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16 Business Owners Share What They Would Do Differently

Stephanie LH Calahan

Learning new skills by watching videos and interactive Power Point presentations is a widely accepted medium for explaining terminology and techniques - just look at the popularity of YouTube! In this context, I found it difficult to set and implement a cancellation policy. This is a cardinal mistake! Check The Checklist.

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Should You Go Back to School? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

We talked about Extreme Skills Makeover (Work Edition), concerning the different opportunities available to people who want to continue their education: [link] Taylor’s take is quite interesting, though: formally set up your own curriculum, choose your own resources, and set your success criteria according to your goals.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

However, if they go to develop skills like writing and critical thinking, to learn more about the world and to connect with future leaders, then university is invaluable. I have used those skills almost every day of my working life. And now I coach public speaking skills. I did an Arts degree (Modern Languages).

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Are You Interfering With Your Readers' Lives?

Men With Pens

In fact, they seriously lack in professional qualifications, the kind required to be dispassionate and unbiased – essential skills if you truly want to help a person. People with low competency level cannot objectively estimate their low competency level as they lack metacognitive skills for it. Dunning-Kruger effect.

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Business Competition is Good | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

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How NOT to Get the Freelance Job - and What to Do | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Speaking of links, if you have an ugly website with horrible copy that doesn’t reflect your skills, please don’t tell us. That said, don’t apply for internet jobs when you just came online, have no skills, no experience, but can definitely learn everything as you go along. Because we won’t. Request, that is.

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Do Clients Need to Like You to Buy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

It’s no one’s fault for lack of knowledge, but when I see these ‘experts’ right online with the world’s biggest learning library at their fingertips and spouting off on Twitter, a huge link-sharing resource, then I can’t really sympathize with the, “Well, I guess you just didn’t know.&#

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