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Team Evaluation: How to Assess Team Performance

4 Effective Ways to Build Trust With Customers

Are all the members of your team performing up to standard? How often do you assess your team’s performance? Your leadership team can either set you up for a virtuous cycle that informs your long-term successes, or for a vicious cycle that leaves you isolated and without needed support. Therefore, it is critical that you have a robust and comprehensive team evaluation process to make sure everyone on the team is keeping up to the standard. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to design and execute an effective team evaluation process.

Scott Adams on Donald Trump’s Persuasive Powers

What do you think is the secret behind Donald Trump’s success in politics? How has he amassed so many supporters in spite of the public criticism? Many would say that Donald Trump doesn’t know what he is talking about. But according to Scott Adams, Donald Trump is a masterful communicator as far as his persuasion factor goes: he knows what to say and how to say it. In this article, we’ll take a look at Scott Adams’s analysis of Donald Trump’s campaign tactics which stand behind his election victory.

7 Persuasion Tips: Wield the Power of Influence

Have you ever wondered how some people are so good at getting others to do what they want? Do you wish you could wield the same power? What are some persuasion tips that can help? There are many elements that could contribute to one’s persuasion factor. Some may be out of your control (e.g. personal affinity), but most aren’t. You can significantly level up your persuasion game by just knowing what tactics to use and when to use them. In this article, we’ll take a look at some high-level persuasion tips by Scott Adams.

Scott Adams: 3 Principles of Persuasion

Do you think being persuasive is a matter of personality or skill? Does persuasion come naturally to you? Some people owe their persuasion powers to their personality—it comes naturally to them. If that’s not the case for you, don’t panic! According to Scott Adams, persuasion is a skill that can be developed through practice, just like anything else. No matter whether you are taking the logic or the emotion route, the following persuasion principles hold true for both.

How to Build a Good Relationship With Your Boss

Has your company appointed a new manager? Why is it important to make sure you and your new boss start off the right foot from the get-go? The relationship you have with your boss can make or break both your performance and job satisfaction. That’s why it’s important to negotiate success in your role by understanding his/her needs, priorities, and communication style from the get-go. We’ll discuss some tips on how to build a good relationship with your boss

Persuasion Tactics: A Master Persuader’s Toolkit

Do you want to improve your persuasion skills? What tactics do master persuaders use to sway people to their point of view? If you want to level up your persuasion game, there is no shortage of methods that teach you how to exercise your skills. The following persuasion tactics are taken from Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter. Here are some tactics every aspiring persuader should know.

Persuasion Methods: Ranked From Strong to Weak

Do you tend to appeal to logic or emotion when trying to persuade someone? What’s the best method to convince someone to make a decision or come over to a point of view? There are broad categories of persuasion methods, ranging from logical reasoning to appeals to emotion. In his book Wing Bigly, Scott Adams considers some persuasion methods to be terribly weak and others to be formidably strong. Here’s an overview of Scott Adams’ persuasion methods in the descending order of effectiveness.

The 9 Best Tips for How to Avoid Conflict

Do you want to know how to avoid conflict? How can you improve the way you express yourself in conversations? What does body language have to do with preventing conflict? In The Chimp Paradox, Steve Peters offers advice about how to avoid conflict and improve relationships. He advises that you should manage your own emotional reactions, making sure that you don’t escalate the situation into conflict. Rather than acting emotionally, you should step back and assess the conversation rationally. Read on to find out how to avoid conflict and improve your communication skills.

Win Bigly by Scott Adams: Book Overview

What is Scott Adams’ Win Bigly about? What persuasion methods does he discuss in the book? Win Bigly by Scott Adams is an “offensive” book—it shows you how to leverage people’s biases and irrationality to persuade on your point of view. To this end, the author teaches the persuasion methods that politicians use in their campaigns and how you can apply them to be persuasive yourself. Here is a brief overview of Scott Adams’s 2017 book Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter.

How to Read Imaginative Literature: Adler’s Advice

How is reading imaginative literature different than reading expository writing? What four questions should you ask about the book? In How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler says that reading imaginative literature such as novels, plays, and poetry should be approached differently than informational books. The main difference is that imaginative literature is trying to convey emotions and experiences. Here’s how you can read imaginative literature like a pro.