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VIDEO: New Directions Designs Event Focused On Quality

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A 3-minute video highlighting an event that we helped to conceptualize, design and facilitate. This one day event kicked-off a strategic initiative focused on quality and continuous improvement with excitement and commitment.   Looking to jump start your quality initiative?  Not sure where to start?  Download our FREE Quality Problem-Solving Tool Kit as a road [...]

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VIDEO: Season’s Greetings from the New Directions Team

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Hope you all have a very healthy holiday season, a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!      

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VIDEO: Group Decision Making – The Decision Making Tree

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Deborah Mackin discusses how to determine the level of authority one has to make decisions within an organization.  She uses the metaphor of the Decision Making Tree to help frame the question. Be sure to check out our Decision Making Workshop  

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VIDEO: Process Efficiency Workshop – BB:C & Goal Setting

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Michael Harrington and Deborah Mackin of New Directions Consulting talk about some of the common principles in their Process Efficiency workshop, the Belief: Behavior Connection and Goal Setting.  

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Welcome to the New Website by the President

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Deborah Mackin, founder and president of New Directions Consulting since its birth in 1984, welcomes visitors to the new website.

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The Road to Top-Notch Teaming (Bright Ideas Conference)

The Road to Top-Notch Teaming

This is an interview conducted with Lisa Dunbar of New Directions Consulting after she presented: The Road To Top-Notch Teaming at the 2010 Bright Ideas Conference at Siena College.

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25 Year Gift from New Directions

25 Year Gift from New Directions

Deborah Mackin, President and Founder of New Directions Consulting, speaks to us on the starting of her business and her recent gift to the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber Entrepreneurial Boot Camp program.

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Training the Next Generation (ASTD)

Training the Next Generation ASTD

Michael Harrington, Director of New Training and Strategic Initiatives and Matthew Harrington, Marketing Manager, both of New Directions Consulting give commentary on the day’s events at the 15th Annual Hudson-Mohawk ASTD (American Society for Training and Development) Conference in March of 2010.

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New Directions’ Presentation Skills Training

New Directions Presentation Skills Trainings

Michael Harrington, Director of New Training and Strategic Initiatives at New Directions, trains on Presentation Skills. New Directions, with over 25 years of service, provides more than 50 employee development and high-performance leadership programs to large and small organizations alike.

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Crisis Management to Controlled Management

Crisis Management to Control Management Presentation

Lisa Dunbar of New Directions Consulting presenting the CMtoCM presentation at the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce February 17th 2010

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