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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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Going along to get along sounds like a restful approach to your interactions, but in reality, learning how to stand up for yourself—to ask for what you want, say no when necessary and insist on due respect—is much more effective for facing the world with confidence. Assertion is a skill that can be learned like any other.

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Skills required to be a good minute taker

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Not everyone can be a good minute taker – it’s a definite skill and quite often an art, hence the name of my course, The Art of Minute Taking. There are definite skills required to be a good minute taker and I’ve listed some of them below: Listening. Check out my post here for tips on how to listen for the message.

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How to Understand People’s Personality Types

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Understanding how to use that knowledge is another. It provides them an extra lens to sort of understand what’s going on with that person and the language to express what that is, and then usually gives them ideas of how to approach things differently. Once you have those labels, the other part is knowing when and how to apply them.”

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Is shorthand still a relevant skill for a minute taker?

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Those people who write the minutes probably use their own version of shorthand (tips on how to do this are covered in this post ), text language or EasyScript. Many, many years ago, without a doubt, secretaries went to secretarial school to learn how to type and take dictation. It was a very handy skill to have! …

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10 Habits of Ultra-Likeable Leaders

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These and other words describe leaders who are skilled in emotional intelligence. Unlike innate, fixed characteristics, such as your intelligence (IQ), EQ is a flexible skill that you can improve with effort. Likeable leaders know how to read people. In other words, they have high social awareness—a critical EQ skill.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

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Never have more people believed—with more reason—that success hinges on reading, workshopping, boot-camping, seminar-ing, and otherwise launching yourself into new realms of skill or knowledge. Some managers worry about investing in developing people who can then easily take those skills to a competitor,” says David G. Allen, Ph.D.,

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6 Ways to Act on Your Ambition

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Building your ambition is building your enterprising skills: To consistently create new opportunities , to consistently take advantage of the opportunities you’ve created, to be aware, to face life with your eyes and ears open to the possibilities that might be just around the corner. You can figure out how to change it. Keep learning!

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