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Ignite Potential. Inspire Action.

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It also means inspiring them to take ownership of their career development and their contribution to your company as a whole.

Soundview helps you unlock the full potential of your employees... and your company.

Nurturing top talent — employees with unique skills and leadership potential — means more than just providing an occasional webinar or online training course.

Empower employees to make an immediate impact on your company’s success.

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Inspiration through education.Everywhere you look, there’s a new “must-read” book, hot management trend, or corporate training bandwagon promising great things for your organization. But how can you tell which ideas can motivate employees to make a real impact on your company?

Soundview makes it easy, because we do the work for you. Every year, we read through thousands of business books — yet only a handful makes it past our rigorous selection process. So you can rest easy, knowing that your employees are getting the highest level of instruction.

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“You have an excellent service/product that I have enjoyed and profited from for many years... Keep up the good work... you make a difference in careers and lives.”

The training they need, the formats they want.Your Soundview Corporate Library is like a classroom that goes wherever your employees go. From webinars... to audio book summaries… to online courses… our accessible e-learning materials are designed to maximize use and retention — and keep pace with the busiest of schedules.

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In a world of high demands and tight deadlines, Soundview Executive Book Summaries give your employees the optimal amount of information in a fraction of the time.

Only the best books from the best minds in business make the cut!Soundview reviews thousands of business titles each year, but only the best have what it takes to be selected for our Executive Book Summaries. Our rigorous selection criteria include competency-building potential, staying power, and a clear takeaway message.

Top authors:

Jim CollinsPatrick LencioniMichael PorterLiz WisemanStephen R. CoveyDaniel PinkJohn MaxwellDaniel GolemanSusan ScottMarshall GoldsmithClayton Christensen

The cure for content overloadEach Soundview Executive Book Summary is just eight pages long (or 20 minutes of audio). So your employees can learn more vital points in less time than it takes to read their e-mail messages every morning.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries®

Maximum learning. Minimum time.

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Soundview Best IdeasTM

These 2-minute videos focus on the “best ideas” from today’s best-selling business books. Each Best Idea is selected by the editors to emphasize the core objective of the corresponding business book summary.

With a wide variety of business topics, these short videos will give your employees the quick tips they need to excel in the workplace.

Best Idea: Influencing Up

Sometimes the most difficult people to influence are the ones above you on the corporate ladder. Here are some strategies to improve your success rate.

Highlighting the “best ideas” from summaries like these:• The Four Lenses of Innovation by Rowan Gibson

• Go Put Your Strengths to Work by Marcus Buckingham

• Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John C. Maxwell

• What Millennials Want from Work by Alec Levenson & Jennifer Deal

• 360 Degrees of Influence by Harrison Monarth

• A Manager’s Guide to Project Management by Michael Bender

• Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers by Anthony Mersino

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Soundview SmartTipsTM

Fast advice that makes a fast difference.

Give us five minutes, we’ll give your team advice they can use right away.Each video simply and succinctly combines sound guidance with practical examples. As skills are discussed, key points appear on screen to increase employee retention of the material. This high level of reinforcement engages the viewer and separates SmartTips from traditional employee training videos.

Nothing is more frustrating than searching for “how to” advice online. Your employees could easily spend two hours sorting through outdated, unhelpful pages plastered with pop-up ads.

SmartTips help eliminate Internet scavenger hunts with concise, five-minute video clips that teach your staff everything from business basics to specific skill sets.

Your Soundview Corporate Library includes more than 300 SmartTips videos, such as:• 4 Decision Making Methods

• What is Emotional Intelligence?

• 9 Things Bosses Look For in Employees

• 7 Tips for Managing Your Boss

• Disruptive Innovation

• The First 90 Days of Leadership

• 3 Styles of Holding People Accountable

• 6 Skills for New Managers

• How to Be an Active Listener

• 10 Ways to Add Value to Your Company

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Live coaching from the cutting edge of business.Soundview LiveTM Webinars What separates Soundview Live from other Webinars?

