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Radical Knowledge Management and Unlocking Innovation & Creativity

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Alex Fullick on May 25, 2023

Radical Knowledge Management and Unlocking Innovation & Creativity

Join me Thursday, August 24/23 at 1pm EST on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I talk with creative learning and knowledge management specialist, Stephanie Barnes.

We talk about a topic that can radically change your workplace for the better increasing employee (and management) creativity and innovation. You might call it radical knowledge management.

We touch on:

1. Defining Radical Knowledge Management (RKM)

2. Brainstorming

3. Neuroscience and RKM

4. Creativity

5. Art-based Interventions (ABI)

6. Trust & Resilience

7. Artificial Intelligence

8. How we’ve had the ‘creativity educated out of us’

It’s a very different way of thinking and a very inspiring way of building teams and lighting that spark of innovation and creativity that many organizational leaders are separately searching for. Don’t miss what Stephanie has to say – you won’t be disappointed. Enjoy!

https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/145084/radical-knowledge-mgmt-and-unlocking-innovation-and-creativity

Testing in the Cloud & Translating Requirements for Resilience

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Alex Fullick on May 5, 2023

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Testing in the Cloud & Translating Requirements for Resilience

Join me Thursday, August 3/23 at 1pm EST on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I talk with respected Sr. Program Manager and Enterprise Disaster Recovery expert, Ray Holloman.

We talk about two (2) important subjects in today’s business world: 1) ‘Disaster Recovery Testing in the Cloud’ and 2) ‘Translating the Words, Rules, and Regulations of Resilience’.

In our first segment we talk about ‘Disaster Recovery Testing in the Cloud’ and touch on such things as:

1. Testing approaches,

2. Reviewing your contracts and SLAs,

3. How to utilize the Cloud Data Centre/site,

4. How to talk with partners about your Cloud Testing (including audit questions),

5. Validating your needs and expectations…and more.

For our second segment we talk about ‘Translating the Words, Rules, and Regulations of Resilience’ and touch on:

1. The Glossary and Terminology,

2. Understanding the differences in terminology,

3. Understanding regulations,

4. Audit / Compliance partnerships,

5. Characteristics of Resilience…and more.

It’s a great chat you don’t want to miss. Enjoy!

The ‘Plan’, the Team, and Resilience (w/ Brendan Monahan)

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Alex Fullick on May 5, 2023

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The ‘Plan’, the Team, and Resilience (w/ Brendan Monahan)

Join me Thursday, August 10/23 at 1pm EST on VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I’m joined by internationally recognized security intelligence and crisis management professional, and the author of ‘Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Buildings an Unconquerable Organization”, Brendan Monahan.

During our discussion, we touch on:

1. The Plan: expectations, decision-making, delivering value, establishing triggers, assumptions, dealing w/ difficult people, testing/exercising

2. The team: membership, roles/responsibilities, support, policy, characteristics of a well-functioning team, keeping the team going, the often forgotten procurement team, cross-training

3. Resilience: Addressing silos, finding common ground, resilience in crisis mgmt., making connections, and what resilience means to your own organization

It’s a great discussion with insights that all organization’s and professionals will learn valuable insights they can take back to their own places of business and help build that strategic – and tactical – direction needed during crises. Enjoy!

A Framework for Writing BCM Testing Objectives

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Alex Fullick on May 5, 2023

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A Framework for Writing BCM Testing Objectives

Join me Thursday, August 17/23 at 1pm EST on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel, as I’m joined by award-winning Business Continuity and Crisis Management expert, Charlie Maclean-Bristol, as we talk about building a framework for writing Business Continuity Management (BCM) test objectives, and testing practices overall.

Charlie touches on:

1. Testing vs exercising

2. How COVID has impacted testing

3. 4 key components to consider when writing test objectives

4, Testing purpose

5. Measuring success and SMART considerations

6. Pre-test planning

7. Building capabilities

8. Post-exercise assessments, observations, and recommendations

What started as a rather short discussion turned into a long chat about testing, and he shares some great insights into how we can improve our own testing capabilities. You don’t want to miss Charlie’s insights. Enjoy!

The Power of Teamwork (w/ Best-selling author Dr. Brian Goldman)

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Alex Fullick on April 7, 2023

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The Power of Teamwork (w/ Best-selling author Dr. Brian Goldman)

Join me Thursday, July 20/23 at 1pm EST! I talk with ER physician at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), award winning host of CBC Radio’s White Coat, Black Art and The Dose, and bestselling author Dr. Brian Goldman about his latest book “The Power of Teamwork”.

Success for individuals, corporations, and communities comes from the creation of great teams. Though teams build success, they can also be misunderstood and under utilized.

