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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 40a – An Interview with Frank McIntosh, author of The Relational Leader, part 1 of 2

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Special Edition 40a – An Interview with Frank McIntosh, author of The Relational Leader, part 1 of 2 examines how a people-centered relational leadership approach breaks down organizational barriers and engages and motivates employees for achievement of truly superior results. During our discussion, Frank McIntosh, author of The Relational Leader: A Revolutionary Framework to Engage Your Team, shares with us his insights and illustrative examples regarding:

  • the difference between management and leadership and what it means to be a Relational Leader
  • the tangible benefits Relational Leaders realize over those who lead with a more traditional, hierarchical style
  • the core elements of Relational Leadership, Fidelity, Appreciation, and Value
  • the behaviors Relational Leaders exhibit

Additional Information

In addition to the invaluable insights Frank shares in The Relational Leader, and this special edition podcast are the resources accessible from his website, www.FJMcIntosh.com.   Frank’s book, The Relational Leader published by Course Technology PTR – a part of Cengage Learning, can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Author

Frank McIntosh is author of The Relational Leader. During his 36 year career, Frank has worked with many of the most recognized companies and executives in the world. He has provided consulting services for peers across the country and helped initiate Junior Achievement programs in Ireland, the Ivory Coast, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Uzbekistan. Frank was inducted into the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame in October 2008, one of 38 individuals so honored and the first not-for-profit executive to receive this distinction in Delaware’s 300 year business history. To read Frank’s complete biography, click here.

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 21c – An Interview with Duane Sparks, author of Questions: The Answer to Sales

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Special Edition 21c – An Interview with Duane Sparks, author of Questions: The Answer to Sales explores how asking questions enables salespeople to better understand their client’s needs and align their product or service offerings to fulfill those needs; establishing the salesperson as a value-adding consultant rather than a commodity seller. During our discussion, Duane Sparks, author of Questions: The Answer to Sales and Chairman and Founder of The Sales Board, shares with us his insights and illustrative examples regarding:

  • why questions are important to building client trust and engagement
  • what gives salespeople the right to ask clients probing questions
  • avoiding the trap of immediately delivering a sales pitch
  • formulating The Best Questions
  • structuring questions so to convey a deep understanding of business and industry issues

Additional Information

In addition to the invaluable selling skills insight Duane shares in Questions: The Answer to Sales and this special edition podcast, please visit his company’s Sales Training or Sales Management site. To discover why this selling skill is so effective at maximizing sales productivity, purchase Duane’s book: Questions: The Answer to Sales.

Complimenting Questions: The Answer to Sales, are Duane’s four other books on the consultative sales process including:


Read a Summary of the above Sales Books.

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About the Author

Duane Sparks, author of Questions: The Answer to Sales, is Chairman and Founder of The Sales Board, a Minneapolis-based strategic sales training company that has trained and certified more than 350,000 salespeople in more than 3,000 groups in the system and skills of Action Selling. He has written five sales books, personally facilitated more than 300 Action Selling training sessions and continues to engage in the business and art of the strategic sales process. Read Duane’s full biography and the history of Action Selling Sales Management Training.