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How To Play Politics With Political People.

Rich Gee Group

The best way to do that is to use incontrovertible FACTS and keep hammering their wishy-washy statements until they wither and die. Be calm but be stern, most low-level politicians will slink away and never darken your doorstep again. Higher-level politicians need a light to be focused on them (during a meeting). Stand your ground.

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How to Tell a Story with Data

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

If you learn how to tell a story with data, however, the results can be compelling, interesting, and impactful. Have you ever been hammered with data that you knew was important but you didn’t understand why the person sharing it was so passionate about it? Data can be boring even if it’s critically important.

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How to Make Your Performance Review Process Suck Less

Next Level Blog

If you’ve done a good job of staying engaged with your people throughout the year, you shouldn’t have to use the annual review to deliver a surprise message or drop the hammer about something that didn’t get done. Be aware of what you’re trying to do and intentional about how you do it. Check out this post I wrote back in 2013.

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How to Hold People Accountable without using Authority

Leadership Freak

If you didn’t have authority, how would you hold people accountable? Authority as a hammer: Maslow said, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have… Continue reading → Don’t demand what must be given.

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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

Leading Blog

And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. How do we do that? We must give people the tools—the how—to change. When moments of reinvention arrive, innovating the “how” can be overlooked in favor of focusing on the “what.” Speaking about tough truths in affirmative tones let critiques land constructively.

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How to Organize Seamless Business Trips in 2020

Strategy Driven

One of the perks of working in a large company, with several senior responsibilities, is that it’s often left to you to travel to different destinations in order to hammer out contracts, seal deals, check up on suppliers, or help with your distribution network. Finally, all smart businesspeople know how to pack to impress.

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How to Argue Better

Daniel Coyle

The two went at it, hammer and tongs, for half an hour — a loud, energetic volley of argument and ideas and numbers, each side pressing its case, offering evidence, appealing to reason and emotion. The post How to Argue Better appeared first on Daniel Coyle. Sarcasm and personal attacks are off limits.

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