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

Distraction = dis-traction

Hey! How often do you get distracted when you're doing something? Maybe you're at the gym?

Maybe you're in the car? Maybe you are talking to someone, looking over their shoulder because something else caught your eye.

Let's look at the word 'distraction’ …

Dan KussJune 7, 2021Comment

The difference between Talents and Strengths — in 60 seconds.

Talents are like diamonds in the rough. Unpolished, a bit rough around the edges but with great potential.

Strengths are like diamonds that have had time spent to hone and polish them.

How do we turn a talent into a strength?

Dan KussJune 5, 2021Comment

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

How to be more focused.

Do you struggle to focus on a task? Do you get distracted easily? Do you procrastinate, and find other things to do? You’re not alone! We all have things on our list that we don’t want to do.

Productivity, Strengths, Strengthsbased DevelopmenDan KussDecember 16, 2020Focus, Talent, Strengths, Distraction, Procrastination, Gettingthingsdone, strengthsacademy, productivity, staringoutthewindowComment

But I don’t have time!

Why do we procrastinate? Our little voice loves coming up with reasons to stop us from doing something. What’s getting in the way?

Dan KussNovember 22, 2020Comment

Beauty or the bars? Mountain Lesson No.47

When you look at this image, do you see the beauty and serenity of the waterfall and nature or do you see the rails and the bars of the safety fence?

Dan KussSeptember 30, 2020distractions, talents, strengths, focusComment

The new #1 reason why people are not achieving their goals. It’s not what you think – Mountain Lesson No. 46

The most common reasons why we don’t achieve our goals used to be things like having the wrong goals, not writing them down, wrong environment or lack of self-belief. Now, I reckon it’s…