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Strategic Enhancement Group works with organizations large and small, domestic and global, across diverse industries to accomplish amazing results by helping them attract, develop and retain their best talent. We are a group of professionals who are passionate about our work: helping our clients to enhance what they already do well to attain greater results.
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Atheists Talk Radio Show is a weekly production of Minnesota Atheists. It airs in Twin Cities on AM 950 KTNF at 9:00 AM Sunday mornings or stream live at http://www.am950ktnf.com. Minnesota Atheists is Minnesota's oldest and largest atheist organization. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational organization that seeks to promote the positive contributions of atheism to society and to maintain separation of state and church. Our bylaws are available here. Each year we hold eight monthly mem ...
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In the latest Strategic Insights Podcast Tim Deuitch, Bo Smith and Seth Baker share tips to help sales people slow down to fully understand their customer’s needs before suggesting solutions. Slowing down and surfacing more information is managed by tackling the blind spots – the opportunities we don’t see - as we visit with a customer. Much like t…
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Have you recently been promoted to management? As a manager do you understand your new role? In Episode 34 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Andrea McOwen, Bob Parks, and Joane Ramsey share three tips for successfully transitioning from an individual contributor to a manager. Learn more at https://www.strategicenhancement.com/blog/3-tips-for-a-suc…
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Is your employee turnover increasing? Are key metrics being missed consistently? Are teams not living up to the Vision and Mission? In Episode 33 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Tim Deuitch, Bob Parks, and Joane Ramsey share four key strategies leaders must embrace when changing their organization's culture to drive performance improvement.…
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Do your employees know why they are in training? Has the strategy behind the training been shared? Are the trainees Participants, Vacationers or Hostages? In Episode 31 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Joane Ramsey and Tim Deuitch share strategies to prepare your company for a more impactful training initiative. Read the full transcript and learn…
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How do you get your leadership team behind a training initiative? How do you know if your training is successful? What happens if you do not implement training that changes behavior? In Episode 30 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Joane Ramsey and Tim Deuitch share strategies to deliver training success through successfully selling training initia…
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Are your clients not returning your calls? Are your emails a one way conversation? What are your clients current business priorities? In Episode 27 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Tim Deuitch, Rick Van Natta, and Bo Smith share a 6 step process for updating your Value Proposition. Read the full transcript and learn more at https://www.strategice…
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How does your company distinguish themselves from their competition? What can your leadership do to create such an organization that is Commercially Excellent? In Episode 26 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Joane Ramsey and Rick Van Natta share strategies for leaders to align their decision making and inspire everyone in the organization to pull …
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Sunday May 3, 2020 The conversation today is with virologist Dr. Richard Allen Wjhite the 3rd, virologist and CEO of Raw Molecular Systems LLC, and is going to focus on Covid-19. While we just had a conversation about covid-19 last month, we felt there has been so much change on this topic in the last 6 weeks, that another conversation would be use…
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How are you approaching your clients as their business evolves? Are you adapting your own organization to better relate with your customers? In Episode 25 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Tim Deuitch and Susan Hall share four approaches you should take now that your clients have changed in the current pandemic environment or any future industry s…
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These are anxious days. Whether you're looking at politics or the pandemic, there's plenty of cause for concern. If you're suddenly having problems coping, today's show is for you. My guest today is Miri Mogilevsky. a clinical social worker specializing in LGBTQ and HIV-positive clients. If anyone understands anxiety, Miri does. Links: Burnout: The…
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Is your organization trying to sort out how to continue to train your talent remotely? If so, then don’t underestimate the steps needed to ensure a smooth remote training experience both domestically and globally. In Episode 24 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Susan Hall and Janis Lipsitz share best practices and lessons learned when implementing…
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Sunday March 22nd, 2020 Rob Ray, atheist and host of the podcasts Secular Yakking and Sparky on Ice joins us to discuss his year living and working in Antarctica. Sparky on Ice was a one of a kind podcast, recorded and published from the continent of Antarctica. Among the many points of this conversation is a discussion of how scientists catch peng…
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Sunday March 15, 2020 Dr. Vincent Racaniello, is Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Mount Sinai School of medicine, Columbia University New York. He has been studying viruses for over 40 years, starting in 1975, when he entered the Ph.D. program in Biomedical Sciences at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York…
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We recorded with Ron Millar of the Center for Freethought Equality as Democratic presidential candidates got serious about dropping out of the race. We still have to make decisions about a lot of more local races, though. Listen as Ron discusses experience, policy, and more with David Norton and Dave Pacheco. Links: Center for Freethought Equality…
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When I first invited Phil Session to the show, he had to turn me down. He had a conflict with an Atheists Helping the Homeless event he was coordinating. He’s a busy man these days, having recently joined the boards of Recovering From Religion and Foundation Beyond Belief. But this Sunday, Phil will join me to talk a little bit about the stereotype…
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Once upon a time, we thought artificial intelligence would be less racist than people. After all, machines are objective, right? Then we started teaching them how to think and made some discoveries of our own. When racism permeates our society and our IT infrastructure, how do we teach machines to do better than we do? This week, we spoke with Alix…
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The nonreligious population of the U.S. has grown significantly in the last couple of decades. We're relatively young. We're only a minority non-believer. But who are we? What issues are important to us? What do we want from the secular organizations that represent us. Today we're talking with Alison Gill, American Atheists' Vice President of Legal…
