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Anxiety Relief with ASMR
Dive into the world of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) with a passionate ASMR artist who shares a personal journey of pain, healing, and helping others. Discover the misconceptions around ASMR and witness how it goes beyond...
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The History of Jai Alai, America's Forgotten Sport
Explore the captivating history and uncertain future of Jai Alai, once the pride of Miami's sports scene. From its European origins to its heyday as the 'world's fastest game,' Jai Alai enthralled audiences and celebrities alike....
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Exploring Cutting-Edge Camera Technology Across Various Fields
This video explores the innovative use of high-performance camera technology in various fields, from medical diagnostics to analyzing high-speed projectiles and creating auto-focus lenses using water droplets. It showcases the...
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Evolution of Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Smile Recognition Technology
This video explores the evolution of photography from the world's oldest camera to the latest digital innovations. From daguerreotypes to instant digital pictures, the technology has revolutionized how we capture and share moments....
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Improving Workplace Productivity and Wellness with Sleep Pods and Massage Robots
The video discusses the growing issue of sleep deprivation in the workplace and introduces innovative solutions such as sleep pods and a robot massager. The sleep pods aim to provide a cocoon-like environment for employees to rest and...
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The Future of Communication: Surrey University's Innovative ilab
The ilab at Surrey University is a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research organization that is revolutionizing communication systems and multimedia technologies. By leveraging virtual reality and innovative technology, the ilab aims to...
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Understanding Words: The Power of Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Dive into the technique of using word structure to decipher unfamiliar words in reading. Explore how analyzing Greek and Latin root words, prefixes, and suffixes can unlock the meanings of many English words. Learn about common root...
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How to Do a Performance Turnaround - 6-step process [Feedback Challenges]
If you have a poor-performing member of your team, how do you turn around their poor performance? I'll give you a 6-step process to performance turnaround process.
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Help them Persuade Themselves: the Influence of Questions
Questions are a great way to influence somebody. Asking a question focuses their attention. And, if you ask the right question, you are likely to get the right answer. Let’s look at how to use questions to influence and persuade...
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Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Sell to Them
When selling, a relationship mindset is vital. And Dale Carnegie tells us how we can make friends with the people who buy.
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Leadership Behaviors: Task and Relationship Focus
In the middle of the 20th Century, researchers turned their attention from how leaders are, to what to what they do. With a suitable behavioral theory of leadership, we can more easily train leaders. They found the key concepts are task...
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Action Centered Leadership - A Roles-based or Functional Leadership Model
Roles-based approaches to leadership focus not on the leader’s traits nor their behavior. Instead, they focus on their functions: what they need to do, to lead. And none is better, nor more accessible, than John Adair’s Action Centered...
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Goleman's 6 Leadership Styles - A Styles Models of Leadership
We’ve seen models of leadership based on personal traits, individual behaviors, and the roles we need to fulfill. Another approach relates to the way we lead: that is, the style we adopt.
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What is Visionary Leadership?
Visionary leadership is transformative. We could argue that it is one aspect of transformational leadership. But I want to consider it as a specific style, because we find many leaders who seem aim for this style as their default.
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Basics of Motivation: Building Morale in your Team
Morale is like Motivation applied across a whole team. And building team morale is an important part of your role as manager, supervisor, or team leader. So, what can you do to build morale in your team? That's what we will look at in...
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How to Clear a Backlog - The 4 Rs Method
We all get behind from time to time. This creates a backlog of stuff you need to do. It may be a pile of papers you have to read, or bills to pay, or forms to fill. Perhaps it’s an email inbox full of unanswered (or unread) emails. Or it...
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What is the Pomodoro Technique? Working in Sprints
You have to love Francesco Cirillo’s Pomodoro Technique. It’s the boldness and simplicity of this great little time management tool!
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What is the Autofocus Time Management Method? And How Does it Work?
Mark Forster's Autofocus Technique for personal time management is as little known as David Allen's Getting Things Done is well-known. But if you are after a personal productivity system, check this out.
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Handling Resistance - Masters of Negotiation series
The Handling Resistance Pocketbook is a mini-goldmine of tips and tricks to handle resistance in all sorts of contexts - including negotiation. And I know the author, Mike Clayton, well... It's me! Although not strictly a book about...
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Four Quadrants of Team Leadership
A team can focus on two things: task and relationship. And, for each, there are 2 elements: the content and the process. This gives us 4 quadrants of team leadership.
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How we Work: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cross-Organization Cultural Dimensions
In the 1980s, the Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede returned to the study of culture, but focused on an analysis of organizational practices. The authors identified six cross-organizational dimensions that separate and define...
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Feedback Challenges: Bias in Feedback
In this video I want to discuss five common types of bias we find in feedback – and what you can do to minimize each of these forms of bias in feedback.
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Advertising Agencies: What They Offer and How to Select and Brief an Ad Agency
I guess the first question a business should be asking is ‘do I need an advertising agency?’ However, if the answer is ‘yes’, you’ll need to know what advertising agencies do, how to select one that’s right for you, and how to prepare a...
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Self Motivation: What is it and How to Build it?
Self Motivation is your ability to get up and get going when you’d really rather curl up and let it go. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A Management Courses Introduction https://geni.us/FsuCDrK