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Are You to Blame for your Team's Productivity?
Sometimes team productivity is less about hard work and more about context. These three books and three suggestions may help you out.
Singing (or Speaking) without Notes
It doesn't matter if you're singing the national anthem or speaking to 10 people, here are 3 reasons why you need to remember your words.
Discount Pricing for Early Registration isn't Helping
I just finished the early registration process at Google for the Google I/O conference and soon you'll hear how fast it closed up. Two years ago it took 90 days to fill up all the spots. Last year it took 50 days. This morning registration was closed in one hour. Yes, 59 minutes. The registration...
A Parent's Faith: Are you too Rich to pass it on?
Tonight, as my kids were watching a VeggieTales movie, I was in another room thinking and planning my family's future. Because we're in the middle of transition and are planning to move within the next several months, I've been working through a list of things to think about and strategize on. It's a move of...
Are you in the Strength 20%?
This isn't about performance. Instead it's about passion. Marcus Buckingham's research suggests that only 2 out of 10 people can agree with the statement, \"People recognize what I do well and push me to become better and better at it.\" Are you in the 20% that agree?
PowerPoint Done Right: Passion over Knowledge
Preparation is critical, but not if you're just going to gather and prepare facts. Preparing your heart is more critical.
Powerpoint Done Right: Visual Appeal
Powerpoint isn't the reason your slides suck. Powerpoint is just a tool. How you use it is critical. The rule of thirds can help.
PowerPoint Done Right: Practice
There's a huge difference between practicing (which is essential) and talking about practicing (which is a waste of time).
PowerPoint Done Right: Audience Engagement
If it's important to you, it should come across that way, right? So what does it tell your audience when you're staring straight down at your notes?
Merging Lessons
As two churches have begun exploring a merger potential, I've been helping and taking notes.
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