By Terry S Vostor
The power of opinion and its influence upon society has been for that for two millennium, always an issue of debate. Is it good or bad? The internet affords the easy availability of information to almost anyone and everyone, in a most democratic manner.
With a simple website, or even a rank communications [...]
By Tinu AbayomiPaul
It’s not just that social media is about connecting and relationships, or that business is about relationships.
It’s not just that social media has helped to facilitate that connection across borders of distance.
Nor is it about the fact that social media can penetrate through layers of handlers to get you in touch with people [...]
By Edward Hope
A speech can be interesting, informative and highly entertaining without being humorous. Most speakers are invited because they are well informed on a specific subject and it is of interest to the audience, the listeners do not necessarily expect to be entertained. For entertainment they would hire an entertainer. However, humor has a [...]
By Edward Hope
Today, effective public speaking is about successfully communicating ideas and information that is worthwhile to the audience. It is no longer a fine art that only a few can aspire to. This means it is now easier for the ordinary individual to become an effective public speaker.
With effective public speaking being about the [...]
By Anne Alexander
Recently I shared with my readers a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt, who said: “Do one thing every day that scares you.” I asked you to send me your stories about doing something that scared you in the service of your own progress and growth.
I got some great responses and want to share one [...]
By Emma Wortt
The person with the most flexibility in thinking and behaviour has the most influence on any interaction. - NLP presupposition.
As the boss concentrating on reaching your department’s goals it can be easy to fall into the trap of focusing on how other people need to change in order to reach those goals.
Is [...]
“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” Richard Moss.
The ability to achieve rapport with anybody is an amazingly powerful skill to have. Rapport precedes influence.
When you have rapport with someone you can take the lead in the conversation. This is not to say you will be able [...]
Are you looking for someone to talk to? Are you tired of the same old chat system that so many websites now offer? There is a new website in town that you might want to consider looking at. The website is Omegle.
An eighteen-year-old high school student has created a site Omegle that allows total strangers [...]
What is success? The answer to that question is both personal and institutional for those of us who work in the business world. In essence, success is the ability to accomplish the task at hand. Technically, it is “to achieve one’s aim to prosper”.
You need thriving business relationships to prosper. In fact, we can measure [...]
Getting your point across…Getting your issue aired…Getting your voice heard…
There are going to be times at work when these questions become really important to you. The question, though, is how do you organize your thoughts and ideas in such a way that you make maximum impact and get the response that you want?
Firstly, it depends [...]
Blogs have now become ubiquitously available. Just as the Internet is widespread and accessible, becoming cheaper, better understood and more user-friendly and flexible, so are blogs becoming more common and important. Access to blogs is increasingly via phones and multiple devices which can be read or viewed anywhere, anytime. The recent emergence of the i-Phone [...]
Home based businesses continue to grow at a rapid rate on the Internet today. Social networking is sweeping the Internet and is becoming a popular way to build a home based business. Here are a few tips that can help you be successful using this marketing strategy.
1. Join Twitter and develop a large number of [...]
I was raised in a family where communication circled around but never went directly to the source. If my mother wanted to know something about my brother, she’d ask my sister; if she wanted to know something about my sister, she’d come to me, and so on. Judging from the frequency in which I see [...]
Many people have told me over the years about how they feel more comfortable around “intelligent” or “smart” people. I can identify with that, but I am aware that many others feel most comfortable among ‘common folk’, and not ‘nerds’.
A friend of mine recently took this a step further. She felt that ‘democracy’ was an [...]
There are literally hundreds of Web2.0 and Social Media sites out there and more are being developed every day. These sites are interactive and let the users and the communities within in them contribute and publish content for the world to see. Most of the sites offer you the ability to rate, share and discuss [...]
We talk a lot, and those conversations, if we use assertive communication skills, can make a big difference in how our relationships go. If I have anything to add to the assertive communication skills dialogue, it is an awareness of how rapidly we change internally based on our perception of and interpretation of nonverbal communications.
Mihalyi [...]
You’ve been squeaking - I mean trying to get your way - ever since you were a baby. A matter of fact, before you read any further, why not pull out a chubby picture of yourself just to have a good laugh. Or, get a good image in your mind of your baby picture. You [...]
How important are openings? An effective opening will achieve two things, it gets the audience’s attention and their interest in what is to follow. A poor opening can turn the audience off and leave you playing “catch up” to get their interest during the rest of the speech.
The content of an introduction will vary from [...]
I’ve been judging romance contest entries again. I have found several mistakes that I continue to see over and over. Interested in knowing what they are? Well, I am only going to cover one in this article - conflict. I’m not talking about your garden variety arguing, bickering or fighting. That’s not the kind of [...]
Every historical phase has its Age of Discovery and Exploration. Each Age has its own focus. The Portuguese, Spanish, and English of the late 1400s to the early 1600s focused on conquest and riches with the intent to exert European power in the world. In the late 1900s and the early 2000s, the focus is [...]
