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Your Reputation Preceeds You

Your reputation precedes you. Do you know what yours says? Catch a clue of what others say about you.

One Skill Builds Trust

Reinforce social bonding and build trust with this one simple, but meaningful skill.

Stop oversharing and start influencing. Learn to say more and speak less

Say More. Speak Less.

The seven most dreaded words at the beginning of every meeting are, 'Today we are here to talk about.'

The Right Fit

Accountability partners can help us success at accomplishing our goals. How to find the right fit.

Make It Work

You are 65% likely to complete a goal if you tell someone else you're committing to doing it.

Feedback can make us feel vulnerable, offended and defensive, yet it holds the key to our professional growth.

When Feedback Hurts

Feedback can make us feel vulnerable, offended and defensive, yet it holds the key to our professional growth.

Why are we so willing to embrace the pain and discomfort of strengthening our bodies but fight against the pain and discomfort of strengthening our influence?

Embracing Discomfort

Why are we so willing to embrace the discomfort to strengthen our bodies but fight against the discomfort to strengthen our influence?

Keep the Momentum

Keep the momentum to raise your communication skills to the next level.

3 Ways to Captivate Audiences and Listeners with Creative Stories

Captivate with Stories

Stories are a powerful way to influence action. These three steps will capture your listener's attention and keep them engaged.

Ditch Meeting Madness

Did you know that 67% of employees agree that meetings are too long? And yet, leaders are doing nothing about it.

Clear Calls to Action

Want to close more sales or increase productivity? Learn to communicate clear calls to action that compel your listener to act.

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Discipline Creates Freedom

43% of our actions are habit. Great leaders have one thing in common: personal discipline to practice new habits and skills.

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Identify The Why

Employee believe 71% of meetings are considered unproductive. Find their 'why' and they'll find value in what you have to say.

Actions Speak Louder

We are in a crisis of leadership where trust and respect between leaders and employees grow. Don't let feelings be your guide. Find out why.

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Goals Require Accountability

We are 95% more likely to reach our goal when we enlist the help of an accountability partner. Why do we fight the need for help?

Technical Blunders Cost

We are well beyond the grace period for people to forgive our technical blunders. Why do virtual employees continue to make them?

Stop Talking. Start Acting.

People observe what leaders do versus what they say, especially when there is perceived hypocrisy. Start acting your expectations.

Accountability requires intentionality if you want employees to deliver

Hybrid Team Intentionality

Today's working world requires intentionality. If you want employees to consistently deliver, you must hold them consistently accountable.

Show Up Consistently

In a virtual environment, listeners only see what we are willing to show them. If you want to earn trust, consistency is key!

Earn Trust with Consistency

To earn trust, your personal brand must be reliable, consistent and dependable. When inconsistencies occur, people can't trust you.

Successful Hybrid Meetings

Without clear guidelines, hybrid meetings are doomed to fail. Here are three ways to ensure yours isn't one of them.

Interact with Visual Aids

Stop competing with visual aids for attention. To earn and keep attention, the relationship you need is with your listener, not your slide deck.

3 Steps to Engage, Connect and Inspire Listeners with Storytelling

Impact & Influence Listeners

Three steps to storytelling to improve memorability and message strength while creating a connection between you and your listeners.

Overcome Overwhelm

Manage the overwhelm of endless commitments to unrealistic deadlines, tasks and meeting madness before it affects your brand.

Influence Remote Employees

How to create an environment where trust and respect flourish, whether employees are in-person, hybrid or virtual.

Ask for help from an accounability partner to reach your goals

Be Memorable

You want to be remembered for the right reasons. Solicit feedback and seek the help of an accountability partner in these three steps.

Motivate action by communicating with brevity.

Impact with Brevity

If you want to motivate action, be brief. Clear, effective and engaging conversations require brevity so ideas easily remembered.

Break bad virtual workplace habits before returning to in person work.

Break Bad Hybrid Habits

Working from home has left us all with very bad habits. Before you return to work in person, it is time to polish your persona.

Leading Hybrid Teams

Establish clear communication channels to ensure collaboration and inclusivity among hybrid team members.

How to crush your hybrid meetings and be the best host!

