Your conclusion should do much more than simply tell your listeners that your presentation is over. Your entire presentation, in fact, can hinge on the final impression you make. It's that last impression that can linger the longest. So preparing a strong ending to your presentation is every bit as important as preparing a strong opening
Get Rid of a Template
... what if you don't want any template at all? You just want to start with white space?
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life."
-- Mary Manin Morrissey
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Manifest the Secret and put Attraction into action
The Instrument is an interactive, self-directed, multi-sensory, multimedia tool that will help you build and create whatever you desire. It is specifically designed to help you focus your awareness, clarity your thoughts, and provoke you toward deliberate, explicit, and 'awareful' creation. Check out the sample videos.
Scott Allison, 41, knows the value of mentors for recruiting, retaining, developing and motivating his 44 employees. "Every time we've done an employee survey, mentorship has popped up as an interest and a need," says the president and CEO of San Francisco-based national independent communications firm Allison & Partners.
Allison's appreciation for mentoring dates to the early days of the 4-year-old company. Back then, however, the firm didn't have enough resources to establish a formal mentoring program; there weren't enough senior people to supply mentors to everyone who was interested. Allison decided to allow for informal mentoring, where employees got to choose their own mentors. That method, he figured, made the most of the mentoring resources he had. The approach worked well enough that today, even though Allison has enough senior employees to designate mentors, he still uses the voluntary program.
The shortlists for the 2008 Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards in the U.K. have been released.
The nominees are:
Silly Billy by Anthony Browne (Walker),
Penguin by Polly Dunbar (Walker),
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett (Macmillan),
Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett (Macmillan),
The Lost Happy Endings by Jane Ray and Carol Ann Duffy (Bloomsbury),
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell (Macmillan)
Banana! by Ed Vere (Puffin).
From the PowerPoint Team Blog
Some excellent secrets that expand the functionality of View Switching. I have found them incredibly useful. Thanks guys
Quick, Try This: Secrets of the PowerPoint Status Bar - View Switching Party Tricks.
: Etymology for Everyone
by Anatoly Liberman
From the Reviews
"Word Origins is chock full of intriguing, accessible insights into how our language has evolved, mutated and otherwise morphed over thousands of years."--Pulse
"The erudite and winsome Liberman explains his work as an etymologist, which includes historical cases to crack and tall tales to debunk."--Chicago Tribune
"While Anatoly Liberman's study of the English language covers such interesting topics as sound-imitative words, compounds, coinages, and borrowings, it does so in a way that actually manages to be dense and scholarly and tongue-in-cheek and amusing, all at the same time."--Library Media Connection
"Those seriously interested in the origins of our language, who actively want to find out more about the way etymologists work, and who along the way don't mind taking in some sobering guidance on the pitfalls of ferreting out word histories."--World Wide Words
"As a sideline to his long ongoing work on a new etymological dictionary of English, Liberman enlightens general readers...about the challenges faced by etymologists in tracing word origins and evolved meanins. His explanations cover philosophical musings, historical debates in the field, and words imitating sounds."--Reference and Research Book News
"It may sound simple, but etymology -- the study of word origins -- is in fact murky and tedious, if unfailingly fascinating. Liberman's book is an examination of the process of determining how a word originated, and it shows how complex his craft can be."--Chicago Tribune
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"Millions of people want to know the origin of the words they use. Word columns in daily newspapers and numerous books attempt to satisfy their curiosity. Word histories are usually digested like pills: the user is interested in getting well, not in the chemistry of the prescribed medication.
Those who send letters to the Editor also want a straight answer without bothering about how "editors" come by their knowledge. Therefore, they fail to realize that etymologies are seldom definitive and that the science of etymology is intensely interesting. Perhaps if someone explained to them that, compared to the drama of words, Hamlet is a light farce, they might develop a more informed attitude toward philological research and become students of historical linguistics rather than gullible consumers of journalists' pap."--Anatoly Liberman
Word Origins is the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, an internationally acclaimed etymologist, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words.
Part history, part how-to, and completely entertaining, Word Origins invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.
