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How to Influence People by Appealing to their Emotion
Nobody ever makes a decision on the facts alone. We make our choices based on emotions, and then use the facts to justify our decision… to others and to ourselves. So, how can you influence people by appealing to emotion?
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The Complex Sale: 101
Complex Sales are, by nature… Complex. And that means this is a big topic. In the late 1990s, I went on a 2-day course, so this video is, necessarily, the 101 version of what has stuck with me.
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Leadership Attitudes: How to Approach Things Like a Leader
Leadership is largely a matter of character. Yes, there are some skills you’ll need, some roles to discharge, and a choice of how you do it. But, first and foremost, what matters are your attitudes to leadership and the people you lead.
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Chairing Meetings - How to Prevent Group Think
Group Think is the cause of many, many bad decisions. It happens when the group prioritizes agreement and harmony over examining tricky issues and uncomfortable opinions. And groupthink can lead to all-out disasters. Do, when you're...
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The Psychology of Motivation: Understand the Basics
Motivation is a mental and emotional state. So, we need to understand the basics of the psychology of motivation and how motivation works in the brain. That's what we will do in this video.
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What is the Matrix Organization Model?
Many large multi-national organizations eschew the simplicity of Charles Handy’s Federal Organization model. Instead, they favor the big, complex, and ugly approach that is the Matrix Model.
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What is Brian Robertson's Holacracy Organizational Model?
Holacracy is a form of Adhocracy, which we covered in an earlier video. But, whilst we are way past ‘peak adhocracy’, it seems that holacracy is thriving.
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What is a Brand Strategy?
A Brand Strategy is a long-term plan for the evolution of a successful brand and the growth of its brand equity.
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Self Regulation: What is it and How to Build It?
The second domain of Emotional Intelligence is Self Regulation. This is about managing your emotional state and the behavioral and social choices you make. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A...
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Negotiating Team Roles in the Negotiation Process
As your negotiations get more complex, you will increasingly need to enter them with a team to support you. Maybe one person, maybe two or more. But what are the negotiating team roles that you and your colleagues will play? That is the...
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Getting Sufficient Challenge in Your Remote Team
One challenge in managing virtual teams is… Challenge. That is, that we fail to adequately challenge one-another’s thinking, because the distance and cultural differences in a remote team make it even more uncomfortable or difficult than...
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What is a Customer Persona? ...or Buyer Persona or Marketing Persona
Who are you marketing to? Do you know the characteristics of your prospective customers? To target your marketing well, you need an archetype, which marketers call the ‘Buyer Persona’ or sometimes the customer or marketing persona. And...
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NLP Meta Programs: How we See the World
In an earlier video, I talked about the filters in our brains that shape our interpretations of the world around us. But which bits of our experience do we delete, distort, and generalize? And which do we focus on? Meta Programs are the...
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Chairing Meetings - How to Close Your Meeting
People remember beginnings and endings, So, when you are chairing meetings, always pay attention to how you close your meeting.
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Chairing Meetings - Meeting Minutes and Follow-up
It's not over 'til it's over. And, when you're chairing meetings, you aren't finished until you issue your meeting minutes, and follow-up on the meeting.
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Crop X: Using NASA Technology to Optimize Potato Farming and Marketing Decisions
Crop X is a small company that uses NASA image processing technology to help farmers in the Columbia Basin region of Oregon make informed marketing decisions. By analyzing satellite images, Crop X can count the number of potato fields...
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Abortion law: Roe vs Wade and the US constitution
Law and policy commentator David Allen Green looks at how the US Supreme Court introduced a constitutional right to an abortion with Roe vs Wade and then removed that constitutional right with Dobbs.
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AWS, JavaScript, React - Deploy Web Apps on the Cloud - Private Cloud
In this video, we will understand the first cloud deployment model, the private model, single-tenant environments accessible by a single organization.
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Tyranny of the Majority
Four different perspectives from leading researchers on the threat of majoritarian rule or “tyranny of the majority". Featured are: Quentin Skinner (QMUL), John Dunn (University of Cambridge), Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) and author Matthew...
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The Hidden Dangers of Night: Youth Suicides, Mental Health, and Firearms
Uncover the alarming link between nighttime vulnerabilities, suicidal ideation among youth, and the presence of family-owned firearms. Delve into the impacts of disrupted circadian rhythms and the quiet of evening hours. This video...
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2098 - At a Crossroads? How to Explain Your Own Life Decisions in English
Have you made some big decisions in your life? Today, get a key connection skill to talk about why you made the life decisions you did- and how that changed your life. Listen in for a deep conversation topic today.
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Northeast Native Americans
Dr. Forrester discusses Native Americans living in the Northeastern part of the United States of America.
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Prudence: Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson's prudence in orchestrating the Louisiana Purchase, despite constitutional concerns, doubled the size of the U.S., securing its position on the global stage.
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Pandemic Perspectives: The Importance of Communication
VITAL ENGAGEMENT: Dr Holt talks about how the greatest lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is that to battle a pandemic the public must feel that they have a buy-in to the process that gives rise to the decisions to wear masks, take...