Crush Hybrid Meetings

Hybrid meetings aren't easy. As the host, you must engage, impact and influence listeners whether in person or remote. Here's how.

How to keep listeners engaged in back-to-back virtual meetings.

Zoom Fatigue is Real

Zoom fatigue is real. When you are faced with back-to-back virtual meetings, here are three ways to maintain your level of influence.

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20 Leadership Lessons

The 20 lessons learned after 20 years of leadership I remember each and every day.

Managing Your Personal Brand

How you show up daily shapes your personal brand. Enhance your brand in four easy steps.

Influence with Active Listening

Good listening is much more than being silent while the other person talks.

Feedback: Not a Four-Letter Word

It is normal to feel defensive when hearing feedback; but it is key to building trust.

Earn Trust and Influence

Over promising compromises the trust people have in you and your word.

The 7 Do’s and Don’ts to Building Trust

What we've learned about eye contact is wrong. Eye connection is key to building trust and credibility. Here's how.

Leaders must acknowledge the impact their words have on others. If you want your words to stick, consider these three steps.

Make Your Words Stick

Leaders must acknowledge the impact their words have on others. Make your words stick.

Practice makes permanent, so what you practice matters.

Practice Make Habits Stick

Practice makes permanent, so what you practice matters. Here are four keys to reinforce what you’re doing and why.

Host Hybrid Meetings Like a Pro

Ensure attendees trust your hybrid meetings are a productive and valuable use of their time with these 10 easy steps.

Demonstrate Executive Presence

Every professional who exhibits executive presence has chosen to become a better communicator at some point in their career.

Improve Your Game

You will never improve without practice, but it requires being conscious of what you can practice during every interaction.

3 Ways to Build Influence in a Hybrid Work Environment

3 Ways to Build Influence in a Hybrid Work Environment We all figured hybrid workplaces would be a future option for our organizations. Few of us anticipated how fast it would happen. The days of conventional face-to-face communication are changing as some people...

Think Before You Act!

Think Before You Act We have heard the old saying “think before you speak;” but have you ever heard “think before you act?” Our actions are always under surveillance. Someone is always watching what we do. What message do your actions convey? Is your behavior...

Coaching Sales Professionals to Even Greater Success

Coaching Sales Professionals to Even Greater Success What makes your high performing sales professionals more successful than others? Perhaps they are great at cold calling or securing meetings with prospects. Maybe they have a high track record for upselling...

How Zoom Fatigue Impacts Your Influence

How Zoom Fatigue Impacts Your Influence Have you ever thought to yourself during a Zoom meeting, “this could have been an email?” For quite some time, professionals have sat in front of their computer screen, attending countless virtual meetings that waste their...

You Make Us Great!

Thanksgiving 2021 It’s been a busy year and we have you to thank! Whether you’ve partnered with us to deliver our training sessions Or invited us to mentor your leaders. Maybe you hired me to present at your event or you’ve referred us to another client. You may be...

10 Scary Zoom Habits to Stop by Halloween

10 Scary Zoom Habits to Stop by Halloween For over a year, we’ve relied on video calls to connect with others. In the beginning, some struggled to adjust; but now, we fear the scary habits many refuse to kill. If you want to be an influential professional, you must...

3 Ways To Consistently Earn Influence

3 Ways To Consistently Earn Influence “People don’t believe what you say; they believe what you show them.” This is the advice I recently gave Tracey, a client who was frustrated that her team only half-heartedly listened each time she spoke. She said they...

Three Ways Turning On the Camera Will Turn Up Your Influence

Three Ways Turning On the Camera Will Turn Up Your Influence Imagine sitting in a boardroom waiting for a meeting to begin when an attendee calls to say, “I don’t want you to see me today, so I’m going join the meeting from a phone in the hallway.” This would NEVER...

3 Actions You Can Take Today to Invest in You!

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If You Want the Business, Ask for It! 5 Ways to Get the Sale

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4 Actions to Follow Through

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Accountability is key to changing habits and reaching goals.

Development Accountability

Don't tackle new goals with old, unsuccessful habits. Set yourself up for success with five steps to ultimate accountability.

Adapt your message in two minutes to become more influential in your conversations.

Adapt in 2 Minutes

Adapt your message in only two minutes so you build trust, credbility and connect with listeners in an influential way.

