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Culture & Structure
Align Your Executive Team for Peak Performance
One of the most important elements of a successful company is a strong Executive Team. Whether you’re forging...
Is Your Company Feeding People’s Purpose at Work?
Several years ago, the CEOs with whom I work in NYC for Vistage Worldwide (there are 23,000 CEOs globally) began...
Time to Plan for Mentoring Internships
With the Spring semester at its midpoint, students are beginning the search for summer internships. This year,...
What Could Innovation Do for Your Company?
As human beings, there’s one set of innovations we’re all waiting for: effective vaccines for Covid-19 and ways to...
9 Ways to Influence
Leadership involves getting other people to do things you want them to do. In the world of offices, if both of you are...
Leadership
Align Your Executive Team for Peak Performance
One of the most important elements of a successful company is a strong Executive Team. Whether you’re forging...
Become a Transformational Leader
Do you want to be a Transformational Leader? Recently, Vistage Worldwide featured a story about a CEO with...
Tips to Better Coach Your Executives
As companies grow, it becomes increasingly important for CEOs and other executives to improve their coaching skills so...
Are You Also Selling the Invisible?
As entrepreneurs and business leaders, we focus on building the best possible set of features into our products and...
So You Want to be a Great CEO?
So you want to be a great CEO? You wear lots of hats, but the pandemic increased the importance of one. Dr....
Presentations & Communication
The Meaning of Meeting Silence
Have you ever been in a meeting where the speaker asks “any questions?” and then when there are none, she/he follows...
The Power of Presentation Excellence
What change does a leader/entrepreneur have to make in preparing and delivering a presentation during difficult...
Reframe Your Presentation Once You Truly Know Your Audience
No two people are truly identical. Similarly, the reason each member of an audience comes to hear your presentation is...
What Mistakes are You Making?
When we prepare presentations and deliver them, we make lots of decisions concerning data, content, conclusions, when...
Time to Get to Know Your Clients Better?
A keystone of Presentation Excellence training is ADAP – making sure that all your presentations are Audience Drive,...
Strategy
Increase Your Visibility
Are you one of the people/companies standing at the “post-pandemic” starting gate, anxious to gain new or increased...
What’s the goal: Peak Performing Individuals or Teams
In the opening 2021 Olympics game of Basketball, there was a major “upset”. The US team, which won 25 consecutive...
“Pre-mortems” Can Lead to More Successes
Are you using “pre-mortems” to increase the probability of a project’s success? I learned about pre-mortems years ago...
Presenting for Change: What’s Your Audience Perspective?
The stakes for presentations vary. Traditional investor, management, and marketing ones are important to the players,...
Clarity on Employee Coaching
A key practice that Stephen Covey told us to adopt in his classic book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,...
Trends
Test or Debug: What’s Your Style?
Frank Wilczek writes a column in the Wall Street Journal’s weekend edition, and one headline grabbed my attention....
The Risks of Automation Displacing Workers
In this blog, as well as my college courses, I’ve been raising the issues of how important it is for young people to...
Social Influence: Don’t Underestimate its Power
As a social psychologist with a strong interest in behavioral economics, I enjoy learning new ways that people...
Is Recruitment Part of Your Innovation Strategy?
Most of the time, people who embrace innovation is focus on the structural and cultural context of the company and how...
Build Staff’s Innovation Skills
We know that innovation is important to our companies and to our economy. How to maximize the opportunity is the...
Other
Think Like a BUYER to Design and Deliver Winning Sales Presentations
Do you want to sell your company (or an important product or service) for maximum value and quickly? Then, you need to...
It’s Showtime!
Whether you deliver one or a thousand presentations, the last thing you need to address is your own energy. Yes,...
Build the Post Pandemic Life You Want
Some of the changes we’ve seen take place during the pandemic, such as engaged workers successfully working at home...
Are You Ready for “Mission-Critical?
For over three decades, I’ve been helping leaders design, produce and deliver winning “mission-critical”...
Your Life Purpose: Rethinking It?
We’re privileged to work with people through several organizational perspectives, and by integrating them, we have a...