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By on March 26th, 2010

How to Make an Effective Presentation?

Successful presenters understand that what the audience sees in a presentation makes a stronger impact than the words they hear. We’ve been wired to take in information primarily through our eyes ever since cave dwellers began looking over their shoulders for approaching mastodons. An academic study assigns only a 7% value to the choice of words in face-to-face communications, while tone of voice has a 38% value and facial expression has 55%.

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By on March 26th, 2010

How to Build Trust Through Effective Communications for Businesses … and Fighter Pilots

Two minutes passed since we had changed radio frequencies and I still hadn’t heard from my wingmen. My flight lead still had not checked me in. Was there a problem I didn’t know about? Did I turn to the right frequency? Was my radio broken? We were approaching the enemy’s border and I was getting nervous.

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By on March 25th, 2010

Negotiation Checklist to Ensure Successful Outcomes

Never negotiate with anyone who is not qualified to negotiate. Never put things into writing unless you’re prepared to live with them. Always have room to …

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By on March 25th, 2010

ERP – What’s Roles Got To Do With It?

Recently we’ve started seeing a new term tossed around in conversations related to ERP. It’s always tempting, to assume that a new word associated with a particular lexicon is just another market-speak buzzword, something that signifies an insignificant addition, change or new feature.

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By on March 25th, 2010

How to Package Yourself for Success

Have you or a family member or friend become a statistic in the current meltdown? Here’s how to do the homework … and the headwork to package yourself for success.

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By on March 25th, 2010

Making a Curse a Blessing – Interview with Dr. Bernie Siegel

Dr. Bernie Siegel is the author of Faith, Hope and Healing: Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer.(In this interview, he talks about being a baby boomer, some age-old wisdom and the current healthcare crisis.

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By on March 25th, 2010

Customer Experience Management Impacts Brand Equity

You’re only as strong as your weakest link. You may be gambling your brand equity if the weakest links leading to the end-customer’s experience aren’t managed. Have you analyzed your business processes in terms of customer touch point value chains, to identify reliability risks and strengthen your weakest links?

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By on March 25th, 2010

3 Twitter Rules to Live By

So as Not to Annoy Your Twitter Followers By now you know that social media is an important force in consumer’s lives. If you didn’t know that you’ve either been living under a rock, or missed the fact that Facebook recently surpassed Google in Web traffic for a one week period in mid-March. Social media [...]

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By on March 25th, 2010

Simma’s Seven-Step Solution for Successful, Inclusive Leadership

Do your employees know your name? Do they even know why your organization exists? If the answer to one or both of these questions is “no,” you cannot possibly have an inclusive culture in your organization.

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By on March 19th, 2010

Sales Versatility: Connecting with Customers Every Time

As a sales leader, you probably debrief sales calls, review sales campaigns, analyze prospecting activity and ride along on certain customer calls to observe or assist. No doubt you have noticed that each salesperson has some customers and prospects that they easily connect with, and others that they don’t.  And you might have seen cases [...]

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By on March 19th, 2010

How to Build Customer Loyalty – Make and Keep Credible Promises

It is no wonder that very few companies enjoy customer loyalty nowadays. Consumers are skeptical of company promises. A “new” product is not really “new.” A great-looking item on an info-commercial works much differently than demonstrated. The beautifully designed hotel room pictured on the website leaves a lot to be desired.

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By on March 19th, 2010

Is the Recovery Underway, Underwater or Being Fueled by Frozen Lemonade Chips?

It’s official, the recession is over, and the recovery is underway. You may be wondering how I know this. I direct you to Lou’s Leading Economic Indicators. It’s reliable, perhaps even foolproof. Lou’s Leading Economic Indicators are the composite of several technical readings that Lou takes whenever he feels like looking. These readings are combined [...]

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By on March 19th, 2010

How to Network Like a Trusted Partner

As a professional speaker and consultant, I’ve been able to build trusting relationships with a lot of very successful people all over the world.  This truly has been a blessing, and I really enjoy facilitating what I call “wingman connections” in my network. Unfortunately, my travel schedule has prevented me from doing some local networking [...]

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By on March 19th, 2010

How to Apply a Document-Strategy Model

Once you decide to implement a document strategy, it is easy to become paralyzed by the complexity of the decision.  The evolving role of documents, the complications of technology and the politics of corporate culture and change all conspire to make your task seem overwhelming.  The vista of your document strategy can seem boundless.  Navigating [...]

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By on March 19th, 2010

How to Enhance Relationships, Increase Fulfillment and Empower Yourself … Be Authentic?

  How often do you not say or do something because you’re worried about how it’ll be perceived?  For most of us, myself included, this happens more often than we’d like to admit. We live in a culture that is starving for authenticity.  We want our leaders, our co-workers, our family members, our friends and [...]

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By on March 18th, 2010

Stop Using the Economy as an Excuse

Leaders are using the economy as an excuse on a daily basis. Don’t believe me? Just ask your managers why now it’s okay to lay-off those employees who haven’t come close to meeting their performance objectives over the past several years. Perhaps your company could have avoided lay-offs if the entire team had been operating [...]

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By on March 18th, 2010

10 Workplace Motivation Commandments All Leaders Must Follow

Unmotivated employees have rightly been called “the black holes of the business universe.”  Fortunately, motivation is not something a person is born with or without.  Applying these Ten Commandments can go a long way to helping existing employees find their motivation.   1.  Commit with all thy heart so others might follow Before you ask [...]

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By on March 18th, 2010

The Power of Publicity: Finding Your Media Niche

  Whether you are the owner, manager or public relations director of a company, chances are, you’re always looking for ways to get your name in the public eye. While advertising is a great start, enhancing your advertising with publicity creates a perfect marriage of exposure for your company. What is publicity?  It’s non-paid communication [...]

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By on March 18th, 2010

Getting Past Selling Roadblocks with Better Quoting Strategies

For many companies, the length of their quoting cycles is directly proportional to the complexity of their products—the greater the complexity, the longer the sales cycle. As a result, quoting cycles can range from several days to weeks or more.  The greater the complexity of the product or service, the greater the need to chase [...]

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By on March 08th, 2010

Life Skills: How to Send Yourself Messages from the Future

A future that beckons is like a tractor beam that pulls you forward, while a future that frightens you serves as a repulser ray that pushes you away

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