The Science Behind Zoom Fatigue

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30-Day Challenge

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Virtual Influence Redefined

Top 10 to Win!

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Long Meetings = Zoom Fatigue

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Brevity! It’s About Your Listeners…Not You

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Influencing Through a Tile

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What You Don’t Know May Be Jeopardizing Your Influence

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STOP The Distractions

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Are you Consistent or Are Your Listeners Guessing Who’s Going to Show Up?

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Mastering the Skill of Influence Through Video

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The One Goal You Need to Commit to That Most People Avoid

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How We Can Help Your Teams Influence Through a Virtual Environment

3 Mistakes that Cost You Your Credibility

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6 Tips for Influential Meetings and Engaged Attendees

Drop me a note to share what you will do THIS MONTH to facilitate meetings that have influence. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Read Atomic Habits: An Easy...

4 Steps to Taking the Pressure Off of New Year’s Resolutions

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5 Ways to Retain Your Customer’s Business

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3 Words Influential Leaders Avoid

Drop me a note to share what you will do THIS WEEK to avoid these three words. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Read The Intention Imperative: 3...

Actions to Successfully Transition from Peer to Boss

In a perfect world, promotions would come with congratulations from new employees ready to follow your every decision. Previous peers would believe that you were the obvious choice for the leadership role you've acquired. Being promoted from a position of equality...

Communication Mistakes We Cluelessly Make

How we think we are perceived is not always reality. Many professionals believe they're doing a great job selling themselves, but they fail to acknowledge the mistakes that erode their credibility. People's perception isn't based on who we are, but rather their...

The Secret to Overcoming your Resistance to Goals

If you want to overcome your resistance to goals, finding an accountability partner is crucial. It's harder to make excuses when someone else we respect is involved. Then, establish a regular meeting held during the same time each week or month. Discuss your...

4 Steps to Ensure Follow Through

Some leaders seem to think that because they are in a role of leadership, they can evade the reputation of doing what they want to do rather than showing respect by following through. Leaders set the tone of the company. They don't get a free pass because of who...

Bad Behaviors Threatening Your Influence

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4 Steps to Avoid the Superficial Apology

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How To’s For Communicating Confidence

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3 Best Practices For Projecting Your Voice To Be Heard

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Put Down the Phone and Start Influencing

Drop me a note to share the action steps you and your team will take this month to prevent the temptation of technical distractions. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Read The...

Fast Company- 5 Mistakes People Make When They (Try to) Apologize

Five Tactics for Retaining Top Talent and Preventing Employee Turnover

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Four Steps Sales Leaders Can Take to Influence Sales Team Success

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Using Webcam Technology to Increase Your Influence

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3 Actions for Leaders to Earn Employee Trust

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Did You Know…

…we also deliver keynotes for conferences and events? Are you looking to increase awareness, as well as provide practical and immediate how-to's for growing both yourself and/or your team’s influence? This is our sweet spot. We present to sales, leadership...

3 Action Steps to Push Through Your Own Resistance

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The Greater the Outcome, The Greater the Demand on Practice: 4 Accountability Challenges

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Focus Outward Rather Than Inward 4 Steps to Adapting to Your Listeners Why

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How Influential Are You, Really? 4 Steps to Increase Your Self-Awareness

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3 Steps to Master the Art of Selling

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3 Steps to Master Storytelling

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We’re Celebrating 16 Years in Business!

Stacey Hanke Inc. is celebrating 16 YEARS in business! A huge thank you to my talented team and all of the outstanding clients who partner with us! Please enjoy my interview to hear about our 16 year adventure and what we have planned for the future!

The Boring Leading the Boring – 4 Actions to Lead Meetings with Influence

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You May Not be as Influential as You Think You Are if…Others Don’t Respond to Your Text and Email Messages

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3 Steps to Building Your Influence on Social Media

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Are you REALLY Influential? 3 Consistent Steps TRUE Leaders Take Who Have Influence

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3 Steps to Actively Listen to Increase Your Influence

3 Steps to Actively Listen to Increase Your Influence Drop me a note to share the action steps you will commit to this month to make sure you’re NOT just listening but ACTIVELY listening. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous...