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Introduction to Cross-Cultural Teams
Diversity can improve results. But plenty of research shows that multicultural teams and diverse teams tend to perform less effectively than homogenous teams, when not managed well. In this video, I introduce the topic of cross-cultural...
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National Culture within an Organization: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cultural Dimensions
In his book, Culture’s Consequences, Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede, brought the term Organizational Culture into common use. His original work at IBM identified 4 dimensions of national culture. Later, he extended this to 6...
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Feedback Failure: What if Your Feedback Doesn't go to Plan?
Feedback can start to seem routine, in a well-run team. But feedback doesn’t always go to plan. In this video, we’ll look at four of the most common reasons why feedback doesn't go to plan – and what to do about each type of feedback...
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Get a Favor: How to Get Someone to Help you or Do You a Favor
We often need other people to do something for us. But we don’t necessarily have the authority to tell them to do it, or to ask them and expect them to comply. This is where influence is at a premium. You need to combine some long-term...
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Self Regulation: What is it and How to Build It?
The second domain of Emotional Intelligence is Self Regulation. This is about managing your emotional state and the behavioral and social choices you make. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: 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
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How to Control Your Nerves Before and During Your Presentation
Many people would say that giving a presentation is the scariest thing they need to do at work. Indeed, some people who do it a lot still find it a real challenge to get their nerves under control. Happily, a little nervousness can give...
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Robin Fincham: Three Levels of Organizational Power
Etzioni talked about the types of Power that organizations wield. But where does it come from? Robin Fincham, a British academic, has given us a helpful analysis of three levels from which organizational power emanates.
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What is the Cultural Web? Johnson & Scholes on Where Culture Originates
The Cultural Web of an organization is a model developed by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes.
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Quinn and Cameron: Competing Values Model of Organizational Culture
Robert Quinn and Kim Cameron created a model of four organizational cultures. The Quinn and Cameron model is known as a “competing values framework” because it starts from two pairs of competing values.
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What is a Brand Marketing Plan? And How to Create a Brand Marketing Plan.
A brand marketing plan is a plan for all the goals, activities, costs, and controls to promote a brand. So, how do we build one?
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Receiving Feedback: Acting on Feedback - 8 Steps
To be effective in making change, we must take responsibility for acting on the feedback we receive
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What is A/B Testing? ...and Split Testing?
Why is Amazon so successful? A big part of the answer is A/B Testing. Unknown to most users, Amazon’s customers are subject to thousands of A/B test experiments every week. They tell Amazon how to lay out a page, which products to offer...
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The Fundamentals of Motivation - Motives, Drives, and being Blocked
In this video, let's start our solid content on workplace motivation with the fundamentals of motivation: - Drives - Motives - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation - What happens when we find ourselves blocked
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Speaking with the Voice of Authority: How it Builds Gravitas
After body language, the next biggest impact on your gravitas and authority is how you speak: the words you use and how you say them. Your objective is to acquire the voice of authority: to have people want to hear what you say and pay...
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Power of Silence: Transform Your Gravitas
Silence is a gift. It allows the other person to be heard. But the real power of silence is in how other people perceive it... as confidence and insight. The person in a meeting who is most comfortable with silence will be able to...
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Daniel Pink and Motivation 3.0 - Content Models of Motivation
Daniel Pink is not a researcher or a manager: he’s an author. But his assessment of modern research and motivation theories in his book, Drive (https://geni.us/uq3EBO), is valuable. He gives his concept of Motivation 3.0.
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Overcome Overwhelm: Dealing with the Feeling of Being Overwhelmed
When you feel overwhelmed by all the things you need to do, it can freeze you into not doing any of them. This will only make the situation worse. So, you need to seize control. And there's the way. It's my Overwhelm Routine.
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How to Ask Questions - Negotiation Tools
It's better to judge people on the quality of the questions they ask, than on the answers they give. In negotiation, questioning is a hugely valuable skill. So, in this video, we look at how to ask questions, and discuss 8 types of...
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Basic Platform Skills: Giving a Great Presentation
This is the first of two videos on the platform skills that will make your presentation come across great. In the next one, we’ll look at some of the advanced skills that professionals use. But, in this one, let’s focus on the basics...
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The Presence of Gravitas: How Deliberate Pacing makes People Take Note
An important aspect of gravitas is the ability to command attention. And that means having 'presence'. That's to say, people won't take what you say seriously, unless they first notice you are there. So, presence is a key part of...
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Chairing Meetings - How to Facilitate with Authority
When you are chairing meetings, you need to stamp your authority on the meeting... without being authoritarian. So this video gives you my top tips for how to facilitate with authority.
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Clayton Alderfer and ERG Theory - Content Models of Motivation
Clayton Alderfer created a variation on the best-known needs theory of motivation: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Alderfer's model is known as ERG Theory. ERG stands for the three primary needs that Alderfer identified: - Existence -...
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The Evolution of Wildlife in Africa
This video explores the historical coexistence of humans and wild animals in Africa, highlighting the challenges faced by early hunters and the subsequent impact of European exploration. It discusses the evolution of wildlife management...