactivity, wellbeing, presentation, faciliate, facilitation, present, workshop, business, sales, marketingComment

How do you stop your audience from judging you?

The truth is, you can’t.

However, there are several strategies you can use to minimise their reasons for doing so.

Personal Development, wellbeing, Strengths, Professional Development, BusinessDan KussApril 22, 2024mental health, activity, wellbeing, Gallup, compromise, win winComment

Ten strategies for finding more joy in your work.

What gives you joy at work? Do you know?

I was thinking about this last week. What gives me joy in my work, and do people get to create joy in their work?

The statistics right now around engagement and quiet quitting are quite alarming. 67% of the workforce doesn't really want to be there. They're not engaged. A more alarming 11% of the workforce is loud quitting–they are actively disengaged and causing trouble in the workplace. What a shame. So, I had an idea–to share a bunch of ideas about how to find joy in your work and enjoy your work more.

Personal Development, wellbeing, Strengths, Professional Development, BusinessDan KussNovember 3, 2023mental health, activity, wellbeing, Gallup, compromise, win winComment

How to deal with a weakness, or lesser strength.

I often get asked how to handle a weakness which is maybe a strength of someone else's. And on the flip side, how to handle a strength that might be someone else's weakness.

There a few things we can do. Join me as we explore being gentle and the concept of the WIN/WIN.

Personal Development, wellbeing, Strengths, Professional Development, BusinessDan KussJuly 29, 2021mental health, activity, wellbeing, Gallup, compromise, win winComment

How do you adapt to shock and change?

How well are you doing right now?

Join me in this short video as we explore the challenges of lockdown, shock, change, and what we can do about it.

Health & Fitness, Personal Development, wellbeingDan KussJuly 23, 2021exercise, mental health, fatigue, tiredness, activity, fitness, wellbeing, lifestyle, Gallup, energy, COVIDComment

Do you wish you had more energy?

Are you often feeling tired?

How much exercise do you get each day?

The majority of us do not get enough exercise, yet people who exercise at least two days a week are happier and have significantly less stress.

Health & Fitness, Personal Development, wellbeingDan KussJune 17, 2021exercise, mental health, fatigue, tiredness, activity, fitness, wellbeing, lifestyle, Gallup, energyComment

Tackle your work with less resistance and more confidence.

What’s your superpower?

Statistically, you don’t know what your strengths are – you take them for granted. You just do what you do. You’ve got this far, knowing what you know, with a mix of ambition, hope, skill and that feeling deep down that you can’t afford to quit. You cant turn around and go back.

Imagine if things were easier…

Personal Development, Professional Development, Strengths, wellbeingDan KussApril 13, 2021workplace, Teamwork, Leadership, Management, gallupstrengths, cliftonstrengths, frustration, emotion, meditationComment

Dealing with frustration and highly emotional moments.

Do you sometimes feel like heavy grey clouds are following you around and you just want to explode? Maybe you want to break down and cry or lash out at someone, or something.

Here’s five steps to diffusing the moment.

family, Personal Development, Professional Development, Strengths, wellbeingDan KussMarch 19, 2021workplace, Teamwork, Leadership, Management, gallupstrengths, cliftonstrengths, frustration, emotion, meditationComment

How to love what you do – and do more of what you love.

Our lives tend to follow us around. Our talents and strengths follow us around, too. Those things that we do naturally well just keep showing up in what we do.

So how can we do what we love and do more of it? We explore five key steps that we work through with our clients.

Employment, family, Personal Development, Professional Development, Strengths, wellbeingDan KussMarch 17, 2021workplace, Recognition, Teamwork, Authenticity, celebration, Leadership, Management, gallupstrengths, cliftonstrengths, love what you do, do what you loveComment

Recognition is everything right now!

How often are you checking in with your teams at work, at home and remotely to see how they are going?

With over 40% of the workforce working remotely, people are feeling isolated and ignored. This is when leaders need to really step up and lead, not just manage.

Employment, family, Personal Development, Professional Development, Strengths, wellbeingDan KussFebruary 23, 2021#workplace#Recognition#Teamwork#Authenticity#celebration#Leadership#Management#gallupstrengths#cliftonstrengths, workplace, Recognition, Teamwork, Authenticity, celebration, Leadership, Management, gallupstrengths, cliftonstrengthsComment

Sunshine brings our happiness out – Mountain Lesson No.45

What makes you happy?

Here’s three simple ideas to help you find your happy.

Health & Fitness, Personal Development, wellbeingDan KussJune 29, 2020Dan Kussmountain lessons, coaching, coach, happiness, sunshine, meditation, buddhismComment

Rituals are the way to having a better day – Mountain Lesson No.44

Are you struggling to get things done?

Has the pandemic changed your daily routines and thrown things out for you?

Health & Fitness, Personal DevelopmentDan KussJune 24, 2020Dan Kussmountain lessons, writing, write it down, stress, perception is reality, coaching, coach, little voiceComment

What do you do when you don’t get what you want? Mountain Lesson No.43

What do you do when you don’t get what you want? Would you like to know how to deal with that?

Health & Fitness, Personal Development, Self Love, emotionDan KussMay 4, 2020mountain lessons, writing, write it down, stress, kinaesthetic, seek truth, perception, perception is reality, coaching, coach, is it true, love yourself, the great tricksterComment

13%

Currently, only 13% of employees across 142 countries worldwide are actively engaged in their jobs.

Personal Development, Productivity, Professional Development, StrengthsDan KussFebruary 25, 2020strengths, engaged at work, workplace, talent, disengagement, culture, workplace culture, teamwork, team success, clifton strengthsComment

Write it down! Mountain Lesson No.42

The suffering that goes on inside our minds is not reality. It's just a story we torture ourselves with.

Health & Fitness, Personal Development, Self Love, emotionDan KussFebruary 9, 2020mountain lessons, writing, write it down, stress, kinaesthetic, seek truth, perception, perception is reality, coaching, coach, is it true, love yourself, the great tricksterComment

Life can be f*cking hard!

So many people I talk to are tightlipped and straight-faced, nodding their head saying “not bad mate”, when what they really wanna say is “holy shit, what the hell is going on!”

Personal Development, Self LoveDan KussNovember 27, 2019business, stress, human, goal, attitude, gratitude, self-loveComment

Design your life – Walk to work.

Burn off breakfast, burn off peak hour traffic and light up your awareness. It’s amazing what you notice at 7 kilometres per hour.

Health & Fitness, Personal DevelopmentDan KussOctober 8, 2019walk, health, reading, audiobook, burn off breakfastComment

You can’t read the label from inside the jar – Mountain Lesson No. 40

If you’re working long hours, not making enough money, struggling to switch off after work and feeling like you need help, you’re not alone. The thing is… it cant go on like this.

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