Influencing solutions
Stories of authentic interaction with peers, employees, colleagues and customers.
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What’s Your ROI – Return On Ideas?
July 19th, 2012Thought leaders and intrapreneurs can be found in all workplaces, in the corridors and around the coffee machine – sharing stories, ideas and visions. These conversations usually take place beneath the company radar, outside of official channels. This is where the pulse, innovation, frustration, and expectations of thought leaders are echoed in animated dialogue. Too often, these conversations – many of them rich in ideas and promise – never make it past the coffee-room.
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How to give an effective presentation
June 5th, 2012Ask any pilot and he or she will tell you that the most critical parts of flying are the flight plan preparation and the actual flight, consisting of three key elements: the take-off, flight path navigation and landing.
Delivering an effective presentation consists of two similar critical steps: the preparation and actual delivery. And the three elements of the delivery are: the opening, the content navigation and the close.
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Wrong assumptions can really screw things up
April 6th, 2012“The assumption that young people are apathetic, the assumption that Republicans won’t cross over, the assumption that the wealthy care nothing for the poor and that the poor don’t vote, the assumption that African-Americans can’t support the white candidate, whites can’t support the African-American candidate, blacks and Latinos cannot come together. We are here tonight to say that that is not the America we believe in.” —Barack Obama, American Rhetoric (delivered January 26, 2008)
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Sympathy or empathy at work? What’s the business benefit?
December 23rd, 2011Should a busy leader empathize or sympathize at work? Let’s zoom in on a workplace scenario: One of your colleagues, Toni, is an independent contractor who has been on a temporary assignment with your unit at the Department of Justice for the last year.
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Eight conversation competencies for leaders and CEO’s
November 22nd, 2011There are at least eight essential conversation competencies that can help CEO’s engage their stakeholders, peers, clients, staff and family members in a more productive and meaningful way.
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Authentic Conversations are the Life Spark of an Engaged Workplace
October 22nd, 2011We all know the signs of the disgruntled employee: peevish, uninterested, disruptive. Their unhappiness usually has an unfortunate ripple effect, as these people are often vocal in their complaints and recruit others – by accident and design – to their pity parties.
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3. Decide on a course of action based on your scores and intuition.A Complicated Love – audio book
A Complicated Love is the result of tense, painful and cathartic conversations that the author had with his gay son on a road trip through Nova Scotia, Canada. It's about the fears, taboos, and judgments that the author had, as he was eventually compelled to come out on behalf of his son - authentically, from religion and as a parent.The Social Media Influencer
Hands-on social media influencing for the rest of us - many of the programs available today on social media cover the latest trends but few help people to master the basic digital skills that enable success in a digital world.
The Social Media Influencer
The Ideas Engine
The Ideas Engine™ is for intrapreneurs and emerging thought leaders on how to incubate new ideas that have the potential to create better customer value and competitive advantage.
The Ideas Engine
The Influential Leader
The Influential Leader™is a coaching program that helps leaders develop nine essential influencing competencies and centers on three questions: How you See yourself, How you Sell yourself and How you Serve others.
The Influential LeaderThe Persuasive Presenter 1
The Persuasive Presenter 1 Program™ helps the corporate intrapreneur to be a persuasive presenter and a strategic storyteller, engaging audiences and persuading stakeholders to adopt new products and processes.
The Persuasive Presenter
The Persuasive Presenter 2
The Persuasive Presenter 2™ will help you improve your presentation skills using principled persuasion techniques, storytelling that will build your confidence, engage your audiences and deliver great results.
The Persuasive Presenter 2
The Effective Communicator
The Effective Communicator Program™ focuses on the necessary conversations of leadership - to manage conflict, to effectively engage others and to influence without authority - seeking a return on engagement.
The Effective Communicator
A Complicated Love
What happens when a father hears that his son is gay and begins to confront his own demons about homosexuality? What happens when the father and the son go on a road trip, each with his own agenda, and they place an audio recorder on the dash of the van? A Complicated Love is the result of those conversations – tense, tearful, painful and cathartic.
A Complicated Love