Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

During a presentation, your boss is asked a question about the department’s plans for the coming year. If you know how to organize your thoughts, and you know your job, you’re most of the way to giving an effective impromptu presentation. Choose a common pattern of organization. 5) Conclude the presentation.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers | Main | 5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life » Tips to Go Almost Paperless "Steph, do you have some ideas for how I can go paperless? 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   If your business is not effectively organized, it’s costing you money.    Yet, we try to do it all of the time by putting systems in place that don’t match our personal or our organizations’ styles.   There are different organization styles too. 

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Here’s a simple checklist to help you organize your Christmas holiday celebrations. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Last year, I posted a Christmas planning checklist to use starting in November. Prepare budget and plan projects: Figure out how much you are able to spend.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 16, 2010

Giving a presentation normally causes stress. If you have any of these symptoms before or during a presentation, you are normal. Almost everyone experiences some stress before presentations, even when the speech is as simple as, “tell the group something about yourself.” Don’t worry. If not, you are one in a million.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 16, 2010

The brainy quote – thousands of quotations organized by topic, author and type. Quotelady.com – An old-school style web site focussing on inspirational quotations organized in dozens of categories. And a plus: A list of sources for quotations to use in presentations from Presentation Zen.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Related Posts: 10 Tips for a Killer Presentation Time Management Horse Sense 10 Questions to Kick Start a Daily Journal Entry Motivation Did you enjoy this post? Look beyond the obvious. LISTEN THOROUGHLY. Discern what is meant – not just what is said. RESPOND APPROPRIATELY. Deal with mistakes openly and fairly.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You don’t build an outline of your presentation. At what time of day will you be presenting? When Preparing for Public Speaking The boss e-mails and says you are going to be training employees on the features of the new software roll-out. What’s the first thing you do? You don’t fire up PowerPoint and start creating slides.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 13, 2010

Fifteen minutes later another manager comes by looking for last-minute help with a PowerPoint presentation. That way, I can complete your presentation today.&# For example: typing a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation: two hours, provided all the material is complete. You’re there until midnight, the boss went home at 5:00.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 11, 2010

Prepare by writing out your presentation, at the every least have an outline and rehearse it more than once. At the very least, practice your stories and be sure to have stories every time you present. Evaluating your audience is a critical but frequently overlooked aspect of presentation preparation.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 7, 2010

Organize your ideas so that the audience will not have a hard time following and digesting your ideas. It is only through practice can you effectively present your speech. Master the flow of your presentation by repeatedly rehearsing it. Come up with an argument that is reasonable. Add structure to your message.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 23, 2010

Here are some tips to help with the delivery of your speech or presentation. Playback the presentation and look for areas to improve. » Ten Speaker Tips to Make Any Presentation Sparkle Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 25, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! she and her consultants focus on conducting presentations, personal coaching, assessments and productivity / organizing services for entrepreneurs & time pressed professionals.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   John will interview Steph for 60 minutes.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

That’s why it’s important to position yourself as a valuable employee in your organization. Present solutions rather than problems. While there have been improvements in the economic climatic, we still face challenging times in every industry, serious effect on job security. Your manager’s perception is reality.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   After hearing Joanne Lang's extremely professional presentation and vision for an on-line tool that would help busy moms get and stay organized, I was hooked.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Win a chance at an iPod Touch! To your success!

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

– Patrick Overton Have you ever performed or presented in front of a group of people? If my boss says I have to give a presentation next week, my determination to avoid being fired overcomes my self-doubts. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.

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Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The Mind Mapping Manifesto The Bubble Planner GoalPro Goal-Setting Software unique christmas presents - Buy one share of stock: Disney, Harley Davidson, Target, eBay, etc shipping furniture Portland Leather Furniture www.spacify.com/family-room-furniture.htm - for any room of the house.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   You'll also get an opportunity to ask questions during the show! . __ © Stephanie LH Calahan (AKA StephCalahan) is a dynamic entrepreneur, nationally known speaker, media personality, author, publisher; personal productivity and organization consultant, and business coach. 

