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5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
5 Tips: Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Photo by Randy Fath on UnsplashHave you ever felt you’ve been taken advantage of at work, by your boss, by your co-workers and colleagues? You want to say ‘No’ but just can’t bring yourself to say it. After all they say such wonderful things about you. - You’re such...
Self Reflection: Finding Your Purpose
I was reading a story about when Oprah was a small child. She was watching her grandmother boil clothes ‘in a big cast-iron pot in the yard.” Then, her grandmother would pull the steaming clothes out of the pot and hang them on the clothes line to dry. Oprah remembers...
Ditch the Elevator Pitch
‘Ditch the Elevator Pitch’. In her May, 2012 article in Forbes, Jacquelyn Smith staff writer says, “… ditch the pitch… It basically describes what sales people used to do – throw information at prospects hoping to sell a service or product before the buyer could hang...
Three Basic Conversational Body Moves
“The difficulty with this conversation is that it is very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”Douglas Adams Unlike the late British comic and writer, Douglas Adams, most of us do not spend our time...
Attention Zapping Distractions
Distractions! They are everywhere, and can drive us on the road to exasperation, especially when we are sitting in the audience and find that we seriously have to work at tuning both ears to what the speaker is saying. All too often, something quite unrelated comes in...
A United Way Speaking Experience
After filling out the application form, then holding my breath through the lengthy interview, I received the call. I had been chosen as one of the two impact speakers for the United Way Lower Mainland fund raising campaign. What could be better than this? Going into...
Five Tips on How to Use Speaking Notes Effectively
Speaking notes are an important tool when making a speech or presentation; they organize the flow of the topic, keep you on track and serve as cheat sheets for salient points such as statistics. But what to do with those cumbersome notes? Whether you are a newly...
Success Characteristics
Defining success is like nailing jelly to a tree, but success characteristics ... now that is a different story. Every New Year I think about what speaking for success will look like for me in the months ahead: the opportunities, the experiences, the people. Whether...
Encouragement Key to Success
Never pass up the opportunity to speak encouraging words to someone for spoken encouragement is a powerful neurotransmitter and key to success. We have all met these people oozing success from every pore. They knew exactly what they wanted to do from the moment they...
Seven Tips on How To Be a Better Listener
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is known for her style, elegant manner and communication skills. Regarded by many as an effective communicator and great conversationalist, she is remembered less for her speaking however, and more for her ability to listen well. In one of...
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