Have you ever sat in an audience listening to a speaker who obviously knows their material and has the information to back it up, but for some reason, you just couldn’t pay attention? It happens all too often. Speakers bring excellent content to their presentations, but they forget one of the most important aspects that…
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Unwind From the Grind This Holiday Season!
The week between Christmas and New Year’s is supposed to be a time to decompress and enjoy the company of family and friends. If you feel like you’ve still got one foot at work, then you need to arm yourself with ways to unplug from work during the holidays. Almost everyone puts additional pressure on…
The Power of the Subject Line
Regardless of your role and rank within an organization, getting the attention of busy people can be challenging, especially via email. It’s important to utilize strategies to increase the likelihood that an email recipient will not only open your email but read your entire message. However, the only way to get a chance to have…
The Dos and Don’ts of Networking
The ability to network is not necessarily an innate quality. It is simply the process of developing mutually gratifying relationships with like-minded people and businesses. It is a skill that can be learned, honed, and developed with practice. Networking is a marketing tool—crucial to the success of you and your business that can take a…
How (And Why) To Leave Your Job on Good Terms
At some point in your career, you’ll likely quit your job a time or two. Knowing how to leave your job on good terms will be important when these moments arise. Even though quitting happens all the time and it’s a necessary part of the process for career growth, it’s easy to ruffle some feathers…
Six Body Movements to Avoid When Engaging With Others
It is well understood that we communicate with much more than just our words. Our nonverbal communication, or body language, exhibits a large aspect of the message we send. This includes our facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture, and even our voice inflection. These are all critical for our message delivery and often says more…
Tips For Becoming a More Confident and Compelling Public Speaker
Whether we are talking in a team meeting, in a social setting, or in a presentation in front of an audience, we all must speak in public from time to time. The way we speak affects the way people think about us, so it is understandable that it often comes with nerves and anxiety. While…
4 Ways to Be An Effective and Respected Leader in Your Workplace
Be an Effective Communicator For you to communicate ideas and concepts that are valuable to your team, you need to share them in an effective and easy-to-understand way—the success of your team relies on how well you, as a leader, can motivate and delegate with your words. What we say and the way we say…
3 Ways To Win Friends and Influence People
Is one of your goals this year to improve your people skills? With so much human interaction gone digital in the last couple of years, it’s understandable that people may have digressed in the people skills department. Just like with a muscle, you can lose it if you don’t use it. Thankfully, it just takes…
4 Ways We Have Contact With the World
When communicating with others, we have to remember that perception is reality. How we communicate with others and how they perceive us involves more than just our words. How we carry ourselves through our day and amongst others makes a difference. Dale Carnegie once said, “There are four ways, and only four ways, in which…