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JULY 23, 2016

The term ‘management development’ means the same general thing is ‘management training.’ Ted Bauer, Management development is hot garbage ——————– So, for a Saturday morning, let’s ask again a question that is often asked: “Does… Read More Does Soft Skill Training Work?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 9, 2012

After some less than stellar presentations, we need some presentation skills training, fast.” Recently, a client said “come quick? ” (actually, I paraphrase a little, but the “less than stellar” part is a direct quote. And, I suspect, the presentations were a pretty far cry from stellar). So, I started thinking.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 31, 2016

… Read More Thoughts On Leaders Who Do, Or Do Not, Attend Training and Development Sessions. They “know” what they need to know, and they are not much open to constructive re-directing. And, why should they be? they got to the top with what they know and what they do.…

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 14, 2014

Randy''s blog entries' Recently, I was surrounded by about a dozen folks around a table who, in way or another, were tasked with hiring the right folks, and then turning those folks into the employees and the teams that would lead to greater organizational success.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 22, 2011

Only Steve Jobs can train himself to be the next Steve Jobs. Here is an article written by Donna Fenn for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. Ignore the dumb title. He remains a work-in-progress, exploring and embracing (sometimes celebrating) whatever intrigues and delights him in ways and to the extent his circumstances permit.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 8, 2013

This blog post is adapted from part of what I shared)… ——————- “I want to get out of the business of trying […]. Randy''s blog entries' What they have done with their many years of comitment to childen is — (this is not hyperbole) – awe-inspiring.

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MAY 16, 2014

Randy''s blog entries' And, though everything about the work world seems far more complex, maybe sometimes the answer is not found in complexity, but in simplicity itself. Here’s one vexing […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 30, 2012

The problem is simple. Too many employees are not fully developed. In fact, too many employees develop very little after they are hired. And this is a problem. So, how does a company do a better job at developing employees? Here is a line from the 2002 book that kind of launched the “Execution” discussion [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 23, 2014

We don’t think training people about ethics should be from a situational or conditional perspective. Karl''s blog entries certification Creative Communication Network ethics ethics training lawsuits Willful Blindness' We don’t believe in excuses or promises. We don’t believe in people sitting […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2016

Nassim Nicholas… Read More “You’ve got to take a journey without your ego” – Pondering the Challenges of Training Programs and People Slow to Learn. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don’t seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

That question came from a Dallas Police Officer, who has attended some training sessions we’ve put on for the DPD through the Caruth Institute. Randy''s blog entries' Randy, could you give me a few books or maybe the best book on servant leadership that you have come across? It’s a very good question.

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MAY 25, 2014

That was the question a woman asked me at the conclusion of my two intensive days of presentation skills training. Because, no matter what I speak on, or train on, I always seem to mention my work in […]. Randy''s blog entries' “What’s the one book – only one – you would recommend to help me lead people better?”

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK/CD REVIEWS Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance Jason Selk The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield Leadership: [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 17, 2014

Take all the words you know – mentoring, coaching; training – and it all boils down to this. Randy''s blog entries' This is a short, but wonderful story about leadership development.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 23, 2015

I was fascinated when I received word of a book by Jan Jarboe Russell entitled The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II (Scribner, 2015). Were you aware of what happened? Have you ever heard of Crystal City, Texas? See the map below. […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2013

I am back from vacation, hitting the ground running, with some days of Presentation Skills training beginning tomorrow. Regular” blog posts coming soon, but here is my last “vacation reflection” blog post. Randy''s blog entries' We spent a chunk of our time in Red River, New Mexico.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 13, 2014

Ed Savage is the head of Training and Development in a sizable company relatively near Dallas. Randy''s blog entries' He is also smart, and well-read — and, to make me even more envious, he remembers what he reads.

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MAY 30, 2014

John Cox is president of The Cox Learning Group and a highly-regarded authority on attracting, hiring, and training high-potential workers and then retaining them at a time when competition for talent is greater than ever before.

