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10 Phrases to Drop from Your Vocabulary

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Whether you are leading a team meeting, presenting to a prospective client or delivering a keynote speech to a global audience, verbal mistakes will undermine your credibility and distract from your message. Tentative language waters down your presence as a confident communicator. Be specific and avoid using vague blame tactics.

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10 Steps to Serious Goal-Getting from Zig Ziglar 

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Be a team player. Collaborating with a team not only means participating at the same level as your teammates, it can also mean helping them to reach for their own goals. Each time you reach a goal , your confidence will grow so that you can do bigger and better things. Write it all down. Photo by Ollyy /Shutterstock.

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Should People with Grit Ever Give Up?

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Or your team has worked for months on a new project. So, instead, we might replace it with an easier question: “How confident do I feel?” How to avoid it: When it comes to confidence, we want to have enough, but more isn’t always better. You just started a new job and it’s not going very well. We fail to consider alternatives.

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From Olympic Bobsledder to Financial Adviser—Carlo Valdes Knows a Thing or Two About Second Careers

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First, he landed a football scholarship to UCLA before later joining the track and field team and reaching NCAA regionals three times. Bobsled team? Less than two years after graduating, Valdes not only made the squad, but his two-man team placed fifth at the World Championships in 2015. Thursdays and Sundays off.

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Master the 3 Stages of Buying to Win Your Ideal Client 

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As a salesperson, you have limited time with clients, even your dream clients whom you can help most and can reap the greatest results from teaming with you. You also provide references or whatever your prospective client needs to be 100% confident in moving forward with you. Sounds basic enough. You’ll win the value game every time.

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Why Human Connections Are A Business Advantage In A Remote World

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I’m confident anyone reading this has had experience a friend or employee leave for these very reasons. The McKinsey study summarizes that, “Employees want stronger relationships, a sense of connection and to be seen.” 46% of this group cited their desire to quit as wanting to work with people who trust and care for each other.

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Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial to Good Leadership—Here’s Why

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Emotional intelligence in leadership also helps create the context for modeling the behavior you seek to develop in your team. Even in undeniably negative situations, likable, emotionally intelligent leaders emanate an enthusiastic hope for the future, a confidence that they can help make tomorrow better than today.

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