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How to Adapt to Change in the Workplace Changes in the workplace are more often an opportunity than a threat. But they can be unsettling and challenging nonetheless. So, how can you adapt? Here are my tips. Do you want a concise, yet precise, description of how to deal with common management challenges? This is
Read MoreWhat is BIG DATA? And introducing the 3 (or 5) V’s In this video, I want to answer the question, what is Big Data? Watching this video is worth 5 Management Courses CPD Points. This video is part of course module number 6.4 – Program 6: Managing within an Organization – Course 4: Strategy LESSON
Read MoreAccount Management: What is Account-based Selling? A lot of business-to-business selling is strategic. It is not a one-off or tactical endeavor. It is likely that you will want to maintain and build your relationships over the months and years to come. Managing this ongoing relationship is called ‘Account Management’. The goal is to win sales
Read MoreWhat is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)… What is it? What drives it? And what are the benefits? Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. 🔎 See below for details Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) This video is part of course module 6.2 Program 6: Managing within Organizations Course 2:
Read MoreThe Disney Creativity Strategy: The NLP Way to Test Ideas In the previous video, I described how NLP modeling works. Perhaps the most famous example is the Disney Creativity Strategy. It was modeled on Walt Disney’s approach to creative planning or problem-solving. Watching this video is worth 1 Management Courses CPD Point*. 🔎 See below
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence and Neuroscience Neuroscience is the study of our nervous system, with the primary focus being the brain. And it is a multidisciplinary subject. There is a close relationship between the studies Neuroscience and Emotional intelligence. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A Management Courses Introduction https://geni.us/FsuCDrK Watching this video is
Read MoreSocial Skills: What are they and How to Build Them Managers need to get the best from their teams. They need to win cooperation, resolve conflict, and communicate ideas. These lie in the Emotional Intelligence domain of Social Skills. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A Management Courses Introduction https://geni.us/FsuCDrK Watching this
Read MoreSocial Awareness: What is it and How to Build it Social Awareness is important if you want to manage a successful team. It gives you the ability to put yourself in your team member’s shoes: to understand how they are feeling. At its heart is empathy. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence:
Read MoreSelf 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 Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*.
Read MoreSelf 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 Management Courses Introduction https://geni.us/FsuCDrK Watching this video is worth 3 Management
Read MoreSelf Awareness: What is it and How to Build it The first domain of Emotional Intelligence is really simple, you’d think. It’s Self Awareness. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to this course: Emotional Intelligence: A Management Courses Introduction https://geni.us/FsuCDrK Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. 🔎 See below for details Overview of
Read MoreCritical 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 this video, we’ll take a
Read MoreThe Salovey & Mayer Model of Four Emotional Intelligence Abilities Peter Salovey and John Mayer developed a model of Emotional Intelligence based on four abilities. The Salovey & Mayer Model of Four Emotional Intelligence Abilities focuses on how we process emotional information and use it to navigate our social environment. Get our Kindle-exclusive companion to
Read MoreThe Daniel Goleman Model of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman brought emotional intelligence to the public’s attention with his massive 1995 best seller, ‘Emotional Intelligence’. He followed this up with two further books that deserve to be read by all serious managers: • Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998) • The New Leaders (2002) All links below
Read MoreEmotional Quotient (EQ): The Reuven Bar-On model of Emotional Intelligence Reuven Bar-On is an American psychologist who coined the term, Emotion Quotient (EQ). He has been working on a model of emotional intelligence since 1982. He studies the ability of emotional and social competence to predict performance and behavior and has developed a psychometric model
Read MoreHoward Gardner: Emotional Intelligence in the Multiple Intelligences Model In 1983, Harvard psychologist, Howard Gardner, published the first edition of his book ‘Frames of Mind’. This introduced a wide audience to his model of ‘Multiple Intelligences’ Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. 🔎 See below for details Overview of Emotional Intelligence
