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Health-care information technology company Cerner seeks to connect with current and prospective clients, other associates, and partners by sharing its passion—the “why”—with them. As such, the company began an extensive training initiative to retool the way Cerner associates communicate, leading to a three-day Successful Presentations – Advanced workshop.

To be a Great Manager, you need to be an effective coach with the ability to ask Powerful Questions, listen actively, and offer observations. You must help your employees create the shifts in their beliefs and actions that will result in the achievement of desired results.

Three key trends have surfaced as the most critical for increasing and maintaining high levels of engagement: Candor, Collaboration, and Development.

Who, in your life, deserves to be acknowledged, thanked, or recognized? Reach out today and let them know how much you appreciate who they are and what they do. Experience what it means not only to them but to you.

Whether it’s creating a quick “how-to” video or annotating screenshots, visual communication is a quick and easy way to help employees prepare for that essential time off.

Global organizations pursue integrated organizational strategies to maximize the flow and leverage of resources worldwide to optimize results for the total organization. These principles can serve as a global guidance system to support the decisions and actions of organizations, teams, and individual leaders.

Derailment is a phenomenon all too common in organizations. Highly successful middle managers are identified as having potential to move up and eventually take on senior-level positions. Yet there are those who don’t live up to that assessment. They plateau below expected levels of achievement, or they reach higher levels only to fail, resulting in being demoted or fired.

Global IT consulting company Avanade’s Sales Effectiveness initiative transformed the sales workforce by taking a systemic approach to training as a component of a broader talent management strategy called Skill Family Revitalization (SFR).

Digital health agency Klick uses the “technology as a trainer” philosophy to embed data-driven training into its culture and everyday operations. Genome helps Klick identify when someone needs to learn a particular skill. That triggers an automated process that takes the team member’s unique profile into account.

A virtual presentation is still a presentation, so do everything you would for a live event, including interviews, conference calls, audience discovery, research, assessments, and add polls and questions to engage the audience. Practice is especially important, given the technology involved.