Before you send that intelligent-sounding email, letter, or proposal, remember to check it at least once for grammar and spelling errors. My executive clients tell me they continue to be surprise by obvious mistakes in many of the corporate communications they receive.
Read More...Tip 1 to Sound Intelligent in Your Corporate Communication
When you make the following grammar mistakes, you will sound less intelligent than you actually are. Effective communication, both in speaking and writing, make an important and significant impression. Most likely, your English teacher gave you the following advice. In case you have forgotten, here are three business communication tips to improve the impression you make to your prospects, clients, and senior executives.
Read More...American Accent Specialist Can Improve Your Spoken English
My associate is delivering a program that could be of interest to many in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Improve your Spoken English on Sunday, March 13, 2011 from 2 pm – 3 pm: Rebecca Linquist, American Accent Specialist and founder of English by the Hour presents at Next Step ToastMasters on “Communicating with Clarity & Confidence: What both native and non-native speakers of American English Need to Know.” To register call: 408 833-8945. http://nextsteptm.wufoo.com/forms/improve-your-spoken-english/ $5 is you register/ $7 for walk-ins. Location: the BIltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Rd., Santa Clara, CA 95054. http://nextsteptm.freetoasthost.com/
Read More...Dianna Booher Ask Strategic Questions
Focus on strategic thinking with questions like these:
“If we were able to off-load some of these routine tasks and could free
your own marketing staff to devote their creative energy on the new
product line, how do you think that could pay off for you in launching
this new product line second quarter?”
“Have you ever thought about automating your back-office processes?”
“In what ways do you see us getting a competitive advantage if we change
to a totally virtual staffing plan?”
Your questions should start the wheels spinning–big time. You just might
uncover hidden possibilities or solve problems you didn’t know existed.
Beware of What You Write on Social Media – Advice from Francine Denise Ward
Check out this video of Attorney Francine Denise Ward’s interview on View From the Bay, dealing with Social Media legal issues that can land you in court.
Read More...Consulting Over Fifty–Where Gray Matters & Experience Counts
“Fripp builds leaders and transforms sales teams by increasing the clarity, specificity and persuasiveness of the presentations.”
Read More...Scott McKain “Seven Biggest Lies in Business” this is #3 Management
Biggest Lies in Business : #3 Time for the third in our series of the "Seven Biggest Lies in Business" – our ongoing series here in the UCE-zine — moving you to enhance and alter your perceptions of what is true…and what isn't…in today's dynamically changing business world. This one applies if you are an […]
Read More...Public Speaking with Webinars
These days I am delivering more and more Webinars. My guru is Tom Drews the Fripp Associate who is one of the country’s leading experts in Public Speaking using Webinars.
One of Tom’s unique ideas is to use visuals to communicate information before the Webinar starts. An excellent and little utilized technique called “looping” can help prepare your participants for the webinar. “Choose a series of ten slides that automatically ‘loop’ while people are logging in. Provide colleagues with start times, direction for downloading resources, speaker information, upcoming meeting dates and other relevant content. The loop will keep everyone on target and engaged, regardless of when they log in.”
A Public Service Message for Job Seekers – Two Complimentary Online Audio Lessons
Courtesy of World Champions’ EDGE, Patricia Fripp, and Al Hops One of our World Champions’ EDGE members asked “Please create an Audio Lesson about how to excel and be successful at a job interview!” Fripp got carried away! Listen in on TWO 20-minute lessons and learn as Hall of Fame Speaker Patricia Fripp interviews Al […]
Read More...Rethinking: 10 Strategies for a Challenging Era, Advice from Jim Cathcart
My pal Jim Cathcart is one of my associates in Speakers Roundtable give us great advice for challenging times. Speakers Roundtable is a group of 20 of the best, in-demand professional speakers, executive speech coaches, and trainers: http://www.speakersroundtable.com Rethinking: 10 Strategies for a Challenging Era By Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE
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