Kurt Mortensen asked: More than anything else, passion recruits the hearts and minds of your audience. When the audience can sense your passion and heartfelt conviction for your cause or product – they emotionally jump on board. We love people who are excited, animated, and full of passion. There is a difference between charisma and […]
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Steven Sonsino asked: It’s daunting for business leaders who aspire to improve their leadership to be told to follow the example of Gandhi or Martin Luther King. These people are certainly inspirational, but they’re a tough act to follow in the real world. I’ve therefore been looking at what we can learn from leaders who […]
Rosie Fletcher asked: Today’s fast-moving business environment demands that the effective manager be both a well-organized administrator and highly adept in understanding people’s basic needs and behaviour in the workplace. Gaining commitment, nurturing talent, and ensuring employee motivation and productivity require open communication and trust between managers and staff. 1. Understand their behaviour People at […]
ROBYN KNAPP asked: Nursing is a caring profession. It is also a profession that is more and more evidenced based in practice. In as much as the scientific aspects of nursing is increasing due to the complex technological advancement of medicine and the machinery that is used at the patients bedside, the fact remains that […]
D Fraser asked: Being asked to be your friends best man is a pretty big job. I mean sure you get to plan the bachelor party, stand with him as he says his vows, and walk down the isle with a bridesmaid, it’s really after the wedding that the pressure starts to build. During the […]
Doug Firebaugh asked: Feel Like Giving UP? As a Leader in your company, you are going to find there are times that you and your folks can get a little discouraged, or in some instances, a lot discouraged, and that requires what we at DFTI call “Discouragement Management”. You MUST be able to get your […]
Rick Hubbard asked: “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” From the movie Cool Hand Luke. You are the leader the next door and you have to give a speech, make a presentation, write an advertisement, or simply carry on a conversations in a social networking opportunity. How do you insure that you […]
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The Personality Match-up
Bryan Long asked: The Personality Match-Up If your customers are not coming back, where are they going? Everyone sells, whether they are in sales or not. If you have started a business from scratch then you have had to sell yourself enough to your new customers to get them to buy. But did you keep […]