This isn’t a rhetorical question.
This is a focused post that invites you to put it into action NOW and immediately benefit from it. Then take a moment and fill us in: What can you appreciate right now?
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Presenting and dancing can both inspire a fair amount of pressure and stress, because you’re stepping out of your everyday situation and into a next level of visibility. How do you step up while still feeling like yourself? In this post, Dean gives you a simple concept to put into practice.
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There’s this old phrase of being “caught flatfooted” that means being surprised by something you completely didn’t expect. In the professional world, nobody wants this, especially when we’re discussing something important with someone. We want to feel like every aspect of that conversation is planned for and pre-considered and totally processed. Only then can we feel completely confident that we are prepared.
But the real world just isn’t like that. You can’t know the future. You can’t know how people are going to be, or what they’re going to say.
So instead of hoping for 100% precognition, we recommend being “Walking Prepared” – skilled at thinking on your feet, asking good questions, and feeling confident that you have a process for coming up with what’s needed in the moment.
In this post, Pete shares a few thoughts about how to achieve this version of preparation. To build these skills in your team, learn more about our WIN-it program.
Whether we’re honest with ourselves our not, we all want to influence other people one way or another. And that’s what presence is for.
In today’s post, Pete explores a couple fundamental concepts that can help you can get into the right mindset to elevate your presence and get more of what you want in your life, career, and business.
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Professionals can’t rely on their slides and backgrounds to make them present professionally. You carry the show, and Dean Hyers talks through simple areas of focus to make sure that you’re bringing MORE to your client presentations, team presentations, and the ones you do to land the work.
To learn about how to bring more of yourself to your next presentation so you can BE the show, and check out our presentation support page here.
When you’re competing to win a project as an underdog, you’ve got the freedom to push away from conventions and dare to be different — which can make you visible enough to stand out from the competition, and maybe even win.
In today’s post, Dean shares a client case study of a smaller firm landing a plum project by doing just that.
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When you provide a service, it’s easy to get treated like a commodity, which inherently frustrates business development. You need to set yourself apart from your competitors by finding a differentiator. In today’s post, Pete explores a few places to look to find that differentiator and truly jumpstart your business development.
To learn more about how you and your team can distinguish yourselves from the pack and generate more leads, check out our GROW-it program here.
The world of professional services – and of Architectural / Engineering / Construction projects in particular – is full of partnerships, both literally and figuratively. And different players in those relationships often have different readings of how those partnerships could and should work – which can create a mess.
In today’s post, Pete doesn’t necessarily clean up the mess, but he does point to the possibility of it, and opens it up to conversation – how do you optimize the partnerships you must have to sustain and grow your career, your organization, and the projects you work on?
Share your thoughts below, and to explore how this might impact you and your organization, contact us here.
New leaders have a very short window to establish yourself as powerful, and in command. So it’s crucial for you to intentionally choose how you want to come across and act quickly to establish your presence. In this post, Dean explores the process of achieving this.
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It’s really not the question. Don’t script. It’s hard to accept this because you want to control the result, and everyone has their opinion about what you should say. Dean has a solution for you: The sweet spot between scripting and winging it.
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