In a word… expertise. Each month, your staff will have access to exclusive 45-minute webinar programs featuring a bestselling business author, sought-after speaker, or top-level executive coach. But the learning doesn’t stop there. Every webinar includes a detailed presentation, plus the opportunity to ask the guest questions to be answered following the event.

What’s more, your Soundview Corporate Library includes exclusive access to hundreds of Soundview Live webinars. So, your employees never have to miss an event.

Soundview PinpointsTM Reinforce critical teachings and takeaways.

Pinpoints are concise, easy-to-digest summaries of key messages from top business webinars. They are derived directly from transcripts of the webinars themselves, and are available in three efficient and accessible formats:

5 minute videos

Corresponding PDF transcript

Corresponding MP3 file

Each Pinpoint is aligned with a core business competency, and covers subjects that are relevant to leaders at every level of your organization.

Nurture your team’s confidence and abilities with hundreds of webinars, including:• Are You Managing or Are You Leading?

by Stephen M.R. Covey

• Creating Presentations that Persuade by Nancy Duarte

• The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Sean Covey & Chris McChesney

• 360 Degrees of Influence by Harrison Monarth

• How to Create Leadership at Every Level by L. David Marquet

• Extreme Productivity by Robert Pozen

• Lead Your Team to Predictable Success by Les McKeown

• Creating Powerful Leadership Connections by Doug Conant

• The 4 SNAP Rules of Selling by Jill Konrath

• How to Hold Real Conversations by John Stoker

Guy Kawasaki

Nancy Duarte

Marshall Goldsmith

Patrick Lencioni

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Soundview Executive EdgeTM

Nurturing excellence, one skill at a time.

Create Positive PatternsIn Elevate, Rich Horwath states that the patterns of decisions your managers make regarding their strategic direction will ideally lead to the achievement of their goals and objectives. As strategy involves the intelligent allocation of limited resources, it’s imperative that positive patterns emerge in how those resources are allocated and, just as important, reallocated.For many managers, resources stuck in dead-end projects and unproductive tactics simply stay there until the next planning process rolls around. The strategic thinking trap of the sunk-cost effect –– continuing to invest in a losing endeavor because resources have already been spent on it –– can put an anvil around the effort to elevate thinking. The results can be damaging not only for companies but also for their individual leaders.One clear indication of a lack of strategy is a random and patternless hodgepodge of decisions with no consistency in approach. Leaders who describe their strategic approach as opportunistic believe that every opportunity is considered a good one. These opportunistic leaders fail to create a disciplined pattern of focus on providing maximum value to the right type of customer.

Inherent to identifying patterns in the marketplace and within the customer and competitor arenas is the ability to understand the business context. One method of pattern detection is to examine snapshots of the business at different points in time to identify

combinations of activities or tendencies. To do so, a series of Contextual Radars can be created on a periodic basis and then examined for patterns.Contextual Radar provides a visual snapshot of the four primary components of business market, customers, competitors and the company. At the center of the radar are any issues or activities that are at the core of changes in the business. It’s the recording and review of events within the Contextual Radar framework over time that can then be mined for patterns. Once the patterns are detected and described, thoughtful conversation around their meaning, impact and warrant of resource allocation can occur.

A strategist’s ability to see the big picture involves not only the elements of the picture but also how those elements are connected and what functions they serve. When these elements have connections and a purpose, we can refer to their whole as a system. As the first core skill of the advanced strategic thinker is to coalesce, or bring together, it’s fitting that the concept of a system helps us do just that.One of the ways we know a soccer team is a system, for example, is because if we take away elements, connections or purpose, the system is fundamentally changed. Remove the players or ball (elements), rules (connections) or score (purpose), and you no longer have a soccer game. As rules of thumb, if you cannot identify the elements, connections or the effects they have upon each other, then they most likely do not form a system.

