Author: gregoryheller
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Announcing my podcast: Conversations on Careers and Professional Life
Earlier this year, I was awarded a Compassion and Resilience Seed Grant from the UW Resilience Lab so support creating a new podcast for the Foster School of Business, MBA Career Management Office. The grant is supporting four episodes on topics including and relating to resilience, self-compassion and mindfulness. Additional episodes will feature interviews with…
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My Podcast Recommendations #trypod
In the spirit of #trypod, the industry promotion to get more people to listen to podcasts, here are my recommendations. I will group them into two loose categories, 1) news and information, 2) entertainment News & Information Planet Money (NPR) – I’ve been listening since the beginning. About the economy and business. NPR Politics (NPR)…
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Quadrennial Exercise in Criticizing Election Maps
Every four years, it seems, after an election the coverage of which is dominated by red/blue maps and warnings about how divided our country is, a series of news stories or blog posts will start to emerge on social media proclaiming, “no, its not a big red map with some blue islands, its a really…
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Pitching In The Strike Zone at the Seattle Interactive Conference 2016
In my session, Pitching In The Strike Zone: Unlocking Your Authentic Voice For Success In Business at the Seattle Interactive Conference on October 18th, I mention the following resources, some of them on my website here, and others from elsewhere on the web. It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Advice for…
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On Translating Really Big Numbers and Giving Them a Human Context
Today I encountered an article about a topic that interests me, food waste. I didn’t get too far into it before my mind (and fingers) were off on a tangent.
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Clarify not simplify
Just to remember a maxim inspired by Nigel Holmes: visualizations and infographics must never simplify; they must clarify. And, in order to clarify, sometimes you’ll need to increase the amount of information included, not reduce it.
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It’s not just what you say, but how you say it: Tips for improving your communication skills
Communication skills are critically important to success in most industries, even if a position itself does not count among its responsibilities “communication” or “public speaking” you will need to communicate well to land it. Entire books have been written on communication skills, from those specifically about public speaking, to others about designing persuasive presentations, and…
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Shrink that giant Powerpoint file
We’ve all probably run into this at one point or other: you’ve created a visually stunning Powerpoint deck, but the file is absolutely huge! You can’t email it, or it just takes forever to open or save it… well there is a solution: In PPT for Windows, file > save as — tools, look for…
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Do you manage social media for a Washington food business?
I am conducting a survey and interviews about food industry use of social media (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Tumblr, blogs) for a presentation at the 10th Farmer-Fisher-Chef Connection presented by FORKS on March 21st. If you are responsible for posting to social media for your Washington based food business, please take a few minutes to…
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Bernie Sanders’s Revolution Needs a Better Plan
If Bernie Sanders is serious about a political transformation in America, he needs a better plan. Source: Bernie Sanders’s Revolution Needs a Better Plan I am particularly interested in this section of the article: But Sanders could invite artists from all around the country, famous or not, to create work that spreads the message of…