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Become a First-Class Conversationalist
DECEMBER 25, 2024
Meeting and talking with others is an excellent way of honing your thinking skills and becoming a person that others seek out for advice and information. So here are some ideas when we want to...
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Make Personal Mastery Your Goal
DECEMBER 25, 2024
To excel at something is a pinnacle of achievement. Personal mastery begins with a vision of what you want to achieve in your life or at work. Some of us may have goals and objectives, but these...
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How To Make Sure They Get it Right First Time
DECEMBER 24, 2024
On one of our programs, a manager remarked that he had a team member who, no matter how he gave directions of what should be done, always failed to comply. It wasn’t a matter of competence or...
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How Focus Can Get Results
DECEMBER 24, 2024
In a recent article on FOCUS, we outlined the five ways that focus can gain effective results. By aiming specifically at a goal, it’s like aiming a laser beam at a target; you go straight for the...
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How to ensure MAGIC meetings
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Meetings can be testing, even for the most prepared manager, and most people will agree that the amount of time wasted in meetings could be drastically reduced if several steps are taken. And those...
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How to Discover What People Expect of You
DECEMBER 23, 2024
As a manager, how do you discover what people expect you to do? What feedback do you want that will help you improve your game and create opportunities for expansion in the future?
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The Structure of Real Rapport
DECEMBER 23, 2024
You know that the best way to influence another person is to build rapport first. The best way to do this with integrity and honesty is through a process called Matching.
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How and Why Feedback Can Help You Improve
DECEMBER 23, 2024
How often do you proactively initiate feedback from your team members? I don’t mean the ad-hoc, daily discussions that are necessary for getting work done; I’m referring to the type of feedback that...
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Do You See Yourself As Others See You?
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Have you ever done something that you know didn’t live up to your personal values or standards? Duh, well yeah, of course!
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How Do You Become Really Good At Something?
DECEMBER 20, 2024
How do you become good at something? Most psychologists agree it’s repetition that makes something easy for us to do and that’s borne out by a study of our brain, which fires neurons in a repetitive...
