This document discusses how leaders can use stories to inspire and influence others. It provides 5 types of stories that leaders can tell: 1) Challenge stories to overcome obstacles, 2) Connecting stories to relate experiences, 3) Metaphoric stories to articulate concepts visually, 4) Visionary stories to sell grand dreams and influence change, and 5) Cautionary stories to avoid past mistakes. Each story type is explained and an example leader is given to illustrate how that type of story can be used and its impact. The document encourages leaders to incorporate purposeful storytelling in their communication.
This document contains quotes from various authors on topics related to decision making and success. It encourages the reader to take control of their life and decide their own path, as well as work hard and persevere to achieve success however they define it. The quotes discuss deciding one's own destiny, overcoming obstacles through determination, focusing on self-improvement to find unique talents, and balancing success with integrity and caring for others.
Executive Presence and Personal BrandingAnkit Sachan
This document discusses executive presence and personal branding. It defines executive presence as the ability to engage, align, inspire, and move people through strong leadership skills, communication abilities, and influence. Personal branding is marketing oneself and one's career as a brand through developing and maintaining a reputation. The document identifies characteristics of executive presence like confidence and emotional intelligence. It provides tools to enhance one's online presence and discusses how executive presence can be strengthened through personal branding.
E-School for Girls presents How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur: Stories From Female Innovators. In this talk Mona Patel, CEO of Motivate Design shares with the audience the five things she wished she knew before she started her company.
E-School for Girls is a two-week summer intensive program at NYU designed to empower young women to become confident leaders and entrepreneurs.We strive to give rising High School juniors and seniors experiences that enable them to take initiative, pave their own paths and have the courage to achieve their own definition of success.
14 Tips to Entrepreneurs to start the Right StuffPatrick Stähler
14 tips for Entrepreneurs how they can develop from an idea the Right Thing. The Right is being loved by your customers, gives meaning to you and employees and is profitable. Finding and later doing the Right Thing is an agile and iterative learning journey. With these 14 tips you can profit from the experience of successful entrepreneurs since you do not have to experience and fail by yourself. Hopefully, the slide deck helps other entrepreneurs.
10 Things your Audience Hates About your PresentationStinson
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It’s impossible to win over an audience with a bad presentation. You might have the next big thing, but if your presentation falls flat, then so will your idea. While every audience is different, there are some universal cringe-worthy presentation mistakes that are all too common. Whether you’re an amateur or a seasoned presenter, you should always avoid this list of top 10 things your audience hates. Are you committing any of these 10 fatal presentation sins?
For more presentation help, visit stinsondesign.com/blog
Top Productivity Working Hacks by Jan RezabJan Rezab
This document provides productivity tips from Jan Rezab, a serial entrepreneur. Some key points include:
- Manage time by thinking in "blocks" of one hour and maximizing productivity in each block.
- Use tools like Wunderlist, Podio and Slack for communication and organization in addition to email.
- Design meetings purposefully with clear agendas and action items. Follow up immediately.
- Find ways to be productive during activities like driving or flights by taking calls or responding to emails.
- Hiring an excellent assistant can help optimize schedules and respond to urgent requests so the entrepreneur's time is freed up.
Some think working remotely is a terrible setting that takes control away and let's employees stay at home and be useless. Others find that remote work increases overall productivity and lowers the need to micromanage.
And both sides might be correct as remote work, like all other structures, work really well for some and make others crazy.
The only thing that we can say for certain is that telecommuting is increasingly popular and there are problems you need to face to make it work.
How to Respond to Negative Reviews on GlassdoorGlassdoor
This document discusses tips for companies on responding to negative reviews on Glassdoor. It begins with an agenda for a webinar on responding to negative reviews. It then discusses the importance of employer brand and how current employees and job seekers use sites like Glassdoor to research potential employers. It provides tips for who should respond to reviews, how often to respond, and a 5-tip approach for crafting positive responses, including examples from companies like Worldpay, Zillow, Canon, and ARM Holdings. The document concludes with suggestions for getting feedback on Glassdoor to improve employer brand.
