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Strengths-Based Listening: The Importance of Leader Who Listens

Leadership Vision Consulting

In this episode, we talk about the importance of leaders who listen. We define what listening is, why it’s so difficult, why it’s so incredibly important, and then share a few observations we’ve made about the impact we can ALL have when we listen for and with our Strengths. The post Strengths-Based Listening: The Importance of Leader Who Listens appeared first on Leadership Vision.

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What’s Way More Important than Your Consulting Firm’s Competitive Advantage? (This is.)

David A Fields

You’ve probably been in a situation where your consulting firm is competing to win a project. For instance, say you know you’re one of many consulting firms bidding to help the Foucault Co. shift their momentum. You review the other players and your own approach to Foucault’s challenge. Then you decide what you will emphasize … Continued. The post What’s Way More Important than Your Consulting Firm’s Competitive Advantage?

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How to Overcome the “Imposter Syndrome”

Tom Spencer

Whenever you hear people speaking of the “imposter syndrome”, you will hear them say things like “I don’t belong”, “I am not worthy”, “did I make the right choice?”. Whenever you find yourself questioning why you belong in the spaces you are in, immediately block those feelings out. If you are sitting on your own, get up and go for a walk; if you are driving, turn the volume up and listen to your favourite song.

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Creating Licensing And Partner Networks For Consulting Businesses With Dr. Sherri Malouf: Podcast #178

Consulting Success

Relationships lie at the heart of partner networks and business organizations. Michael Zipursky’s guest today is Dr. Sherri Malouf, who recently got her Ph.D. in Human Development focused on studying the relationship between leaders and followers. In this episode, Dr. Sherri explains a tool she developed to help you determine critical unconscious building blocks in your.

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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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3 Ways to Handle Poor Employee Performance Constructively

Rick Conlow

Poor employee performance confronts all team leaders, supervisors, managers, or executives. It goes with the territory. Fortunately, there are really few bad employees, just some that have performance issues. Most employees think they are performing better than they are. Most employees can perform significantly better than they are. In fact, everyone develops problems at some point in their careers if they are growing and learning.

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Lisen Stromberg: "Work PAUSE Thrive"

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how to pause your career and still thrive. This was such a great interview with Lisen Stromberg that I'm reposting it for Women's History Month. Before our original conversation, I read her book for a second time , “Work PAUSE Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood without Killing Your Career," and I know why it has become such a bestseller. It is great!

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Fire, Aim, Ready

Alan Weiss

I stopped in my hobby store here today to give the owner some business and to stock up. My total would have come to a couple of hundred dollars. But Charlie was morose. I asked what was wrong. “You were right,” he said, there IS a business boom and my shelves are cleaned out and my suppliers are way behind. I should have ordered more stock months ago.” My purchase amounted to $17.

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Learn to Free Your Inner Writer to Write More, Faster, & Easier

Johanna Rothman

Would you like to write more—and faster? Would you like to build some ease into how you write now? If you have these problems or worries: It takes you forever to finish a piece. You wonder if you have anything useful to write about. You fear you might have writer's block. First, you're normal. Second, you can overcome these problems (and more) in my writing workshop, Free Your Inner Writer: Sell Your Non-Fiction Ideas.

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What Does Unconscious Bias in the Workplace Look Like?

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

How do you as a leader defeat unconscious bias in the workplace, in your hiring process and organizational culture? First, you need to know what it is.

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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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When Given The Chance To Lead, Women Consistently Hit It Out Of The Park

On the Brink

Throughout history, men have always been heralded as great leaders. Yet society, not just in America but everywhere, has downplayed the leadership abilities of women. While men have been championed as artistic geniuses, powerful visionaries, brilliant innovators and influential builders (from interstate freeways to the Louvre to the internet), women leaders have been seen as outliers who pushed the boundaries of where they belonged and what they were supposed to achieve.

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258: Kim Spencer—Isn't It Time To Become The Princess You Always Wanted To Be?

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how you, yes you, can live a life that's more fulfilling. Kim Spencer — what an amazing women. I was so delighted to be on Kim’s podcast, The Princess and the B , that I wanted to share her enthusiasm with all of our listeners. During this podcast, we dig into why women seem to have a hard time seeing the “princess” in themselves. Kim, as you will hear, has been obsessed with women who somehow smashed the myths holding them back and managed to soar.

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Fishing, Marketing, Thoughts, & Action

The Fearless Marketer

I woke up last night thinking about the following question. (look, let me know if this makes sense to you OK?). “Who would I be if I couldn’t believe the thought(s) that stop me from reaching out in my marketing?”. So, here’s one way to think about this…. Fishing is a very good metaphor for Marketing and attracting clients. In both fishing and marketing, you need skills and tools and then you’ve got to take action to actually fish or to reach out in your marketing.

