Education

Tips on Goal Setting and Then Achieving

This is the time of the year when people turn the calendar forward and start making all sorts of plans and goals. How does that work out for you and are you ONLY making business plans? Might it be more productive to look at eight areas and then...pick three? Here is Brooke Benschoter from The Consultancy with some tips on how to get that done...just ahead of the New Year! 
Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business broadcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 5:05pm on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications through a business relationship with The Des Moines Radio Group. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Four Virtues for Business and Personal Life

This week Sister Simone Campbell, you may remember her from Nuns On The Bus, was in Des Moines speaking on behalf of Progress Iowa. We caught up with her following her address to learn more about what she calls The Four Virtues. We thought, given the state of so much in our country, this is worth of sharing with you. Here from NETWORK Lobby is Sister Campbell...
Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business broadcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 5:05pm on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications through a business relationship with The Des Moines Radio Group. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Hawkinson Institute of Finance - University of Iowa

We enjoy learning how students learn and grow in their chosen field. Here Grayson Zaun and Taylor Wingert, finance students at the Hawkinson Institute of Finance, Tippie College of Business of the University of Iowa share their experiences and goals regarding investment banking. Smart young people...we should all be proud.
Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business broadcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 5:05pm on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications through a business relationship with The Des Moines Radio Group. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

In this segment Brooke Benschoter from The Consultancy shares with us the issue of recognizing unconscious bias in the workplace. How to identify it, where it comes from, the effect it has on employees and productivity and then offers some tips on how to reverse the issue. An interesting take on what we all recognize may be lingering in businesses coast to coast.
Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business broadcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 5:05pm on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications through a business relationship with The Des Moines Radio Group. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Helping People - Employee & Family Resources

There is a 52 year old agency in the Des Moines Metro that is doing major work in the areas of mental health, drug interaction, family counseling and more. To give us a glimpse of what Employee and Family Resource does we invited Leslie Garman the Community Engagement Director to our studios for a conversation. We think you too will be impressed and, perhaps, moved to help them in their mission.
Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business broadcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 5:05pm on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications through a business relationship with The Des Moines Radio Group. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Drake University - Broadcasting & Media Training

When we got into the studio we saw three young people with a steady-cam doing to practice "takes". Wondering what the heck was going on we asked...and then asked Megan Ellis, Brandon Bader and Daniel White into the studio for a conversation about Drake University, media education and what jobs they hope to land following graduation.
 
Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business broadcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 5:05pm on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications through a business relationship with The Des Moines Radio Group. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Group Dynamic Field Guide for Leaders - Alan Feirer

Our friend Alan Feirer came in to talk about his new book "Group Dynamic Field Guide -51 Ideas Leaders Can Use Today". We talk about why 51 ideas and not 52? How can leaders have a true impact on their staff? We also talk about the Annual Night of Gluttony...what?  Hang on, this will be fun.
Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business broadcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 5:05pm on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications through a business relationship with The Des Moines Radio Group. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

The Art of Understanding and Leading Change

Change in our personal and professional life can be un-nerving. Here we visit with Deborah Rinner from Tero International about the factors that make change so threatining to so many people. How to tamp down those fears and then lead change headed for a positive outcome. Helpful and spot on...listen in.
 
Insight on Business the News Hour with Michael Libbie is the only weekday, hour-long business broadcast in the Midwest. The national, regional and local business news along with long-form business interviews can be heard Monday - Friday starting at 5:05pm on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. The Business News Hour is a production of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications through a business relationship with The Des Moines Radio Group. You can follow us on Twitter @IoB_NewsHour.

Workers and New Apprenticeship Programs

For years we have seen people trained for jobs in apprenticeship programs in careers such as plumbing, welding, construction. Today, because of a tight labor market, businesses are starting apprenticeship progams in health care, office administration even craft brewing. To explain all of this and share with us how businesses can get involved we reached out to Greer Sisson the State Director - Office of Apprenticeship for the United States Department of Labor. Here is that conversation. 
Insight on Business the News Hour is the only hour-long, business news broadcast in the Midwest and is heard Monday - Friday on AM-940, FM-104.5 and in HD at 103.3 HD2. 
 

Jeff Beals and Goal-Based Networking

If you are going to spend your time networking you might want to spend it wisely and work toward achieving a measurable goal. That is the advice from Jeff Beals who will be in Urbandale to share his method of turning your socializing into profitable relationships. The event happens on November 8th and pay attention to what he says about networking and social media...oh yeah.
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