Paul Smith
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to craft more effective leadership stories. Discover the essential elements of great storytelling, as well as how to structure and deliver stories that inspire.
Storytelling is essential to good leadership. When delivered correctly, a good story can help you articulate a vision, lead change, inspire creativity and innovation, and get employees to work together more collaboratively than you could ever do without a good story. In this course,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to find, craft, and deliver compelling sales stories that resonate with buyers.
Stories sell. And the people who can tell a good sales story will sell more than people who can't. Having a great product and a good sales pitch just isn't enough anymore. You need great stories to go with them. In this course, learn how to leverage the power of storytelling to sell your product or service. Join Paul Smith—the author of the best-selling book...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to create a detailed model of a house lamp in SketchUp Pro—and add new organizational and design techniques to your 3D modeling toolbox along the way.
SketchUp Pro offers design and rendering tools that can help you create striking, professional-grade 3D models that wow clients and colleagues alike. In this course, Paul J. Smith demonstrates how to leverage these tools to create a detailed model of a house lamp. Along the way, he illustrates...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Get leadership lessons that illuminate challenges and solutions from top CEOs and companies around the world.
Join expert storyteller Paul Smith to get engaging insights into leadership. Drawing on his exclusive, one-on-one interviews with over 250 CEOs and executives around the world, Paul reveals experiences that led these leaders to learn a critical lesson or gain some invaluable-and often unconventional-wisdom. Each video is centered around a...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Discover the 10 most important stories every leader should be able to tell at a moment’s notice, and learn how to find and craft unique and compelling versions of your own.
Every great leader is a great storyteller. And the most important part of being a great storyteller is knowing which stories to tell. In this course, best-selling author and storytelling expert Paul Smith shares the 10 most important stories every leader should be able to tell...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to leverage storytelling throughout the sales process. Learn the 25 most essential types of sales stories to earn buyer trust and make the sale.
Stories connect people. Telling a compelling and authentic story can solidify the relationship with your potential customer and win the sale. In this course, you can learn how to leverage the power of storytelling throughout the sales process. Paul Smith—the author of the best-selling book Sell...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn techniques to create architectural files in Revit that are specific to topography, climate, and regulations.
House styles and building methods vary all over the world, and European design has some pretty strict code to get through to make sure that the house is warm, breathable, and watertight. In this course, Paul J. Smith applies some of these rules to a super-insulated house on an exposed headland in South Wales, and not only explains the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Find out how you can use storytelling as a tool to recruit and retain great employees.
How do you land the perfect candidate, or keep your best talent from leaving, when the things that really matter to people are subjective, subtle, human reasons you can’t easily explain in a marketing brochure? The answer is storytelling. You need recruiting and retention stories that influence people mentally and emotionally. In this course, Paul A. Smith explains...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Deepen your understanding of values and ethics by evaluating scenarios where competing demands throw corporate values into conflict.
Learn about some of the most common company values and discover the ways real-world circumstances sometimes cause them to conflict in a course designed to help you recognize, articulate, and solidify your understanding of your own company's values and ethics. Author Paul Smith presents case studies of the kinds of dilemmas...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to make your training content more engaging, fun, and effective using essential storytelling techniques.
Stories can transform even the driest content into something memorable. Learners of all stripes—visual, auditory, and kinesthetic—often have an easier time retaining concepts when they're weaved into a compelling narrative. In this course, Paul A. Smith shows how to build engaging training content using essential storytelling techniques....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Architects and designers: Discover a modeling workflow that maximizes creativity and quality. Learn how to use SketchUp for conceptual modeling and move to Revit for refinement.
Architects and designers: Discover a new modeling workflow that maximizes creativity and quality. Learn how to use SketchUp for conceptual modeling and move to Revit for refinement. Paul J. Smith also shows how to build massing studies and site context models in SketchUp...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn the fundamentals of SketchUp for architecture, from creating a site plan to adding the walls, doors, windows, floors, and details that make a house a home.
SketchUp for Architecture offers architects the information they need to get the most from SketchUp, the intuitive CAD program for transforming simple drawings into 3D presentations that will impress any client. This installment—the first in a three-part series—kicks off with an overview...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Tell more effective stories with data. Learn two storytelling methods to help craft compelling narratives from data.
The same techniques that are used to tell stories with words—structure, conflict, resolution, emotion, and surprise—can be used with data. You can craft compelling narratives that help audiences visualize information, without complex charts or graphs. Join Paul A. Smith, author of the best-selling book Sell with a Story: How to...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn the principles of architectural detailing with SketchUp and LayOut. Discover how to create professional 3D visualizations and 2D construction drawings.
Well-built and organized SketchUp projects allow architects to have greater flexibility at every stage of the design process. This course shows how to build and organize the details of your architectural designs with SketchUp and the companion documentation tool, LayOut. Instructor Paul J. Smith...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to link SketchUp with LayOut to transform your 3D model and generate high-quality plans, sections, and elevations for use with planning and construction.
In this installment of the SketchUp for Architecture series, Paul J. Smith demonstrates how to link SketchUp with LayOut to transform your 3D model and generate high-quality plans, sections, and elevations for use with planning and construction. This course, which focuses on linking the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the different kinds of conversations you're expected to have with retail customers, as well as how to navigate those conversations successfully.
You aced your interview and landed a new position at a retail store. Now that the job is yours, how do you actually get good at it? One crucial skill that can help you succeed in this role—and in nearly every other job you'll have going forward—is the ability to talk to customers in a way...