Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’

How to be understood.

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

In order to be understood you need to be able to deliver informative, effective, and emotionally engaging presentations. One’s ability to turn potential into a tangible success has little to do with facts and information. One’s ability to move others comes from knowing how to build trust and respect through making an emotional connection when […]

Achieve your communication goals faster and more effectively

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Achieve your communication goals faster and more effectively by learning to present your ideas so they are persuasive, influential and fully understood. Your every thought, word, and action carries your signature. Whole-body communication is the collaboration of the mind, voice and body. The voice and body are the most undeveloped asset in business development and […]

Left Brain Right Brain

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Do you have the 21st Century Skills in your company to stimulate and foster critical thinking, creative problem solving and collaboration for innovation? Or are your in-house skills still based on the long-past Industrial Age MBA skills of analytical, logical, sequential, linear thinking? Face it, even the Technological Age ended as we entered the 21st […]

Yes! You can teach old dogs new tricks! part 2

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Thanks to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) we now know that the brain can be rewired at any age. Through new experiences and new challenges new neurons will form. It is called neuroplasticity. Welcome to the innovative world of whole brain thinking, a world where both left and right hemispheres of the brain are working in […]

What is the Creativity Level within your organization?

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Innovation is high on the agenda of every company today. And once creativity training is just as high on the agenda, Innovation will follow. Innovation lies at the very heart of growth strategy. Optimizing creativity in the workplace to ensure productive and profitable innovation is, therefore, the challenge. It never ceases to amaze me to […]

How do you translate efficiency into effectiveness?

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

How do you get left brain people to use more of their right brain? How do you translate efficiency into effectiveness? Left-brain linear thinking drilled home throughout our formal educational process in the U.S. focuses on the most efficient way to problem solve. Decades of learning by “no you can’t and here’s the answer” sadly […]

How do you know that God looks like?

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.” – Carl Sagan A young child was busy in class feverishly drawing away. The teacher approached and asked the girl what she was so busy drawing. The child responded, “I am drawing a picture of God.” The […]

Face to Face Skills for the Competitive Edge

Monday, May 9th, 2011

I am always fascinated by how reserved  sales and business development professionals can act when they are in a workshop. Last Friday, I conducted a workshop at the MIT Sloan School 2011 Sales Conference in Cambridge. The attendees fully participated in the group exercises. When it came to an improvisation exercise that required a few […]

Creative leadership training for portfolio company executives is the way to accelerate growth.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

The benefits to PE and VC firms of bringing together and providing a hands-on, experiential and interactive programs for company executives are twofold. One is to provide innovative, creative leadership training for these executives. The other is for the executives, who, when they personally experience and realize the value of creative leadership training, to voluntarily […]

Limiting habit energy is changed into creative, innovative energy.

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Every day 95% of a company’s intellectual property walks out the door. And the executives trained to know how to leverage their internal assets and turn human capital into creative capital will quickly turn habit energy into increased market share, revenue and profits. Their employees will look forward to returning the next day. These are […]