Successful Meeting Management
This tool provides a strong foundation in meeting management.
It defines the five types of meetings, how to ensure that a meeting adds value, and provides practical tips for keeping meetings on track.
The Six Principles of Strategic Positioning
This tool is for leaders who want to understand the six principles of successful strategic positioning.
It ensures that leaders are asking the right questions about the overall goals of the company, its business model, and the value that the company creates. Research has shown that companies that follow these six fundamental principles establish and maintain a distinctive strategic position.
The Science of Persuasion
Six principles come into play whenever we persuade people to buy our products or services. These six principles lie at the heart of our persuasive skills.
Based on the book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by social psychologist Robert Cialdini, this tool explains each psychological principle in detail and provides examples. Marketing executives can use this tool to design successful campaigns
How to Succeed at Core Process Improvement
This tool distills the concepts behind core process improvement and provides a useful framework for leaders who want to understand the factors behind successful process improvement.
This tool is very useful for managers at all levels.
Five Elements of Effective Teams
This tool helps leaders understand the five elements of successful teams and establish these elements in their own teams. It includes an agenda to use in establishing a team "charter."
This tool is useful for new, as well as established teams that are searching for a renewed sense of purpose.
Five Types of Decisions
This tool describes five types of decisions (and two levels within each type).
Managers and leaders can use this tool to clarify the types of decisions that are made every day – and the respective roles that people play in making them.
Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits
What enables the best nonprofits to create lasting social change?
This tool, excerpted from "Creating High-Impact Nonprofits" published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, lays out six attributes shared by the most successful nonprofit organizations.
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