I have just updated these pages of lesson plans and resources
Reading
Geography
WaterScience fiction for K-3
Geology
Physics
Internet Research
Mapping
Minibeasts
Plagiarism
Information Literacy
Art
with Linda Keith, CPA, CSP
Have you said any of these (to yourself or to others):
- With the economy in a mess, it is too hard to plan my speaking/ training/ consulting business.
- Just when I start hitting my goals, a big client disappears and I am right back where I started.
- Clients are booking closer and closer; it is impossible to budget.
- This business is feast or famine. I’m either sitting on my thumbs, or so booked I can’t market. How can I even this out?
- I was setting aside money to update my Web site and WHAM, the tax preparer gave me the bad news.
- Yes, I work weekends but I can’t seem to get ahead if I don’t.
- I want to hire staff but I can’t even pay myself enough!
- Sure I’m well-paid, but if I don’t stop this crazy schedule I’ll lose my health and my family. Help!
Well, cut the crap. That’s right, Linda will share her insights and tips on how to increase your profits and get your life back. She’ll explain how you can plan and budget, even in uncertain times. How you can reconcile your fee, the money you want in your life and the time you have to work. . .and still have a personal life. If the three don’t work, how to tweak the model until it does. . .or recognize that your topic, your market or your skills are not up to the task. If it really won’t work, don’t you need to know that? Soon?
You will learn:
- Why budget?
- How to create a meaningful and realistic budget even when times are uncertain
- Factor in the unknowns of cancelled gigs, dropped contracts and economic crunches
- But we’re dipping into recession. . .what now?
- What is “concentration risk” and how to reduce it
- How to even out the cash flow to survive the dips
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Date: Tuesday, May 13
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern, 6 pm Central, 5 pm Mountain, 4 pm Pacific
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $25
Special Limited-Time Offer:If you want more information on ways to think smarter about your business, we’re offering a special discount — only $10 each (while quantities last) — on the audiotapes (note: not CDs or MP3s) of two earlier programs to complement Linda’s program:
- “Don’t Grow Your Career — Build a Business” with Rita Risser, JD, CSP
- “Make More Money By Doing Less: How to Leverage One Engagement into Profitable Results for Your Clients and Your Bottom Line” with Lorna Riley, CSP
With your order of Linda’s teleseminar, CD or MP3, at checkout you will be offered these tapes and transcripts at a special discounted price of $10/each. This offer expires May 31.
The most successful business leaders today are like great coaches who manage by inspiration, instead of intimidation. The command and control, management style is obsolete. In this fast forward global marketplace, there is no such distinction as superior and subordinate. The key to getting and staying on top is to provide a resilient, positive working environment. This requires that you "check your ego at the door" and that you seek alliances with others who may have different talents or strengths than you do. This is what synergy is all about.
David Ogilvy, founder of giant advertising agency, Ogilvy and Mather, used to give each new manager a Russian doll, which contained five progressively smaller dolls inside. A message inside the smallest one read: "If each of us hires people we consider smaller than ourselves, we shall become a company of dwarves. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we will become a company of giants."
To become a giant in the eyes of others, and to succeed in the 21st century, look up to those beneath you! Consider these action ideas as you lead your team:
1. Listen often and openly to what others say, and try to do so without prejudgment.
2. Don't put anyone off or be too busy to listen to and answer questions.
3. Use praise frequently and sincerely.
4. If you feel that criticism is warranted, do it in private, and make sure you say something encouraging after the reprimand.
5. Be firm and be fair. Don't meet with people in person or on the phone when you are angry. Exercise or take a walk first, then communicate when you are relaxed.
6. Don't be afraid or hesitant to share your concerns with others. Far better to discuss a molehill, than to wait until it festers into Mt. Everest.
7. Don't make rash promises and be consistent.
8. Whenever you are in a leadership role, focus your supervision on teaching effective habits and skills, not in pointing out mistakes.
Encourage everyone in both your personal and professional life to speak up and express their own ideas, even if you disagree with them.
Denis Waitley
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