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It doesn’t matter to your audience if you have ten days or ten minutes to write a speech. You still must deliver. Here are tips for speeding your speech prep.

Content: Article | Authors: Nick Morgan, Phillip Khan-Pami | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Content: Quotation | Source: WriteWorks | Subjects: Ambition, Commitment

When you know absolutely nothing about a skill, you are unconsciously incompetent — that is, you don’t know what you don’t know. As you learn more, you become consciously incompetent: you know what you don’t know. With training and practice you can become consciously competent, while total mastery makes you unconsciously competent, meaning that you use the skill so effortlessly that you’re not even aware … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Competence, Knowledge

The rhythms of existence require a time of reflection as well as of toil.

Content: Article | Author: David Whyte | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

If you want to be a better negotiator, you can buy 24 books, take 12 courses, and attend 7 seminars — or, you can read this article.

Editor’s Note: while I thought this article is worth reading, it hardly lives up to its claims…

Content: Article | Author: Rob Walker | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Personal Development

Many leaders will be called upon to speak with the media. Are you ready when the lights go on and the microphone is in your face? Here are four secrets to making a compelling case.

Editor’s Note: an even better article on this topic is “Secrets of a Novice TV Star”

Content: Article | Author: Gary Genard | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Personal Development, Public Relations

The key to an effective presentation? You have to capture your audience in the first few seconds. Here are six ways to get off to a strong start.

Content: Article | Author: Beverly Ballaro | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The world’s top executive coach explains why half of what a leader says may not be worth saying.

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

Managers must be aware of their strengths, limitations, motives, and values in order to make the appropriate trade-offs between fit and learning opportunity when selecting a position.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Self-disclosure is the hardest piece of the communication puzzle. Yet, it’s critical.

Content: Article | Author: Randy Siegel | Source: MarketingProfs | Subject: Personal Development

Frances Hesselbein tackles the idea of manners and civility in the business world, supporting the view of Peter Drucker that “good manners are the lubricating oil of organizations.”

Editor’s Note: I don’t know about you, but I for one notice a lack of manners in business dealings all too frequently…especially so since the advent of increasingly digital communications.

Content: Article | Author: Frances Hesselbein | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

If you want to motivate your employees, tell them a story, but not just any story. A Harvard Business Review conversation with screenwriting coach Robert McKee.

Content: Article | Author: Bronwyn Fryer | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

This may come as no surprise, but at least it’s official: IT companies are the worst offenders when it comes to communicating their corporate message, recording the lowest readability scores and using the most jargon, according to by consultant Deloitte Touche Tomatsu.

To help companies evaluate how clear their communications are, Deloitte has developed a program known as Bullfighter, an add-on for Microsoft Word and … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Deloitte | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Personal Development

Some folks do have all the luck — and psychologist Richard Wiseman can teach you how to be one of the lucky few.

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Pink | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Personal Development

Finkelstein, strategy and leadership professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School, spent six years investigating fifty-one companies that experienced major breakdowns. He finds four major causes of failure: brilliantly pursuing the wrong vision; losing touch with reality; not acting on vital info; and, the personality flaws of the leaders themselves.

Content: Book | Author: Sydney Finkelstein | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

This useful guide to modern public speaking in business situations begins (as did public speaking) with the ancient Greeks. It’s an auspicious start: the Greeks’ influence lasted into the 20th century, even after television made our relationship with most of the speakers we hear far more intimate. Morgan, the founder of a communications coaching company, proposes what he calls “the audience-centered presentation process,” in which … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Nick Morgan | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Discover the Personal Education and Communication approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization’s pathway to success.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Personal Development

One problem with how most companies deliver information is that they expect people to spend too much time at one sitting. We work in a world of limited attention spans, unlimited demands on people’s time, and endless multitasking. Learning programs have to reflect these realities: most e-learning is still anchored in the mind-set that learning means going somewhere for 8 hours at a time to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Learning, Training & Development

I make an important distinction between CEOs who are effective teachers and CEOs who are effective leaders of the learning processes of their organizations. A teacher imparts a point of view, a perspective, a vision, a set of guidelines – it’s communication from the expert to the novice. Meanwhile a CEO who leads the learning process of others, creates a learning culture, cultivates learning processes … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Leadership, Learning

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