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12 Communication Skills
Verbal communication is like playing ping pong while juggling and jumping on a trampoline. There is far more going on than just bouncing back and forth between a speaker and listener! A speaker must choose words and transmit them with…
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Posted in communication, personal development, work skills
Posted in communication, personal development, work skills
12 Soft Skills for Success
Many of the top skills desired by employers are soft skills that involve purposeful work, personal qualities, and people. PURPOSE↳ Planning• Problem solve• Look at tasks to achieve outcomes• Actively select important priorities• Next actions to schedule• Include time to…
Skills for Career Advancement
“The career advice you probably didn’t get” TED talk by Susan Colantuono describes three types of important skills for career advancement: 1. Use the greatness in you. 2. Engage the greatness in others. 3. Achieve and sustain extraordinary outcomes. (often…
Improve Communication with Myers-Briggs
The Myers-Briggs personality types are 16 combinations of 8 categories: Extraversion or Introversion – how you gain energy (from people -or- time alone) Judging or Perceiving – how you organize (with order -or- flexibility) Thinking or Feeling – how you…
Kanban with Keep
I’ve tried many ways of managing projects, but became interested in the kanban method. I wanted to experiment with it, but did not wish to download a new app to try, and I wasn’t sold on the idea of using…
GREAT Skills
A gap commonly occurs when employers fail to find employees with the soft skills they are looking for in the workforce. Why? because the skills that are most in demand in the workplace are not often taught. We can change this! The…
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Development Plans Are Not Just for Work
While Performance Plans for work may be called a Personal Development Plan, work is only one small part of personal development. To make a plan for personal development, try the Life Area Energy Level Gauge to see which life areas…
7 Work Smarter Principles
I recently finished “Great at Work” by Morten T Hansen, who illustrates with examples and research 7 principles for working smarter. I was most interested in the first part of the book, which covers mastering your own work. The second…
What the Brain Wants
Emily and Paul are just trying to get some work done. But they don’t do it very well until they learn to understand their brains. Author David Rock uses their stories to illustrate how the brain works in the fascinating book “Your Brain…
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