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Leslie’s Ultimate Guides on How To Succeed in Communication!

Identify Your Value

Have you correctly identified the value you offer, what differentiates you?

• Princess Leia Asks: Do You Have Grit?
• Can You Make a Convertible into a Hard Top?
• Do You Know When to Follow and When to Lead
• Who Are We to Decide What is “PERFECT”?
• Be Observant Not Obsessed: Do You Know the Difference? 
• Kisses from a Four Legged Immigrant – Life Lessons from Miss Natcha Vallarta
• How to Co – Exist with Your Force of Nature: 10 Things You Need to Know
• Herbie’s Hints: Wisdom from a Dad to a Daughter
• Why Swim with the Sharks When You Can Stay in the Baby Pool? Challenges Facing Gen X
• What Would You See If You Looked in an Honest Mirror? Do You See What They See?
• A Speech to Young People
• Missy – The Wonder Dog
• Is There an Inauguration in Your Future? Seven Skills You Will Need to Assume a Position of Authority 
• How Curious Are You About You?
• Is Your Value Visible?

Communicate Your Value

Are you doing and saying the things that communicate your value to help you move forward?

• Want to Get in the Conversation Fast?
• Is There Anything Verifiable We Can Really Count On?
• The Difference a Day Does
• What We Can Learn From Claire Underwood
• Have You Ever Had A Burning Question that You Just Had to Have Answered?
• Develop the Diva 2 – 12 Things to Know If You Are a Woman, Work with a Woman, Live with a Woman or Love a Woman
• Change the Outcome of Your Job Search
• Fill the Space: What an Arabian stallion and a French dancing contestant have in common
• Nothing Good Happens in a Vacuum of Leadership: 5 Steps to Lead through Presence
• Communicating Your Value
• Developing the Diva Within: The Myths and the Mystery of How Women Communicate
• Do You Value Verbal Gold? How the Right Feedback Can Change Your Life
• What Do You Think You Know that May Just be Wrong?
• Executives Behaving Badly: Get Out of Your Own Way
• Are You a Human Helicopter?
• How Deep Is Your Ocean
• What Does Gen-X Leadership Look Like?
• Who In Your Life Is Getting You Ready?
• Uno and His One Defining Moment
• A Horse of Course
• Are You Ahead of the Pack?
• Common Traits You Share with Athletes
• Have You Found Your Own Voice?
• Who Will Win the White House? The Candidate Who Wins the Communication Wars
• Do Your Clients Want to Dance With You?
• Have You Ever Seen a Statue Dedicated To a Committee
• The Rules Of Communication

Protect Your Value

Are you taking steps everyday to protect the value you offer, to protect your Brand?

• Pants On Fire: What Leggings-Gate Can Teach You
• A Question as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
• 3 Lessons We Can Learn from Brian Williams
• When is a Win a Win? Is Our Bar Too High?
• “Tim” SPECIAL EDITION: Electric Impulse Newsletter
• The Word of the Year is “Purposeful”
• 7 More Tips to Help Today’s Leaders Identify Their Achilles’ Heel
• For Those Who Knew and Loved Missy
• Sweat the Right Small Stuff: 10 Steps to Avoid the Achilles Heels of Leadership
• Sweat the Right Small Stuff: 7 Achilles Heels of Today’s Leaders
• The Tale of a Tail: 100 Tips in 100 Days to Communicate Your Competitive Edge
• A Last Word About LeBron
• Into the Light: Three Steps to Make Visibility Profitable
• My Dad Could Fix Anything
• You Can’t Lead a Horse If You’re Not Clear Where You’re Going – 6 Traits You Can Learn From a Horse
• A Farewell to Arms – Is There a Detriment to Being Remembered for One Thing
• Presentations That Rock
• Invisible To Invincible

21st Century Thinking

Bring your mindset into this century as you learn new ways to think and speak

• 5 Things to Know About Next Week’s RNC
• Brand Lessons from Mexico – Who Would Have Thought?
• My Dad Lives On in Herbie’s Hints
• How Donald Trump Helped Me Win . . . a Contest!
• No One Ever Told You: Your #1 Job is to Manage Your Boss
• What Did You Do On Your Professional Development Day “Off”?
• Rules: Are They for the Exception or the Rule? Do you run your business by wisdom or policy?
• Watch Out for the Ice Cream Truck Ahead!
• Are You Two Questions Short of Paradise?
• Do the “Twist”- 7 Ways to Learn from Everyday Life
• Where Ideology and Rubber Meet the Road
• Recalculating-7 Ways You Can Reconfigure Your Future in 2010
• When Design Impacts Performance, Performance Returns the Favor

21st Century Leaders

Leaders today need to be different than they were just a few decades ago

• The Longest Interview Process
• October Newsletter – Presidential Debate Third Edition
• October Newsletter – Presidential Debate Second Edition
• October Newsletter – Presidential Debate First Edition
• The Buzz About Brand
• How to Create A Walk-On Video: Why You Need to Know How to Present Your Value
• What do the Oscars Have to do With You?
• The Mirror of Reality-Can You See Yourself?
• Can We Get Someone to do it for Free?
• From Muffins To Millions
• What Is Your Marketing IQ
• The World’s Best Known Marketing Secret
• How Do You Meet Your Defining Moments
• How to Meet Marketing’s Moment of Fear: 5 Steps to Answer the World’s Most Dreaded Question
• Planning Productive Meetings

Customer Delight

Because customer service is not enough anymore. You need to delight

• What Going the Extra Mile Really Looks Like: 1000 Rings
• All Relationships Take Two to Develop
• Can You Handle a Sales Superstar: 10 Qualities to Look for in a “Closer”
• Moving a Client from Maybe to Yes
• From Italy With Love: 7 Lessons Learned in Customer Delight
• French Women Lie
• Do Your Clients Wear Masks?
• If You Were A Dog: What Kind Would You Be?
• Can You Make Me A Match?
• Do You Create Customer Delight?
• Powerful Selling: Understanding What Motivates the Client
• Winners Prepare For Victory
• Business Lessons Learned From The Back Of a Horse
• SPECIAL REPORT: 7 Minutes to Understanding Generation X
• Six Parisian Perspectives