Five Simple Steps to Perfect an Awesome Presentation

Five Simple Steps to Perfect an Awesome Presentation

Five Simple Steps to Perfect an Awesome Presentation

Delivering effective presentations is a critically important skill for business owners, executives, salespeople and all professionals. The ability to share engaging, compelling and essential information successfully to an array of audiences requires forethought, planning and practice.

Whether you are delivering an internal, an external or a sales presentation, don’t give your audience a reason to check out. Instead, follow these five simple steps to deliver an awesome presentation that resonates with your audience and achieves your desired results.

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Regain Control When Clients Have You on the Run

Regain Control When Clients Have You on the Run

Regain Control When Clients Have You on the Run

As business owners, we have all encountered extremely challenging clients or customers. You know the customers that are impossible to please and who often make numerous or unreasonable demands. In these situations, it’s important to directly address the situation as diplomatically and politely as possible.

Here are several strategies to help you regain control when your customer has you on the run.

  1. Remember it is NOT PERSONAL.
  2. Focus on your brand promise.
  3. Conduct an objective review of the situation.
  4. Proactively engage other customers that may have the same concern.
  5. Make the necessary operational modifications, if appropriate, and LET IT GO.
  6. Play the long game.

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Ignoring Business Etiquette Will Cost You Time and Sales

Ignoring Business Etiquette Will Cost You Time and Sales

An Interview with Joscelyn Davis, president and chief strategist, JADE Strategies, Inc.

Business etiquette is a tool that should be used to avoid creating distractions and to keep your focus on the business at hand. — Joscelyn Davis

Today, our Pro Tip focuses on business etiquette and why it is important for business owners, professionals and executives to achieve greater business and career success.

Joscelyn Davis, the president and chief strategist of JADE Strategies, Inc., is a highly sought-after speaker and trainer who brings more than 25 years of proven experience in organizational change strategy and leadership coaching in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. She shares her business etiquette insights to help you excel in your business or career.

Listen to the podcast here.

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021: Ignoring Business Etiquette Will Cost You Time and Sales

Today, our Pro Tip focuses on business etiquette and why it is important for business owners, professionals and executives to achieve greater business and career success.

Joscelyn Davis, the president and chief strategist of JADE Strategies, Inc., is a highly sought-after speaker and trainer who brings more than 25 years of proven experience in organizational change strategy and leadership coaching in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. She shares her business etiquette insights to help you excel in your business or career.

Watch the video interview here.

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It’s Fourth and Goal: How to Improve Your Success

It’s Fourth and Goal: How to Improve Your Success

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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney

With the fourth quarter of 2017 just a few days away, are you on track to achieve or exceed your business or career goals this year? If so, congratulations and keep your momentum going! However, if you’re among the many small business owners and professionals that began this year with great optimism and a sincere desire to enhance your productivity, to accelerate your results and to increase your revenue, but have fallen behind your milestones, it’s not too late.

Whatever your goals are this year, you can still work toward their achievement. How and where do you begin? First, forget about making excuses or regretting your current status. Focus your energy and efforts on modifying your behavior. This is a critically important step toward your success.

Next, create a 100-day action plan. This proven approach will help you chart your path forward, move you towards your goals and increase your ability to achieve them.

When developing your 100-day action plan, begin with your end game in mind. Based on your established goals for this year, what milestones can still be accomplished by year-end? What tasks must be completed to make the needed progress? What strategies will you employ to achieve these goals?

What are your biggest obstacles that can derail your ability to succeed? You must be completely honest with yourself. If you don’t address your unproductive behaviors, obstacles or issues, you can’t optimize your opportunity for success.

What tactics will you execute? Who will provide support and guidance for your plan? What are the key milestones and metrics that will guide your actions? And, most importantly, what does success look like for you?

It’s the fourth quarter, not the end of the game! You can still make progress on your 2017 goals and, more importantly, jumpstart your 2018 achievements! Defining success throughout your journey empowers you to visualize your road map to success and to set realistic expectations on what is feasible to achieve. This enables you to avoid being bogged down and to plan for potential the pitfalls and opportunities.

Success is achievable if you have the courage to fully and unapologetically pursue your goals.

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016: Boss Up: How to Transition from Business Owner to CEO

Do you remember the moment you decided to launch your business or to become a business owner? Do you remember the myriad of decisions you had to make? Specifically, how did you decide on your new title of president, managing partner, founder or CEO? Whatever your decision-making process, your title represents more than your position. It reflects you level of competency to effectively manage and grow your business. As you launched your business, you were confident in your technical abilities to deliver the products, solutions or services. Perhaps, you also were confident in your ability to manage your accounting, sales and marketing. With your business growing, is it time to develop additional skills and to transition to a fully functioning chief executive officer? This transition is crucial to your continued business growth to help successfully enter new markets, to engage a higher-level client and to close bigger more lucrative deals.

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