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Leading In A Down Economy - Crisis Or Opportunity
Yes, most often the buck does stop with you the leader when it comes down to the big or final decisions; however, using your best organizational talent can “turn your crisis into their opportunity.” What keeps you up at night can keep them up at night and this can be a good thing.

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BECOME SUCCESSFUL: CHANGE THE WAY YOU TALK TO YOURSELF!
Most people talk to themselves – not always out loud! – but definitely inside their own head. These conversations with yourself, is known as inner dialogue. This article looks at how changing your inner dialogue helps you change how you feel and how successful you can become.
Play Catch with Communication
An associate and I facilitated a dialogue session for the Delta Chamber of Commerce on the attraction and retention of employees in the workplace. The dialogue session uncovered five areas that influence employees in the workplace. They are: • Communication • Attitude • Flexibility • Opportunity to Learn • Fun This series of five articles will focus on each of the five areas from the dialogue session. Let’s begin with communication. Communication, in particular interpersonal communication, is the foundation for creating excellent organizations and great places to work.

Writing Dialogue That Speaks Volumes
If you're writing fiction or even true crime or a memoir, you need to understand the basic structure of dialogue, and how to make these speech patterns stand out and come alive. Expert dialogue is writing that speaks volumes through its characters or narrator.
Feedback or look ahead?
Leaders and people spend surprising amount of time on giving and taking feedback. But feedback sessions can be counter productive due to the blame games and time lost. Look ahead sessions encourage people to collaborate, evaluate capabilities, question assumptions, and evaluate risks. They can help in getting buy-in of people to strategic efforts.
“Dialogue, 4 Keys to Real Business Communication”
Here are four ways to practice the art of dialogue that can change the way you lead or participate in meetings and one to one discussions. Many of us are stuck in the superficial world of niceties and pleasantries and maybe some communication exchange to get our point across. Alas, there is more, there is an advanced course in communication, it’s called dialogue, so read on to explore how you can improve your dialoguing skills.
The most important thing to know about your strategic plan.
As part of the product development process for RapidInfluence we had numerous sessions with individuals both inside and outside of our target market. The purpose of these discussions were to work through the premises of our Strategic Planning Manifesto and to preview the first version of our product. One of the more insightful sessions we had was with Ian Smith of Portfolio Partnership and the author of The Smith Report, a must read for growth companies. In our session we discussed the need for companies to create strategic plans and more importantly to implement them. During our discussion, Ian rightly pointed out that success in strategic plan implementation was largely dependent on knowing what the status of various action items are within the strategic plan.
The Dreaded Monday Morning Sales Meeting
Do They GET TO GO or HAVE TO GO? For years as a speaker/trainer/coach, salespeople have approached me with feedback regarding their regular company sales meetings. This is what I hear: -The meetings are boring with little to no direction -The meetings turn into individual gripe sessions -The meetings turn into complaint sessions by management -The meetings tend to “bring down” the reps rather than “pump up” the reps -The meetings tend to be filled with reports, data, stats, and rules -The meetings never start on time -The meetings never follow an agenda -The meetings never end on time Does any of this sound familiar to you? Do your people tend to “go through the motions” in your sales meetings? Do they complain about having to come to these meetings regularly? Do you sometimes agree with them?

Brand Positioning Sessions = Clarity
Brand positioning sessions are important steps in providing clarity when creating a Positioning Statement. The client is asked a number of questions about what they actually do, their ideal clients, how they find them, their goals, what makes them different. It reflects goals to strive for and is the bedrock of everything going forward – the website, all design and marketing tools. Lists of words that describe the client turn into a bunch of tag lines, present both the agency and client with several options and an opportunity to collaborate on their branding. Client and agency collaboration in branding sessions brings clarity to the client as to what their positioning statement should be and how to brand it.
Why we should put the Trainer back into Sales Management
Up until 20 years ago, a key function of a sales manager’s role was the regular training of their sales people. What did this look like? Well, something like this: weekly 1 hour power training sessions for the sales team focusing on honing key skills, bi-monthly half day or 1 day sessions drilling down on account planning, strategy, market and product knowledge, and formal class room training usually employing external, expert training providers on a once or twice yearly basis to boost their teams to the next level. This was all supplemented by sales meetings and one-on-one coaching. Many sales managers of yesteryear were good trainers. However, through my observations across many businesses, the training component has been replaced by compliance.

Three Ways To Win With Empathy
Many of my clients want to be more inspirational as leaders, but suffer in that quest because too many of their interactions with teammates degrade from dialogue to debate... and frustrating debate, at that. Whether you own a business or have a leadership role in running the business, you know that no one is inspired by such arguments. So here are three suggestions for leaders who'd rather skip the debate and interact in dialogue....
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