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 7, 2010

If yours is an organization that encourages less-formal communication, you may find people dropping by to discuss anything from last night’s big game to next week’s big presentation. The office culture where you work can have considerable influence on this practice.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 23, 2010

The Mind Mapping Manifesto The Bubble Planner GoalPro Goal-Setting Software great christmas gift ideas - Buy one share of stock: Disney, Harley Davidson, Target, eBay, etc furniture shipping Denver Leather Furniture www.spacify.com/family-room-furniture.htm - for any room of the house.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 6, 2010

Stick to your plan – the following three points will always form a logical presentation: This is where I was, This is where I am now, This is how I got from there to here. Use good English – You don’t have to be a grammar expert, but the more your presentation conforms to good language usage, the easier it will be to understand.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   Take Care of Your Physical and Mental Health Your physical and mental well being are crutial to your success.    You are important and your health is too.    You are important and your health is too.    Give it a high priority.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 17, 2010

Whether it’s 20 pounds you need to lose, a presentation that has to be made or a skill you need to learn, overcoming “I don’t feel like doing it” is being motivated. Things that motivate us are more deeply rooted; whether they be love, health, success, etc. That drive is motivation.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   Today, you can see content on: Time Management Top Mobile Phone Apps Organizing Tools Focus and Concentration Tweet Time Management Better than Time Management - [link] - Anthony Signorelli speaks from my perspective when he says you cannot manage time! What Have You Written?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 5, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs | Main | Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the Experts #Productivity #Organization » Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc.

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Loosely Speaking

DECEMBER 22, 2009

As a part of the mission to connect VAs throughout the southwestern United States through peer-to-peer networking and educational opportunities, an ongoing series of classes taught by dynamic presenters in the industry is yours for the taking in 2010. This webinar will be presented using GoToMeeting, and is open to all VAs.Â

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   Enjoy __ ©Stephanie LH Calahan (AKA StephCalahan) is a dynamic entrepreneur, nationally known speaker, media personality, author, publisher; personal productivity and organization consultant, and business coach.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 12, 2010

The Mind Mapping Manifesto The Bubble Planner GoalPro Goal-Setting Software unique christmas presents - Buy one share of stock: Disney, Harley Davidson, Target, eBay, etc shipping furniture Dallas Leather Furniture www.spacify.com/family-room-furniture.htm - for any room of the house.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   It is Get Organized Month and now is a great time to focus on your personal affairs.  Take care of yourself - you are the only you that you have Get your health in order We hear this all of the time, but it still holds true.  Link Lineup! "  ~ P.T.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 23, 2010

Symptoms that are ignored ultimately lead to much more serious health problems. Develop a &# one-day-at-a-time&# mind set, since you can only really control the present anyway. Behavioral Increased substance (i.e., Live in the Now – Much of our stress is created by living in the past or worrying about the future.

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The Marq

AUGUST 30, 2009

TheMarq A Human Perspective on Business and Life Flexibility Outside of the Gym I met with a senior executive at a local health science company this past week. I told him about my plans looking for employment in health care and my BHAG deadline of September 14. He had one response, "be more flexible." Then the idea hit me.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   This product is database driven, so the trick would be to find one of their templates that works for your organization. They say: " TeamDesk is a hosted database-driven platform for creating, maintaining, organizing and sharing business information over the Internet.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. For speech and presentation skills, there are quite a number of individuals in organizations like Toastmasters and the Rotary club that are looking to increase their teaching and leadership skills. How to be successful and eco-friendly. Thanks for the list!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 30, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Even When it Is Quiet, You Should Listen -- Being present and in the moment is a great way to focus.  Work With Stephanie | Contact Copyright 2007-2010 Calahan Solutions, Inc. -- All Rights Reserved Want to use my content in your ezine, newsletter or blog? What Do You Think?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! The Big Secret to Time Management and a More Fulfilling Life Personal Productivity, Organization and Mindset #Cinch Podcasts In One Location Comment and Share Have you tried batching/grouping your tasks?  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   Did it work for you? 

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The Mind Mapping Manifesto The Bubble Planner GoalPro Goal-Setting Software christmas presents for men - Buy one share of stock: Disney, Harley Davidson, Target, eBay, etc furniture shipping New York Leather Furniture www.spacify.com/family-room-furniture.htm - for any room of the house.

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