The Science of Story: How Brands Can Use Storytelling To Get More CustomersDigital Surgeons
Storytelling is not only an entertaining source for information, but a way to engage and humanize our messages that helps them stick. Our brains are wired for stories. Like a drug, we seek them out. Good stories create lasting emotional connections that persuade, educate, entertain, and convert consumers into brand loyalists.
Here’s another good reason to believe in the power of stories: You don't have a goddamn choice. We spend a third of our waking hours crafting stories, and the rest of the time consuming them. Our brains are always searching for stories. You need stories. You live your life around stories. Your life itself is a story. So, now find out how you can use them to better understand how brands and businesses can use storytelling to increase engagement and sales.
How NOT to Run Your Company – Lessons LearnedWeekdone.com
The Internet is full of articles on „How to succeed“ and „How to build a great company“ But while following those guidelines we often forget that there's a lot you just can't do.
Learning from your own mistakes is good, but it's even better when you can learn from the mistakes of others.
Everyone's favorite billionaire and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
Enjoy the slides and a sense of humor is advised.
The Building of Stories begins with the history of storytelling and ends by helping you build your own story. From where to begin to crafting the perfect ending, we give you all the crucial details and tools you need to tell your next story and hopefully, your next presentation! Everyone has a story. Let us help you make it one people want to hear.
Inspired Storytelling: Engaging People & Moving Them To ActionKelsey Ruger
Most projects, presentations or initiatives are driven by facts and features the team believes will help them deliver a product or message. While facts and data are important for setting the stage and communicating goals, they’re rarely what persuades an audience or gets them to take action.
In this workshop, you will learn how to use that connection, by teaching basic skills in visual thinking and storytelling that will that transform projects and initiate action.
As the war for top talent is at an all-time high, our need for capable teammates to lighten our load has hit the "yesterday is too late" warning level, and our own desire to get much more out of our career trajectories is somewhere between red and white-hot, a simple question is rarely answered correctly: what are we to do to find the right people and to stand out ourselves?
While the traditional resume has been enhanced by better design techniques (infographics! Presi! personal websites!) and smartly maintained social presences, these mediums can (still) be too easily manipulated in the applicant's favor—just like that supposedly objective reference call that gets made in the final stages of most hiring decisions.
The answer to finding the right talent and / or positioning ourselves better therefore can't be digital, analog, or even external. Rather, it comes down to one simple thing truth: professional excellence. Either you have it, or you need to work hard to achieve it.
This presentation contains practical, next-level tips to help you become the best version of your professional self (for job seekers) and help you better vett talent (for job hirers). Come away armed with the tactics you need to grow and nurture your skills, deliver world class work product, earn trust and respect, successfully collaborate, and generally take your game up a notch so you advance your career.
This document provides tips from 31 experts on how to create an effective presentation. It discusses conducting research on the audience and topic, conceptualizing the presentation around a central message or story, structuring the content visually and in an outline, designing the presentation deck with visuals and formatting, and practicing the speech through multiple dry runs. The tips emphasize understanding the audience, defining the key takeaway, using storytelling principles, removing unnecessary content, and rehearsing frequently to improve delivery.
The document contains 20 quotes from Prince ranging from short phrases to full sentences on a variety of topics including music, life, freedom, spirituality, happiness, and more. Some of the quotes say music should make you feel good, life is a party that doesn't last, too much freedom can lead to soul decay, and a strong spirit transcends rules.
Yoga : What is Yoga? (All you need to know about World Yoga Day)Vertechx 9
Derived from the Sanskrit word yuj, Yoga means union of the individual consciousness or soul with the Universal Consciousness or Spirit. Yoga is a 5000 year old Indian body of knowledge.
The United Nations (UN) last Sep declared June 21 as the World's First International Yoga Day following a proposal by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and since then preparations were on in India to make the event historic and world class.
by Vertechx9
There’s more to employee wellness than what management perceives it to be. For example, the actual “way we work.”
Here at Officevibe we think the way that we work is becoming a bit outdated. We are facing a heavier “mental” workload, that typically requires us to be in front of a computer from the morning to the evening.