Too many executive learning resources try to cover several skills at once. This drastically reduces the number of critical takeaways your staff receives from what they read.

Executive Edge is different. Each month, a new issue of Executive Edge arrives in your Soundview Corporate Library bursting with excerpts from best-selling business books, interviews with top authors and executives, coaching strategies, and more — all devoted to a single essential skill. So you can help your workforce make a stronger contribution to your company without the high price tag (or scheduling issues) of a consultant.

Here’s what thousands of Executive Edge readers are learning right now: • How to Give Power to Conversations

• Maximize Your Professional Value

• Building Healthy Relationships at Work

• What Creates a High-Trust Work Environment

• How to Pilot Change

• Leading Up

• Basics for Building a Business

• Confront Adversity and Learn From It

• Learn Continuously in Order to Grow

• Leverage the Value of a Changing Workforce

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Create Positive PatternsIn Elevate, Rich Horwath states that the patterns of decisions your managers make regarding their strategic direction will ideally lead to the achievement of their goals and objectives. As strategy involves the intelligent allocation of limited resources, it’s imperative that positive patterns emerge in how those resources are allocated and, just as important, reallocated.For many managers, resources stuck in dead-end projects and unproductive tactics simply stay there until the next planning process rolls around. The strategic thinking trap of the sunk-cost effect –– continuing to invest in a losing endeavor because resources have already been spent on it –– can put an anvil around the effort to elevate thinking. The results can be damaging not only for companies but also for their individual leaders.One clear indication of a lack of strategy is a random and patternless hodgepodge of decisions with no consistency in approach. Leaders who describe their strategic approach as opportunistic believe that every opportunity is considered a good one. These opportunistic leaders fail to create a disciplined pattern of focus on providing maximum value to the right type of customer.

Inherent to identifying patterns in the marketplace and within the customer and competitor arenas is the ability to understand the business context. One method of pattern detection is to examine snapshots of the business at different points in time to identify

combinations of activities or tendencies. To do so, a series of Contextual Radars can be created on a periodic basis and then examined for patterns.Contextual Radar provides a visual snapshot of the four primary components of business market, customers, competitors and the company. At the center of the radar are any issues or activities that are at the core of changes in the business. It’s the recording and review of events within the Contextual Radar framework over time that can then be mined for patterns. Once the patterns are detected and described, thoughtful conversation around their meaning, impact and warrant of resource allocation can occur.

A strategist’s ability to see the big picture involves not only the elements of the picture but also how those elements are connected and what functions they serve. When these elements have connections and a purpose, we can refer to their whole as a system. As the first core skill of the advanced strategic thinker is to coalesce, or bring together, it’s fitting that the concept of a system helps us do just that.One of the ways we know a soccer team is a system, for example, is because if we take away elements, connections or purpose, the system is fundamentally changed. Remove the players or ball (elements), rules (connections) or score (purpose), and you no longer have a soccer game. As rules of thumb, if you cannot identify the elements, connections or the effects they have upon each other, then they most likely do not form a system.

Critical skills, expert instruction. SoundviewPro online courses teach the business and technical skills employees need to succeed in today’s unforgiving business climate.

Each course includes a set of video classes — easily accessible on mobile devices — taught by subject matter experts, business professionals, and renowned thought leaders. So your employees get the best training from the best minds.

In addition, SoundviewPro courses include regular assessments that track employee progress and confirm understanding of the material.

Take your team’s skills to the next level with our growing library of courses.• The Five Keys to Experiencing Extreme

Personal Productivity

• Helping Successful Leaders Get Even Better

• Becoming a Powerful Business Presenter

• Strategic Interviewing for Emotional Intelligence

• Building Brand [You]

• People Skills that Create Success

• How to Create a Memorable Presentation

• How to Schedule Projects Like a Pro

• Coaching Strategies for Sales Leaders

• Leading Successfully Through Challenges and Obstacles

• Managing Millennials – Retention, Reward and Recognition

• Installing an Accountability-Based Culture for Success

• Career Basics for New Employees

• Gain Buy-In and Get to ‘Yes’

• The Executive Guide to Corporate Culture

• Delivering Exceptional Customer Service

• Eliminating Workplace Drama Through Clarity

• Filling the Leadership Gap

• How to AMP Up Your Sales

• Sales Onboarding – Keys to Success

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Soundview Corporate Library Your “mission control center” for learning. More than just a repository for outstanding content... your Soundview Corporate Library also includes the tools that you and your team need to efficiently reach your goals.