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Sunday September 29th, 2019 This episode we are happy to be joined by Caitlin Doughty, mortician, author, and founder of The Order of a Good Death. Caitlin's newest book is "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death." Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death https://www.amazon.com/dp/0…
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We talk a fair amount in the secular movement about the non-religious as a growing political force. We should. We are. But the problem is that we don’t have a lot of data about how we behave as voters. Truth be told, we don’t even always have a good picture of who we are. We just know there are more of us than there used to be. Juhem Navarro-Rivera…
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This show promises to be just a little bit geeky. Or maybe a lot geeky. Scott Lohman is joining us to talk with James Croft about the ethics of Star Trek. James presented a workshop on the topic at the Secular Student Alliance conference this summer, and when we heard about it, we knew we had to put the two of them together to talk about it. Relate…
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Every salesperson has had an experience where they've met the customer's stated business objectives and yet they still didn't get the business. It's important to know that there are two components to every decision that a customer makes about doing business with you. One is, the task, the business or logical side of the decision. In other words, "H…
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There's a lot of concern about birth rates in industrialized nations. Racist and anti-immigrant tropes are making a lot press right now. In Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work, Jenny Brown examines the concerns of capital over declining birth rates and attempts to legislatively coerce more children instead of supporting parents. Links:…
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Have you ever had a leader who did not live up to the same standards they defined? What about a leader who could not hold a person or team accountable? In Episode 22 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Andrea McOwen and Bob Parks share the two elements that define leadership.Read the full transcription and learn more at https://www.strategicenhancem…
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July 14, 2019 You'd think that a movement that's so focused on growing wouldn't want to chase off a large chunk of their potential membership. You'd think an organization dedicated to supporting that constituency within the larger movement would be considered useful instead of unwanted. The history of Secular Woman demonstrates that reality is way …
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Do you struggle giving employees critical feedback? How do you make sure that challenging conversations are non-confrontational? In Episode 21 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Susan Hall and Andrea McOwen share three tips to help managers and leaders give difficult employee feedback.Learn more at: https://www.strategicenhancement.com…
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June 16, 2019 This week we are joined by Mandisa Thomas, president and founder of Black Non Believers as she shares the upcoming Women of Color Beyond Belief Conference being held in Chicago this October. https://wocbeyondbelief.com/ https://blacknonbelievers.com/ https://bnseacon.com/ https://www.facebook.com/whitenightsblackparadise/ https://www.…
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Travis and Hertzey talk to FFRF Director of Strategic Response Andrew Seidel about his new book: "The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American". Check it out! http://andrewlseidel.com/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JN4K3PY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1De către Minnesota Atheists
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Is your organization looking for better retention, a more collaborative environment, and improved employee engagement? If so, then don’t just do leadership training, but invest in developing your leaders. In Episode 20 of the Strategic Insights Podcast, Tim Deuitch, Andrea McOwen, and Joane Ramsey share strategies to move from leadership training t…
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May 26th, 2019 This week we have Charone Frankel from the Habeus Humor podcast to discuss the most recent wave of abortion laws limiting reproductive health in many states in the US. LINKS: https://www.facebook.com/habeashumor/ https://habhumor.libsyn.com/ If you enjoyed this show, we'd love to have you come back next week for another episode. You …
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Maddy and Hertzey talk to Dave Warnock a former evangelical Christian pastor and church leader for nearly 40 years, now an Atheist. Dave’s leaving the Christian faith came at huge cost with the loss of almost his entire community of friends, and family. Earlier this year (February 26, 2019) Dave received the devastating diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig…
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May 5th 2019 This week we are joined by Nick Fish, President of American Atheists. Nick joins us to share what's going on with American Atheists, as well as giving us an overview of how awesome the recent American Atheists convention was in Cincinnati just a couple of weeks ago. LINKS: https://www.atheists.org/support/donate/ https://www.blitzwatch…
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In today's world we are faced with a global leadership crisis. One may ask the question, why is character is so important to being a successful leader? We can answer that question by saying that character provides the foundation that makes a leader's skills effective in the context of how they lead their organization. Learn more at https://www.stra…
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4/28/2019 This week we chat with Tucker Drake from the Atheist in the Trailer Park podcast about the multi-verse, quantum stuff, and other weird physics that are predicted but not proven yet by science. Links: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/want-to-find-changing-fundamental-constants-measure-the-length-of-crystal/?fbclid=IwAR3HXgSGB3VB5IyT…
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April 21, 2019 Our guest this Easter Sunday, to help celebrate the rising of the undead from their graves, the ritualistic eating of human flesh and blood, and other weird things christians do, is The Satanic Temple Minnesota. Representing the Minnesota chapter of The Satanic Temple are co-chapter heads Ash Phenix and Asmodeus Sion, along with fell…
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April 14, 2019 This week we are joined by Dr. Karen Stollznow. Karen is the author of numerous books including her best-seller God Bless America, Language Myths, Mysteries, and Magic, Haunting American, and her latest book Would You Believe It? When she’s not writing Karen also teaches at several universities, has worked as a consultant linguist fo…
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April 7, 2019 This week we are joined by Dr. Jeb Card. Dr. Jeb Card is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Anthropology at Miami University. He is the editor of The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture and the coeditor of Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices. He has been…
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March 24, 2019 This week we are joined by Dustin Williams, host of the Atheist Nomads podcast. Dustin shares his experiences relating to the phenomenon of the religious apocalypse as he experienced it growing up as a Seventh Day Adventist. Dustin describes himself as a Dad, tech geek, and podcast host. He graduated from Walla Walla University (form…
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