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This Issue's Special: Buy Three, Get One Free Special on Public Classes
Enrolling 3 or more people from your organization gets each participant 25% off! Improve your skills in facilitation, consulting, communication, leadership, or strategic planning. This special can be used for different people from the same company and for different classes, but all seats must be purchased and used between September 1 and October 31, 2006. Call 800-824-2850 for details. You must mention the Sept/Oct Newsletter in order to receive this discount.
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Greetings!
New and exciting changes are on the horizon at Leadership Strategies! In anticipation of our clients growing needs we have relocated our corporate offices to a larger facility! Our telephone numbers remain the same as does our helpful staff however as of September 18th our physical location is 56 Perimeter Center East, Suite 103, Atlanta, GA 30346. Stop by and say hello!
Leadership Strategies is equally pleased to introduce our newest course designed to increase sales in an unconventional and innovative way! Buying Styles is designed to meet our client's increased demand for specialized training. This is the course sales professionals have been waiting for! Register today for our complimentary Buying Styles Executive Briefing on Thursday, November 16th. Can't attend the briefing, but interested in a private session on Buying Styles? To introduce this new course, you can receive 30% off any on-site Buying Styles class that is delivered before December 29, 2006.
When developing your strategic plan, would it be helpful if everyone in your company agreed who your primary target is? If the answer is yes, check out this month’s "Who is Your Primary Target?” article.
In “Supervisor’s Most Important Duty”, David Walton Earle provides insights into a question that is no doubt frequently debated at water coolers across the country: “What is the most important duty of a supervisor?”
For consultants and IT professionals, most professionals are familiar with the 3 R’s of education: reading, writing and arithmetic. How often are you using the 3 I’s of writing? Assess how your writing style powerfully impacts, influences and interests your audience.
Ever faced acquisition challenges when melding a publicly traded company with a private one? Learn how Uni-Select proactively met these challenges head on.
Guest writer Jeff Wright shares a facilitator’s best practice that promises lively participative feedback in his “Meeting Feedback” article.
May all your meetings be masterful,
Best Practice Tip for this Issue: Tracking Performance
Recording notes on your facilitation plan will improve your ability to facilitate similar processes in the future. As you proceed through the session:
- Record the actual start and end times for each agenda item.
- At each break, adjust the target start times and duration for the remaining activities.
- Note any significant variations between your estimated timing and the actual duration of each process.
- Note areas that the participants found difficult.
- Record your ideas and participant suggestions for improving a process.
To learn more about tracking performance, register for The Effective Facilitator course! For more details, call (800) 824-2850.
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| For Facilitators: Gathering Meeting Feedback
| | In the facilitative/consulting world of work there are many methods of asking for and receiving feedback from participants on meetings that are facilitated. Methods for receiving feedback include round robin and consensus discussions, electronic feedback surveys and hard copy feedback forms. While participative discussion following a facilitated meeting can be the best source of actionable feedback for the facilitator, not every group is eager to...
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| For Leaders: Supervisor’s Most Important Duty | | “What is the most important duty of a supervisor?” Mr. Gene Clouatre with MMR Group, Inc. a national electrical contractor asked that question. My first thought was production. After all, isn’t that how we define a successful supervisor, those who achieve good production? I must have looked bewildered because Gene took pity on me and answered his own question. “The most important thing a supervisor can do is...
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| For Consultants and IT Professionals: How to Influence, Interest and Impact Your Reader | | | What does your writing say about you? Do your sentences sing? Do your verbs dance? Does your information flow?
We all read sales and business letters, memos and reports from associates around the world. Each is asking for our time, ideas or our interest in the company, product or service. As many documents – e-mail included – as you receive, I can only imagine...
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For Strategic Planners: Who IS Your Primary Customer?
| | | Do you know who your primary customer is? Most organizations have multiple customer types. For example, if you were NBC, ABC, or CBS, your customers might include:
- The viewing public
- Advertisers
- The Federal Trade Commission
- The local affiliates who carry your programming
Note that all four of these are customers. But which would be your primary customer? Some would say the viewing public. Others would say advertisers. Still others would say the local affiliates. Interestingly, we have found few who would say...
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| Client Success Story: Uni-Select | | | Uni-Select is a large Canadian distributor that owned a $120 million U.S. operation and that, in November 2004, acquired Middle Atlantic Warehouse Distributors Inc. (MAWDI), a private company with revenues of $350M also located in the States. Can you sense there might have been a few communication and integration issues to be worked through while melding these two organizations together?
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| The PDI Difference | | | PDI stands for Practical/Dynamic/Interactive. It's what sets Leadership Strategies above the rest. The PDI Difference can be seen in every aspect of what we do.
Practical Methods that Produce Results: We use proven methods and techniques in both our training classes and our facilitated sessions. Each and every session is carefully planned and executed with precision to ensure consistent results that apply to real-life situations - and produce measurable results.
Dynamic Energy that Keeps You Engaged: Our facilitators operate on "Level 3" energy so participants are engaged from beginning to end. No doodling in our sessions! We also use a wide variety of techniques to keep the interest high and be sure everyone contributes their best ideas.
Interactive - Proven Methods for Successful Integration and Application: In our facilitated sessions, our trained facilitators set people up in teams to enhance collaboration and ideas that work from every angle. In our training sessions, it's "practice, practice, practice" so participants learn by doing it themselves, by critiquing others in the class, and receiving immediate feedback from the instructor.
Learn more about The PDI Difference
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| Spotlight: National Facilitator Database | | | Are you looking for a facilitator for an upcoming session, and don't have a clue where to start? Or, maybe you're a facilitator with great skills and experience looking for clients. In either case, we can help. The National Facilitator Database does both. For details, click here.
NFDB.com is managed by Leadership Strategies. If you have any questions or would like to speak with one of our Client Relationship Managers, you can call 800-824-2850. Or, click here to email your questions.
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| Would you like to get published? | | | Do you have proven strategies on Facilitation, Leadership, IT/Consulting or Strategic Planning that you would like to share in an upcoming newsletter issue? We'd love to hear from you. Each article should be 750-1,000 words. Include your contact information and a 30- to 60-word byline. Click here to email your articles to us.
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