Strategic Planning and Management Insights

AUGUST 21, 2024

In today's fast-paced business world, where strategy and leadership are constantly evolving, the art of facilitation is becoming increasingly vital. Myriam's unique journey—from an academic in behavioral economics to a highly sought-after facilitator—offers deep insights into the transformative power of facilitation in organizations.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Sales leadership roles are some of the most lucrative, challenging, engaging positions sales professionals can pursue. Here, I'll review some of those key traits and offer a short quiz to see if you're sales leadership material. And while that's not always appealing or comfortable, it's an unfortunate reality of sales leadership.

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MDI Training

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Artificial Intelligence as a Co-Trainer in Leadership Development In a world that is constantly evolving, we at MDI always strive to be at the forefront of finding innovative ways to promote and sustainably improve leadership development. It’s about making the future of leadership training even more sustainable.

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MDI Training

AUGUST 22, 2022

A leadership novel for the first-time leaders. Further to unexpected events, Luca is promoted into a leadership position, without any formal training or mentoring. Vladimir Novac is based in Bucharest, Romania and works as top-executive leadership trainer and coach around the globe. Lead’ is a Must-Read. About the author. ?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 between 9:30am-3:30pm Pacific , SME Strategy and our Chief Client Officer & Senior Facilitator, Jenna Sedmak, are offering Complimentary In-Person Virtual "Strategy & Leadership Diagnostics" consultations at our KWENCH office site in Victoria, BC.

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MDI Training

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AI-Enhanced Leadership: Maximizing Potential with Intelligent Tools Let’s also take a closer look at Ai vs. human – Who has more charisma in today’s world? As AI revolutionizes the landscape of learning and people development, questions arise about the role of leadership in a technologically advanced environment.

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Force Management

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our own Paddy Mac (In official terms, Force Management’s Senior Director of Consulting and Facilitation Patrick McLoughlin) is loud and proud when it comes to enabling managers. Top sales leaders should always be looking for ways to support and enable these critical team players. It’s a great list so we’re sharing it with you here.

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 31, 2025

Even a premier training provider with a proven sales process and methodology wont deliver results if the facilitator doesnt connect with your sales professionals. What should you look for in a sales training facilitator? Sales Leadership Experience A sales trainer who has led people has earned the trust of their peers.

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Mike Kunkle

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s hard to tell from afar how much of that was poor leadership versus poor enablement, but in some cases where I knew the enablement pros who were impacted, I can vouch that they were solid enablement leaders, and were hamstrung by their circumstances and their leadership, not their capabilities.

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CMOE

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many types of leadership styles out there. Here, we’ll discuss two specific styles: directive and supportive leadership. Let’s take a moment to discuss what directive and supportive leadership are and the specific circumstances that merit each style. Directive Leadership. Supportive Leadership.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

People and Problem-Solving Skills Facilitating, coaching, mentoring and consulting all require great people skills. Counselling, coaching, mentoring, facilitating, training and consulting are at different stages of the helping continuum. Coaches and consultants use facilitation skills. You use facilitation skills when coaching.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 20, 2023

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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Miller Heiman Group

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The primary approach we recommend to exceed expectations and deepen those relationships is by delivering perspective to customers in the form of valuable insights and thought leadership , truly understanding a buyers’ business and personal problems and helping buyers reframe their thinking to solve them.

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Red Star Kim

OCTOBER 25, 2023

CogniClick is a nifty system (backed by an expert team) to enable you to conduct fast, quick polls and pulse surveys amongst your clients and stakeholders and to also develop maturity assessments and similar thought leadership content. So the system facilitates fast, regular research amongst your targets, clients and referrers.

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CMOE

APRIL 14, 2023

This process leads to the need for executing effective virtual facilitation strategies for remote participants and inevitable challenges as participants and facilitators adapt to the virtual environments. The guide below is designed to help you overcome challenges that arise in virtual facilitation and elevate your capabilities.

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Red Star Kim

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That would give anyone great insight into leadership and management. Harnessing that network, he has facilitated so many trailblazing developments. His final role was Head of Strategy working for Lord Sharman before, during and after the mega-merger that created KPMG. No surprise that he’s a networking super-connector.

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ProlifIQ

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Also include any recent leadership changes, acquisitions, or other significant events. This facilitates a smooth handoff between sales and account management, as everyone has access to the same high-quality account history, buyer personas, and other vital information.

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Red Star Kim

JULY 13, 2023

Thanks to the Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit at haysmacintyre earlier this week.