During our chat, Dr. Goldman talks about:

1. Defining a team vs a group,

2. Leadership,

3. How personalities can compliment a team,

4. The Dark Triad (Machiavellians, Sociopaths, Narcissists),

5. Introverts vs Extroverts,

6. Learning from mistakes (and why some refrain from pointing out mistakes),

7. Feeling unsafe in a team,

8. How to build teamwork (Visual Thanking Strategies, Improve?!?…),

9. The benefits of responding with “Yes, and…” vs “Yes, but…”

10. Tips to help kickstart your team building…and so much more.

Dr. Goldman does an incredible job of discussing teamwork and how it’s more than what many people perceive. He leverages his experience from his medical career to provide teamwork insights that apply to all organizations, industries, communities, and board rooms. You don’t want to miss what he has to share. Enjoy!

The UK Resilience Framework, Resilience Defined, and Building Resilient Futures (w/ Robert Hall)

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Alex Fullick on April 7, 2023

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Business

The UK Resilience Framework, Resilience Defined, and Building Resilient Futures (w/ Robert Hall)

Join me Thursday, July 13/23 at 1pm EST! I talk with long-time respected Risk Management and international security expert, Robert Hall about Resilience. Resilience – it’s not just a buzzword.

We touch on such things as:

1. Defining resilience

2. The need for societal engagement

3. Leadership

4. Risk

5. Community resilience

6. The UK Governments Resilience Framework (what it is, its strength, it’s weaknesses, and it’s future)

7. National Resilience

8. Building resilient futures

9. How volunteers can help with preparedness and response…and much more.

It’s a great conversation with some very interesting perspectives many people, organizations, and community leaders may not be thinking about. Enjoy!

Building Team Resilience w/ Kathryn McEwen

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Alex Fullick on April 7, 2023

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Building Team Resilience w/ Kathryn McEwen

Join me Thursday, June 22/23 at 1pm EST! I’m joined by globally renown resilience team building expert, organizational psychologist, author, and entrepreneur, Kathryn McEwen. Resilience in the workplace is a topic organizations around the globe is tackling, and trying to understand what it really means and how to address it. Kathryn will help us understand this.

During our discussion, Kathryn talks about:

1. Defining team resilience,

2. Building personal resilience at work,

3. Building resilient teams,

4. The impact and culture of organizational culture,

5. Measuring resilience,

6. Aligning team resilience with other disciplines (e.g., BCM, Risk, etc.),

7. DE&I…and so much more!

Don’t miss Kathryn great insights on how to build resilience – in ourselves and in our teams. It’s one you don’t want to miss. Enjoy!

Operational Resilience (w/ Fusion Risk Management CEO Mike Campbell)

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Alex Fullick on April 7, 2023

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Business

Operational Resilience (w/ Fusion Risk Management CEO Mike Campbell)

Join me Thursday, June 15/23 at 1pm EST! I talk with Fusion Risk Management CEO, Mike Campbell. Operational Resilience has become a major focal point for organizations.

Mike touches on:

1. Clarifies the confusion between organizational resilience and operations resilience,

2. The importance for organization’s to focus on resilience.

3. Various components that make up operational resilience,

4. How an organization can begin to tear down silos (while building up resilience),

5. The new paradigm organization’s face with employees working from home,

6. How the traditional ‘everyone-back-in-the-office’ approach may no longer work going forward,

7. How strong operational resilience can help organizations with decision-making, especially during disasters, crises, and incidents, when the demand for information goes up and the time to provide it goes down.

A very enjoyable chat about operational resilience, with lots of insights for leaders. Don’t miss it!

Leader as Healer with Nicholas Janni

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Alex Fullick on April 7, 2023

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Business

Join me Thursday, June 1/23 at 1pm EST! I’m joined by transformational leadership expert and author or ‘Leader to Healer’, Nicholas Janni. “To face the scope and threats of the 21st century challenges, today’s leaders must possess potent powers for logic, reason, discernment and strategic forecasting. Yet, they must also be empathic and therefore embodied, grounded and intuitive.” (From book cover).

This is a very inspirational discussion on leadership, and not one many will have considered before.

Nicholas touches on:

1. Defining resilience,

2. Being vs Doing.

3. Leader as an Executor vs a Leader as a Healer,

4. Self-awareness,

5, Defining ones purpose (personal and as a group),

6, The importance of emotions,

7. Tips to begin making a transformative change…and more.

Nicholas is very inspirational and offers some very interesting insights into how leaders can find answers to some of their challenges – during crises, disasters, and other situations – by looking inwards to make transformative change happen.

You don’t want to miss this episode. Enjoy!

Guest Segments from CRT Conference

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Alex Fullick on April 7, 2023

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Business

Join me Thursday, May j18/23 at 1pm EST! Preparing for the Unexpected broadcasted live from the Continuity & Resilience Today (CRT) conference in Toronto, November 16 & 17, 2022. This episode captures interview segments we did with 3 conference speakers:

1. Kevin Newman (well-known journalist and anchor),

2. Chloe Demrovsky (President of the Disaster Recovery Institute International),

3. Brock Holowachuk (Past President of the Disaster Recovery Institute Canada). Enjoy!

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