Not to mention the fact that we are living in a generation where management demands expedience for every task; This is messing up employee health, employee wellness (both physical and mental), and employee morale.
The mental fatigue that we face is worsened by the fact that we’re sitting down all day and we barely move around.
So, we have compiled a list of stretches that will ease the tension and help you function better and become a little healthier.
Read the full article:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/infographic-desk-stretches
The document discusses common dolphins, including their scientific names as either short-beaked or long-beaked common dolphin. It notes their global range in oceans from Atlantic to Pacific and diet of fish and squid. Details are provided on their physical description of being under 9 feet long and 440 pounds, breeding habits of 12 month pregnancies and 2 year intervals between calves. Cool facts presented include jumping up to 20 feet and holding their breath for 30 minutes. Weird facts stated are sleeping with one eye open and using sonar to locate prey.
Whales and dolphins are mammals that live in ocean waters. They breathe air through blowholes, give birth to live babies that drink milk, and live together in family groups called pods. While whales and dolphins are closely related, they have different diets - whales have baleen plates or teeth to eat krill, plankton or fish depending on the species, while dolphins mostly eat fish and squid. Both whales and dolphins communicate through sounds and migrate long distances between feeding and breeding areas.
Yoga is not just physical exercises but a blend of physical and mental practices that purifies the intellect and leads to spiritual consciousness. There are different types of yoga including Hatha yoga which focuses on cleansing the mind and body, Karma yoga which emphasizes selfless service, Bhakti yoga which involves devotion to God, Jnana yoga focusing on knowledge, and Raja yoga which controls the mind through practices like meditation. Famous yogis have specialized in different types such as Mother Teresa in Karma yoga and Ramakrishna in Bhakti yoga. The ultimate goal of yoga is to unite the individual soul with the divine.
The document provides information about the history and benefits of yoga. It discusses that yoga originated in ancient India and has roots as far back as the Indus Valley civilization from 3300-1300 BC. It summarizes the key aspects of yoga including the eight limbs defined by Patanjali - yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi. The benefits of yoga outlined include physical and spiritual purification, disease prevention and cure, stress reduction, flexibility, health improvement, and moral/ethical development.
The document discusses how stress, lack of sleep, and weight issues affect many Americans and provides yoga as a solution. It states that 62% of Americans experience work-related stress and over 30% of college students feel overwhelmed. Poor sleep is impacting 65% of Americans. Two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. The document then explains how yoga can help relax the body and mind through controlled breathing. It recommends three yoga poses - a standing forward bend, side sleeping pose, and zero-point release - that can help induce sleep. Yoga is promoted as a way to reduce stress, anxiety, improve flexibility and strength, and support weight loss.
10 Steps to Becoming Self Made Millionaire by Rhett Power24Slides
Don’t Expect to Be a Self-Made Millionaire Without these 10 Attributes. Adapted from Rhett Power’s 10 Steps to becoming a self made millionaire, we made a simple infographic that lists these 10 attributes of self-made millionaires.
In 1934 the Academy Awards introduced a new category: Film Editing, awarding an Oscar to Conrad A. Nervig for his work on the movie Eskimo. Often called “the invisible art,” editing has made movies possible since they first began, but the field still struggles to gain the appreciation from the general public that it deserves. Not us. We've always been big fans. To celebrate the art of editing, we’ve put together a quick visual timeline spanning 125 years.
Yoga originated in ancient India over 4000 years ago and is described in early Hindu scriptures. It was systematically compiled by Sage Patanjali around 150 BC. Yoga involves eight limbs including physical postures, regulated breathing, meditation, and achieving self-realization. The physical aspects of yoga like poses help relax the body and mind, while the deeper spiritual practices of meditation and breath control allow practitioners to experience higher states of consciousness and union with the divine. Regular yoga practice has benefits for both physical and mental health and well-being.
God has given us everything we need through our knowledge of Him, including His great promises. These promises allow us to escape corruption and participate in the divine nature. The promises include an everlasting name, belonging to God as His people with a new heart, spiritual rest, the Holy Spirit for those who ask, and eternal life.
Natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and wildfires can cause widespread damage and loss of life. Man-made disasters from events like fires, explosions and transportation accidents also negatively impact humanity. This teacher aims to educate students about both natural and man-caused disasters.
globalization is undermining nation states. First, it is that it is empowering corporations at the expense of the nation state, and secondly, that the international institutions such
It does not make sense to talk of a world of 6 billion people becoming a monoculture. The spread of globalization will undoubtedly bring changes to the countries it reaches, but change is an essential part of life. It does not mean the abolition of traditional values.
As the WTO and World Bank are not democratic…. There is an issue of sheer size.
It is noted that many corporations are larger than nation states – more than half the 100 largest economies in the world are corporations.
Integration in the world economy contributes to environmental improvements by promoting growth, increasing incomes, improving property rights and the allowing the efficient use of resources.
Innovate or Die: The Good & Bad of Innovation LabsHootsuite
Growth and innovation are the lifeblood of any startup. However the systems, processes, and infrastructure necessary for growth often end up killing innovation. Innovators in these fast growing companies must make a critical choice: Align with the rest of the organization and get the benefits of scale, or remain autonomous and go it alone. Hootsuite has raised more than $200 Million and grown to almost 1000 people in 6 years. As head of both Corporate Development and Hootsuite’s Innovation Lab, Matt Switzer is no stranger to managing this delicate balance. Matt will speak candidly about the challenges and opportunities of leading an innovation team within a high-growth startup.
How To Respond When God Doesn't Meet Your ExpectationsMark Pomery
Frustration is born when our expectation doesn't match our experience. But what happens when God is at the center of our expectation - and He doesn't come through? When our prayers seem to fall flat. When it seems like the God who loves us didn't provide for us in the way we had hoped. But God doesn't share our perspective. And His plans won't always match up with our plans. And in part 2 of our conversation The Expectation Gap, we explore the story of Lazurus, an learn how to realign our expectations with a new perspective on who God really is. Follow along with our audio presentation - http://www.elevatechurch.me/connect/listen/
The document discusses different philosophical, theological, and scientific perspectives on the meaning of life throughout history. It explores views from ancient Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, to Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant and Bentham, to more modern theories like existentialism, absurdism, and the biological need to replicate DNA. The document suggests that the meaning of life ultimately depends on the individual and their fundamental human needs, and that people can find purpose by engaging fully in life and giving life their own meaning.
The Church, as in the hundreds of millions of people who profess Christ, is probably the world’s most powerful “content distribution network”, but they are often held back by fear - sometimes legitimate fear of physical repercussions, but increasingly social fear of rejection.
How do we help digital natives (especially young people) feel comfortable sharing the gospel online?
The NFL is the most popular professional sports league among U.S. fans. 111.3 Million people watched the 2012 super bowl. That's more than the 2012 Presidential debates with only 65.5 million viewers...
#Concussion #Football #Sports #ConcussionMovie
12 Motivating Quotes to Help You Nail Your PresentationSlideShop.com
The document provides 12 motivating quotes to help inspire presentations. The quotes cover topics like clarity of message, preparation, storytelling, humor, delivery, confidence, body language, stage fright, taking pauses, communication, and persuasion. They are attributed to authors like William Strunk Jr., Mike Davidson, Alan Armstrong, Robert McKee, Eugene Finerman, Arvee Robinson, T. Harv Eker, Cindy Ann Peterson, Taylor Swift, Mark Twain, Tony Robbins, and Nicholas Boothman. The document also includes contact information for Slideshop, a company that provides PowerPoint templates.
By Alison Eastaway, Head of People at Sqreen
Alison is a startup culture boss! She perfectly knows her way around implementing a culture & taking care of people especially in tech teams.
CEOs best practices to win time back & focus on what mattersTheFamily
30% of executives' time is spent on low-value or delegable tasks. The document provides tips for remote CEOs to save time, including setting focus time with notifications turned off, communicating asynchronously through organized tools, limiting distractions from emails and notifications, establishing routines, planning the week in advance, and regularly reviewing time spent. The overall message is that working remotely requires being intentional with how time is spent each day and week.
