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    • in Leadership Communications · Message Development · Presentation Skills · Selling Ideas
    • — 11 Nov, 2011

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    As a follow-up to a popular post I wrote in March about “How To Be An Authentic Speaker,” I enjoyed reading Matt Bai’s column this morning in the New York[…]

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    An easy guide to be “uncreative”

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    #1. Get To The Point

    If you want to help your audience listen better to you, help them understand why they’re listening to you. As quickly as possible, get to the point, by telling the[…]

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    • in Facilitation · Leadership Communications · PowerPoint · Presentation Skills · Public Relations
    • — 21 Oct, 2011

    Do You Want to Demonstrate Your Intelligence In A Meeting?

    If you want to demonstrate your intelligence in a meeting, you have two options. Based on more than 60 workshops and meetings over the past few weeks for a bank[…]

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    • in Creative Process
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    Creative Methodologies: “The 8 -ates”

    For a client project, I was going through an old file of different creative methodologies or problem-solving techniques. They range from well-known ones (like the Osborn-Parnes model) to more obscure[…]

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    • in Brainstorm Techniques · Creativity · Innovation · Public Relations
    • — 29 Aug, 2011

    How to Tap Employee Ideas

    A great collection of thoughts by Tim Donnelly for Inc magazine on how to tap employee ideas, which is cleverly entitled How To Tap Employee Ideas. Here’s Donnelly’s introduction: “Encouraging your[…]

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      • Creative Process
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      • Inventors & Their Inventions
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      • Understanding the Audience
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      • Reframing
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      • Event Management
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      • PowerPoint
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