James E. Nave wins AVMA Advocacy Award
AVMA News
JULY 27, 2023
The AVMA Advocacy Award recognizes an individual for their contribution to advancing the AVMA’s legislative agenda and advocating on behalf of the veterinary profession.
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Marine Life Top of CITES Meeting Agenda
Critter News
MARCH 13, 2010
On its agenda is Monaco's proposal to have a complete ban on the international commercial trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna. Apart from issues like combating elephant poaching for ivory in Africa and banning trade in polar bear skins, those focusing on sharks and tuna are likely to be among the most contentious.
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On the Fence
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
If you try to analyze the hidden meanings in each birds caption, you will drive yourself crazy as there is no hidden agenda. This is the end of my thoroughly non-political bird post. When it comes to mixing politics with birds, I am decidedly NOT on the fence.
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Suburban Roadrunners of Southern Missouri
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2014
Last year, I finally crossed paths with Cerulean Warbler , but this year, with little birding on the agenda, I needed something easy. Every time a return to Missouri, I try to knock out a couple more species of birds I missed when I was a resident there.
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How to Make a Remote Sale
Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 13, 2020
Provide a focused agenda. The agenda provides a clear plan for the conversation to ensure you respect their time and achieve both parties’ goals. If the agenda includes virtual log-in, dial-in, or other logistics, send it in advance of the meeting as a reminder. Know where your Wi-Fi connection is most stable.
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Canada to Push Seal Hunt Agenda at G-7
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
The Canadian government is so damn stubborn on this issue. The second half of the article deals with their attempts at pushing that damn seal hunt. Is it THAT much a part of its economy? Canada needs to stop exploiting its natural resources and move into a more sophisticated type of economy.
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Snipe and not Snipe
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2011
If interviewed on day-time television, top of the producer’s agenda for discussion would be the titillating subject of sexual role reversal. It stopped, turned and crouched, showing the short, drooping bill and distinctive eye-marking of a Greater Painted Snipe. Painted Snipe have their own family, separate from the true snipes.
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New York State’s First Common Greenshank
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2019
With nothing particular on the agenda I could go see the bird! I had never seen a Common Greenshank in New York. I had never seen a Common Greenshank in the Western Hemisphere. I had never seen a Common Greenshank at all! I packed my gear as quickly as I could and asked Desi if he wanted to go with me.
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Rough and Ruddy
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
The birders scattered and went on to other things, including my group which had Harlequin Ducks and Black-chinned Hummingbirds on the agenda. The Pac Loon never made an appearance. None offered better looks, however, and none offered a better opportunity for literary scholarship either.
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203 How Close Is “Too Close” To An Owl?
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2013
They don’t know that’s not on your agenda. Here’s the thing, you know you’re not threatening when watching birds, but to the owl, there’s a large thing, staring at them–a spotting scope looks like one big eye. We all love the shots of an owl like this Great Horned Owl staring at the camera.
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“Purple Martins” by Carl Sandburg
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
Interestingly, if this reading is correct, Sandburg sets up the man who is opposed to “doctrinaire&# behavior by birds as doctrinaire and by expressing support for l’art pour l’art , which could be seen as pushing an instructional agenda in the poem,sets himself up as didactic.
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The Best Sales Call Questions are Powered by Outstanding Emotional Intelligence
SalesFuel
JULY 18, 2024
Letting the conversation drive the subject regardless of your sales agenda is key. EQ has the capability of driving topics, uncovering hidden agendas and drawing out underlying objections. Researchers quantified EQ’s impact on perceived meeting quality by the following measures: EQ’s boost of needs discovery: 27.5%
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122 No Snow on Long Island
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2012
We switched up our agenda and decided to join Seth and Gene and a trio of Staten Islanders on a trip around Long Island looking for lingering rarities and anything else that we might manage to come across on a full day’s birding.
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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
I still talk about it to anyone who will listen and when we return to normal again and the National Science Teachers Convention reschedules, I hope to get back on the agenda and spread the word there when I introduce the new curriculum I helped create at Cornell. * * * *.
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The Conflict Between Animal Welfare and Agribusiness
Critter News
MARCH 30, 2010
This article pretty much sums up how the two agendas are simply at cross-purposes. Compassion is perceived to hurt profits. It spotlights the Humane Society, but I think it's a pretty universal comparison.
