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Communication tip: If you want people to buy into your ideas then you must 'pre-communicate'…and over-communicate.

by Rick Baker
On Jan 26, 2021

The Thinking Behind the Tweet

  1. Experts have been studying people connections, networks, and hubs for over 40 years. Experts concluded weak links, including the most casual interactions with people we only know briefly or through friends-of-friends, often provide the greatest rewards, including access to innovation. 
  2. Far too many businesses operate like sheep following the herd in their business sector. Even casual connections with people outside your business sector can open doors to tremendous innovations.

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Communication: Improving Communication | Curiosity - Invention, Innovation & Creativity | Thought Tweets

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Introduce Interests & Express Expectations...do not leave these vital communications to chance.

by Rick Baker
On Jan 21, 2021

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

If you introduce your Interests people have a chance to understand what you want. Maybe they share your Interests. Maybe their Interests align with yours. Maybe they do not. If you introduce your Interests you, at least, have a fighting chance to know. 

If you express your Expectations people have a chance to understand what you want from them. Maybe they share your Expectations. Maybe their Expectations align with yours. Maybe they do not. If you express your Expectations you, at least, have a fighting chance to know.

And at least of equal importance, other people have a chance to know. If you want to accomplish things with the help of other people, you must agree you owe them that. 

Interests and Expectations: around the essence of communication. Just add story and repetition. 

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Communication: Improving Communication | Thought Tweets

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How to Master Sales: learn how to ask good questions, listen, think, & share solutions.

by Rick Baker
On Jan 20, 2021

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Despite the views of new-era social-media gurus, the Sales function is not dead. The Sales function will live and breathe as long as people do. The essence of Sales is 'people, one-to-one, exchanging value'. It is incorrect to conclude people are no longer doing that. It is equally incorrect to assume that's going to change. Sales - or barter, or trade, or whatever term one chooses to use for it - is part of the human condition. 

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Communication: Improving Communication | Sales | Thought Tweets

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When Leaders tell followers what to do they need to limit that telling to BIG PICTURE things.

by Rick Baker
On Jan 16, 2021

The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet

Some think Leaders should provide followers latitude to do their work as they choose. Some think that’s the way to breed creativity and maximize motivation, innovation, and results. Meanwhile, many [perhaps most] entrepreneur-Leaders tend to micro-manage. 4 keys to success in business:

  1. The Leader must pick strong/capable followers, 
  2. The Leader must tell those followers the desired BIG PICTURE things such as VALUES, VISION, MASTER RULES, and MAJOR GOALS, 
  3. The Leader must show those followers how he/she [the Leader] goes about his/her work [actions]…i.e., setting one example, the example that fits the Leader’s strengths and personality, and 
  4. the Leader must make it clear he/she expects followers to take action that fits their unique strengths and personalities.

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Communication: Improving Communication | Entrepreneur Thinking | Goals - SMARTACRE Goals | Leaders' Thoughts | Master Rules | Personalities @ Work | STRENGTHS: People-Focused for Success | Thought Tweets | Values: Personal Values | Vision: The Leader's Vivid Vision

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When there's no two ways about it, it isn't good conversation.

by Rick Baker
On Jan 14, 2021

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Well...that's an idiom wrapped up in an aphorism wrapped up in a bit of truism.

Regardless, closed minds don't tolerate others' ideas and undisciplined minds are always tied to ears that close and mouths that open.

 

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Communication: Improving Communication | Humour | Thick Skin & Thin Skull | Thought Tweets

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Be comfortable allowing what people do to overrule what they say.

by Rick Baker
On Jan 10, 2021

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Confucius said, "There was a time when I merely listened attentively to what people said, and took for granted that they would carry out their words. Now I am obliged not only to give ear to what they say, but also to keep an eye on what they do."

Believe what they do, not what they say...remember you are biased...and don't gauge them too harshly...after all, they are only human.

 

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Communication: Improving Communication | Thought Tweets | Wisdom: Surviving the Test of Time

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