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Understanding Vision: The Science Behind Our Eyes at the Beach
Explore the complexities of visual perception through the anatomy of the eye. This video explains how the sclera, cornea, iris, pupil, and lens work together to process light and images, using a day at the beach as an illustrative...
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The Bill of Rights and the First Amendment Explained
Explore the significance of the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment in American history. Understand why these amendments were necessary for protecting individual freedoms and limiting government power. Learn about the rights enshrined...
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Masters of Feedback: Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson - One Minute Feedback
The One Minute Manager, by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, is famous. And it spawned a whole series of One Minute Manager books. But, at the heart of the original book are three simple ideas. And they are all about giving one minute...
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KISS: Keep It Short & Simple when You Want to Influence & Persuade
Aren’t people impressed by expertise, jargon, science, and technical detail? Well, yes. And no. Let me explain why it pays to keep it short and simple when you want to influence or persuade.
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The Power of the Word 'Because' in Influence and Persuasion
Psychologist Ellen Langer and her colleagues did a simple experiment. In it, she showed the power of the word ‘because’ to trigger compliant behavior.
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Diagnosis: Diagnosing the Customer's Need [Sales Process Part 5 of 9]
The first stage of the actual sale part of the sales process is diagnosing what your prospect needs or wants – and understanding which is which. This is the investigation, or diagnosis, stage of the sales process.
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Team Leadership and the Tuckman Group Development Stages
In an earlier video, we looked at the Tuckman Model of Group Development. Now, we'll tie the different stages to the style of team leadership that will work best in each stage.
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Maintaining Productivity in Your Remote Team
Perhaps the core challenge of managing a virtual team is finding ways that we can work together effectively and productively, despite or even because of our geographic separation and cultural differences. The answer is well-formed...
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Critical Assessment of Emotional Intelligence: The Cases For and Against
Emotional Intelligence is an appealing model with a lot of ‘face validity’. That is, subjectively people see it as covering the concept it purports to measure. However, there is also a lot of academic criticism of the concept. So, in...
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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
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How to Create Excellent Visual Aids for Your Presentation
Make your presentation more engaging, more compelling and more memorable with good visual aids. And, let’s face it, that means slides. Whether you favor PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Prezzi, or another tool, how can you create...
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Sales Prospecting [Sales Process Part 1 of 9]
The sales process starts with prospecting. This is how we find potential future customers – or ‘prospects’.
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What are NLP Perceptual Positions? Putting Yourself in Another Person's Place
We sometimes use the phrase, ‘putting yourself in someone else’s shoes’. Well, NLP has a helpful technique that helps you do just that… and more. It’s called Perceptual Positions.
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Negotiating Team Roles in the Negotiation Process
As your negotiations get more complex, you will increasingly need to enter them with a team to support you. Maybe one person, maybe two or more. But what are the negotiating team roles that you and your colleagues will play? That is the...
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Fostering Responsibility within Your Remote Team
This challenge is about how to create accountability, responsibility, and an appropriate balance of managerial control and team-member autonomy. It is especially hard in remote teams.
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Receiving Feedback: How to Ask for Feedback
We know that good performance feedback can help us grow, develop, and improve. But we don't find it easy to ask for it. In this video, I'll tell you how to ask for feedback.
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Materialism and the American Dream in The Great Gatsby
The green light and the looming eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleberg are two of the most iconic images in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby." The green light is a multifaceted symbol representing Gatsby's love for Daisy, the elusive...
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Assertiveness - Recognize Passive, Aggressive, & Assertive Behaviors
Do you know how to recognize Passive, Aggressive, & Assertive Behaviors? What are the: - voice and speech patterns - typical words and phrases - facial expressions, and - body language that are associated with passive, aggressive, and...
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Attending Meetings - Structured Response Formats
When you are attending a meeting and want to make an effective contribution, my top tip is to use a one of my structured response formats. These are eight simple formulas for structuring your response to a question, or for giving your...
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Assertiveness - What to Say to be Assertive
You know that respectful assertiveness is the best approach at work. But do you know how? Do you know what to say to be assertive? We'll look at four typical scenarios where assering yourself is important, and give you an armful of tips...
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Chairing Meetings - How to Deal with Challenging Participants
When you are chairing meetings there is always the chance you'll have a difficult participant. And this can ruin your day and, worse, waste the time of other attendees. So, in this lesson, I'll show you how to handle challenging...
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Facilitated Meetings: How to Run a Facilitated Meeting
A facilitated meeting is one where the chair or facilitator creates an effective conversation among participants. We can use facilitated meetings for exploring issues, resolving problems, generating ideas, or making decisions. They are...
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Team Building Events: Why, What, and How?
Team building is an important part of getting the best from your team. This is a thorough primer for any manager who needs to get team building right.
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Chairing Meetings - Setting Ground Rules
You won't always need to set ground rules when you chair a meeting. But there are times when you will need them. So, in this video, we look at the different ground rules you may want to set.