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Assessments
  • 3 Critical Mistakes When Using Assessments [HTML] [PDF]
  • Personality Changes Throughout Life [HTML] [PDF]
  • What is Multi-Rater (360º) Feedback? [HTML] [PDF]

Branding

  • How do you make your brand irresistible? OVERPROMISE! [HTML] [PDF]
  • A customer experience that stacks up - by design [HTML] [PDF]
Communication Skills
  • Adaptability [HTML] [PDF]
  • Building Teams That Work [PDF]
  • Delivering Service with Style [HTML] [PDF]
  • Demystifying Compatibility [PDF]
  • Leadership Styles [HTML] [PDF]
  • The People Puzzle [HTML] [PDF]
  • What's Your Behavioral Style [HTML] [PDF]

DISC

  • DISC Index Versus MBTI [PDF]
  • Disc Versus Values [PDF]
Four Style Models
  • 3 Critical Mistakes Trainers Commonly Make [HTML] [PDF]
  • The Platinum Rule [HTML] [PDF]
  • Matching Your Selling Style to the Customer's Buying Style [HTML] [PDF]
  • The Platinum Rule for Team Building [HTML] [PDF]
Goal Setting
  • Most People Aim At Nothing In Life...And Hit It With Amazing Accuracy [HTML] [PDF]
Hiring, Recruiting & Selection
  • Motivating Employees [HTML] [PDF]
  • 3 Games Managers Play That Result in Hiring Losers [HTML] [PDF]
  • 3 Pre-Employmant Tests that Help You Hire The Best [HTML] [PDF]
  • 3 Ways to Catch Sales Applicants Who Lie to You [HTML] [PDF]
  • 7 Horrible Hiring Mistakes [HTML] [PDF]
  • 7 Steps That Help Managers Hire the Best [HTML] [PDF]
  • Personality Tests as Hiring Tools [HTML] [PDF]

Leadership

  • Values Based Leadership Essentials for the 21st Century [HTML] [PDF]
  • Six Steps to Productive Delegating [HTML] [PDF]
  • Ethics and Trust - The Foundation of Leadership [HTML] [PDF]
  • Earning Your Stripes [HTML] [PDF]
  • Leadership Quiz For Our New Millennium [HTML] [PDF]
Listening
  • The 10 Commandments of Powerful Listening [HTML] [PDF]
  • How Do You Rate as a Listener? [HTML] [PDF]
  • Irritating Listening Habits [HTML] [PDF]
  • Listening Attentively [HTML] [PDF]
  • QUIZ--How Do Your Listening Skills Rate? [HTML] [PDF]
Sales Effectiveness
  • Collaborative Selling [HTML] [PDF]
  • Dealing with Acceptance and Rejection [HTML] [PDF]
  • Confirming the Sale [HTML] [PDF]
  • After-Sale Follow Through [HTML] [PDF]
  • Eight Qualities of a Professional Salesperson [HTML] [PDF]
  • High Trust Selling [HTML] [PDF]
  • How to Fill Your Prospecting Pipeline [HTML] [PDF]
  • Preparing for the Sales Call [HTML] [PDF]
  • How to Ask the Right Questions [HTML] [PDF]
  • Selling Against the Competition [HTML] [PDF]
  • Prospecting [HTML] [PDF]
  • Prospecting - Promotional Strategies [HTML] [PDF]
  • Telephone Tips [HTML] [PDF]
  • What's Your Competitive Advantage? [HTML] [PDF]
  • Win-Win Negotiating Strategies [HTML] [PDF]
Team Management
  • Using Behavioral Differences to Build Teams That Work [HTML] [PDF]
  • Managers Err if They Limit Their Hiring To People Like Them [HTML] [PDF]
  • How to reject a job applicant [HTML] [PDF]
Time Management

Writing Skills

  • Assure Me That You Can Insure Me to Ensure Continuity [HTML] [PDF]
  • Don't Tell Me Your Purpose for Writing [HTML] [PDF]
  • Top Ten Tips for E-Writing [HTML] [PDF]
  • E-Writing: Five Steps to Clear Thinking on Screen or Paper [HTML] [PDF]
  • Fuzzy Thinking Results in Fuzzy Writing [HTML] [PDF]
  • Grammar Rules Change - Are You Up to Date? [HTML] [PDF]
  • Leave "Once Upon a Time" to the Novelists [HTML] [PDF]
  • Ten Topics You Should Never Put in an Email [HTML] [PDF]
  • You've Got the Same Skeptics Who Watch Network News [HTML] [PDF]
  • To Round or Not to Round--That Is the Question [HTML] [PDF]
  • Fewer or Less? [HTML] [PDF]
  • Throw Away Your Thesaurus [HTML] [PDF]
  • Troublesome Adverbs Can Take You to Court [HTML] [PDF]
  • T-Shirt or Stuffed-Shirt? [HTML] [PDF]
  • Checklist for Culling Unnecessary Charts and Graphics [HTML] [PDF]
  • "Write As You Would Talk" - Or Should You? [HTML] [PDF]
  • A Marketable Skill [HTML] [PDF]
 
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