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Furthering Your Education on a Budget

Success

If all that’s required is giving up a weekend or two to an online conference or seminar, then the effort may be worth it for the payoff. Course catalogs and seminar sites are full of interesting topics that can distract you from your primary goal. How will taking this class/seminar/program help me get to my ultimate goal?

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Boost Your Success by Improving Your Speaking Skills

Ian's Messy Desk

Those who give more speeches tend to have higher salaries than those who give less or no speeches. She enrolls in a public speaking seminar that teaches two hours a week for six weeks. After two months, she is promoted to senior engineer. Take this average engineer. Her boss has been noticing her superb presentations.

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Proper E-mail Use Critical to Career Success

On The Job

For example, when I direct my all-day seminar on “Business Writing That Works,” I devote the last hour to e-mail guidelines. Likewise, schools — including colleges and universities — should incorporate e-mail training into their courses. Communication consultants carry a responsibility in this arena as well.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve attended numerous seminars in leadership, time management, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, meeting planning, event planning, and disaster recovery planning (Joan Eisendot and her website are fantastic resources) as well as is Tyler Davidson at Meetings Focus magazine/website, and freely shared the knowledge with my peers and anyone who asked.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Who said it was smart to give a one-hour free seminar, speech or workshop almost every single day? I see one of two things, a blogger, who is paid to write content that promotes the services or products of another individual or business (ie. That salary came from advertising purchased by business to air on my station.

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