Digging through articles on networking – Keith Ferrazzi, CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, has given 10 rules of networking. The article is pretty insightful and fun to read. Networking is one of the hard skill to master for business world. However once it is mastered, you can go through personal connections to get useful information and…

Aloha, let’s manage with aloha: Work well, live well. Last week we talked about what employees need to learn from their managers. What can managers learn from employees? Virtually everything they need to know about the things which affect the productivity of the business they manage. Whether you are the employee or the manager, I’d…

Steve Pavlina has written an article called “How to Go From Introvert to Extrovert”. The article talks about blocks and suggestions to becoming more “extroverted”. In my opinion, what the article really suggests there are some ways on improving social skills if you are introverted. Being introverted or extroverted is a personality, and personality is very…

Anguish, frustration, I’m so blocked. I’m not sure why writer’s block is so notorious. Is the profession filled with vociferous whiners? Do they get creative block more than others, more than musicians, artists, web designers, research scientists, strategic planners, or Fortune 500 Marketing Directors?

Dwayne Melancon has implemented a whiteboard for calendar for the family. He called it Air traffic control for the family. He and her wife use two dry-erase calendars and attach it to their refrigerator – one being represents the current month and second one represents the next month to communicate each of the family members’…

Stephanie Krieger, a Document Production Expert has posted an article for creating better presentation, focused on presentation slide production with Powerpoint. She talked about three main areas with four tips on each area to improve the slides in style. They are: Clearly Communicate Your Information; Grab the Viewer’s Attention; and Stay in Control of Your…

Manager Tools has made a great PDF called Effective Meetings Outline. It is a slide show that shows you steps and tips on running an effective meetings. Topics include: Pre-publish an agenda, start on-time, set some ground rules, stick to your agenda, use a parking lot, fix responsibilities, finish on-time, publish minutes, continuously improve, and…

Tollefson/Peterson over UC Berkeley has made a tips sheet on how to make public speaking more effective. The document mentioned couple of good areas on delivering speech, for instance: How to analyse the audience How to do opening and closing for presentation How to prepare your speech How to deliver your speech How to be confident and committing to your…

Dr. Leon Winer, Ph.D. in MBA, has made a web site that decaicated to instructions for developing business skills. There are chapters in the site like Case Study Analysis, Creative Decision Analysis, Influencing, Negotiating, Networking, Career Development, Business Plan Outline and Entrepreneuring. I have read through a chapter called Networking / Self-Marketing and…

Bert Decker, CEO of Decker Communications, Inc., gives a quick six don’ts to avoid for successful presentation. He highlights that last three seconds would be how people remember you. Those six don’ts are: Don’t step back. Don’t look away. Don’t move on the last word. Don’t raise your hands. Don’t rush to collect your papers. Never blackball yourself If you avoid those…

A while ago, Seth Godin stated one can receive same knowledge as MBA course and able to better use of time and money than actual experience combined with a dedicated reading of 30 or 40 books. This statement would be correct if we take out the following aspects/advantages of attending MBA courses: Networking Discussions during the…

Tom Peters, the author of Re-imagine!, has a silde deck called Presentation Excellence. It contains 56 ways for increasing the quality of your presentation. It is a good piece of information. Examples like: 1. Total commitment to the Problem/Project/Outcome 2. A compelling “Story line”/“Plot” 3. Enough data to sink a tanker (98% in reserve) 4. Know the data…

I am fortunate enough to receive a training from one of the corporate trainers on time management. Apart from learning more about time management, I also focused on her public speaking style and skills. After the training, I had a chance to talk to her more about public speaking. Here are some tips I have…

Creativity and innovation thinking are topics that I have been searching recently. Below are those couple of sites’ resource links + some related recommended books that related to creativity and innovation. Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking – those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on…

Steve Pavlina over his blog has posted a entry about verbal pauses which he learned in Toastmasters. Verbal pauses are when you say bridging words when your brain still processing for next sentence – like umm, ahhh, you know, and, and but. It is sometimes distracting and does not sound profressional. Steve showed a solution…