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KidPower 2015 Earth Day Project – Coaching Kids to Lead

Lead Change Blog

Initiated at a brainstorming session with four of my colleagues, COI began implementing services in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 2007 with a collaborative team of eight community, faith, and professional organizations. They will develop engineering and math skills while learning a simple, clean energy technology to generate electricity.

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5 Steps To Having Courageous Conversations

Lead Change Blog

According to the 2015 Employee Trends Report by Quantum Workplace, one of the biggest areas of concern for team members is that there is often not open and honest communication with managers. This is why I developed the 6 C’s to Successful Courageous Conversations Framework. So why is this? Step Five: Co-Create Closure.

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Perseverance, Patience and Passion

Great Leadership By Dan

At the end of 2015 I was in Bologna visiting the Musixmatch offices. It was a real brainstorming session, where everyone put some ideas on the table, hoping that at some point the right one would jump out. My partners and I did many of these brainstorming sessions during the ideation phase for Foorban.

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Ideas for Professional Growth—Week of June 14, 2015

Management Excellence

Every week, I provide a few simple (but not simplistic) ideas for you to Do/Experiment/Explore in support of your professional development. This week's focus on achieving better alignment with your manager, improving the effectiveness of brainstorming and improving your effectiveness in leading group discussions.

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Willpower Woes: How a Rotten Resolve Can Hurt You …and 3 ways to develop better self-discipline and control through practice, progression and patience

Strategy Driven

However much desired or well-intended, the process to developing willpower to benefit your professional and personal life can seem impossible, especially when faced with difficult situations, coercion or pressure from others, toxic relationships and certainly addictions of any sort. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Using Buyer Personas During Pre-Sales Stages

Strategy Driven

Brainstorming stage. Second brainstorming stage. Buying Facilitation® is a Pre-Sales Management model that I’ve developed and taught for 30 years. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Idea stage. Idea discussed with colleagues. Initial discussion stage. Favored vendors pitched by Team members.

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Women on Business: Taking the Lead and Making a Difference

Strategy Driven

This could mean serving as an angel investor and participating in business development or offering funds as a friend or family member. These conferences bring together the best and brightest to brainstorm and find solutions together as well as bolster the power base that has already been created. Consider leaving a comment!