For Impact

Daily Nuggets:
A For Impact Blog

Funding • Aug 31, 2017

We’re big on vocab. Team vocabulary is especially important. [Think: CLEAR COMMUNICATION.] Here is some vocabulary for SALES TEAMS. In...

Funding • Aug 29, 2017

This nugget focuses on the power of one idea: authenticity. At the For Impact Boot Camp we have everyone practice...

Personal • Aug 29, 2017

Today’s nugget is simple. It’s simple to say, simple to comprehend… and not simple to PRACTICE. The nugget (excerpt) comes...

Personal • Aug 28, 2017

Conscious processing can only handle about 120 bits of information at once. This isn’t much. Listening to another person speak...

Funding • Aug 25, 2017

In marketing we talk. In sales we listen. Marketing messages are one-to-many. You create a message and then broadcast that...

Story • Aug 24, 2017

These are two words we use to frame the presentation. What’s the kernel of the presentation? You can think of...

Story • Aug 24, 2017

“Message is what people hear, it’s not what people say.” – Frank Luntz Going further with this idea, we (at...

Personal • Aug 22, 2017

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about the intersections of meaning, value (creation), and work. Today’s nugget...

Personal • Aug 21, 2017

We. Need. Better. LEADERS. This is the reason for StartingBloc. StaringBloc is a leadership program that identifies and supports emerging...

Story • Aug 18, 2017

Jim Loehr’s The Power of Story is a thinking bible for me. So many great concepts and framing that form...

Funding • Aug 17, 2017

Your funding plan should be part of your case for support. The funding plan is the HOW behind the big...

Story • Aug 16, 2017

When we design Engagement Tools we include a ‘trimming process’ inspired by words of The Little Prince author, Antoine de...