By Pierre-Camille Hamana (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pchamana/), CEO at Smartbnb (https://www.smartbnb.io/)
It’s fascinating watching Smartbnb grow. This solution for guests is a recipe for success: A fully remote team, with great culture & processes, extremely focused & super in terms of execution. What else? Oh yes, a super friendly & kind CEO, Pierre-Camille, who will be with us to describe the way they manage their team remotely. Good practices & learnings to expect from this one!
The document discusses the state of European technology in 2019 and 2020. It highlights that pension funds committed $1 billion to European venture capital funds, up nearly three times from previous years. Only 8% of capital invested in 2019 went to companies with founding teams that included women or mixed gender. $4.4 billion was invested in purpose-driven European tech startups in 2019. The document encourages exploring more data on the state of European tech at its website.
By Mathias Pastor (https://twitter.com/pastormhm), Director at The Family
Roch Delsalle, CTO at Proprioo (https://www.proprioo.fr/)
Jade Francine, Cofounder & COO at WeMaintain (https://wemaintain.com/)
Marc Lebel, CEO at LouerAgile (https://www.loueragile.fr/)
Real estate is everywhere. It’s part of our daily lives, of who we are and how we live, move, work - a pretty broad category. And it’s the kind of sector that can easily be termed “slow.” Slow in adapting to new technology, slow in responsiveness to customers…. Some people think having a spreadsheet is already a win
By Gil Dibner (twitter.com/gdibner), General Partner & Founder at Angular Ventures (www.angularventures.com)
Gil has backed several enterprise-oriented companies, including Front and Vault. Tips to understand how to absolutely nail Enterprise Sales.
By Alice Zagury (https://twitter.com/alice_zag), CEO at The Family
During The Family Begins, our open-door to The Family, we met 20 ambitious entrepreneurs and spend 2 amazing days with them.
Brand, identity, style, swag... Many words for similar things: The emotions people will feel when they're coming across your company. Alice, our CEO, shared her best tips to create a coherent identity.
By Dimitri Farber (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrifarber/), cofounder at Tiller Systems (https://www.tillersystems.com/en/)
Since Dimitri, Vincent & Josef founded Tiller, many things have changed: new products, new offices, a company acquisition & even the launch of an incubator for restaurateurs.
When people talk about them, they are still described as a cash register solution, just like back on the first day. And yet, Tiller is much more than that. They now define themselves as an ecosystem that brings together cash registration + delivery + reservation + pre-order + analysis + integrations. They are not only addressing shopkeepers, but also passionate local entrepreneurs.
This document discusses how to drive a product team internally and communicate externally as a CTO.
Internally, it recommends defining roles like PM, PO, and QA even if not filled; building an execution flow with roadmaps, velocity tracking, and scrum rituals; keeping the team informed of the business vision; and ensuring features have proper context.
Externally, it suggests overcommunicating through roadmaps, training, newsletters, and selling the product simply; and syncing by knowing other business units, doing user interviews, and having regular stakeholder alignment through 1:1 meetings and projects in tools like Asana.
The goal is transparent execution to build trust with stakeholders and ensure the product
By by Steve Anavi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveanavi/), cofounder at Qonto (https://qonto.eu/en/)
Qonto is our beloved bank for SMEs & freelancers. From day one their value proposal has been a no-brainer: simple UX, customization, reactivity, smooth financial management…
However, the new challenges they are facing now (after growing to a team of 150 people) is to create brand love. How they are dealing with that in a dusty industry where brand love is quite rare?
Building an insurance startup with Alan, Luko, Coverd & BaldertonTheFamily
Global overview of the sector & today’s insurance trends by Rob from Balderton
How to build insurance brand awareness
By Hugo Saias, CEO at Coverd
How to be an insurer without historical data & capital
By Léa Joussaume, Head of Marketing at Luko
Beyond product and coverage
By Mihaela Albu, Growth & Sales Strategy at Alan
Mixing Product & Tech by Jean Lebrument, CTO & CPO at BrigadTheFamily
Brigad connects hospitality businesses with qualified & flexible staff.
