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15 Critical Leadership Skills You Need Today
In today's tough business climate, managers and executives are becoming obsolete and are being replaced by leaders. The new manager/executive must be an expeditor and leader rather than an order giver and manager of people.

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Some are naturals, but everyone can get better
We were recently doing Relationships for Revenue Growth training for some of the sales force of a large technical company, and throughout the day, we had great discussions about the power of turning business relationships into personal relationships.

Performance Appraisal More Powerful with a ResultsOriented Job Description
Confronting employee performance problems is always tricky, but especially when the conversation deteriorates into personal behaviors and personality issues. Unfortunately, most appraisal forms are a hindrance since they include the very personal traits (initiative, attitude. etc.) that should be avoided. The solution is to keep appraisal discussions focused on objective job requirements, especially with a Results-Oriented Job Description.

IS YOUR BUSINESS PUTTING YOUR ASSETS AT RISK? BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: THE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Most states provide for a variety of business forms. The form you choose for your business will influence the time and money needed to form and maintenance your business. Most importantly, it controls the extent to which your personal assets are available to your creditors to satisfy business debts and obligations. This article is the third in the series that explores the differences between business forms. It is easy to read and understand. The information is a great starting point in your investigation and will prepare you for further discussions with your attorney, accountant, or advisor.

CASH FLOW - You're Forgiven for Misunderstanding the Term!
The article discussions misconceptions and terminology around the meanings and interpretation of cash flow.

What’s Your Personal PR Plan?
Personal PR is becoming more and more important in business today and when you want to build a personal brand, there are a number of different areas you can work on to raise your profile. If you don’t already have a personal PR plan in place, we’ve explained some of the main things you should consider below. You may want to embrace all of these or maybe just one or two, it all depends on your personal PR object

Impact and Influence in Negotiation – See How They Plan and Organise
For people to be influenced by you and for you to have personal impact in negotiations, discussions and meetings they need to “buy” what you have to “sell”. This article is about how they organise things and the amount of structure they seem to like. This is of vital importance not only in the meetings and discussions themselves but in any plans for the future – what happens after agreement has been reached and the discussions move to implementation.

Impact and Influence in Action – Make Sure Everyone Knows Where You’re Starting From
It’s important to set the scene for the discussions and make sure everyone is clear about the agenda. The danger here is that the need to get what you want or to resolve the issue means you jump straight into problem solving mode and discussions become about what needs to happen to move things to a conclusion. Just as important is clarifying what current reality is right now. It might not be where you or “they” would like to be but it is where you are in reality and thus is the starting point.

How do CEOs think?
I travel regularly to meet our customers. Normally, we work with the VP Engineering and the CTO of product Companies. I meet them regularly and most of the time our meetings are technical discussions or discussions about specific projects we may be working on. As the market was slow, most of our customers were not in a position to discuss specific projects. Most projects were on hold, and our customers were under pressure from their CEOs and Boards to reduce costs. This meant that they were pushing us for rate discounts.

Lead People, Manage Money
The idea of patterns at play in the workplace is beginning to create some lively discussions. You can take the quiz to observe the personal patterns you bring to work by taking the quiz on my website. If you choose, you can then have a free half hour consultation to give you pointers on what to do to make positive changes and increase your career success quotient. Not bad for less than an hour to be able to say "Oh, now I get it!!" George White took the test and here is his response:

Personal Branding
Personal Branding is the absolute hallmark of the top 2% of sales professionals. Most of them don’t even know that they are doing it! Personal Branding gets your phone to ring. Personal Branding separates you from all of the competition. Personal Branding puts VALUE ahead of COST. Personal Branding elevates you and thus your company/product/service in the minds of your customer. Personal Branding, quite simply, creates more sales for you!

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