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Reaching the MDGs: A Concrete Look at the Challenge of More Effective Aid (Not Just More Aid)
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| Some acronyms never make it into the mainstream, and forever remain part of the secret language of a closed group of people that share the same profession, hobby or interest. But everyone is talking about the MDGs, or Millennium Development Goals. |
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Powerful Negotiation Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| Each day we face some opportunity for negotiation. Let’s face it, negotiation is a part of our every day life and dare I say that almost everything is negotiable? So being able to acquire powerful negotiation skills so you can negotiate effectively and successfully can make a big difference in your outcomes. The use of strategic thinking is a natural fit in negotiations and is critical to successful outcomes.
One of the first things you must realize to become a powerful negotiator is that
negotiation is a skill and that this skill must be mastered in order to get almost any deal you want with less effort than you could imagine. To help you acquire the skills of a powerful negotiator, here are twelve (12) powerful negotiation tips from your strategic thinking business coach.
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Magnetic Marketing: 7 Secrets to Becoming an Irresistible Sales Communicator With Integrity and Power
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| Would you like to learn the secrets of the most influential, powerful people of all time? Attract more sales and negotiate more win/win outcomes? Become a masterful communicator and a magnet for endless referrals? Despite what most books and seminars teach, successful selling is not a set of strategies, techniques or tactics to get the prospect to buy. Rather it is a state of mind – yours and your customer’s – and set of behaviors that creates compelling win/win outcomes for everyone. Read this article ONLY if you want to explode sales, win negotiations and create win/win outcomes with integrity and power. |
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Is it the death of the marketing plan?
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| I don’t know about you, but I rarely come across small businesses that have a concrete marketing plan in place. For that matter, I don’t know many medium sized ones that follow theirs to the letter either. |
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Personal Boundaries: The Key to Creating Work and Life Your Way
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| When you think of the word boundary, what images does it conjure up; A fence around a pasture, a concrete barrier between two lanes of highway, how about the Berlin Wall?
These are all physical boundaries. What about boundaries in your work and life? |
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WASTING YOUR TRAINING BUDGET
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| Until organizations move from “quick fix” training interventions to a willingness to define exact outcomes and engage in a long term process to reach those outcomes, most of the training budget will continue to be wasted. |
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Building a successful legacy one purposeful act at a time
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| In this article, Richard Monette expands on his popular article "The Success Formula". He uses the example of the Banff Centre - one of Canada's most well known and successful professional development hubs - 75th anniversary to present a clear recipe to building a successful legacy.
Richard highlights the importance of broadening the spectrum of criteria organizations and individuals typically use to measure their success. More specifically, Richard explains how to go beyond the concrete, easily measurable and tangible results and account for the intangible, fleeting outcomes behind those numbers.
Richard concludes that defining the fulfillment variable in the Success Formula is not a license to avoid the hard work required to deliver results.
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ARE YOU MANAGING FOR RESULTS
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| If you manage others in your organization, you are responsible for identifying business objectives, establishing a clear set of expected outcomes, creating policies and procedures to guide daily activities, aligning appropriate resources, and providing the development and support necessary to maximize the likelihood that expected outcomes are achieved. How would you grade yourself in all of these areas? |
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Tips For Recession-Proofing Your Small Business Franchise
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| If the recession is weighing you down and figuring out what to do to keep your franchise afloat is bearing no recognizable success, here are some fresh ideas to act on, both to give yourself a concrete course of action to take and to see a quicker recovery for your business. |
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There's Opportunity in that Crisis
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| Quantum Theory promotes the existence of limitless outcomes for each and every situation. The outcome we experience is the outcome we choose to see.
Pay attention to that. Any outcome is available to us - we choose what we experience. When we change our thoughts and expectations - we change our outcomes. |
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Today’s Definition of Strategic Planning
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| A quick Google search for definitions of strategic planning will yield numerous variations. Often these definitions point to the blatant misunderstanding of what strategic planning truly is. At other times the term is flat out misused. In the end, we find that strategic planning lacks a widely accepted definition. It seems everyone in the field of planning has a different view on the exact definition. Yet, the definitions we most embrace, convey in one form or fashion, that the idea of strategic planning is to build and sustain competitive advantage by defining desired outcomes and creating some sort of go-forward plan to achieve those outcomes.
This article offers a modern definition of corporate strategic planning. |
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