A Face Made For Radio - Conversations About Influence - New Blogtalkradio Show

Move Over Howard Stern

My father always said he had a face made for radio - and due to the vagaries of genetics - I've inherited that trait. Always looking to turn a weakness into a strength I'm playing host to a new radio show - brought to you by the magic of the internet. Through Blogtalkradio you can, using only your phone, listen and contribute to a discussion on how to influence and drive business performance through employees, channel partners and consumers. And as a bonus it will be a bit of fun.

The Format

This isn't really my show - it's a collaborative effort.

Over the course of a few years I've been privileged to be schooled by some very smart and engaging people. All of whom are outside my normal area of focus. And that's the important part. Having a group of people that aren't affected by your own biases is a great way to grow and learn. So, as a group, we thought if we all benefited from those conversations you might as well and we created Influence Insiders.

Influence Insiders is a core group of experts, bloggers, thought leaders and smart folks who will be getting together monthly to talk about the things that challenge them and their clients associated with engaging audiences. The line up is impressive and should provide all of us with some interesting points of view. I know I'll be learning and you can to if you tune in and listen & contribute.

The Team

In no particular order:

Ann Bares (Minneapolis): Managing Partner – Altura Consulting Group, author of the blog Compensation Force (a Workforce.com featured blog) and editor/contributor for multi-author blog Compensation Café and one of the Top 25 Talent Blogs as ranked by Fistful of Talent (FOT) – a popular talent management and HR focused blog. Ann has been a compensation consultant with RSM McGladrey, Inc., Riley, Dettmann & Kelsey LLC, and Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
Frank Roche (Philadelphia): Partner iFractal – sponsor and contributor to very popular KnowHR blog. Frank and his team focus on helping their clients talk to their employees. In the past Frank led Mercer’s Human Capital Practice in the Netherlands and worked at Hewitt Associates.
Heather Margolis (Boston): President Channel Maven Consulting – Prior to her current role Heather led channel programs for companies like EMC, EqualLogic, and Dell.
Julien Dionne (Ottawa, CN): Julien authors the very informative blog leap.com and works with OpenSymmetry a consultancy that specializes in Sales Performance Management strategic planning, business process optimization, technology assessment and system integration engagements across diverse industries and software providers. He has worked with Accenture and nGenera prior to OpenSymmetry.
Lance Haun (Portland, Or): Lance has a long history in the HR field and authors the highly rated and read blog YourHRGuy – now called Rehaul. He currently is VP Outreach for a company called Meritbuilder – an online employee reward/recognition portal with a unique feature of being portable – moving with the employee as they move.
Todd Hanson (Appleton, WI): CEO of Catalyst Performance Group. Todd’s group is heavily into measuring the ROI of marketing and incentive/reward programs. They are currently measuring the ROI on the recent Motivation Show, works in partnership with the ROI Institute and he authors the blog called the ROI of Engagement.
Paul Hebert (Greenville, SC): Managing Director I2I – author of Incentive Intelligence, contributor at Fistful Of Talent and general good guy. 20 years helping companies design and operate incentive, recognition and loyalty programs – degree in Statistics, worked on the Space Shuttle and B1 Bomber while employed at Rockwell and did a stint at a branding and corporate identity firm.

The Schedule

Monthly - the first Wednesday of the month (First episode Nov. 4 at noon)
Time: Noon - 1:00 p.m. EST

How to Play

Blogtalkradio is essentially a big conference call that is recorded and shared. During the call people can chime in and ask questions, add to the conversation and in general be a part of the fun. The service (free version of course!) allows for 5 simultaneous "open" lines plus the host (total of 6.) During a show the host (that'll be me) can add folks and mute others to move the conversation around the audience. If you want to chime in - just hit "1" on your phone and the host is alerted and can then "unmute" you and you will now be part of the show. Pretty cool.

We've set up our station at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/i2i

The call in number will be the same for every episode: (646) 381-4430

The topics will be different and varied.

YOU are Important

The real fun of this isn't the group of us talking about how to drive business (well, yeah it is that) but that you get to play in the process. Truly, the benefit to us it hear your points of view and hear what is stopping you from fully engaging your audience, influencing their behaviors and driving business results.

Here's the topic for the first show next week: