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Free Graphic Organizer Tools
Sure, you could use SmartArt, but there are limits to how much you can tweak those charts and graphs to suit your message. You can even type out a list of bullets and convert them to a SmartArt, but if...
View ArticleKeep Audience Interest with Animated Graphic Organizers
Visual learners love good visual content. You lose visual learners if your visual content is bad. Auditory learners will get more out of a well spoken and practiced presentation. You lose auditory...
View ArticleChange takes a lot of Energy
It’s more difficult to unlearn the old than to learn the new. Change is like trying to move a locomotive out of a sand dune. It happens one grain of sand at a time. Each grand of sand is a thought, a...
View ArticleIf innovation saves us, then do less
Change initiatives are seen as a path to salvation for those who see their relevance fading. “Give ‘em a shot of innovation to liven things up and keep us on life support for another budget cycle!”...
View ArticleFour strategies for doing less in the face of innovation
When we hear that a change is coming, it feels like another avalanche in a series of avalanches. Change means that we’ll be doing something in addition to what we were doing before – and nothing gets...
View ArticleManagers can’t fix what they don’t see
When we start as new managers, we think we have what it takes. I mean they picked YOU for the position, right? But inexperience creates blindspots to problems you don’t even know how to see yet –...
View ArticleThe Manager’s Problem Solving Toolkit
When managers see a problem, we want to fix it – that’s what managers do, right? They say the difference between leaders and managers is that leaders take the team in the right direction, and managers...
View ArticleDo you have time for on the job learning?
We know that there are thousands of cheatsheets, hundreds of books, hours upon hours of training that can give us the strategies we need to be successful in our roles. New research shows that 70% of...
View ArticleChanging our Default Settings: Three Strategies
This time of year, we all want to see ourselves become better versions of ourselves. We want to lose weight, connect more, lay off the drinking, go to sleep earlier, be a better boss – all with the...
View ArticleWhat I read in January 2019
Messengers of God – Elie Wiesel I received this and a small stack of other books when my Aunt cleaned out my grandparents’ home after they died years and years ago. I just now came back around to this...
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