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Book Talk Culture Shifting Mindset
After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. With the right mi [...]
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Published: 02/12/2019
Book Talk Culture Shifting Mindset
As Billy Ocean famously sang, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

Why do naturally talented people frequently fail to reach their potential while other far less [...]
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Published: 18/11/2019
Book Talk Change Management Growth Shifting Mindset
We all have new ideas with the best of intentions of getting them across the line. Wanting to implement change is never the issue, making said change actually happen is the hard part.

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Published: 28/10/2019
Book Talk Shifting Mindset Solving problems
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

This saying was first coined by the great philosopher, Aristotle, and simply means that together, everyone achieves more. The [...]
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Published: 21/10/2019
Book Talk Execution
Do you remember the last initiative you tried to get started in your business? Did it go down with a fiery crash or was it slowly pushed down the action list by other competing priorities? By the time [...]
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Published: 14/10/2019
Book Talk Shifting Mindset
“Jack of all trades is a master of none…”

We have all heard this saying countless times right? The phrase is usually meant sarcastically and is most certainly not a compliment [...]
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Published: 07/10/2019
Book Talk Negotiation Sales
Just like a game of chess, negotiation requires a game plan and a strategy. However, where the sole focus in chess is to 'win', one's focus in negotiation should be 'win-win' as this allows a whole ne [...]
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Published: 30/09/2019
Accountability Book Talk Choice Shifting Mindset
Life often feels like it has a way of piling stresses on us until the proverbial 'straw that breaks the camels back'. This is no different in business where your team have countless things coming at t [...]
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Published: 23/09/2019
Book Talk Leadership Shifting Mindset
Your jaw is clenched, you're starting to sweat and you can feel your heart rate increasing...oh $#@!, you're heading for a crucial conversation!

So, do you (A) avoid it and suffer the [...]
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Published: 16/09/2019
Book Talk Marketing Sales
Every day, countless businesses make a mistake that costs them bucket loads of money - they don't explain clearly what it is that their company does! Have you ever stopped to think how much this very [...]
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Published: 09/09/2019
Book Talk
HOW TO GIVE TOUGH LOVE - Have you ever had that "do I tell them, don't I tell them, how do I tell them!?!" kinda moment? The classic spinach in the teeth or zipper down situation are [...]
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Published: 02/09/2019
Book Talk Marketing Sales Value
For marketers and businesses it is easy to fall into the trap of only selling on social media platforms and forgetting about the importance of giving value as well.

This talk introduce [...]
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Published: 19/08/2019
Book Talk Sales Shifting Mindset
There are two kinds of stories in sales: Yours, and those that matter. If you’re considering delivering this talk, you’re doing so because you have something that you want your team t [...]
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Published: 05/08/2019
Book Talk Negotiation Sales
We are all faced with, not only the opportunity but also the need, to negotiate multiple times a week. It's up to you to arm your team with the knowledge and confidence to come out on top when doing s [...]
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Published: 23/07/2019
Book Talk Differentiation Marketing
You may have a great business, you may have great people, you may have great products. However, often greatness is not enough. They need to be remarkable. This talk, inspired by [...]
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Published: 15/07/2019
Book Talk Innovation Legacy Thinking
Present the principles found in Legacide, by [...]
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Published: 10/07/2019
Accountability Book Talk Responsibility
This talk has been created using Jocko Willink's highly successful TED talk as the blueprint as well [...]
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Published: 01/07/2019
Book Talk Sales
What would you say if you were given just 60 seconds to sell your business to your biggest prospect? More importantly, what would your team say? How likely do you think it would be for them to get the [...]
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Published: 20/06/2019
Book Talk Growth Marketing
Growth is important, but often hard. Sometimes we need to rethink ourselves in order to make it happen. That's where Growth Hacking comes in.

