2016 Confidence Skills UPS 
Success
JANUARY 4, 2023
The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.
Practically Perfect PA
AUGUST 24, 2017
Nobody readily puts up the hand to take minutes and those of us who do sometimes fear the job because of the expectation that is put on us to produce discussions accurately. 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. Assertiveness.
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Success
JULY 30, 2021
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. In other words, they have high social awareness—a critical EQ skill. They form personal connections. They’re even-keeled.
Success
MAY 4, 2022
If he had given up, we wouldn’t have the legend we have today. Giving up is not my style. It’s easy to give up; it’s much harder to stick to the plan. So instead of wasting his time and effort, he focused on honing the skills he could control. This article was published in August 2016 and has been updated.
Success
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
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.,
Success
JUNE 20, 2022
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. It doesn’t matter if it ends up being accurate or not.
Success
AUGUST 29, 2022
I lost my confidence. Over the years, I’d developed contacts, partners and skills, and I had the industry reputation necessary to put together a contract this big. But the tickets never showed up. But the pain was fresh, and the daily struggle for money and confidence were keeping me stuck. I lost my business.
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