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JUNE 11, 2015

I’m spending two days of training with seven credit union professionals. For example, I cannot lead a training session and write a blog post at the same time). The subject — presentation skills. {a a side issue – I am reminded that I cannot do two things at once. Here are a couple of observations from […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 15, 2014

The Gazelle’s Coaching organization (Growing Leaders – Growing Companies) – an affiliation of trained, forward-thinking coaches, help their clients in many ways, but in this specifically: they help their clients make four key decisions. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Subsidized job-training programs […]. Randy''s blog entries' Our efforts might be more fruitfully focused on getting Maddie the education she needs for a better shot at a decent living in the years to come.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 10, 2015

The First Friday Book Synopsis is: a monthly event, this blog, and part of the Creative Communication Network’s array of services for the growing business. Acuity (Sandler Training) is our 2015 yearly sponsor. (We Randy''s blog entries' Our sponsors are an important part of our overall efforts. We […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2014

In addition to leading training sessions on Presentation Skills and Public Speaking, I also do some speech writing. Randy''s blog entries' People hire me to write a speech, or more, for them. Here is part of what I’ve learned through the process of writing for another speaker.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 22, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Accenture Adult Leadership Adult Training Advanced Management Journal Albert Einstein Allstate Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Cadillac Caterpillar Chip R. He is also the author of Wired and Dangerous (with John Patterson) and Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service (with Ron Zemke).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 8, 2014

Dubner William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2014) How and why mastering the economic approach will produce better answers to questions and better solutions to problems In their latest book, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner cite […]. Dubner Steven D.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 29, 2013

In my speech and presentation skill training, I teach that you should state your thesis in a clear, […]. Randy''s blog entries' Put your key message, in a clear, understandable, short sentence, at the very beginning of your e-mail/memo.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

That question came from a Dallas Police Officer, who has attended some training sessions we’ve put on for the DPD through the Caruth Institute. Randy''s blog entries' Randy, could you give me a few books or maybe the best book on servant leadership that you have come across? It’s a very good question.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 15, 2012

The King had a speech deficiency. He spoke poorly. He stammered. He needed to speak well. His people needed him to speak well. And he took the steps (the many, many hours of steps!) to learn how to speak better. And then, he spoke better. Maybe not perfectly – but noticeably better. Yes, I’m [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As a founder of BrainTrust, a successful organization that trains and develops sales and marketing professionals, Jeff Bloomfield has given a lot of thought to why customers say yes. In Story-Based Selling: Create, Connect, and Close, Bloomfield says it’s really no mystery. People buy from people they trust.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 21, 2014

And the trained, constantly learning Gazelle’s […]. Randy''s blog entries' If you go to the Gazelle’s web site, they have work sheets (“Gazelle’s Growth Tools”) for all four decisions: People; Strategy; Execution; Cash. These are good, useful, helpful work sheets.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 22, 2014

I’m about to begin Day 2 of one of my intensive 2-day Presentation Skills Training Sessions. Randy''s blog entries' These are for small groups — no more than 6 at a time. We spend some time on content development, and then most of the time on delivery issues.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 1, 2012

Bob Morris, in a comment he left on this blog post: A Training Session is Just the Beginning ————— Bob Morris is witty. In my blog post, I had written this line: The problem [.]. Do you know or know of anyone who is “fully developed”? And knows how to get to the point quickly.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 28, 2015

In other words, at a gathering convened to train and challenge young leaders, apparently in a session that […]. Randy''s blog entries' The infamous racist chant on the SAE party bus had been learned four years earlier at a national “Leadership” Conference (set on a Cruise — what could possibly go wrong?) for the fraternity.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 19, 2015

If you can make this group diverse, so much for the better — diverse in opinion, in training, in expertise, in age, in background– in every way. Randy''s blog entries' Give them some kind of content to act as a conversation starter. Get them talking. And then, magic can […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. David Marquet The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 3, 2014

Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership Warren Bennis Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2010) Four score and counting, while his insatiable curiosity explores and his sense of wonder delights I have read and reviewed most (if not all) of Warren Bennis’ books and most of his articles. This book is different from anything he […].

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JANUARY 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Know What You [.].

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