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The high cost of rambling.

It might seem like the stuff of waking nightmares, but for the people looking to make lasting connections or effective presentations, it’s all too real.The thought of getting up in front of a group of team leaders, colleagues, or clients, and simply rambling due to a lack of strategic, well-crafted messaging is unpleasant, to say the least. It’s also costly, both in terms of reputation and...

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You don’t suck. Your bio does.

You don’t suck. Your bio does.Skild is proud to introduce its brand-new, leaner, meaner challenge experience — BeSkilled!With BeSkilled, we’ve taken our 15 years spent producing nearly 600 transformative challenge events and created a series of upskill challenge experiences aimed at employee engagement, time savings, and delivering maximum value where it matters most.We’re launching with a...

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Are You Trapped by Your Accomplishments?

As you’ve moved “up the ladder” — growing your career, collecting degrees — have you experienced something unexpected and unwanted? Namely, have you found that the very things that were supposed to empower you have actually inhibited your growth?There comes a point in every career when we find ourselves trapped by our supposed accomplishments — when we become a repository for keywords,...

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Deal with your low self-esteem now, or prepare for failure.

In my last post, I stated that you have an amazing, one-of-a-kind story to tell. I stated it not only because I truly believe it, but also because not enough of you believe it.Time and again, we’re all faced with a brutal reality that threatens our growth and development. It begins with not knowing how to pitch ourselves effectively, but it actually taps into something much deeper: Do we even...

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You don’t suck. Your bio does.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the course of 15 years spent producing 600 challenge programs and awarding $300 million dollars in prize money, it’s that those who pitch effectively win. Those who don’t tend to go home wondering where they went wrong. 

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