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Article :: Why and How Power Verbs Can Pump Up Your Resumes, Cover Letters, Interviews, and Personal Networking Efforts

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Learn why using power verbs is so important to job seekers and how to find the right power verb for your resumes, cover letters, interviews, and personal networking efforts.

Article :: Seven DISC Principles for Turning Style into Results

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Merrick Rosenberg, co-author of Taking Flight!: Master the DISC Styles to Transform Your Career, Your Relationships...Your Life, offers a crash course on the DISC styles, where he examines the Seven Principles that transform style awareness into results.

Article :: Why and How Power Verbs Can Pump Up Your Speeches and Presentations

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The authors of Power Verbs for Presenters: Hundreds of Verbs and Phrases to Pump Up Your Speeches and Presentations discuss how their book can help you electrify your presentations, speeches, and pitches…and get the results you want!

Article :: The Financial Professional's Guide to Communication: Defining Your Core

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Bob Finder asks you to answer a seemingly simple question: What do you do?

Article :: Introduction to the Financial Professional's Guide to Communication

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In this introduction to his book, Bob Finder explains how he will teach you to actively listen, speak plainly with precision and passion, and engage clients with uncommon effectiveness.

Article :: Introduction to Winning Strategies for Power Presentations

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Tired of giving mediocre presentations? In this introduction to his book, Jerry Weissman shows you how to avoid the mind-numbing scenario in which a nervous person stands in front of a room giving a verbatim recitation of a disjointed set of begged, borrowed, or stolen slides to a bored audience for far too long.

Article :: Activities Rule! Not the Clock: Don't Be a Slave to Time

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Mark and Trapper Woods offer an easier way to approach the time challenges we face today in this chaotic world.

Article :: Preface to The Truth About Managing People, 3rd Edition

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Stephen P. Robbins describes his book, which is organized around key, human-behavior-related problem areas that managers face: hiring, motivation, leadership, communication, team building, performance evaluation, and coping with change.

Article :: FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This excerpt from FranklinCovey Style Guide: For Business and Technical Communication covers cliches, colons, color, commas, compound words, conjunctions, contractions, dashes, decimals, editing and proofreading, and electronic mail.

Article :: FranklinCovey Style Guide for Business and Technical Communication: Abbreviations

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This Reference Glossary is designed and written to help writers and editors answer routine, yet important, questions about the preparation of business and technical documents. This section covers abbreviations.

Article :: Creating a Living Endowment for Ensuring Performance

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Richard C. Gillespie and Gene E. Fusch introduce their book, which describes techniques to create a workplace where members of an organization continuously strive for performance improvement. Creating such a workplace often leads to dynamic leadership, empowerment, personal ownership, and a place where people want to be every day.

Article :: Introduction to Losing It! Behaviors and Mindsets that Ruin Careers: Lessons on Protecting Yourself from Avoidable Mistakes

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Bill Lane explains that the ability to look at oneself in a cold, unflattering, florescent-lit mirror; evaluate what you see; and act on that evaluation is a faculty that can and must be cultivated if your train is to stay on its track—and accelerate.

Article :: Introduction to Leadership, Discipline, and Effective Communication

Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Helio Fred Garcia introduces his book, which applies the Marine Corps’ strategy doctrine, as embodied in its Warfighting manual, to leadership communication.

Article :: When Social Media Meets PR, Communication Unites with Technology

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Each new practice introduced in Social Media and Public Relations is the result of what happens when social media meets PR and communications unites with technology. Following are the eight new practices vital to your role today.

Article :: Introduction to Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Jerry Weissman introduces his book, which offers 80 lessons -- both what to do and what not to do -- from presentation masters.

Article :: Generating a Disruptive Idea: Unexpected Ideas Have Fewer Competitors

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

How do you transform an opportunity into an idea? Luke Williams explores the stumbling blocks to generating disruptive ideas and how to overcome them.

Article :: Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets: Identifying the Problem and the Solution

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Getting to the root cause of poverty requires moving beyond theory as we look at the problem from the perspective of typical individuals in Bottom of the Pyramid markets. In this chapter, Eric Kacou considers such individuals.

Article :: Introduction to The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Article :: Foreword to The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

If people think you have it in you to solve the problems of the organization itself, not just your small part of it, you've broken away from the pack. But how do you do that? Follow Richard Templar's Rules of Work.

Article :: Retirementology: Great Expectations

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Mark Twain said, "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." When it comes to expectations, the best thing you can do is check them at the door and plan for all kinds of weather in retirement. Gregory Salsbury shows you how to manage your retirement expectations and improve your retirementology IQ.

Article :: The Wall Street Job Search: Winning in Any Market

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Most people are operating with passed-down wisdom, outdated advice, and popular magazine formulas for job search and career advancement that for the most part result in failure. Roy Cohen introduces the secrets and rules of the road that will really make a difference.

Article :: Create a Personally, Professionally, and Financially Rewarding Career Doing What You Love

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With the downturn in the economy, the elimination of jobs, and the increased desire for work-life balance, people are looking for more stability, greater fulfillment, and increased satisfaction from work. Are you?

Article :: Innovation Starts with Empathy: The Importance of Developing Deep Connections with the People You Serve

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Dev Patnaik explains why companies prosper when they’re able to create widespread empathy for the world around them.

Article :: The Job Market Is Tight: It's Time to Take Back Control of Your Career

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Learn what the hidden job market is, how the techniques of the hidden job market work, and what you need to know you land your next job.

Article :: Is Your Organization High Performing?

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Those who want to lead at a higher level need to understand that to create a high performing organization, they need to aim for the right target.