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Mastering Credibility Part I: It's What You Know

5/31/2021

This is part one of a three-part series on Mastering Credibility. Part two is It's The Relationships You Build and part three is It's How You Deliver Results.

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Jeff was the quintessential schmoozer.
He was one of those guys who was the life of the party. He could walk into any room and instantly be the one that everyone else focused on. His charm, wit, and charisma was the envy of his friends and colleagues. Being in his senior year of college, Jeff saw huge dollar signs in his future as a salesperson. Though he was an average student with average grades, Jeff felt that his ability to wine and dine customers was going to be his ticket to being a big-money salesperson. With his wit and charm, how could customers resist?

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One Less Meeting Gets You Home In Time For Dinner

5/24/2021

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Excerpted from The Truth about Getting Your Point Across…and Nothing But the Truth

A client of mine absolutely loved to have meetings. Regardless of the topic, if there was some reason for at least two people to have any kind of interaction a meeting got called. Not only were there a lot of meetings but there would almost always be superfluous bodies taking up space in the meeting that had no real reason to be there other than to be “informed.” Now, if decisions got made and things got done I would have had more tolerance for the meeting mania. But more often than not little got done at these meetings other than to schedule more meetings. It was madness, I say!

As a senior manager, I could have spent every working hour of every day in meetings.

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Tips to Teach your Kids about Money

5/17/2021

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I recently did an interview about tips to use when teaching your kids about money. In thinking through some techniques, I was able to lock on some specific things we did which helped to better instill good money management habits in our kids. Here they are:

1. When our daughter was in her tweens, we started working with her about purchasing decisions and saving up for things she wanted. Here’s what we did:

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Replacing a Project Manager Mid-Flight

5/10/2021

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One of my column readers recently sent in this question: One of our senior project managers left abruptly in the middle of a 3 year million $ contract. What experience and education would you consider in promoting a replacement?

Ooh, good meaty problem. Not so simple a solution.

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Mastering Credibility Part I: It's What You Know

One Less Meeting Gets You Home In Time For Dinner

Tips to Teach your Kids about Money

Replacing a Project Manager Mid-Flight

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