Archive for April, 2010
Public Speaking: Giving a Great Speech : Public Speaking Tips: Visualizing Success
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Fear of public speaking is one of the greatest fears of people all over the world. Visualize success before giving a speech with tips from a communications specialist in this free public speaking video. Expert: Tracy Goodwin Bio: Tracy has a masters in corporate communication and ten years experience in professional speaking. Filmmaker: MAKE | MEDIA
The Keys To Successful Career Assessment
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Career Counselors
A career assessment will guide you in the direction of selecting the right career for yourself. They are available over the Internet and also through help from a qualified career counselor.
Career counselors are qualified to administer a career assessment. They administer and score assessment tests and interpret the results to find your strengths and weaknesses. They advise you and make suggestions to make sure you’re on the right track.
Experts do not find free career assessments available over the Internet reliable enough to completely depend on them.
Online Career Assessments
A number of assessments are available online, so you need to check them out and compare them first to find the ones that will meet your needs. However, they may not be hundred percent reliable.
According to some experts, online career assessments can provide you with direction, ideas and even guidelines to careers that you would never have thought of. These suggestions will make it well worth the effort to further explore them to find out if they would be of interest to you. Read More→
Implementing Change
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Step 1 – The Change Think Tank – Planning
Think & Reflect. The first step in implementing change is to stop and think before taking action. Sometimes the natural reaction for a business owner is to jump straight in and make immediate radical changes.
This rarely works. It’s best to block some time to plan the change either by locking yourself away at work for a few hours or actually driving to a neutral venue (park, cafe etc) away from your business premises. You need an unbroken focus to plan for change without interruption.
Map out your Initial Changes. Document a first draft of your changes. This should just be a summary and doesn’t need to look pretty. Make sure you jot down the steps required and likely timing. Note any major gaps or barriers that need to be considered in implementing the plan. Draft an initial time line you believe is achievable and a working deadline for implementation.
Seek input from Stakeholders & Advisors. Now you’ve drafted your plan alone, it’s time to discuss this with other stakeholders and advisors. Seek input from your stakeholders which include business partners, management, key employees and customers/suppliers (if applicable). Ask for feedback from your trusted advisors where appropriate. Ask them to be open and frank. Listen intently and don’t get defensive. Adopt a collaborative approach to planning for change. Read More→
Influence Without Authority
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- ISBN13: 9780471463306
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In organizations today, getting work done requires political and collaborative skills. That’s why the first edition of this book has been widely adopted as a guide for consultants, project leaders, staff experts, and anyone else who does not have direct authority but who is nevertheless accountable for results.
In this revised edition, leadership gurus Allan Cohen and David Bradford explain how to get cooperation from those over whom you have no official authority… More >>
A Career Assessment Test Can Change Your Life
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Do you fear remaining trapped in the same boring job and facing the same grind over and over again? Do you feel like your expectations and your job are at different wavelengths? Is your boss a pain? Are you stressed out at work?
If your answer to any of these questions is “yes” then you surely need a change. But probably, you are not very sure which way to go. You may be ridden with serious doubts about your future career prospects. Nothing new there. Like you, thousands of others are also wondering what to do with their lives; unlike you, a few of them have chosen to do something about it.
There are cost effective ways to explore your career possibilities, extend your productivity and reach a state where you are content with your personal and professional achievement. You can land your dream job, earn the salary you yearn for and become the kind of professional you want to. In short, it may be time for a career assessment test!
Tasks and education, training and required experience are only a few of the issues that career assessment involves. A career assessment test functions as an effective tool or symbolically speaking “a mirror” of what you are really fit for. Therefore, learning something more about the opportunities that could be lying ahead of you in your area of expertise will make it easy for you to make the correct career decisions. Read More→
What You Can Achieve With Management Development
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The problem with management training is that more often than not it seems to be seen as a threat to the quality of the manager. Tell your manager that he needs to go on a management training course and he or she will probably baulk. It could quite easily be seen as an assault on their levels of competence. It of course may be but management training should not be feared as it will help the individual improve the motivation levels of their employees and as a result will probably ultimately make their job easier and more effective.
Nevertheless many people do face the thought of management training with caution. There really is no need to. So what is involved in management training and what can it teach you?
There are a number of different management training programs available and a wide variety of training providers offer management training. Typically this type of training will be based around a specific area of interest but many providers can develop a training program that is bespoke to your specific business and your specific needs. Read More→
Influencing Skills – How To Influence People
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There is no right way, nor is there only one way to influence others. Everything, but everything, is a factor when influencing people.
And we are, all of us, influenced by people, places, events and situations at all times. Sometimes we are affected more or less by these things, but we are continually being influenced by what happens around us.
So what about the specifics in the workplace?
Your job requires you to influence people just about all of the time. It may take the form of gaining support, inspiring others, persuading other people to become your champions, engaging someone’s imagination, creating relationships.
Whatever form it takes, being an excellent influencer makes your job easier.
An interesting point about people who use their influencing skills well, is that other people like being around them. There’s a kind of exciting buzz, or sense that things happen when they’re about.
It’s because they don’t sit around wishing things were different while moaning there’s nothing they can do about it.
They don’t sit around blaming others or complaining about what needs fixing that will make things better. They see what needs doing and set about getting it done.
Truly excellent influencing skills require a healthy combination of interpersonal, communication, presentation and assertiveness techniques. Read More→
Using Assessment Results for Career Development
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Master the use of assessment instruments with USING ASSESSMENT RESULTS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT!
This practical workbook illustrates how to use assessment results to increase your clients’ self-awareness and make rational career choices. Case studies, charts, bulleted/numbered lists, dialogues, and agency addresses are just a few of the tools that will help you effectively apply your knowledge of tests and measurements in clinical settings…. More >>
Using Assessment Results for Career Development
Finding Success in Career Assessment
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Successful people generally work in a career that they love. By using a career assessment test, you can discover your strengths and skills and match them to an occupation and working environment most suited to you. Career assessments tools come in many forms but most career assessment tests focus on the following:
- Personality assessments seek your values and determine your decision making style.
- Personality assessments evaluate how you convey information to others and your work style. They help match your personality to an occupation and working environment most compatible to you.
- Skills and aptitudes assessments determine mathematical, analytical, artistic, and creative skills to name a few.
- Interest assessment tests determine where your passions lie. These tests can help determine the best working environment for you (indoors or outdoors), or they can reveal if you’ll succeed best working with other people or independently. Read More→
Influence: Science and Practice
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- ISBN13: 9780205609994
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Influence: Science and Practice is an examination of the psychology of compliance (i.e. uncovering which factors cause a person to say “yes” to another’s request).
Written in a narrative style combined with scholarly research, Cialdini combines evidence from experimental work with the techniques and strategies he gathered while working as a salesperson, fundraiser, advertiser, and in other positions inside organizations that commonly use compliance tactics to get us … More >>