by Rodney Marks | Nov 28, 2016 | Business, Comedian, Comedy, Corporate, Events, Hoax, Keynote, Marketing, Speaker, Speaking
Have you ever wondered what comedians do to drum up performances? Here my favourite 20 sales and marketing activities:
1. Doing nothing.
2. Fiddling with my LinkedIn profile.
3. Fiddling with my website.
4. Writing jokes for possible future performances.
5. Ditto for actual upcoming gigs.
6. Thinking.
7. Thinking about thinking.
8. Thinking about writing humorous anecdotes.
9. Over-thinking.
10. Thinking that I’m over-thinking.
11. Thinking that I’m over thinking.
12. Messaging a LinkedIn contact who I’ve worked for.
13. Messaging someone I haven’t worked for.
14. Considering investing in Google AdWords.
15. Deciding not to invest in Google AdWords.
16. Reconsidering investing in Google AdWords.
17. Deciding definitely not to invest in Google AdWords.
18. Considering investing in LinkedIn Ads.
19. Deciding definitely not to invest in LinkedIn Ads.
20. Writing a post, such as this one.
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by Rodney Marks | Nov 21, 2016 | Business, Comedian, Comedy, Corporate, Events, Hoax, Keynote, Marketing, Speaker, Speaking
Buzzword bingo for HR: Here are 25 keywords to make you sound like you know what you’re talking about. Pepper your conversation with them, sound authoritative, appear authentic and your upward mobility is assured.
- caring
- silver ceiling
- glass ceiling
- rotation
- challenges
- incentivise
- satifaction
- climate
- culture
- indicators
- learning
- commitment
- strengths
- weaknesses
- opportunities
- threats
- competence
- enlargement
- enrichment
- reskilling
- upskilling
- motivation
- performance
- personality
- transformation
by Rodney Marks | Nov 6, 2016 | Business, Comedian, Comedy, Corporate, Events, Hoax, Keynote, Speaker, Speaking
Select a word from each of the three sections. This innovative process will create a three-word description of a project or a management theory. You’ll have thousands of options to choose from, or from which to choose. I’m not sure that pedantic is quite the right word. Colleagues, superiors and subordinates will admire your originality, hold your linguistic dexterity in their highest esteem, and look up to your adroit leadership style.
- collaborative, consultative, cooperative, empowered, management, motivated, organisational, stakeholder, shareholder, team
- business, controlling, governance, government, international, mission, productivity, profitability, values, vision
- allocation, committee, implementation, meeting, metaphor, outcome, project, result, statement, system.
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