If your business was built on the pillars [...]
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Published: 10/06/2019
Accountability Leadership Leadership Qualities Responsibility Shifting Mindset
Whether you've just come back to work after a break, or you've just finished a big project - you have a golden opportunity. An opportunity to select the gear that your team kicks off in. Do not lea [...]
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Published: 31/12/2018
Accountability Change Management Innovation Legacy Thinking Shifting Mindset Solving problems
With growth comes legacy thinking, and with legacy thinking come [...]
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Published: 31/12/2018
Culture Products Shifting Mindset Speed to Market
Do you or your team ever feel crippled by the fact that you want things to be perfect before you launch? Well, perfection may be desirable, but it WILL slow you down. The fastest companies all underst [...]
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Published: 31/12/2018
Leadership Shifting Mindset
If you could go back in time to when your company started, what systems and processes would you change or put in place? Bad news... you can't. What you can do though is do future you a favour by s [...]
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Published: 31/12/2018
No matter how good your team or company is right now, there's always room for improvement. This comes from two sides, finding a better way, and doing everything you do better. This, the first in a two [...]
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Published: 31/12/2018
(Part 2 of Crossing Lanes series) If last time we focused on "finding a better way", this time we're looking at doing all the little things, a bit better - it's called unleashing the power of marginal [...]
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Published: 31/12/2018
Culture Leadership Leadership Qualities Shifting Mindset
You have to create the itch before you provide the scratch! This talk will get your team on board for the TalkDrawer journey ahead and is focused around consensus building, one of the leader's most im [...]
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Published: 11/10/2018
Culture Leadership Shifting Mindset
It's not enough for you to want to change, your team must be willing to change too. That's what we explore today. Consensus is key! In this talk we need you to be brave. Get your team to stand. You n [...]
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Published: 10/10/2018
Culture Shifting Mindset Solving problems
Are times tough in your business or industry? Well then, this may well be the talk for you! The key is to get your team to identify the crisis, then to explore the opportunities this creates. They [...]
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Published: 10/10/2018
Execution Strategy
What can the world's weirdest football match teach you about creating incentives to be awesome? More than you think, actually. See, we all think that it's the rules we lay down that guide great [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Choice Innovation Products
"I want more choice!" That may be what they are saying, but is it how they are acting? This important presentation will force your team to look at just how much is enough when it comes to the produ [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Client Experience Culture Service
We all understand what good service means... but do we understand great service? We don't think so. This talk is designed to change the way your team thinks about great service (spoiler, just doing yo [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Culture Leadership Qualities
"Our people are our greatest asset." We hear platitudes like this all the time - however what people do we have? It turns out, when it comes to leadership at least, that not all people are created equ [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Minimum Viable Product Speed to Market
If there's one thing you can say for Zuck' it's that the man knows how to build a game-changing technology. For years, this was done at Facebook under the mantra of "Move fast and break thinks". It so [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Differentiation Innovation
Business is serious stuff, and often we make the mistake of thinking that means that craziness doesn't have its place. And it does! Sometimes your team needs to be willing to throw rationality out [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Differentiation USP
Customer Perceived Value Pt 3 - Have you ever heard the term USP? It's marketing speak, it means Unique Selling Proposition. The problem is you're still selling, not solving. UPS, on the other hand, f [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Sales Value
Customer Perceived Value Pt 2 - So you've created a brand by making what you sell more than just the nuts and bolts of your product or service. While great for attracting new clients, it doesn't al [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Commodity Unfair Advantage
Customer Perceived Value Pt 1 - You've heard that you're only as good as your product right? Well, sorry to tell you but you heard wrong. See, a product is just a commodity – and any business ca [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Culture Leadership Qualities
Building an Evolving Organization Pt 3 - If you haven't already, check out the prequel to this preso (The Shifting Strategy). In this follow-up deck, we look at how a leader's first skill (yes, before [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Shifting Mindset Strategy
Building an Evolving Organization Pt 2 - Good leaders understand the importance of a good strategy, great leaders understand that a strategy is just a plan, that can be affected by so many factors. It [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018
Attention to detail Quality
Blink 182 had a great hit with their song "All the small things" and I can see why, because it's often the smallest things that make the biggest difference with your customers, AND if you build a cult [...]
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Published: 22/03/2018