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Birding Rockefeller State Park Preserve
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2011
No, I have no such diabolical agendas! Maybe, just maybe, an individual Kentucky Warbler with a weird song had been reported from that exact spot on the listservs and maybe, just maybe, my decision of park for our outing and paths for our stroll weren’t random? Pure coincidence! We enjoyed butterflies, dragonflies, and sticks.
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Polar Bear Hunters Face Battle Over Extinction Worries
Critter News
MARCH 16, 2009
A limit on the hunting of polar bears by sportsmen and native Arctic people will top the agenda at an international summit in Norway tomorrow, seen as vital to the survival of the predator. Native and sport polar bear hunters may be facing more restrictions due to increasing threats to bear populations.
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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Ken Ivory is not the only politician trying to advance this agenda. We need to be wary of politicians like Republican Utah State Representative Ken Ivory who is also co-founder of an organization called the American Lands Council , created to advocate and lobby for the transfer of federal lands to states.
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The Six Secrets to Superior Sales Kickoffs
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 12, 2018
It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings. Secret 3: Set the agenda early. The next step should be to assemble a first draft of the agenda. Here are six secrets to make your meetings a hit and not a miss. Secret 1: Form the right planning committee.
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97 The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2018
I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month.
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The Pacific Wren of the San Francisco Botanical Garden
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2017
Nest-building must have been on their agenda, for they hopped this way and that with delicate moss bits hanging from their tiny beaks. The bird’s song was lovely, but we wanted to actually see the wren as well. Winter Wrens are secretive, hard to observe, but that didn’t seem to be a problem for the pair of Pacific Wrens.
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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Hunters and groups like the NRA consistently leverage the power of Duck Stamp funding to promote hunter-friendly agendas (such as expansion of hunting rights on refuges) sometimes overriding the voices of non-hunters whose wildlife considerations are often different yet equally valid.
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Back from the West!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2016
The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. From Colorado we headed north, west and north to our next destination, a rental in Teton Village, conveniently located just south of Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park.
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An Embarrassment of Riches
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2022
This visit to southern Spain, however, fell in the middle of raptor migration, so flamingos were not on my agenda. My photos were poor, but unmistakeable. After all, what could you confuse with a flamingo? Then, the people we were visiting in Turkey took us to their favorite waterside walk in the large city of Izmir.
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Guide to birding the Forgotten Road in the Djerdap National Park, Serbia
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2022
And in order to evaluate its potential, my agenda was to spend whole two days in the park and to produce the best possible evaluation based on that visit. That first field trip to Djerdap Gorge National Park, eight years ago, was made as a part of an ecotourism potential evaluation project.
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For a Great Sales Kickoff, Think Beyond the Meeting
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 6, 2020
Here are ways companies can embrace and enhance the entire sales kickoff process and deliver greater value – by setting a well-planned agenda, keeping multiple audiences in mind, delivering pre- and post-work, and more. . Sessions for sales managers should be built into the agenda. . Before the Meeting.
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Tips to Upsell and Cross-Sell to Current Clients
SalesFuel
MAY 15, 2024
In what other ways can we support their agenda with our offerings? This means, he writes, “they work collaboratively with clients to construct new ways of delivering value.” He recommends asking yourself the following to uncover opportunities: What value have similar organizations gotten from us?
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5 Ways to Deliver a Truly Impactful Sales Kickoff
Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 8, 2019
The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar. In InsideView’s case, we’d gone back and forth over the past few years between large scale/scope/budget/bold agenda and conservative/scaled back. We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView.
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6 Tips to Optimize Your Next Offsite Meeting
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 1, 2018
Setting goals will also help you choose a meeting framework, craft your agenda and keep everyone on track during the meeting. Create the perfect agenda. Your agenda should reflect and reinforce your meeting goals. But don’t cram your agenda. Most meeting agendas include four to 10 key initiatives. This is also.
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Creative Virtual Strategies to Engage with Clients
Sales and Marketing Management
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Before the meeting begins, create and share an agenda with your client. Make the agenda organized by time blocks and easy to read. Sharing an agenda and any sales materials with your contact ahead of time can help keep a meeting on track and engaging. You do not want to be staring at yourself for the entire meeting.
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Mastering Conversation Starters is One of the Best Sales Strategies
SalesFuel
MAY 30, 2024
Still, when you find yourself among potential business prospects it pays to have an agenda. Being Curious is One of the Best Sales Strategies Building rapport with casual conversation is a prerequisite for nearly all social settings. Your goal is to gain information to segue into a more substantive business discussion.
