137 episodes

Welcome to the Even Better podcast hosted by Sinikka Waugh, president and founder of Your Clear Next Step, and relentlessly positive trainer and coach who is committed to even better. Hosted in Indianola, IA, the Even Better podcast shares engaging conversations with different guests every week, that highlight their unique insight into a topic they’re passionate about! 

Your Clear Next Step exists to make communities better by helping people (like you!) have better workdays. So here’s a podcast of trainers, coaches, and passionate people sharing their resources to help you have an even better work day, so you can help make your communities even better today.

--

Real-life stories, insights, and people who are passionately sharing what they are doing to be even better!

New episodes are released biweekly.

Subscribe Here:
https://share.hsforms.com/1u1GjU-ExRQqbj8a2GAnR1g1r4v6?utm_content=286850569&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-2923630

The Even Better Podcast Sinikka Waugh

    • Business
    • 5.0 • 4 Ratings

Welcome to the Even Better podcast hosted by Sinikka Waugh, president and founder of Your Clear Next Step, and relentlessly positive trainer and coach who is committed to even better. Hosted in Indianola, IA, the Even Better podcast shares engaging conversations with different guests every week, that highlight their unique insight into a topic they’re passionate about! 

Your Clear Next Step exists to make communities better by helping people (like you!) have better workdays. So here’s a podcast of trainers, coaches, and passionate people sharing their resources to help you have an even better work day, so you can help make your communities even better today.

--

Real-life stories, insights, and people who are passionately sharing what they are doing to be even better!

New episodes are released biweekly.

Subscribe Here:
https://share.hsforms.com/1u1GjU-ExRQqbj8a2GAnR1g1r4v6?utm_content=286850569&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-2923630

    5 Things We Can Try to Avoid Burnout

    5 Things We Can Try to Avoid Burnout

    Sinikka Waugh and Benen Witkop discuss 5 Things We Can Try to Avoid Burnout.
     
    Benen Witkop is an aspiring author and screenwriter with a number of projects currently underway. A recent graduate of the University of Iowa with a BA in Creative Writing and Screenwriting, Benen has a lot of experience with writing works for both the screen and page, as well as technical products and proposals for businesses. Benen is always looking to improve his craft and develop his skills, and to find ways to overcome his shortcomings to make sure that his work is as good as it can be.
     
    Make sure you check out the blog that Benen wrote, "Get Out of Burnout." This is a great read that goes along so well with what Benen informs us in this audio!

    • 40 min
    7 Things To Do When Crisis is at Your Doorstep

    7 Things To Do When Crisis is at Your Doorstep

    A solo episode where Sinikka discusses the 7 Things To Do When Crisis is at Your Doorstep.
     
    Sinikka Waugh, President of Your Clear Next Step, is a recognized leader in understanding people and adapting tools, techniques, and processes to meet the demands of the situation at hand. Since 2008, Sinikka has helped over 50,000 people have better workdays so they can co-create better communities.

    • 16 min
    4 Reasons Emotional Intelligence is Critical to Our Teams, Organization and Self

    4 Reasons Emotional Intelligence is Critical to Our Teams, Organization and Self

    Sinikka Waugh and Melissa Worrel Johnson discuss 4 Reasons Emotional Intelligence is Critical to Our Teams, Organization and Self.
     
    Reflection Tool Download: Click Here! 
     
    Over her 20-year career, Melissa has focused her efforts in leadership, talent development and business strategy. Her diverse background includes entrepreneurial startups as well as significant leadership roles in large corporations.
     
    Worrel-Johnson’s experience in developing leaders, growing teams and implementing initiatives within organizations are key competencies and experience she brings to Your Leadership Group. Her professional career has included multiple management and leadership roles involving broad collaboration and partnering with all levels of leadership.
     
    Areas of focus have included executive & leadership coaching and development, career advancement, succession planning, individual and organization development, team culture, franchising, work-life integration, customer experience implementation, and employee engagement.
     
    Melissa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Broad Field Science from University of Wisconsin – River Falls, an MBA from Capella University and her Professional Certified Coach credentialing (PCC) from the International Coaching Federation. She and her husband Alan and their two dogs live outside Des Moines, Iowa.

    • 18 min
    4 Steps to Thinking about Strategic Planning Through Interpolation Instead of Extrapolation

    4 Steps to Thinking about Strategic Planning Through Interpolation Instead of Extrapolation

    Sinikka Waugh and Jim Hall discuss 4 Steps to Thinking about Strategic Planning Through Interpolation Instead of Extrapolation.
    Jim Hall is an innovative, high-achieving Senior IT Leader with over twenty years experience in IT Leadership. Jim believes in developing the next generation of IT Leadership, to help IT organizations better respond to the changing technology landscape. After serving more than eight years as Chief Information Officer in government and higher education, Jim founded Hallmentum® where he's helped for four years to empower IT Leaders to drive meaningful change through hands-on training, workshops, and coaching

    • 35 min
    4 Things I've Learned About Dealing with Crisis

    4 Things I've Learned About Dealing with Crisis

    A solo episode where Sinikka discusses the 4 Things I've Learned About Dealing with Crisis.
    Sinikka Waugh, President of Your Clear Next Step, is a recognized leader in understanding people and adapting tools, techniques, and processes to meet the demands of the situation at hand. Since 2008, Sinikka has helped over 50,000 people have better workdays so they can co-create better communities.

    • 25 min
    4 Characteristics of the Best Leaders

    4 Characteristics of the Best Leaders

    Sinikka Waugh and Missy Paxson discuss the 4 Characteristics of the Best Leaders.
    Missy is a passionate life coach that believes her spiritual calling is to help people live their best life. She has dealt with her own personal struggles throughout life & has experienced firsthand how to transform those difficulties into positive learnings within her own life story. Missy is a certified Master Life & Master Mindset Coach, and she has been a Business Analyst for nearly two decades across multiple companies, facilitating and coordinating all manners of meetings, projects, and navigating precarious situations time and time again. She is an expert in Agile, and was elected as a lead analyst multiple times throughout her career. Missy and her husband Mike live in Indianola, Iowa with their children and grandchildren.

    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

Haley McElhinney ,

Professional feel good podcast!

I love this podcast and how it can connect with all types of listeners! Professional, personal, faith, family, business, men, women, everyone and anyone looking to have better days by being better themselves!

Top Podcasts In Business

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Money News Network
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
Andy Frisella #100to0
The Ramsey Show
Ramsey Network
The Money Mondays
Dan Fleyshman
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Hala Taha | YAP Media Network
Think Fast, Talk Smart: Communication Techniques
Stanford GSB

You Might Also Like