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Personal Effectiveness: 5 Tips for Project Managers
Project Management is a professional discipline. It’s not enough to be skilled in the methods. You need to cultivate personal effectiveness. So, I'll offer you five of my best personal effectiveness tips. These tips are inspired by our...
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Leading without Authority: How to Manage and Lead People
Project Managers rarely have authority over the people we need to manage. So, our challenge is leading without authority. A manager typically has authority over the people they manage. But project managers rarely do. So, we cannot simply...
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Top 7 Leadership Tools and Methods for Team and Project Leaders
There is a wealth of great leadership tools and ideas that you can apply to your professional practice. Let's look at seven of them. 1. Get people to Honor Commitments Play to their conscience: Use "the Jiminy Cricket effect". 2....
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The Function of Leadership... | Bite Sized Project Management Thought from Ralph Nader
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.' This quote from Ralph Nader - the political activist and environmentalist - reminds us that our legacy lies in the leaders we create - not the followers.
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The Three Types of Leadership Model
Extract from Day-to-Day Project Leadership that Gets Results. At the end of this course, you will be able to lead your team well… and to do so with confidence. You will be ready to take your place as an effective leader in your...
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What is Servant Leadership? Project Leadership at its Best
Servant leader. That sounds pretty much like a contradiction in terms, but it is a profoundly important idea. Indeed, I’d argue that servant leadership the single most valuable approach to leadership. And it’s an approach that no leader...
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Five Project Leadership Tips: Be a Better Project Leader
Project Leadership is not just a bolt-on to Project Management: it's how we do Project Management well. I write and speak extensively about Project Leadership - so, here, I share five of my best tips with you. Tip 1: Everything Starts...
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Leadership Models Project Managers Need to Know
You aren't just a Project Manager. You are also a Project Leader. But what have you learned about theories and models of leadership? In this video, I'll give you a primer of the Leadership Models that Project Managers Need to Know. There...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
What is Empathy?
What is Empathy and why does it matter? We'll take the definition but also look at 3 ways to practice empathy in your daily life.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Communication Professor Reacts to Pro Speaker Patricia Fripp's Storytelling Skills
Communication Professor Reacts to Patricia Fripp's storytelling about bad customer service.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Give An Extemporaneous Speech
How to Give an Extemporaneous Speech Like a Professional. Here's a mini-training that'll help you develop the genuine, conversational public speaking sound professionals have.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Using Active vs. Passive Voice when Storytelling
The best storytellers speak in an active voice rather than a passive voice. Get some real-time practice and examples that show you how to turn passive sentences into active sentences and watch your stories transport your listeners.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Lead by Example in 4 Ways
How to lead by example in 4 important ways.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Use Public Speaking Notes
How to Use Public Speaking Notes. Here are 3 common methods that public speakers use for notes ranked from worst to best.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Leadership vs. Management 4 Key Differences
Let's look at the four Key Differences Between Leadership and Management. Leaders and managers perform complementary skills.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Get Rid of Filler Words
Here's how to get rid of filler words such as "um," "uh," "you know," etc. Filler words can be distracting to your audience and can lead to people not absorbing what you're saying. Once we identify that we use filler words and determine...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
5 Public Speaking Body Language Tips
Here are my top 5 Body Language Tips for More Confident Public Speaking.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Positive Communication Skills for Leaders
You're going to learn positive communication skills for leaders. In a world that seems more divided than ever, these 6 key skills will help you unite your team and create positive change.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Greet People Well
Learn how to greet people well in professional and social situations. It all starts with the greeting. An effective greeting opens an interaction on the right foot and sets the conversation up to move toward task-related conversation...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Ask Better Questions in Conversations
Learn how to ask better questions in conversations. Asking good questions is one of the top secrets to becoming an excellent conversationalist, getting to know people, and discovering the unknown.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Give Positive Feedback with Compliments
Learn how to give positive feedback, especially in the form of genuine compliments. Giving feedback is a crucial leadership behavior and part of the Positive Communication Model.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Logical Fallacies Explained
Hear the Top 7 Logical Fallacies Explained with examples. Be sure not to use these or you'll hurt your own credibility. Be on the lookout for them when other people use these fallacies.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
How to Look and Sound Better on Zoom Calls
Learn How to Look and Sound Better on Zoom Calls with these 5 tips! Free Download pdf Confident Speaking: https://www.alexanderlyon.com/free-re...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
What is a Thought Leader?
What is a Thought Leader and How Can You Become One? The truth is, I don't like terms like "thought leadership" or "personal brand," but they are relevant to many professionals today.