Jean is Brigad’s co-founder, CTO & CPO, managing four teams: Product, Engineering, Quality and Data. Yes, all at the same time :)
He will share both his experience from 3 years of handling these functions, what he learned in the process & his beliefs about the mix: Should all startups have a CPO & a CTO?
A new breed of CTO - Philippe Vimard, CTO & COO at DoctolibTheFamily
By Philippe Vimard (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippev...), CTO & COO at Doctolib (https://www.doctolib.fr/)
There’s probably no need to introduce Doctolib, one of France’s newest unicorns after raising €150M a few months ago. Philippe has been their new COO & CTO for the past year after occupying a similar role at eDreams (GoVoyages, Opodo, Travellink, Liligo).
Get the maximum amount of knowledge out of this extremely experienced executive, who shared with us the why and how of mixing Tech & Ops! His approach is super business-centered, always looking for ways to be closer to other functions: A truly entrepreneurial & business CTO.
Building a logistics startup with Trusk, Totem & SpaceFillTheFamily
After a global overview of the sector & today’s logistics trends by Nicolas Colin (https://twitter.com/Nicolas_Colin), cofounder at The Family, we welcomed three startups on stage. Each one delivered a 15-min talk:
⛓️ (Re)designing the supply chain from scratch
By Maxime Huzar, CEO at SpaceFill (https://www.spacefill.fr/)
✅ Total quality & tracking from A to Z
By Julie Pathé, Head of Operations at Totem (https://thetotem.co/)
5 lessons from our journey to revolutionize last-mile delivery
By Sébastien Tronel, Cofounder at Trusk (https://trusk.com/)
Building an accounting startup with Fred de la compta, Acasi & ChaintrustTheFamily
Accounting changed the world forever both when it was “invented” in Mesopotamia & when it became a double-entry system 500 years ago. Today, the profession of accountant & the practice itself are again undergoing major revolutions - revolutions that startups are initiating ⏱️
Looking at what is currently happening in the accounting world, we may automatically think that the profession of “accountant” is dying: The number of accountants has decreased by 25% in just the last 15 years.
This “threat” is enabled by new technologies that are shifting everything within the space. Cloud, AI, blockchain & data are changing the game. But total automation is still very far away. And obviously, in such an ancient & symbolic sector, the opportunities are infinite. And we have a few examples of startups who are ready to seize them!
By Robin Choy (https://twitter.com/robin_choy), CEO at HireSweet (https://www.hiresweet.com/)
This is definitely one of the biggest challenges any startup faces. Having high quality engineers who join your company in the early days, taking a risk on you while more mature companies are also chasing them can truly be game-changer.
Robin is the co-founder of HireSweet, a team helping startups recruit Software Engineers by developing cutting-edge AI tools. 700+ startups have scaled their teams with their help, often from 10 to 100+ people. The knowledge Robin has acquired about the process is pure gold. Join us to discover how to set up a super efficient process to build the best possible tech team for each stage (0 to 3 people in the tech team, 3 to 8 people, 8 to 20 people).
Onboarding developers and setting them up for successTheFamily
By Jean-Baptiste Aviat (https://twitter.com/jbaviat), CTO at Sqreen (https://www.sqreen.com/)
Hiring developers is definitely hard, but that's only the beginning of the journey - you’re far from being done. Your next job as an employer is to make sure they have all the keys in hand to make the most out of their jobs.
Jean-Baptiste knows this topic particularly well as his company, Sqreen, the tool democratizing security and making it easier to implement & use for developers, has a large tech team that represents a big part of Sqreen’s workforce. Let's find out together how to build that within a fast-moving organisation, with constantly evolving teams and complex technical products at stake!
This document provides tips for entrepreneurs on how to think like journalists in order to tell their business vision and story. It recommends entrepreneurs define their own story by focusing on their history, passion, inspiration for founding the business, social issues addressed, and what makes them different. A framework is presented for crafting key messages about the business, operating philosophy, achievements to date, products/services, and role in society. Interview tips include preparing key messages and an ideal headline, driving the conversation, and avoiding jargon or fake stories. The goal is for entrepreneurs to share their bigger vision beyond just products or services.