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Saturday, May 2, 2009
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Tags: Business Communication International Communication B. Eight Easy Steps to Make Your Training Programs Irrelevant
By By B. Kim Barnes and John Castaldi
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Monday, May 25, 2009
An Ability to Think on Your Feet – take an improve class, participate in table topics at Toastmasters International. Tags: Comedy Public Speaking Giving A Speech humor Humorous Material Humorous Speaker Humorous Story Presentation Skills Punchline Sense Of Humour table topics Toastmasters Internationa I’ve been inspired by fellow blogger Andrew Dlugan’s post 25 Essential Presentation Skills for Public Speaking .
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
All writers have internal critics harping at us to get our writing right. internal critic is Mr. Tags: Business Writing My Books creative writing business writing internal critic writing proces Excerpt from Harness the Business Writing Process, available Fall 2009.
All At the same time, it is just so darn difficult for most of us to remember all the picayune and inconsistent rules of English.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
If you want to write, you have to overcome your internal critic…
My internal critic is Mr. My C, my grade five teacher. Mr. C took his task of teaching me perfect spelling and grammar
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Think about it: Why is it that The Intern gets the guy, the big career break, and even sometimes fame? 0160; We read about this in Mark Seal's article in April's VANITY FAIR on life as an intern working for Dave Letterman. All we have to do is figure out what edge The Intern has, then apply it, as much as we can, to our own professional life.
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To begin with, The Intern is an outsider.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
I recently had the privilege and pleasure of attending the Toastmasters International covention, held at the MGM Grand, Mashantucket, CT. Tags: Toastmasters International Conventio Schedule considerations limited me to one day there, rather than a full week. While I did meet members from far away, I was disappointed that I didn't have much time to actually network with them. The world fiscal situation limited the number of attendees this year.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Now, it is no big deal to put us on a plane and expect us to address an international audience twelve hours later. handy and inexpensive source of international background information is the Culturgram published by the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, which is part of Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. The world is getting smaller. Or we might face a U.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Within the next few weeks, I’ll be working with several international clients. No, I won’t be traveling to their various countries (although sometimes I do, and I always enjoy it). In this case, they’re all speaking at a major convention in the United States, and I’ll be coaching them during on-site rehearsals.
After running my own speechwriting business for 25
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
If you’re addressing international topics this week, or writing for global audiences, consider:
I recently had an assignment in London, where I coached speakers from Venezuela as well as Europe.
1503 Birthday of Michel de Notredame (in Provence). He became a doctor, and then published a book (under the pen name of Nostradamus) about predicting the future. [Note:
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