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Seth Godin: What are Tribes?
Seth Godin is a marketer and a communicator. And, in 2008 he tapped into the emerging Zeitgeist, with his book, ‘Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us’. (https://geni.us/ugCQ0).
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Masters of Feedback: Kim Cameron - Positive Feedback
Kim Cameron is the founder of Positive Organizational Scholarship. This is the application of the ideas of Positive Psychology, Organizational Design, Citizenship, and much else, at the organizational level. At the heart of his thinking...
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Philip Kotler: The Father of Modern Marketing
People refer to Philip Kotler as the ‘father of modern marketing’. His contribution to marketing is vast and his ideas are foundational. What really stands out was his analytical approach to what was, before Kotler, a woolly and vague...
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Seth Godin: Powerhouse of Marketing Ideas
The internet has changed marketing and advertising. There are new rules, new tools, and new gurus. One of the first to see this coming, and craft new strategy and tactics, was Seth Godin. I describe Godin as a Powerhouse of Ideas....
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Social Skills: What are they and How to Build Them
Managers need to get the best from their teams. They need to win cooperation, resolve conflict, and communicate ideas. These lie in the Emotional Intelligence domain of Social Skills. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course:...
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Teamwork: Problem Solving with Your Team
One of the joys of really great teamwork is the enormous scope for creative thinking and innovative problem solving. Team problem solving is great!
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What is Charles Handy's Triple-I Company?
The Triple-I company is the primary home of 21st century knowledge workers. So, what is it?
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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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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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Charles Handy: Philosopher of Organizations
Charles Handy has been the source of a stream of ideas about organizations. We have four other videos about Handy's individual ideas. This one draws them together.
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Kim Cameron: Positive Organizational Scholarship
Positive Psychology is an important component of modern workplace thinking. And Kim Cameron has been at the forefront of making it into a powerful force in organizational thinking, referring to it in this context as ‘Positive...
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Chairing Meetings - Meetings as Conversations
Meetings are conversations - sometimes a series of conversations. So, in this video, we consider meetings as conversations and look at the five types of conversation that can make up a meeting.
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Chairing Meetings - How to Deal with Challenging Participants
When you are chairing meetings there is always the chance you'll have a difficult participant. And this can ruin your day and, worse, waste the time of other attendees. So, in this lesson, I'll show you how to handle challenging...
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Four Special Meeting Types and How to Run Them
There are 'normal ' meetings. And there are some special meeting types. And in this video, we'll look at four types of special meetings: 1. Morning stand-ups (or roll-call meetings) 2. Working Group meetings 3. Ideas generation (or...
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Influencing and Persuading - Negotiation Tools
Arguably, negotiation is a structured process where each party is influencing and persuading the other to get the outcome they desire. I think there's more to negotiation than this. But influencing and persuading are certainly a big part...
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Teamwork: Elements of Effective Team Meetings
Team meetings can be an awesome way to get your team coordinated. Or they can be a huge drain on your team’s time and morale. What are the essential elements of an effective team meeting, if you want to foster great team working?
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Katzenbach and Smith: The Wisdom of Teams
The Wisdom of Teams by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith is a true classic among Twentieth Century business books. It uncovers the wisdom of what teams can achieve, and how they can perform at their best.
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Meredith Belbin: The Belbin Team Roles Profile
Meredith Belbin set out to understand why management teams succeed or fail. And the tools he created to help them succeed is the set of nine Belbin Team Roles and the Team Role Profile.
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Rhetoric: The Golden Key to Verbal Persuasion
People have been persuading one another with their speech for as long as we have records. In many different cultures, aspiring lawyers, administrators, and politicians would have learned the science of rhetoric, of using language...
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How to Craft a Compelling, Persuasive, and Powerful Presentation
There are four questions you need to ask – and answer – if you want to craft an excellent presentation, which your audience will find compelling, persuasive, and powerful. Let’s look at them. Get our Presentation Skills Toolkit, which...
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What is NLP? Neuro Linguistic Programming
NLP is, frankly, problematic. Its popularity in management and business goes through phases and it has a lot of tools that are useful. So, what is NLP?
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Using a Projector and Slides Effectively
When you attend a meeting, you may need to make a presentation using a projector and slides. Everyone knows how to use a projector. But using and projector and slides well is another thing. In this video, I'll show you how. In fact, I...
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Introducing the Inventors Club: Turning Ideas into Successful Products
The Inventors Club, backed by Trevor Bayless, aims to support inventors in developing their ideas into successful products. By bringing together inventors and the academic world, the club provides a platform for collaboration and...
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What Is Positioning In Marketing
Gain insights into the concept of positioning in marketing with this informative video. Discover how effective positioning can help your brand stand out in a crowded marketplace. Explore the key elements and strategies to establish a...