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10 Reasons Why Every Manager Should take a Finance Course

Great Leadership By Dan

We just finished a “ Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager ” program this week for a large client. The audience was mostly engineers – program and project managers, the ones in charge of designing and making complex stuff. Finance and accounting is very sexy! You’ll be more popular and get more dates.

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Retirement and Your Finances – From the Women on Business Archives

Women on Business

The start of a new year is a great time to re-evaluate your finances and retirement savings plan. With that in mind, I thought it would also be a good time to take a trip through the Women on Business archives to find some great articles about retirement and finances that you might have missed.

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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The point of a visual presentation is to get the audience to listen.

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Social Media Responsibility | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

But the audience was oh-so quick to grab their phones and tweet/IM/Facebook about what they were watching. In fact, I hope that some in Bill Nye’s audience were attempting to contact emergency services, but I rather suspect that this was not the case for most of them. The audience gasped, and then talked to each other.

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Great Leaders Leverage Great Messaging | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The Market “is&# the Message : This view of messaging values the target audience above all else. Furthermore, the best content or spokesperson in the world communicating to the wrong audience, with the wrong message, or through the wrong medium is likely to miss the mark.

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Those Who Can Speak Close More Sales :: Women on Business

Women on Business

I have observed that Mee is such an exceptional orator because of the way he manages to so eloquently connect with an audience. Whenever he speaks, he seems to carry the audience in the palm of his hands. A presentation—even a sales presentation—should not be about the speaker, but rather, about the audience.

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Buzzwords Aren't All Bad | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, in some cases the use of buzzwords and business speak can actually demonstrate a better understanding of context, environment, audience, etc. There is no point judging the audience for their reaction, they are where they are. Thanks for sharng Sami. link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate.

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