Consultants' Consultant

JULY 4, 2018

Consultants Consultant: Old-fashioned note taking makes information easier to retrieve in your head. Pencil and paper notes are a better synthesised set of ideas than typed notes. Here’s Dan Pink’s 99 second video summary of the research. Here’s the original research paper. The post Why you should take notes by hand appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Actionable

JULY 4, 2018

I have observed that for some managers, Employee Appreciation Day is the beginning, middle, and end of their employee appreciation strategy. The post The Perils of Employee Appreciation Day appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Chad Barr

JULY 4, 2018

Photo by: Chad Barr. This has been a banner year. A Star-Spangled Banner year, for sure. So much controversy, conversation and discussion into how Old Glory is a part of the fabric of this country and how Americans see it as a symbol of freedom as well as a symbol for struggle or legal protest by its burning that was approved by the Supreme Court in 1989.

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Actionable

JULY 4, 2018

I have observed that for some managers, Employee Appreciation Day is the beginning, middle, and end of their employee appreciation strategy. The post The Perils of Employee Appreciation Day appeared first on Actionable.co.

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 4, 2018

Consultants Consultant: people don’t somehow understand the link between asking questions and becoming more likable This podcast from Harvard Business Review has some interesting ideas. If you’d rather read than listen, then follow that same link and you’ll find a transcript. Here are the ideas I liked from the podcast: if you ask a question that presupposes the […].

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 4, 2018

Consultants Consultant: I love to improvise. I really do believe it keeps my brain young, it asks me to pay attention in ways that nothing else does. I use it with clients to warm them up to me and to each other, to create metaphorical (and real) connections to how they are communicating (or not), listening (or […]. The post Improv: Noisy Group Mindfulness appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Rod Burkert

JULY 4, 2018

Yes, it is the 4 th of July holiday. And I am in your inbox as usual. Would you expect anything less of me? We are at Custer State Park … a magical place if you’ve never been. My birthday is on Saturday … and this is normally a low-key week for me. And so I thought I would change things up with a shorter, harder hitting post. If you’re new to the blog, welcome aboard.

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 4, 2018

Consultants Consultant: I love these tips on how to deal with gatekeepers, keep them on side but also get past them. The post Gatekeepers and such appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2018

dave king/Getty Images. No one wants to hire the wrong person. The recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding of even one new employee is a time-intensive process every manager takes seriously. It’s also one of the hardest skills for a new manager to learn, in part because — unless you’re working at a very fast-growing company — you typically don’t get a lot of practice with it.

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 4, 2018

Consultants Consultant: People who can construct finely-grained emotional experiences go to the doctor less frequently, use medication less frequently, and spend fewer days hospitalized for illness. Read this fabulous article from TED. When people speaking in public recategorize their anxiety as excitement, their sympathetic nervous system still creates jittery butterflies but with fewer cytokines that lower performance […].

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People Business Psychology

JULY 4, 2018

Leadership assessment and development Situation A UK-based fire and rescue service consisting of some 1000 members of staff wanted to develop the leadership skills of a group of its Area Managers, part of the Service’s senior operational and strategic management level. Approach In order for the participants to increase their personal insight into how their personalities influence how they shape their leadership approach, we used the NEO Primary Colours Leadership questionnaire.

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 4, 2018

Consultants Consultant: People who can construct finely-grained emotional experiences go to the doctor less frequently, use medication less frequently, and spend fewer days hospitalized for illness. Read this fabulous article from TED. When people speaking in public recategorize their anxiety as excitement, their sympathetic nervous system still creates jittery butterflies but with fewer cytokines that lower performance […].

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 4, 2018

Often mis-characterized as a day of independence. What actually matters is what you’re going to do with it. It turns out that if you have the power to make rules, the rules are your responsibility. If you have the freedom to make choices, the choices are your responsibility. And if you have the ability to change the culture, to connect with others, to make a ruckus, then yes, what you do with that is your responsibility as well.

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MBO Partners

JULY 4, 2018

An independent contractor shares his journey to self-employment, reflecting on his one-year independent contracting anniversary.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2018

hbr staff/Benne Ochs/Getty Images. Online reviews can play a big role in influencing people’s purchase decisions , but what makes a review most persuasive one way or the other? Certainly bad reviews can dissuade customers, but it turns out that some good reviews can too. Our research on persuasion and marketing is the first to find that a moderately positive review can be more persuasive than an extremely positive review.

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