In my very busy life, I am very push focused right now. I will not go to a website regularly, but if an email peaks my interest, I will go there and take advantage. You and your videos have done this. I will be back as a result of your email messages.

Excellent information. Sure give you a lot to think about. Enjoy the short segments also. Makes it easy to schedule in 15 minutes.

Hi, Ed ……… Yes, i think there is a a lot of opportunity to do some things that can be mutually beneficial to you and other leaders. I have lots of ideas and a couple of colleagues may have as well. One simple one is to really create an opportunity where leaders and thought leaders could come together to really talk about what are the needs of the new generation of leaders. Blogs and emails are good but there may still be interest in some good old-fashioned face-to-face brainstorming and idea sharing. I have a colleague group where that still happens and there is no substitute for that. there are a lot of us with a lot of experience and maybe some wisdom and maybe just not sure of what to do with it all or share it effectively. Just a rambling thought. I really like everything I have seen so far. Regards ……… David

In answer to your question, YES. You are developing a new tool to use. The short learning clip concept works well for staff meetings and allows a manager/leader to focus on continious improvement of staff. This also provides a tool to allow the manager to lead the discussion. You are onto something important. Our challenge is to develop motivated high quality employees and pouring information into there ears and hoping it will help is not enough. Using contemporary technology with immediate gratification-results is a need we have with today’s younger workforce. Keep up the efforts. Keith

Hi:

I am a fledgling entrepreneur and am finding the “people” end of my business difficult by times. The first videos have been very helpful and I am looking forward to the next in the series. I really like that this has been broken into bite size pieces that I can review at any time.
I have been utilizing some of the techniques in dealing with my own self talk. I felt if this worked with others why not talk to my self this way. It makes a difference and as my attitude and dialogue towards self changes so does the way and manner in which I deal and speak with others.
I feel that what you propose would be of great interest to me and others. Having a place where I could search for specifics and ask direct questions would be of great value to me.

Sincerely Yours
Mariea Adams

Ed – Nice job with outlining your purpose in these and future videos. Good job of getting on the forefront of training develoment by the use of today’s technology vs. the classroom. (Besides development of leadership skills, you may be helping keep leaders up to date who are technologically challenged like myself.) By having a library of short, tactical references to go to, people in management roles who want to exercise leadership will be more effective if they select one of your segments that is related to the next big task at hand. Some of your videos are titled very specifically, while others are more general (The Power of Focus). I wonder if you could have a descriptor of tasks that your titled short video could help optimize for the more general titles?

Hi Ed,
Thank-you for the question. I think you may be onto something here. Like Wendell Noble, I think to meet one half of your goal will be easy, the selling of these clips may be more difficult. I think about the leaders in my organization and myself – taking time to search for a topic would be problematic. It would need to be simeple or I would not do the serarch. When I do a topic search and get a bunch of sites to do a further search on, I simply look at the first 3 to 6 sites; so, where you would be placed on a search is critical. I wonder if you could market the video/audio segments to an organization contact, who could then send out just in time personal emails throughout that organization for leaders. That interal contact could also recieve requests for topics that are not time sensitive; i.e. conflict. Also, for leaders to pay for this venue, getting handouts would be a must – at least for me they would be. Keep up the good work!

I agree totally that we are living in a different time and need to offer different types of training options to our employees. The short segment videos are great. Thanks for being innovative and for offering them.

Ed, Your question, Is there an opportunity for web based Leadership information and help?
Absolutely! I drawn to watch each video because it’s short, direct to the point and simplified.
I hope this helps you.

Max Holmes
Heraeus Kulzer Inc.

Ed: I think the concept is a good one. The trick will be having the right content and the right price point.

There are a number of directions to go in, from on-demand training, to blogs, to social networking, and videos, etc…Or, all of the above. I would imagine you’d have to determine your revenue stream, too: subscription, product sales, ads, or some combination of these. As Paul and Jennifer stated above, the cost will be a key component in determining the reach to an audience. Thanks for including us in this conversation.

Patrick