The Business Professor
Arguments - Persuasive Communications
Persuasive writing is a form of written communication intended to convince or influence readers to accept a particular idea or opinion and to inspire action.
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Exploring the World of Communication and Good Manners in Outer Space
In this video, Nova, a friendly character from outer space, takes children on an adventure to explore the world of communication and good manners. Through engaging storytelling and examples, Nova teaches the importance of positive and...
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Exploring Communication: A Colorful Journey with Paco the Macaw
In this video, Paco the Macaw teaches children about the importance of communication. Through examples and storytelling, Paco explains how communication involves both verbal and nonverbal signals, and how it helps build relationships and...
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Exploring the World of Communication and Good Manners
In this video, Nova, a friendly character from outer space, takes kids on an adventure to learn about communication and good manners. Nova explains the importance of words and how they can make us feel different emotions. The video also...
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I WONDER - How Do Cell Communicate?
This video is answering the question of how do cell communicate.
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The Importance of Nonverbal Communication
You've probably heard of nonverbal communication; things like eye contact and body posture. But were you aware of the effects it can have on your chances of landing a job or moving up in a company?
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Fight a Battle More than Once | Bite Sized Project Management Thought from Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was a late 20th Century British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She knew that ‘You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.’ Salespeople know that you may need something like 7 contacts,...
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What is the Drama Triangle? Stephen Karpman's Drama Triangle
The Drama Triangle is a model developed by Stephen Karpman. It helps us understand the dynamics of dysfunctional sequences of miscommunication. Karpman identified the three roles in the emotional structure of complex series interactions...
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How to Build a Great Project Communications Plan
If your project does not have a good enough Communications Plan, people won't know as much as they want to know. And if your project fails to keep communication ahead of events then, in the absence of real information, people will fill...
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Project Management Lessons from Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai
Hagakure, the Book of the Samurai, was written in the 18th Century. It draws from the words of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo. Those words have a lot that a modern Project Manager can learn from. The book was popularised in the movie...
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Top 12 Non-Technical Skills that a Project Manager Needs
It's not enough to know all the technical Project Management skills. To succeed, you need a load of non-technical skills too. Here are my top 12. First, by non-technical, I mean skills that are not the key PM skills like scheduling, risk...
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What is Product Management? ...and a Product Manager?
Product Management sounds a bit like Project Management. But it’s very different. However, I often get asked the question. So, in this video I’m going to answer the question, what is Product Management – and what is a Product Manager?...
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Project Communication: Stop Using Telegrams - Get Better Project Results
Project Communication is too important. So, stop using telegrams! 'Whoa. I'm too young to even know what they really are.' They are just an old fashioned means of communication. Okay, so I'm exaggerating But too many Project Managers...
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Get Hired: Transferable Military Traits
When you join the military, you enter knowing that wherever your life and career takes you, there will eventually come a time to transition out of your service uniform. It is important to recognize the transferable traits as the impact...
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Business Etiquette Part Three: Happy Hour And Dining
In this third part of our "Business Etiquette" series, Billy Glading and Crystal L. Bailey from the Etiquette Institute of Washington walk us through the do's and don'ts of business etiquette for after hours events as well as business...
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Networking 101
No matter the industry, networking is essential to a long, successful career. The most successful networkers know that the real work begins well before the event begins and ends long after you get home. Preparation and follow-up are just...
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Making Indirect Suggestions
Learn the art of making effective suggestions with psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry. In this program you will learn how to present ideas and plans for others to consider, especially when they are unsure of what to do. Using...
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Actively Listen and Understand Their Perspective
Showing empathy starts with acknowledging another person’s situation and feelings, and showing compassion. Empathy involves imagining the other person’s perspective and responding thoughtfully. In this program, psychologists Eve Ash and...
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The Rule of Silence: The Free Source of Power in a Meeting
The Rule of Silence There are few techniques in Project Management techniques as simple as this one. It's a free source of power in your next meeting. You want to know what a stakeholder thinks. So you ask them. But you don't think they...
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Project Takeover Formula: How to Take Over a Started Project
It is never a good idea to take over a project someone else has started. There is too much risk that they will not have set it up to succeed. But, if you have to, you're going to need my Project Takeover Formula. So, what should you do...
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How to Understand the Sources of Conflict
If you look on the web, you’ll find there are only three sources of conflict… or maybe it’s five… or eight… The truth is - as anyone who has lived any length of time knows – that there are as many causes of conflict as combinations of...
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How to Make Your Message Memorable
When you communicate with your team or with your stakeholders, you must surely want to make your message memorable. But how? Here are 5 techniques, based on solid psychology. When you communicate with your stakeholders, your ideal...
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Top 7 Ways to Become a More Influential Project Manager
Do people listen when you speak, and take your advice when you offer it? Part of growing, as a Project Manager, is becoming more influential. Here are seven of my top tips. Raising your level of influence is often a matter of changing...
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How to Transition to Business as Usual - BAU
Once your project is complete, you need to hand it over to the Business as Usual team, and document a BAU Transition model or BAU Support Model, to define how the project deliverables will be supported in BAU. Details depend on what you...