Jeff Havens is a speaker, author, and professional development expert who tackles leadership, generational, and professional development issues with an exceptional blend of content and entertainment. He is a contributing writer to Fast Company, Entrepreneur, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal; and has been featured on CNBC and Fox Business. For more information, or to bring Jeff to your next meeting, contact Donna Buttice at Platinum Speakers Agency at 630.330.7533.
Jeff Havens here! If you’re tired of hearing my rants, today’s your lucky day because I’m passing the keys to the blog to Amanda, the Marketing Director here at Big Pow! I hope you’re wearing a helmet! I have a confession for you. You don’t need a marketing degree to know how to sell stuff.…
Are the old people and the tiny little baby people in your office constantly butting heads? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a hilarious, energetic, not-too-old-and-not-too-young keynote speaker who could come to your company and talk to them to help the generations get along better? Jeff Havens to the rescue! My Us vs Them…
You can probably use millions of words to describe employers as a whole, but ‘subtle’ isn’t one of them. Recently Wisconsin took up a bill to make it illegal for employers to force job seekers to hand over their social media passwords, making Wisconsin (at least at the time of this writing) the 15th state…
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Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to take all of the fun out of funny. They recently published an article about the salutary effects of humor in the workplace that will teach you, among other things, that “research shows employers like to hire people with a sense of humor.” Which I’m sure you’ll find…
Whether you’re an old person or a tiny little baby person, you’ll love my generations in the workplace business infographic, or as I like to call it, the Jeffographic! It’s based off of my presentation Us Vs. Them, which you can watch a preview of here. Enjoy! Want to share this…
I think sometimes that people do new research studies because they don’t like the results they got from their old studies and are hoping that somehow, magically, things will be different this time around. That’s the only reason I can explain for why the Chicago Cubs are still a baseball team, since study after study…
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Casual Friday is great, but don’t take it too far, or this might happen! If you are asking yourself whether you should wear your jorts or your jeggings this Friday, you might need this book.
Thanks to YouTube, we can all enjoy terrible corporate training videos. Here are a few of my favorites that will show the mistakes to avoid. 1. Trying too hard to be cool. There’s not much to say about this one except some people just shouldn’t rap. What musical genius do you think is behind this…