“Smile more” is a common piece of advice we give to each other around presentations and important interactions. In today’s vlog, Dean explores why this is a potentially problematic suggestion, and how to improve upon it.
Helping is always a good thing, right?
The answer might not be as cut and dried as you think. Sometimes, there are crucial ingredients missing. In today’s post, Pete explores those ingredients that some service professionals can leave out.
“Yes, And…” is a concept that SagePresence picked up from its Improv days. In today’s vlog post, Pete explores the possibility of applying it to all of our conversations (which are improvisational by nature).
The SagePresence Story Structure is a flexible one that allows you to make different points with ease. As we’ve worked with clients, we’ve found three categories of stories that we most often help them create. In today’s post, Dean shares these three categories.
Congratulations — You’ve made it into a new role in your organization. Now you face the task of getting buy-in from the rest of the team in this new role. In today’s replay post, Dean shares his thoughts about making the most of this opportunity and by stepping up into this new role the best way possible.
There are countless important things to do in your Architecture / Engineering / Construction interviews to win the project, but as we think about it (today, at least) the Number One Most Important is about how you strategize the interview.
In today’s post, Pete shares his thoughts about how to optimize that strategy.
Old sayings like, ‘It’s all in the eyes” can be useful, but can often be too reductive. In today’s post, Dean provides the necessary add-on to this old saying.
We all have our communication tendencies and defaults that work for us in some way, but that cause problems for those who are trying to communicate with us. In today’s post, Pete shares a common default that Thinkers have that can cause problems for others — and offers a practice they can get into to avoid those problems in the future.
Take a moment and think about how many people in your organization are attending meetings that take too much time, or don’t really make a meaningful difference, or that shouldn’t have been scheduled in the first place.
In today’s repost, Pete shares 6 tips to becoming part of the solution.
SagePresence Story Structure is designed to emulate the way that human beings think in. It’s simple and basic and powerful. And we believe it’s particularly powerful to leave out an element that Hollywood would like us to be emotionally attached to: The villain.
In today’s vlog, Dean explains why.