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How to Handle a Negotiation Breakdown - Negotiation Tools
What do you do if your negotiation breaks down? In particular, you have a breakdown in the relationship with the other party? That's why I developed my 10-step Breakdown Routine. The Breakdown Routine is designed (and tested) to rebuild...
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Never Split the Difference - Masters of Negotiation series
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz is the most recent book in our Masters of Negotiation series. But it immediately grabbed my attention. It's easy to read and full of absolute gold. Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage...
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Introduction to Managing Remote Teams
Perhaps the biggest challenge for a Team Leader is managing a remote team. We evolved to work together in small groups and in a small area. Now, managing remote teams can involve people all over the globe. This throws up many challenges,...
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Feedback Failure: What if Your Feedback Doesn't go to Plan?
Feedback can start to seem routine, in a well-run team. But feedback doesn’t always go to plan. In this video, we’ll look at four of the most common reasons why feedback doesn't go to plan – and what to do about each type of feedback...
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The Core of Influence & Persuasion: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos - Character, Reason, and Emotion
The earliest thinker in the Western tradition whose ideas about influence and persuasion come down to us was Aristotle. He asserted that we need three things to build a persuasive argument: ethos, logos, and pathos. In English, these...
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Creating Trust in Remote Teams
Humans have evolved to work together in small, close-knit groups, often based around family relationships. These allow for slow and deep relationships to form, that are the basis of common understanding and mutual trust. Remote teams...
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Credibility: Gain Gravitas through Knowledge and Experience
One of the four parameters in the Trust Equation (see our earlier video: • What is the Trust Equation? - Gravita... ) is Credibility. If people don't see you as credible, they won't trust you. So, how can you acquire credibility. The...
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Meeting Goes Wrong: What to Do when Chairing Meetings
When your meeting goes wrong, you'll need a strategy to handle it, and in this video, I'll give you a load. When you are chairing meetings there is always the meeting will go wrong. So, what do you do? Well, first of all, stay calm and...
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What is with Swift Trust? Accelerate Team Development
Swift Trust s a simple idea... How can you quickly build trust among strangers? If you are getting a group together and you need them to perform well as a team, quickly, then the Swift Trust framework can really help.
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Team Leadership: Handling Team Problems
Team working is not always smooth and easy. So, an essential part of team leadership is handling team problems. Here we look at the basics of how to handle 8 common team problems.
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What is a Brand? Brands and Branding
Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon said that ‘Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.’ Let’s examine what we mean by the terms brand and branding.
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Ethos: the Importance of Character in Influence & Persuasion
Before anyone will listen to your efforts to persuade them, they will first ask: ‘why should I listen to you?’ What they care about here is your ethos: your character.
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How to Influence by Making People Feel Good
People are far more likely to do what you ask, to accept your point of view, or help you out if they like you and you make them feel good. So, liking is one of the keys to influence and persuasion. So, how can you get people to feel good...
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Master Selling: Why People Do and Don't Buy
People buy for emotional reasons. They may justify their purchase on things like cost, convenience, performance, or sustainability. But, deep down, it’s all about how these things make them feel. Let’s look at the emotions that make...
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Presence, Charisma, Gravitas: What's the Difference?
Presence, Charisma, Gravitas: What's the Difference? There are three forms of powerful personal impact and all of them carry high levels of confidence. These are: Presence, Charisma, and Gravitas. But what are they and what are the...
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The 7 Elements of Charisma
Charisma is that kind of magnetism that draws people to you. But what are the elements of charisma that create that attraction? I'll list the top seven.
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What is the Trust Equation? - Gravitas needs Trust
Before you gain gravitas, you need to acquire trust. And the best model for how to build trust, and for how we assess trustworthiness, is the Trust Equation. This is a simple representation of how trust is made up of four components. The...
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The Presence of Gravitas: How Deliberate Pacing makes People Take Note
An important aspect of gravitas is the ability to command attention. And that means having 'presence'. That's to say, people won't take what you say seriously, unless they first notice you are there. So, presence is a key part of...
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Wellbeing A-Z -Wedding
Weddings may be beautiful and memorable, but they can also be expensive and stressful.
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General Stanley McChrystal’s risk management lessons
Highlights of the retired general’s FT Board Director conversation with Andrew Hill, senior business writer, on how to assess and respond to risk, drawing on examples from the pandemic to Russia's Ukraine war.
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Dream and Believe: AJ Wants to Play Football
AJ really loves football. His dream is to one day play on his school’s football team, but there’s only one problem, AJ is very small. Everyone at school, including his teacher Mrs. Wilson, thinks he won’t make it, but what AJ doesn’t...
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Stop Selling On Social Media (I said what I said!)
Despite what you might think, social media marketing is not about selling!! A selling first strategy is not going to convert so let's do these strategies to get better long term results.
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Let's go to the zoo: Part 2 - Music Video
Level 1 – Unit 27 – Pre-A1 English for children aged 5-12 – The learning objective for this set of videos is as follows: Animals - What are they? They're (snakes). They aren't (lizards). Let's go to the (zoo) today!
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Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development - Simplest Explanation Ever
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development is a useful tool in analysing human psychology. It is split into 8 stages and the development of ego or personality is dependent on the successful completion of each stage. This video covers...