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Article offers a look at what the author considers the Seven Deadly Speaking Sins:
1. Making assumptions
2. Presenting the wrong image
3. Lacking enthusiasm
4. Failing to prepare
5. Using poor visual aids
6. Giving a sales pitch
7. Relying on technical jargon

Content: Article | Author: Michael Bernhardt | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personal Development

“Managers who coach their employees become known as good managers to work for, developers of talent, and achievers of business results. They also become better leaders in the process. The average manager, however, doesn’t coach, believing it would take too much time or be a waste of effort. Such barriers, however are more psychological than real, and represent an expression of the status quo. The … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: James M. Hunt, Joseph Weintraub | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

If you want to fix your future, start by fixing yourself. In the face of war and recession, what the business world needs is less greed — and more love. So says Yahoo senior executive Tim Sanders, who argues that now more than ever, the road to prosperity is paved with a commitment to generosity.

Content: Article | Author: Tim Sanders | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Personal Development

A new, revised version of The Economist’s best-selling style guide is now online. It gives general advice on writing, points out common errors and clichés, and offers guidance on consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations and capital letters. It’s also rather amusing-and an invaluable companion for everyone who wants to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which The Economist is renowned.

Content: Online Resource | Source: The Economist | Subjects: Personal Development, Reference / Search

…everything can be taken from us but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances — to choose one’s own way.

Content: Quotation | Sources: CEO Refresher, Man’s Search for Meaning | Subjects: Attitude, Personal Development

It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Adversity, Challenge

There aren’t any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Challenge, People

Managed learning is a more efficient and effective means of achieving the strategic agenda that leverages the natural dynamics of organizational change and knowledge creation and use.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Learning, Strategy

The ultimate business objective of learning should be to systematically accelerate a company’s natural rate of improvement in value created for the customers it targets.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Learning

Learning from the past is more relevant and productive in stable markets ruled by the law of diminishing returns than it is in tumultuous markets characterized by technological discontinuities and positive-feedback loops (increasing returns).

Learning from the future is less about processing information and more about structuring it and seeing patterns in it. It’s less concerned with making plans than with producing capabilities. It is, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Learning

How do you quickly establish yourself with those you lead? What do you do first? A Leadership Guide for new supervisors.

Content: Article | Author: Gregory P. Smith | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

Content: Quotation | Source: Know Your Place Inc. Aug 30 | Subject: Personal Development

Be thankful for challenges and adversity because they present the greatest opportunities for significant personal growth.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Adversity, Personal Development

Content: Book | Authors: Don Morgan, Ivan R. Misner | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

Athletes and actors have known for years about the value of coaching in improving performance. Now more and more individuals are turning to coaches to help guide them through the increasing complications of day-to-day life and business.

Content: Article | Authors: John Eaton, Paul King | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Personal Development, Trends / Analysis

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In this feature, Inc.com has tapped into methods from a speech consultant, a mingling maven, and others, to help you write and deliver better speeches, polish presentations, and improve communication with coworkers.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Inc.com | Subject: Personal Development

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Content: Book | Author: John G. Miller | Subjects: Change Management, Personal Development

What does it take to deliver a great presentation — preparation, practice and passion. It takes dedication and hard work. The best speakers do their homework and use many of these 10 techniques.

Content: Article | Author: Paul B. Thornton | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personal Development