Posts Tagged ‘credibility’

Build Your Platform: How to Show You’re the Right Person for Any Job

We all deal with the problem of needing to build support for our ideas. Maybe you’re trying to sell your boss on a new program, maybe you’re trying to get a loan or grant to start a small business or to undertake a research project, or maybe you’re just trying to get a job. What do you have to do to convince your audience, whoever they are, that… » Continue

January 9 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: competence, confidence, credibility, leadership, platform | 7 comments»

Eliminate Common Writing Mistakes

Let me just say, spell-check is not your friend. While it is ostensibly a useful service intended to help improve the quality of your written work, it is in actuality the product of a plot between Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, and Kim Jong Il, who are working together to undermine America’s public image in preparation for a non-violent overthrow of our country and our way of life… » Continue

October 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: credibility, grammar, mistakes, spelling, writing | 63 comments»

Would I lie to you?

In the days of Ancient Greece, when the Greek army was trying to destroy Troy, there lived a young woman called Cassandra.

She was a special person. As well as being beautiful and one of the daughters of the king of Troy, she was an accomplished prophetess. Not surprisingly, such a combination of beauty, social status, and talent attracted the attention of a top executive in the prophesy trade. In… » Continue

October 16 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: confrontation, credibility, integrity, lies, reputation | 4 comments»

Sticky Ideas Workshop (Part 4): Credible

”I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.” Back in the early ‘80s, Vick’s Formula 44 cough syrup ran commercials that opened with that line, featuring Peter Bergman, who indeed played a doctor on The Young and the Restless All My Children. Vick’s could, of course, have chosen an actual doctor to tell us how good Vick’s product was, but instead chose a TV star – someone… » Continue

August 24 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: Communication, credibility, ideas, madetostick, statistics, teaching, writing | 4 comments»

Increasing your Credibility in 30 days: How to Brag without Bragging

The meek have not inherited the earth and it appears they won’t anytime soon. The people who get ahead are the ones who know how to brag without coming across the wrong way. There is no one right way to do this but having enhanced credibility paves the way to becoming a successful braggart rather than a boor.

At its simplest, building credibility in the public realm involves creating… » Continue

June 6 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: credibility, google, writing | 15 comments»

Show Your Negative Trait: A way to increase Credibility?

Let me hear your comment on this.

A blog called Smart Graduate School Applications has an article on a phenomenon: If you deliberately showing a weakness trait, it helps to increase your credibility.

In the article, he mentions number of examples. Here is one: A waiter who negatively comments about the restaurant’s dishes and tries to gain credibility. And with that, he could gain customer trust and leverage to recommend other expensive… » Continue

December 5 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: credibility, trait, weakness | 6 comments»