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Is your business’s growth stalled? Employee churn eating into your profits? Struggling with customer retention? You need stronger connections. Every Tuesday and Thursday, connect with an expert who’s sharing actionable advice for building stronger relationships with your customers, clients, and stakeholders. Hosted by Karl Pontau, a storytelling super-connector, content system strategist, and survivor of two childhood brain tumors, this podcast’s mission is to fix the underlying cause of workplace and societal dysfunction: the lack of human connection.
Unknown Host hosts The Human Connection Podcast, a business show with 211 episodes published.
"Leadership isn't arithmetic and writing. It's relationships, relationships, relationships." — Coach Jim Johnson Your culture values are on the wall. Your best player just showed up late to playoff practice. What you do
"When things go sideways, I will take full responsibility for it. And when things go really well? I'm telling everybody. I'm putting them on stage. I'm sending notes to the CEO and everybody in my chain of command — beca
"If a client ever has to ask how we're doing, the account manager is already a few steps behind. And that's not going to go well." That's Sarah Magana — founder of Last Light Collective, two-time Amazon Platinum Award wi
"A missed opportunity in a lot of organizations is for true collective shared decision making. The problem is we ask people for their feedback on things we've already decided — so they don't have a voice." That's Lisa Ri
"Trust is never given. It is earned through repeated proof of intent. And you need to be competent — because you cannot earn trust by simply showing proof of intent alone." That's Deepak Bhootra — leadership coach, autho
"You have to pay attention to the fact that you're speaking to people for whom English is not their first language. We do that all the time — but we don't think about second language speakers as an audience we need to ca
"AI is not just a technology problem that you have. It's going to be a human talent retention issue — if you don't get your act together on this." That's Charlene Li — NYT bestselling author, Harvard grad, and one of Fas
"The only reason I can do what I do is because 100 other people do what they do — up and down and across the org chart." — Lincoln Bleveans Your company just spent $400K on a new platform. Six months later, your team is
"We have a direct line of communication with our customers. Why not use it effectively instead of spamming them?" — Carolina McClanahan Your marketing team sends 40,000 emails. Two hundred people buy something. Everyone
"When you disconnect from yourself, you disconnect from the people around you. If you don't have a relationship with yourself, how are you going to have a relationship with others?" — Kevin Rice You sold the company. The
"The technology is essential. But the main shifts — the real significant changes — occur within the leadership framework. It has to do with how do I learn about this, how do I talk about it in really effective, inspiring
"Think about your why — and the what you say then can have more impact because it's got what I like to call the story below the story. The why is the message. The why is the meaning. The why is the inner life of that." —
"Spending time building those relationships is really important — because that's where you start to establish trust, and you're then able to reach that person. Their personality. Everything else. Good and bad." — Mallika
"Are we getting new clients just to paint over the fact that we're losing clients at the back end? That, to me, sounds not the smartest of ways — because you're just painting over what's really happening in your business
"95% of organizations fail at AI implementation because they're looking at the top of the iceberg. They don't look at what's below — and that's everything." — Franck Ardourel Franck Ardourel has spent 25 years at the int
"Every investment I've ever gotten was human to human. It baffles me that no one addresses 'know your investor' — because this is a relationship you're hoping will last a very long time." — Heather Lawver Heather Lawver
"Past performance does not equal future leadership capacity. Most hiring and promotion decisions are based on credentials — but they're not necessarily indicative of whether that person is ready to lead with the level of
"Connection doesn't necessarily fail because people don't care. It typically fails because people feel like they don't have time — and everyone's just rushing." J. Israel Greene said it like a diagnosis. Because it is on
"Instead of showing up to a networking event with a stack of business cards trying to sell everybody at the table — create the event, create the podcast, create the platform, and invite those people to be part of it." Be
"The real question people need to be asking about AI isn't whether it's going to take over the world. It's: which parts of my job are repetitive — and how do I move above that layer?" — Christopher Carter Which parts of
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