Mon.May 08, 2023

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How To Drive Innovation & Growth In Your Consulting Business With Susan Lindner: Podcast #289

Consulting Success

We have so many brilliant minds working on producing great innovations, but we only hear from a few of them. Why? Because, often, these innovation experts struggle with their communication. Today’s guest, Susan Lindner, has observed this, leading her to create Innovation Storytellers—a consulting firm that helps companies to communicate more effectively with their ideas.

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How do I find out what makes my staff tick?

The Management Centre

In this blog, =mc Director Charlotte Scott shares practical advice on how to motivate your teams. I want my team to feel motivated in their roles – what can I do? It’s generally agreed that motivation is a good thing – and a topic all managers think about at some point. Motivated staff perform their jobs more effectively. They are also more creative, flexible and healthy.

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Writing Secret 9A: Choose How You Write: Prototype or Draft

Johanna Rothman

When I published Writing Secret 9: Keep Your Writing Clean As You Write, the feedback surprised me. Many of my fellow nonfiction writers write a lot before they get internal feedback. That might be right for them. It's not right for me. I finally understood why I write differently. I think of each iteration as a prototype , not a draft. That means I need to assess the prototype as I proceed, until I'm ready to put the prototype out for larger review or publication.

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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. The costs of poor leadership often show up in the workplace disguised as low employee engagement, a lack of team cohesion and collaboration, high employee turnover, and failed execution.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Face-to-Face Time with Your Employees Still Matters

Harvard Business

Four strategies to help leaders get creative about maintaining their visibility — without resorting to a “butts-in-seats” approach.

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Speaking Candidly

Alan Weiss

Identify yourself as an expert—a resource—not as a speaker or coach or consultant—which are commodities. The former is of great valued worth high fees. The latter three are easily comparable and highly price sensitive. Case in point: You’ll hear people talk about how to make a lot of money “in the speaking profession.” If you were to charge $35,000 per speech—which is about the very top of the “non-celebrity” range, you’d have to speak twice a month to earn $8

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Leaders, Sharing Your Own Mental Health Story Can Help You Become a Better Ally

Harvard Business

Role modeling vulnerability shows that it’s possible to achieve professional success while navigating mental health challenges.

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Some of my favorite episodes from 5 years of ‘The Business of Fun’

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

My podcast: ‘The Business of Fun’ turns 5 in a few days…and I want to celebrate by sharing some of my favorite ideas, episodes, and guests. Drew McManus : We talked about “one size fits none” and the pervasiveness of those kinds of solutions in the arts and culture. I keep coming back to it because my 2019 trip to Australia symbolizes that thinking when people talk about “getting older and whiter” isn’t necessarily a good long-term strategy for art

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How Midsize Companies Can Use Uncertainty to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Protect your culture — and your talent.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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LSA Global Delivers Sales Leadership Workshop for an Industrial Technology Company

LSA Global

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Sales Leadership Workshop for a leading Industrial Technology Company focused on ensuring sales leaders and sales managers can lead, manage, coach their sales teams to higher performance while executing the company’s go-to-market sales

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The thing about decay

Seth Godin Blog

One reason we have so much trouble fixing chronic degenerative conditions is that we need to remove elements before we can start building new functions. If we simply put effort on top of a shaky foundation, it’ll all be wasted. The best way forward might be to take a few steps back.

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How Do I Define My New Role to Set Myself Up for Success?

Harvard Business

A leader must learn how to reframe past experiences that may be holding her back, as she designs her new role.

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