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Management Peer Cohort vs Team Pairing and Mobbing

Johanna Rothman

At a recent talk about the Career Ladder posts , someone asked this question: Can managers pair effectively? That's a great question. Some managers job-share. However, they don't work simultaneously on the work. One person works for a couple of days. That person then hands off work to the other person. The handoff might work in a couple of different ways.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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How to Get a Job Promotion this Year-Faster!

Rick Conlow

In this career training video learn six keys to getting a job promotion faster. So, how do you get ahead in your job? Is it who you know and office politics? Granted there is some of that in companies. Often, it is about your performance. The bottom- line is that you must change your mindset. You may need to change some habits. You MUST focus on continuous personal improvement.

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A Partner in Change and Transformation

Brimstone Consulting

As the COVID-19-pandemic unfolded, we were guided by our values , and we drew on our agility and resilience. We acted quickly to close our office, suspend travel, and help our people and our clients. We also worked quickly to reimagine and retool our programs for delivery via Zoom, Teams, and WebEx. This past year has been one of accelerated transformation, learning, disruption, and change.

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Stephanie Breedlove: "All In: How Women Entrepreneurs Can Think Bigger, Build Sustainable Businesses, and Change the World"

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how you, yes you, can have a successful company. Throughout Women's History Month I'm re-publishing podcasts which highlight exceptional women I've interviewed who have boldly smashed myths and hurdled over barriers meant to hold them back. Stephanie Breedlove is one of those women. For over 20 years, she has been a powerful voice for women entrepreneurs, co-founding Breedlove & Associates which she sold for $55 million.

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Using M&A to get in the room where it happens

The Source

Earlier this month, Wipro made waves by announcing its acquisition of Capco, the financial services specialists, for $1.45bn. Wipro has gone to some length to lay out its own rationale for the deal to investors and I’m not especially interested in undermining that thinking, even if the markets haven’t shown an enormous amount of positivity so far. Rather, I want to think about acquisitions as statements of intent, as very expensive megaphones.

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Business as usual or unusual?

Chad Barr

One year into the pandemic and we’re still not completely out and about, leading workshops and developmental experiences, speaking at events or sharing our knowledge and wisdom face-to-face with our clients. I think we can all agree that electronic video meetings often feel stale and uninspired. So, what can you do to improve the quality of your online meetings: Make your appearance presentable.

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Sled, Dog, Person—What’s the Right Order?

Alan Weiss

Remember “the cart before the horse”? It was triggered by the photo below that was sent to me this morning. When we talk about methodology and “how” we do things before we establish a trusting relationship with a true buyer, we’re trying to pull the sled, not allow the sled dogs to pull us. Yesterday, a woman was explaining how her proposal was being bounced all over the place.

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Use Art to Reignite Your Team’s Motivation

Harvard Business

As remote work drags on, managers need to get creative about reenergizing their people.

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LIVE - How to Win with Your Board & Stakeholders w/Lauren Harrell

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Are you a board member or someone who works closely with a board? If so, our next live event is for you.

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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Sam Radocchia—Smashing The Myth That Women Don't Belong In IT

On the Brink Podcast

Hear how the future is coming at us, fast. Sometimes you meet someone whose smarts, business sense and just plain moxie blows you away. For me that would be Samantha Radocchia (Sam Rad) whose story I proudly share in my new book, " Rethink: Smashing the Myths of Women in Business ," which you can buy here and whose podcast I am reposting here as part of my month-long celebration of Women's History Month.

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When the Corporate World Attacks You

Martinka Consulting

By Jessica Martinka. Horror stories abound! Both parents working from home, kids taking virtual classes, and bandwidths stretched thin, both internet and personal. The virtual work world makes it much more difficult to know what’s going on. Unlike the schmoozing, collaboration, and gossip we used to do in person. Not knowing what changes and/or decisions are being made that could affect your employment and life can bring the fear of the unknown, and I can surely relate to that.

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A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.

Harvard Business

How biases trap qualified job seekers in a cycle of rejection — and how to help them break free.

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The revolution in online learning

Seth Godin Blog

Not education, learning. Education is a model based on scarcity, compliance and accreditation. It trades time, attention and money for a piece of paper that promises value. But we learn in ways that have little to do with how mass education is structured. If you know how to walk, write, read, type, have a conversation, perform surgery or cook an egg, it’s probably because you practiced and explored and experienced, not because it was on a test.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.