Category: Business Problems and Solutions

Creating a Professional Development Event Employees Want to Attend

Attending a great professional development event or conference can be an exhilarating experience. Attendees have the opportunity to learn new skills and deepen existing ones, as well as make new connections, while organizers get the satisfaction and pride that comes with creating something exceptional and delivering on the “I can do this” promise they made…
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How to Become A Better Problem Solver with the Be Helpful Arch

Solving difficult problems is like building an arch. It takes planning, a clear comprehension of how things connect, and when done right, it provides great strength to whatever it supports. Here’s what I mean: You start by preparing the foundation for the arch, that’s how you approach solving problems, by thinking and acting differently. In the…
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Develop the Be Helpful Keystone Habit and Transform Your Problem Solving Skills

A keystone habit positively impacts everything you do. Learn what keystone habits are, review examples, and find out why developing a “Be Helpful” keystone habit will transform your problem solving and leadership skills.
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Ask the Right Questions: 2 Problem Solving Questions that Make the Difference

What are the right questions to ask when problem solving? — (1) How can I encourage people? and (2) What barriers do I need to remove? — Discover why they are so effective and learn from practical examples.
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5 Ways Ethical Leaders Solve Problems

Ethical leadership encourages people to follow you because they trust you. Learn what Ethical Leadership is and the 5 ways it helps you solve problems: Lead By Example, Care About Your Stakeholders, Listen, People Want to Work with You, and Ethical Leaders are the Cornerstone of The Team
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4 Tips to Help You Think and Act Differently

The first step to solving problems is to think and act differently than before. These 4 tips help you take a new perspective and get results: – Take a Different perspective – Be open minded – Create a work/life balance – Good things happen when you put people first
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Embracing Change for Employees and Leaders

I had the privilege of presenting, with Gerik Kimble, the keynote presentation at Washington State University’s inaugural Elevating Cougs conference, “Embracing Change for Employees and Leaders.” This fun, easy-going presentation shares how embracing change benefits you along with practical advice for how to manage change for your teams. Watch the presentation below or read our…
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Use The Get Engagement Checklist to Increase Engagement with Your Apps, Leadership and Social Media

Engagement. We want it, but don’t always give it. Companies want us to buy and engage with their apps, managers want us to engage and be productive, and we want our social media followers to engage with our content. So, why is it, when faced with two products that do the same thing, we gravitate…
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Exceptional Leadership: 3 Powerful Steps to Become an Exceptional and Effective Leader

Exceptional leaders help their team be proud of the work they do and they ensure their team has a voice and are heard. The result? The team, and you, hit your goals and targets. How you get there is by building support for your ideas and processes, and building trust between you and your team.…
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Practical Change Management: How to Generate Buy-in & Excitement for your Change Initiative

Practical Change Management is a mix of people, process, and storytelling. You get people excited about the change initiative that impacts them by providing the right message to the right people at the right time. This No BS Guide to Practical Change Management shares how to get the word out across your organization and encourage…
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Better Project Management: Organize & Guide, Do & Deliver Successful Projects

Let’s start with a question: what is project management? Is it a never-ending series of templates and dashboards, beloved of faceless bureaucrats with clip-boards, or is it a repeatable framework that facilitates project work and encourages the successful delivery of an end product? It’s really the latter, but many see it as the former. At…
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Use Your Positive Intelligence (PQ) and Awareness Quotient (AQ) to Take Your Results to the Next Level [Guide]

A guide to what Positive Intelligence (PQ) and Awareness Quotient (AQ) are, how they empower you to reach your potential and deliver outstanding results, and two practical tools (Positive Intelligence and the Happiness Advantage) to help you get there.
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