Usage reportsDeliver detailed, customized reports by content and user, so you can be sure your employees are getting the full benefit of your Soundview Corporate Library.

LMS integration Your Soundview Corporate Library can easily be integrated into any legacy learning management system. We also offer IP Authentication, which allows users to quickly access their Soundview Library without logging in, based on their IP address.

Administrator interface Allows one person at your site to make adjustments, add and delete users, and perform other background tasks — all from one simple interface.

E-mail notifications and delivery Let Soundview keep your team members up to date by alerting them when new summaries, interviews, videos, and audio content become available. We can also deliver summaries directly to employee e-mail accounts.

Assessments Every Soundview Executive Book Summary includes an assessment that helps employees retain key information — while helping you document training efforts and track employee progress.

Self-registration This optional feature saves administrative time by allowing employees to create their own user name and password.

The Soundview AppStrengthen skills

and knowledge — anytime, anywhere.

The Soundview App keeps book summaries, author webinars, SmartTips videos, and more at your employees’ fingertips. So they can review the latest competency-building content in airports… hotels… cafés… or wherever business takes them.

Available at:

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Customized

Let Soundview create a customized set of materials based on your corporate competencies. Your custom competency list appears on the left side of your Soundview Corporate Library for easy navigation.

Pre-designed

Choose from more than 60 pre-defined competency programs — created by Soundview — that cover specific skills relating to management, communication, sales, marketing, and more.

How it works.

Competency MappingCustom content for your unique training goals.

Imagine a training resource that is specifically designed to fit your company’s brand, culture, and mission. That’s exactly what you get with Soundview Competency Mapping.

Competency Mapping trains your workers in specific skills using a combination of Soundview Executive Book Summaries®, Soundview Live Webinars™, Author Insights™, Executive Insights™ interviews, Executive Edge™ issues, SmartTips™ and more.

Two mapping options are available to suit your specific needs:

ABC Company’s corporate training competencies involve

“creating trust.”

Soundview works with ABC Company to understand their definition of “creating trust.”

Soundview creates a customized competency map

for “creating trust.”How to Create a High-Trust Organization with Robert F. HurleyHow to Tap the Power of Social Networks with Chris Brogan & Julien SmithThe 5 Key Actions to Creating Smart Trust with Stephen M. R. CoveyLeading with Credibility with James Kouzes & Barry Z. PosnerTransforming the Way You Lead with Charlene LiLeading at the Speed of Trust with Stephen M. R. CoveyCultivating Candor with James O’TooleWinners Never Cheat with Jon Huntsman

Soundview LiveTM Webinars

Smart TrustThe Speed of TrustCredibilityOpen LeadershipTactical TransparencyTransparencyHowTrust AgentsWinners Never CheatThe Trusted AdvisorValue ShiftBuilding Public TrustLoyalty Rules

Soundview Executive Book Summaries®

How to See TransparencyHow to Manage Distrust and Negativity

Executive EdgeTM

Chris BroganStephen M. R. CoveyJames M. KouzesCharlene Li

Author InsightsTM

The Six Elements of CredibilityFive Ways to Make Your Business

More TransparentThree Ways to Earn and Lose Trust

in the Workplace

SmartTipsTM

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What makes Soundview unique?Simply put, we curate today’s most powerful business content, and deliver it in concise, accessible formats that your employees can watch, read, or listen to on their schedule. So they’re more likely to retain and apply what they’ve learned.