Running Effective Meetings
Do Meetings in Your Business Need a Make Over?

As you wait for the meeting to begin, you begin to dread the next hour. These meetings never seem to get anywhere. Plus, half the people attending the meeting seem distracted and the other half frustrated. You've been meeting every week for months and the purpose seems to have gotten lost. You ask yourself, "How did we get here and what can be done about it? And who invented meetings anyway?" Your feeling of dread deepens as you recall that . . . you're supposed to run this meeting! It doesn't have to be this way. Be a leader-take charge!

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Run Your Team Like a Seasoned CEO
Work on Your Business and Not Just in Your Business

Many team leaders get caught in the dilemma described by Gerber in The E-Myth. They spend their time being the technician and not the CEO. The technician works in the business while the CEO stands back and works on the business, and the latter is a worthwhile skill to learn.

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The Five P's of Effective Business Communication and Presentations
Purpose, Preparation, Planning, Practice, and Performance

Getting ready to a presentation? Review these tips to make it your best ever!

The 5 P's are: Purpose, Preparation, Planning, Practice and Performance

The first "P" is Purpose:
Before giving a presenation, going on a sales call, hosting a customer event, or having a staff meeting, ask yourself:
- What is my desired outcome?
- What is the impact I want to create?
- How do I want the customers or my team to feel during and after this encounter? (Use adjectives such as: moved, passionate excited, shaken, sold.)

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