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Monthly Archives: July 2012
The most optimistic story wins – a Quix Tip
“If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.” - Groucho Marx Brain researcher Howard Gardner found that the most optimistic candidate wins Presidential elections. Here is a Quix Tip to make a story in your life more optimistic. Look at a situation that is somewhat challenging in your [...]
Posted in Positive Psychology, Training Tagged art of storytelling, business storytelling, Corporate storytelling, Groucho Marx, how to influence people, influence skills, influence skills training, Influence training, influence without authority training, influencer training, influencing, influencing others training, Influencing skills, influencing skills training, influencing training, Leadership storytelling, optimisim, optimistic story, persuasion training, story telling training, Storytelling in business, storytelling techniques for business, storytelling training Comments closed
IT Team Training and Development Ideas
IT (information technology) professionals are a unique breed and I’ve been lucky to lead team trainings with some of the best IT teams in the world – Microsoft, Gillette, Kaplan, it’s a long list. Characteristics of IT Teams Here are some characteristics that I have noticed are especially strong in IT teams: customer focus, team-focus, [...]
Posted in Training Tagged best team building for IT work teams, best team training for IT teams, customer service training, Influence training, IT team building, IT team development, IT team training, MBTI team training, resiliency training, StrengthsFinder training, team building for IT, team building for IT teams, team training for IT Comments closed
A Review of Prometheus, and an Alien Retrospective By Theo Michelfeld
Continuing with our story theme in the blog this summer, here’s Theo Michelfeld’s review of the movie Prometheus from a story-telling perspective. Filmmakers are both visual artists and storytellers, and, when they take both responsibilities seriously, we often get great movies. The 1979 sci-fi/horror film Alien is a case in point – a beautiful movie [...]
Posted in Training Tagged Alien movie retrospective, art of storytelling, business storytelling, Corporate storytelling, how to influence people, influence skills, influence skills training, Influence training, influence without authority training, influencer training, influencing, influencing others training, Influencing skills, influencing skills training, influencing training, Leadership storytelling, persuasion training, Prometheus movie review, story telling training, Storytelling in business, storytelling techniques for business, storytelling training, Theo Michelfeld Comments closed
Happy 500th post At Your Best!
There is a part of me that doesn’t want to attract attention to a milestone. That I should just keep my head down and keep going. But this is big for me – 500 posts! I preach to teams to schedule celebration into a project, to celebrate persistence by resting and enjoying the fruits of [...]
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Storytelling Do’s and Don’ts by Theo Michelfeld
Below you’ll find storytelling do’s and don’ts by Theo Michelfeld, a writer whom I greatly admire. What’s one concept that will help you tell a better story? Theo will examine the movie Prometheus from a story-telling perspective later this week. Creativity often involves breaking the rules, so none of the following guidelines are set in [...]
Posted in Training Tagged art of storytelling, business storytelling, Corporate storytelling, how to influence people, influence skills, influence skills training, Influence training, influence without authority training, influencer training, influencing, influencing others training, Influencing skills, influencing skills training, influencing training, Leadership storytelling, persuasion training, story telling training, Storytelling in business, storytelling techniques for business, storytelling training, Theo Michelfeld Comments closed
IT Team Building Activities and Game Ideas
IT (information technology) professionals are a unique breed and I’ve been lucky to lead team building activities for some of the best IT teams in the world – Microsoft, Gillette, Kaplan, it’s a long list. Characteristics of IT Teams Here are some characteristics that I have noticed are especially strong in IT teams: customer focus, [...]
Posted in Team Building Tagged best team building for IT work teams, best team training for IT teams, Charity Bike Build, GRPI Team Quest, IT team building, IT team development, IT team training, roller coaster team building activity, Team Building, team building for IT, team building for IT teams, Team collaboration, team training for IT, Virtual team building Comments closed
Carlos Santana on what songs you should sing when you’re born or die
“Amazing Grace, Redemption Song, People Get Ready, they all come from a place that when you’re born or when you die you should sing that song. People Get Ready is about no matter what color you are, just get on this train and get on board and it will take you to the gates of [...]
Posted in Music, Passion, Purpose Tagged Amazing Grace, Bobby Kennedy, Carlos Santana, Cesar Chavez, Curtis May, Martin Luther King, People Get Ready, Redemption Song, We Are the World Comments closed
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