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5 ways to pep your team’s work-life balance
Working on your project when your personal life is not going the way you want it can be a real bummer. On the other hand, having your work-conflicts affect your personal life is as bad. How do you ensure that your team members are balancing their work and life well?
Stress-Free Selling® - Easy Ways to Avoid Price Objections
Believe. Ah, the power of conviction. If we believe our prices are too high, we create price resistance. If we believe our prices are justified, appropriate, a good value, worth what we're asking, you will watch price objections disappear. Of course this will not make all price objections disappear. What it will do is make many disappear. . . just because you believe. Your lack of belief is like a giraffe to a lion. It devours you. You don't have a chance. So, what's the solution? If you believe your prices are too high, you have three choices...
Ghosting On the Job; How to Capture Someone Else’s Style in Writing
When you take a job at a company, whether you’re hired as a writer or not, being asked to write a memo or some other kind of document for someone that you work with is pretty common. Perhaps the person who's asked you to do the writing is busy or perhaps you know a bit more about the subject than they do—either way, ghostwriting requires being able to capture the “author’s” personal style on the page.
Stress-Free Selling® - The Power of Belief
Ah, the power of conviction. If we believe our prices are too high, we create price resistance. If we believe our prices are justified, appropriate, a good value, worth what we're asking, watch price objections dwindle!

The 5 Things Great Managers Sense about their People Every Day
For someone who manages people, being very aware is a vital component in your toolbox. And heightened senses in your everyday business life are critical if you are to get the very best performance from those around you - and for them to deliver the successful results you want. And the good news it that it is easy to build awareness...

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Strategic Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach To Improve Personal Communications
Personal conversations are one of the most common aspects of our human conversations. Personal conversations are an essential facet in almost every one of our relationships. And one might say that the quality of those relationships is dependent upon our abilities to verbally communicate. Have you ever had any training to help you develop your personal conversational skills? Have you ever wished that you could be a better conversationalist? Do you realize that personal communication skills are one of the most powerful and strategic assets you can possess? People with effective communication skills have a real strategic advantage for business and social success. Your strategic thinking business coach has the following strategic tips to improved personal communications.

Tough Conversations:Talking Over What Really Matters
Typically we enter into difficult conversations prepared to explain our own view points. What is needed is to hold off until we explore as much as we can the other’s person’s perspective. Enter into the conversation with a learning objective. Don’t assume that you understand enough to explain things. Tough Conversations begin with hard listening.
Be Open to New Ideas
It is easy to say "be open to new ideas" and most of us believe we have an open mind. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are all stuck with an enormous array of paradigms that limit our ability to see the possibiliies. To be really open minded is a skill that takes a lot of effort to develop. This article may help you see things from a different perspective.

10 Best Opening Lines to Make a Connection
I’ve asked many successful connectors – What do you say to open conversations with others? Are there magic words you use that make strangers open up and actually want to talk with you? What do you say to allow people to connect with you? The key is to help them connect with you, and in turn, you with them. You want to listen, not necessarily talk. To do that, you can control the conversation for as long as you want by asking good questions, paying attention by listening, and really separating yourself from others.
Leading Change - Engaging in Fierce Conversations
Business is fundamentally an extended conversation. Whether you're speaking with your boss, team members, colleagues or direct reports, conversations shape what gets done. As a leader, you must engineer conversations to foster clarity, cooperation, creativity and a connection to company values.

Ten Tips for Emotionally Intelligent Conversations
This article provides some powerful tips you can use for having fierce conversations at work, particularly difficult conversations that have to deal with conflict or lack of trust. These ideas are helpful for people who have trust issues and are in conflict with one another. They have been found to be very powerful and effective in helping leaders and employees engage in assertive and emotionally intelligent conversations.

Personal Impact and Influence – The Conversation Control Map
Conversations are how things get done in organisations. These conversations might be meetings, email interactions, telephone conferences or chance corridor or water cooler discussions. What they have in common is their purpose. Business conversations are there to solve a problem or make a decision. A mental model or map helps people notice where a conversation is and provides pointers to what to do next to move it to a more useful place.
Changing What's Normal Conversations
Two trends I like in professional speaking are that presenters are more and more catalysts for conversation and there is an audience expectation of the speaker to engage in conversation. I love these trends as they are a personal preference. Conversations of meaning are a challenge for most people particularly in the age of all things digital. Here are my top twelve tips for engaging in meaningful conversations:
How To Open Up Conversations In Sales Presenting
Presenting to customers and prospects? It’s amazing how much more effective sales presenting is when you open up conversations where everyone participates.
Is Your Open Door Policy Killing You?
What is your Open Door policy? Does it provide time to think, strategize, design and plan? Thinking requires uninterrupted time. Boundaries must be set to create space for uninterrupted strategy time, while leaving room for Open Door conversations.
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