Selling Your Ideas

Want to sell your idea? Here are 5 tips. 1. Do your homework. This is how you create a case that’s credible. 2. Invest time in connecting your ideas and recommendations to your organization’s existing strategy and priorities. 3. Try to anticipate questions and prepare appropriate responses in advance. 4. Do research so you can… Continue Reading Selling Your Ideas

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Sit Down and Dream

Take time to put a strategic growth plan for yourself in writing. Why fly blind and assume you know where you’re headed when you can know EXACTLY where you’re going? This week, sit down and dream. Get your growth plan in writing. Keep that paper or digital image in front of you. Review it every… Continue Reading Sit Down and Dream

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Values Drive Results

Values are the lifeblood of any organization. Richard Barrett, founder of Barrett Values Centre and internationally known leadership consultant, has shown that when organizations unite around a *shared* set of values, the following results can be expected: – They become more flexible. – They become less hierarchical and less bureaucratic. – Organizational performance is significantly… Continue Reading Values Drive Results

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Your Ideas Matter

In many organizations, the best ideas are never advanced. Otherwise smart and seasoned, many leaders choose not to speak up. Powerful forces, working overtime in the space between our ears, conspire to paralyze us at the point of action. These saboteurs would have us believe that we are not good enough. These saboteurs would have… Continue Reading Your Ideas Matter

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Ideas That Fly

Our deepest fear is that we will run out of places to hide — that one day there will be no boss who allows us to remain invisible and no political or economic circumstance that stops us from doing the most important work of our lives. We are the ultimate paradox. There are only two… Continue Reading Ideas That Fly

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