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OnStrategyHQ

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is by no means a comprehensive guide to approachable strategic planning facilitations! We love virtual facilitation tools like Miro Boards and polls because they can be easily hidden from screens when you need focused attention. Great question! Here are a few of the best answers from our Strategy Collaborative Q&A Session!

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I deliver and facilitate strategy workshops and it’s always good to be able to recommend strategy books to delegates. After describing what strategic thinking looks like, the author guides readers through the strategy process – with suitable questions to ask during leadership discussions. He’s clearly an advocate for scenario planning.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Developing a business plan was seen as a priority for those who were new in leadership roles in their firms as well as established leaders looking to drive development and growth (see delegate top takeaways below). Business planning Surprisingly, none of the delegates’ firms had a business plan to drive the growth of the private client team.

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Red Star Kim

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A mixed media campaign lasting four months was recommended to facilitate face-to-face discussions using the common theme of the exponential rise of cyber issues in the digital business age – a new category of risk. The campaign was part of an exciting project 7BR announced in 2022.

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Brooks Group

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Brooks Group’s training programs are led by expert sales trainers (aka facilitators) with real sales experience. Has Leadership Experience Being able to draw on a professional selling background will win the trust of an audience in a program. They want to be at the front of a room in control of an audience.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 5, 2021

This point falls on company leadership. By encouraging cooperation and collaboration between leadership across departments through teamwork, you can help keep every side of your business on the same page and prevent them from remaining isolated from one another. Facilitate socializing between departments.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Finding effective leadership in sales is every bit as difficult as it is vital. They guide how a company approaches the public by facilitating product or service launches. A leadership role at a business that saw considerable growth or maintained an already impressive growth trajectory is a mark of a diligent, capable sales executive.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 23, 2020

Whether you are striving to win over a potential customer, are establishing trust with your company’s leadership team, or are collaborating with your marketing organization , knowing how to connect with others is critical to success in your role. Best for facilitating a wide variety of sales-relevant conversations. Women in Tech Sales.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This notion, attributed to Buddha’s wisdom, encapsulates the mindset of an effective leader—but what is a leadership mindset, and what does it entail? At its core, a leadership mindset is a set of beliefs and thought patterns that empower an individual to guide and inspire others toward achieving shared objectives.

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Customer Think

APRIL 3, 2023

As professionals, a big part of our job is to influence change. One of the tasks we perform on route is information gathering. With a goal in mind, we assume we can pose the right questions to get the data we think we need. But sometimes our questions miss the mark and we end up gathering incomplete […]

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OnStrategyHQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Major leadership and management changes, ownership changes, and mergers are high-stress events. Should We Hire a Strategic Planning Facilitator? Our guidance on hiring a planning facilitator comes with two recommendations. If you need to contribute, you probably should hire an outside facilitator.

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MDI Training

JANUARY 29, 2024

AI in Leadership – The Ethical Dimension Do you prefer to listen to this article? This blog post is a continuation of an interview ” AI-Enhanced Leadership: Maximizing Potential with Intelligent Tools. LinkedIn Download our MDI Paper: This could also help you: AI in Leadership – the Ethical Dimension by Aline | 29.

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MDI Training

JUNE 28, 2023

Sustainable individualization in leadership – pious hope or real alternative? When leaders are supported in their development processes and have the opportunity to leverage their strengths, they can develop more effective leadership approaches that are also aligned with sustainability goals.

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Force Management

APRIL 16, 2024

We recently hosted a live session on Driving a Revenue Mindset with our Managing Director and Facilitator Brian Walsh. He shared insights on what’s changing in sales, what remains critical, and what the most successful organizations are focusing on to maintain revenue momentum. Be sure to check out the full on-demand recording here.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Any company's sales leadership needs to keep a pulse on how its salespeople are performing, both individually and on a broader organizational level — getting there often starts by understanding the degree of effort reps are putting in. That's where performance indicators known as sales productivity metrics come in. Emails Sent.

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Red Star Kim

AUGUST 24, 2023

I facilitate various workshops designed to increase commercial awareness. I invited him once to facilitate a junior professionals’ networking event for an accountancy practice – where he talked about one of his other books “All you need to know about the City” (latest version updated in 2022). For young professionals.

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MDI Training

JUNE 26, 2023

It is hard to imagine most companies today without the concept of “ sustainable leadership.” In this article, you will learn what exactly is meant by Sustainable Leadership and how we at MDI are doing our part. What is Sustainable Leadership? What Are the Benefits of Sustainable Leadership?

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