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JD Solomon’s Book, Facilitating with FINESSE, Helps Young Professionals Improve Careers

Leading groups to solutions that are created and accepted requires a proven approach. — I sat down with Ray Moore to discuss my newest book, Facilitating with FINESSE: How to How to Lead Others to Successful Business Solutions. These are the three middle questions that discuss what inspired me to write the book. …

Young Professionals

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JD Solomon’s Book, Facilitating with FINESSE, Helps Young Professionals Improve Careers
JD Solomon’s Book, Facilitating with FINESSE, Helps Young Professionals Improve Careers
Young Professionals

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Three Helpful Facts About JD Solomon’s newest book, Facilitating with FINESSE

Three insights from JD Solomon’s interview with Ray Moore — I sat down with Ray Moore to discuss my newest book, Facilitating with FINESSE: How to How to Lead Others to Successful Business Solutions. These are the first three questions that frames the book. Ray: What is your new book about? JD: It is a practitioner’s guide for 10 common applications that technically trained professionals are frequently…

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Three Helpful Facts About JD Solomon’s newest book, Facilitating with FINESSE
Three Helpful Facts About JD Solomon’s newest book, Facilitating with FINESSE
Books

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Power Your Career by Communicating with FINESSE

These Seven Tips Enable Promotions & Increase Salaries — Communicating with FINESSE FINESSE is my mnemonic for remembering the basics of effective communication. A mnemonic is a literary construction used to make important things more memorable. For example, FINESSE facilitates the memory of effective communication: Frame, Illustrate, Noise, Empathy, Structure, Synergy, and Ethics. The FINESSE Fishbone Diagram

Career Development

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Power Your Career by Communicating with FINESSE
Power Your Career by Communicating with FINESSE
Career Development

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4 days ago

Presentation Tip: Make Your Communication “To” Decision Makers for Better Results

Do not assume it will be a two-way conversation when you are presenting to superiors. — How we provide communication to decision makers is different from how we communicate with our peers. Our language reflects the way we see the power related to our relationships. Communicating “with” someone subconsciously reflects a relationship of equals. …

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Presentation Tip: Make Your Communication “To” Decision Makers for Better Results
Presentation Tip: Make Your Communication “To” Decision Makers for Better Results
Communication Skills

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Sep 7

The Top 5 Web Sites for Predicting Hurricanes in 2023

Extreme weather events impact us both personally and professionally. — Understanding your risks relative to an uncertain future usually involves some type of model. When it comes to uncertainty, forecasts, and developing an understanding of my risks, I have found these publicly available sites as the most helpful to me during hurricane season: #1 https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ because NOAA is the best source…

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The Top 5 Web Sites for Predicting Hurricanes in 2023
The Top 5 Web Sites for Predicting Hurricanes in 2023
Hurricane

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Aug 10

Are Most Facilitators White, College-Educated Women?

Despite a recent international survey, I do not think so. This is why. — SessionLab recently released the outcome of the first comprehensive survey on the practice of facilitation, the State of Facilitation 2023. Are most facilitators white, college-educated women? The survey leads us to believe this to be the case. I don’t think so. This is why. Survey Sources Despite this growing interest, there is…

Collaboration

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Are Most Facilitators White, College-Educated Women?
Are Most Facilitators White, College-Educated Women?
Collaboration

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Jul 20

Why CATERing Produces Better Group Synergy and Team Performance

These five techniques guide people to solutions that are understood and accepted by all. — The mental model CATER will help you recall the five techniques that improve any form of team facilitation. CATER does two big things necessary for all great facilitated sessions. The mental model creates comparable knowledge among participants and opens feedback channels for successful collaboration. …

Facilitation

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Why CATERing Produces Better Group Synergy and Team Performance
Why CATERing Produces Better Group Synergy and Team Performance
Facilitation

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Jun 25

Discover How the FINESSE Fishbone Diagram and Wagner’s Russian Insurrection Are Connected

The world will need a little more FINESSE in the aftermath of the failed Russian coup. — On June 23 and 24, 2023, military troops from the Wagner Group pulled out of the front lines in Ukraine and began a march on Moscow to overturn the Russian government. The move surprised the world. Communication in its wake was poor. …

Russian Insurrection

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Discover How the FINESSE Fishbone Diagram and Wagner’s Russian Insurrection Are Connected
Discover How the FINESSE Fishbone Diagram and Wagner’s Russian Insurrection Are Connected
Russian Insurrection

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Dialogue & Discourse

·Jun 20

How I Learned Content Creation Can Be Controversial with Artificial Intelligence

Explaining the AI prompt produced more controversy than the generated image. — The brave, new world of content creation with generative AI requires more bravery than I first thought. I learned a tough lesson that explaining how you created something can be more perilous than the end product. …

Artificial Intelligence

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How I Learned Content Creation Can Be Controversial with Artificial Intelligence
How I Learned Content Creation Can Be Controversial with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

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Management Matters

·May 31

How A Small Business Can Effectively Use AI in 2023

Five applications that provide practical usefulness and avoid the hype of artificial intelligence. — A central question for most small businesses in 2023 is how to use artificial intelligence meaningfully and effectively. The answer lies not in complicated financial or production calculations but instead in doing routine tasks faster. This article outlines five practical AI applications for small businesses.

AI

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How A Small Business Can Effectively Use AI in 2023
How A Small Business Can Effectively Use AI in 2023
AI

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JD Solomon

JD Solomon

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Creator of www.communicatingwithfinesse.com. Author of “Getting Your Boss’s Boss to Understand”. Founder of http://www.jdsolomonsolutions.com.

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