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Liminal Space: Why This Period of Nothingness Is Critical to Being Present and Processing Your Thoughts

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We pull into the driveways or parking spots often having been inundated with a lot of noise—radio, podcasts, news—rarely do we use this time to prepare our minds, bodies and hearts to engage and be present when we sit down at our desks or arrive at a meeting or walk through the front door.”

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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. should be retired. Tentative language waters down your presence as a confident communicator. Excuses are unattractive.

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What Is Professional Development? We Unpack the Essentials

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But it can also offer traction for a career change, such as when a solopreneur takes on the soft skills required for presentations or sales. Furthermore, the knowledge you gain provides the strength and confidence you need to meet emerging challenges throughout your organization and beyond. They retire or move to a new company.

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How Candidates And Managers Can Identify And Combat Age Discrimination

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Ageism is when employers treat an applicant or employee less favorably because of their age, which can apply to younger people with less experience, or older people who are close to what is traditionally considered retirement age. . Unfortunately, ageism is present in the hiring process, on the job, and sometimes when termination occurs.

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Turns out, whether I was traveling on business or not, the likelihood of me being impacted by racism was still present. Having allies at work isn’t just about having a confidant or an enforcer of policies. Among the leading causes of this reluctance was their unwillingness to deal with racism in the workplace.

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Elena Cardone Is Never Neutral

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The things she chooses to be, the person she chooses to present to the world, the life she’s carefully built, are all purposefully constructed from a thousand tiny daily decisions. What is their confidence level? The decision to be present. This family dynamic wasn’t organic, much like the rest of Cardone’s life.

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Steel Magnolias, Barbie, and Other Wise Women – In Celebration of a Complicated Women’s History Month By Bonnie Low-Kramen

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After all, no one knows better about how to move forward with confidence, strength, grace, and self-respect. Carol Cozewith on listening to the advice of others Retired Designer My advice to my granddaughters and all young women is this. The women of the world represent 40% of the employed population and 49.6% of the total population.