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Why is it Important? This is not an academic video, where I describe study after study and cite all the research papers. But I will tell you why Emotional Intelligence is important at work and give you an indication of the range of positive benefits of emotional intelligence at work that
Read MoreIntroduction to Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence or EI is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. 🔎 See below for details Overview of Emotional Intelligence This video is part of course module number 1.4.1 Program 1:
Read MoreWhat is Advertising? And What are its Benefits? Advertising is, perhaps, the most visible and obvious aspect of marketing. Yet it is also one of the least written about. In my 956-page copy of the Principles of Marketing (4th Ed), advertising gets just 24 pages (less than 3% of the book). Indeed, for many people,
Read MoreWhat 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 you, and even the font
Read MoreWhat is Customer Relationship Management (CRM)? …And How to Use it. Customer Relationship Management, or CRM for short is a simple idea. Learn about your potential customers, and use that knowledge to strengthen your relationship with them. Use your stronger relationship to sell them your products or services. And then to sell them more. Watching
Read MoreWhat is the Customer Journey? And How to Visualize it To understand our customers, we map out the route they take through our marketing, advertising, and sales processes. This is your customer journey. It’s a way to understand how it feels for your customers to deal with you at each step along the path. Customer
Read MoreWhat is Diamond Feeback? In this short video, I want to answer the question, ‘What is Diamond Feedback?’ Watching this video is worth 1 Management Courses CPD Point*. 🔎 See below for details Feedback This video is part of course module number 3.8.2 Program 3: Managing & Leading Individuals Course 8: Feedback Section 2: How
Read MoreWhat is the Marketing Channel Mix? Promotion Channel Strategy Channel Mix is the ratio at which you assign resources to the different ways of communicating about products. It is a strategic document that identifies each channel that can deliver your messages and the optimum blend that maximizes their reach and effectiveness. Watching this video is
Read MoreWhat is a Customer Persona? …or Buyer Persona or Marketing Persona Who are you marketing to? Do you know the characteristics of your prospective customers? To target your marketing well, you need an archetype, which marketers call the ‘Buyer Persona’ or sometimes the customer or marketing persona. And sometimes they use ‘Customer Avatar’. Whichever term
Read MoreWhat is a Brand Marketing Plan? A brand marketing plan is a plan for all the goals, activities, costs and controls to promote a brand. Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. 🔎 See below for details Marketing for Managers This video is part of course module number 8.3.1 Program 8: Managing
Read MoreWhat is a Brand Strategy? A Brand Strategy is a long-term plan for the evolution of a successful brand and the growth of its brand equity. Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. 🔎 See below for details Marketing for Managers This video is part of course module number 8.3.1 Program 8:
Read MoreWhat is Brand Management? Brand management is the creation and execution of plans to strengthen consumers’ brand perception of a brand. Watching this video is worth 1 Management Courses CPD Point*. 🔎 See below for details Marketing for Managers This video is part of course module number 8.3.1 Program 8: Managing Customers & Clients Course
Read MoreCultural Web: Johnson & Scholes on Where Culture Originates The Cultural Web of an organization is a model developed by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes. Watching this video is worth 1 Management Courses CPD Point*. (See below for more details) The Nature of Organizations ======================= This video is part of course module number 6.1.4 Program
Read MoreThe Agile Organization In a fast-moving competitive environment, where new technology can disrupt everything overnight, is Adhocracy nimble enough? Do we need an Agile Organization? Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. (See below for more details) The Nature of Organizations ======================= This video is part of course module number 6.1.2 Program
Read MoreAdhocracy Organizational Model When did bureaucracy become a dirty word? Almost certainly when the idea of adhocracy emerged. The two are polar opposites: radically different ways to coordinate an organization. The one a set of rules and systems that overlay everything. The other, a fresh recreation for every new need. But, while the concept of
Read MoreCog’s Ladder of Group Experiences – Team Development Cog’s Ladder of Group Experiences is a model of group development that expands on the Tuckman Model we looked at in an earlier video. Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*. (See below for more details) This video is part of course module number
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