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Best Sales Strategies Don't Include Covert Manipulation
SalesFuel
AUGUST 8, 2024
Covert Manipulators Have a Hidden Agenda There are many reasons why people are manipulative. Much like a lie, it’s hard to maintain the demands of manipulative behavior. It’s never among the best sales strategies and sooner or later it will catch up with you. First, they may lack the skills or confidence to influence people legitimately.
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Always Question a Scientist
Critter News
JULY 25, 2009
And those scientists are humans with the same motivations and agendas as any other human. Science does not solve everything. Science itself is made of up of facts, but it is practiced and interpreted by scientists. Science is only as useful as the hands in which it lies. Are those hands good or evil?
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Now Is the Right Time to Build a Hybrid B2B Sales and Marketing Team
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 17, 2020
Shared agendas and goals increase collaboration. While marketing has always been expected to support sales, it has its own agenda, metrics and mindset, too. You can’t lose the magic of each specialty, but you need to set agendas and goals together and join forces to achieve them. Where are those MQLs?” “Why
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71 Imprisoned by PowerPoint: A Foolproof Escape Plan in Five Steps
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 31, 2018
Step 1: Create a Flex-Agenda. But whose agenda matters more? But freedom is closer than you think. Here’s where to look, with a five-step plan that will unlock your message and create the kind of dialogue you really want. The banking executive was frustrated. We had to figure out a way for him to be okay with unexpected questions.
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79 On "Food Inc."
Animal Person
JUNE 27, 2009
Film is a visual medium and through direction, dialogue, editing, music and any effects, the filmmaker presents (in this case) his agenda. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing.
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The quest for more purposeful meetings
Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
SMM: That ties directly to what you talk about in terms of the importance of balanced agendas. Do you feel too many offsites are cramming their agendas too full? It’s looking at how we can help attendees perform better cognitively. Sperstad : It’s tough because you need to have enough education.
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Sales Discovery Mistakes That Hurt Sales
SalesFuel
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
It can be easy to get caught up in your own agenda. When you approach a conversation thinking only of your own agenda, your goal is to maneuver and manipulate the conversation.” And without that information, you miss uncovering opportunities where your solution helps.
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Every Great Conversation
Sales and Marketing Management
JULY 4, 2019
For example, when learning how to coach it is critical to understand many steps – or skills – such as establishing trust, setting an agenda, observing behavior, giving feedback, gaining commitment, and many more. These programs require a detailed list of skills for participants to master.
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105 5 Trends That Will Transform Meetings
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 30, 2020
Giving back enhances personal and group mindfulness and empathy which helps develop a productive team and this is on the meeting agenda this year, as is the strong desire is for group experiences that inspire productive and positive change and leadership development. This is especially the case in the tech industry.
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3 Steps to Keep Buyers Engaged During Your Virtual Meetings
Sales and Marketing Management
JANUARY 11, 2021
When buyers’ eyes are open to what’s possible, their eyes and ears are focused on a shared agenda, and sellers are more likely to be successful. Buyers aren’t looking for exit ramps or distractions, they’re drawn into the promise and reward of the selling experience. .
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77 8 Sales Enablement Predictions for 2018
Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 20, 2017
pre-call planning, agenda setting, call execution and improvisation) to help reps better connect with buyers. Nowadays, though, sales teams seem to have lapsed on the basics, and it’s to their detriment. Expect the pendulum to swing back, with renewed emphasis on fundamental selling training (e.g., Emphasis on communication modalities.
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91 Creating an Account Plan for Any Sales Organization: 5 Components that Help Plans Succeed
Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 19, 2017
Politics are enabled by people holding too tightly to their own agendas. Conduct the account planning meeting. Finalize the plan. Present to leadership. Understand the politics. One of our first recommendations to defuse political situations is to understand other perspectives, their goals, and their priorities.
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85 Peer-to-Peer Selling Is A Modern B2B Strategy for Winning Sales
Sales and Marketing Management
APRIL 13, 2017
Larger buying committees mean more agendas and opinions. In fact, 2016 data from CEB shows that the average buying group has increased from 5.4 individuals to 6.8. It can be even larger for enterprise sales deals. It means 6.8 people are doing their own research, consuming vast amounts of content and hindering a consensus.
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