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Culture & Structure
Accountability Gives Winners An Advantage
If you believe that accountability is all about finding ways to blame people when things go wrong, you’re missing the...
Flip the Meeting
Ask people to rate how productive meetings are and you tend to get results like I did on Google: “A recent...
Don’t Micro-Manage; Inspire Your People
As a manager, you manage tasks; as a leader, you influence people. It’s time to focus on the latter role. In the...
How Well Do You Know Your Current Culture?
How well do we really know our cultures? As we think about the migration of traditional companies from ones where most...
Are You Committed to Continuous Improvement?
Is continuous improvement a core value for your company? Over a decade ago, I was asked by Vistage Worldwide to launch...
Leadership
Don’t Micro-Manage; Inspire Your People
Leadership involves more than caring about the people you lead; it requires that they feel your authentic concern....
Are You Pursuing a Goal or a Mission?
In 1961 President Kennedy set a goal for the United States: ”I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving...
Don’t Delay Developing People’s Leadership Potential
Recently, a former college professor who asked me several times to deliver guest lectures on presentations and...
Leaders Enable Other Leaders to Make Better Decisions
Every coin has two sides; for every Yin there is a Yang. When you think about leaders, you probably think about...
How Does Your Leadership Style Impact on Your Company?
How well do we really know our cultures? For a CEO, it’s important that you have confidence in your vision for the...
Presentations & Communication
Facilitating is a Form of Presentation
Welcome to the new world of work, where hybridism becomes the norm. It doesn’t mean some days you work at home and...
Use Visual Thinking for Clarity and Persuasion
Having spent over 15 years helping 5000 clients use visual models to present more effectively, through my former...
What’s the Biggest Problem Investor’s Face?
When most clients ask for help to develop a “winning” presentation, they assume that clients don’t know a lot about...
To Get Ahead in Your Career, Avoid Missteps
The presentation-mindset acknowledges that even the greatest content can lose if it’s not presented in a way that...
It’s Time to Go Back to Basics!
During the last three years of the pandemic, presenters have had to adapt to a set of time and media changes. As the...
Strategy
Flip the Meeting
Ask people to rate how productive meetings are and you tend to get results like I did on Google: “A recent...
What’s Your Purpose Statement?
One of the initial tasks of every company is to articulate the corporate identify so management, employees and...
Persuasion Requires More than Storytelling
Telling someone about “Little Red Ridinghood” is into the same as telling someone to invest in your start-up or next...
What’s the Source of Your Presentation Power?
When you makes a product service or idea, you presentation goal is to influence the other party. The power of the...
It’s the (User-Focused) Strategy that Counts!
To paraphrase a famous expression, “It’s the Strategy, Stupid!” Recently Greg Satell, Publisher of Digital Tonto,...
Trends
9 Ways to Use ChatGPT for Business Development, Marketing and Networking
ChatGPT is a very powerful tool that can be used for various purposes in business development, marketing, and...
How to Present Yourself for Career Advancement
Most people give you advice on what to do. It’s refreshing when someone takes the opposite tact. Carter Cast, in The...
Is An Outdated LinkedIn Profile Negatively Impacting Your Career?
By Point Road Group Before and after you give a presentation, people look you up on LinkedIn. Does your profile make a...
What Impact Will Digital Automation Have on Your Business?
How do you plan for the future of automation? When I’m teaching college students, I ask them to look at the jobs...
Another Stereotype Hits the Dust
Working with Age Brilliantly and teaching the Psychology of Aging, I have the opportunity almost weekly to see current...
Other
How to Present Yourself for Career Advancement
Most people give you advice on what to do. It’s refreshing when someone takes the opposite tact. Carter Cast, in The...
Are You Committed to Continuous Improvement?
Is continuous improvement a core value for your company? Over a decade ago, I was asked by Vistage Worldwide to launch...
What’s Your Company’s Trust Rating?
Trust is earned. When someone says they “trust” you or your company, they’re telling you that they believe in...
It’s Time for Mentoring Internships
Companies: One reason for the “Great Resignation” is that people, especially “emerging adults” discovered that their...
Can the “Great Resignation” Become the “Great Elevation”? It’s Up to You.
The data is clear: one of the consequences of the Pandemic is that people are leaving their jobs. From my perch, the...