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Author Interview: “The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and.

Persuasive Powerhouse

and Gretchen Johnson of Virtual Wordplay Marketing Communications for a few years, a caring and supportive group of individuals who have helped each other without reservation to be successful in business and in life. What are the 8 skills? Who are the audiences that will most benefit from The 8 Essential Skills?

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Two Things to Remember as You Change the World

Persuasive Powerhouse

In this world I’ve learned that there are very few quick fixes, despite what you might hear from marketers. I wish folks would also learn how to develop and balance a sense of urgency with these two. That is something difficult to develop. Patience and perseverance. You must have both. Together, and at the same time.

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How a Sales Manager Can Think Like a Leader

Strategy Driven

Yet what sales managers have to rely on are the instincts and competencies they developed when they were selling. A sales manager who is overly task oriented can spend too much time making sure mundane To Dos get done while ignoring the development needs of their salespeople. Developing Your Leadership Mindsets.

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Servant Leadership is True Leadership (and How You Can Do It)

Mark Sanborn

In 1970, Robert Greenleaf published an essay entitled, “The Servant as Leader.” ” At a time when leadership was often an aspiration of those who wanted recognition and power, Greenleaf’s ideas were revolutionary. It is possible, if not likely, that person was a servant leader. Walk your talk.

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. We might simply vote without doing our homework first.

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It's About What Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

By continuing your own development, you’ll have a better idea of what matters. So, find a mentor, hire a coach, take a 360, read some self-development or leadership books. When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers.

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

Both then and now, in order to implement major new technologies, large numbers of people had to learn new skills and knowledge. ” Yet most major technologies develop over decades, as large numbers of people learn how to apply, adapt, and improve the initial invention.