Just for fun ... "To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time."
- P.G. Wodehouse's dedication in "The Heart of a Goof"
" You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
Clay P. Bedford
They know the best ways to keep their eyes open.
Over more than 30 years, the chief executives of Chinese companies have risen from pariahs to role models in a rapidly changing world. I recently interviewed 15 top Chinese corporate leaders, and found that they have important lessons to teach us in the West. They especially show an underlying ability to broaden their thinking and integrate perspectives. They reveal three perspective-taking practices are essential for leading change and that can prove of value to leaders everywhere:
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The Giraffe and The Pelly and Me
by Roald Dahl
The giraffe, the pelican and the agile monkey set
out to prove that they are the best window-cleaning
company around. This edition has some new facts
about Roald Dahl, and a great new cover featuring
Quentin Blake's illustrations.
Fiction Activities for The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
... included in this package are links to:
- Activity sheet
- Teacher’s Notes
- Fiction activities
- Trivia Quiz
- Lesson
- Scholastic Book wizard
- Group Project
- Lesson plan
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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. - Brian Tracy
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Volumes have been written about the skills needed for successful sales presentations. Advice abounds about how to present benefits, not features; how to conduct product demos; how to use influencing techniques; how to establish rapport; how to close; and more.
Top sales performers embrace not only these sales skills but, most importantly, this fundamental of effective presenting: focus on the audience. They are clear that a sales presentation should be a dialogue between salesperson and audience. Most sales presentations typically involve small enough numbers of people to facilitate this.
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The impact of your presentation is not an accidental by-product of a presentation. It is something you create deliberately.
And the first thing to do is to define what it is that you want to create. What exactly is the impact going to be? In other words, you need to define:
How will your audience respond to your speech or presentation?
What will they take away with them and remember?
What will they remember of you?
Why will they think “Wow what a fabulous presentation!”?
Start by defining the purpose of your presentation or speech. What do you want its impact to be?
You may even want to have several– in different parts of your presentation. But they must not be left to chance or you risk creating “Ho-hum …” rather than “wow!”
Then define the message; the central message of your presentation - what one thing do you want the audience to take away? This message - you need to be able to state it in one sentence. That way you will stay focused on that outcome when you are planning
The second of the questions was “What do I want them to remember of me?”
Who are you? How will you be remembered after this presentation?
You cannot be someone you are not, when you present, unless you are prepared to be a performer for the entire production. Insincerity will detract from your speech as quickly as a joke in bad taste. But you can present a side of yourself as the highlight – the side you want your audience to remember.
And the most powerful choice you will make is how you get that image to support your message – how you
put the two together.
This package, this combination of impact, message and image are what people take away from your
presentation. They are the wow you create.
But the pivotal word, there, was “choose” – the impact you choose to make, the impact you choose for your presentation to make.
Whatever you may be trying to achieve, don’t let the impact of your presentation be an accident. Right from the beginning, it needs to be part of the planning. When you are visualizing your production, toying with ideas and possibilities and first drafts, make the impact of you as a person and of your performance an integral part of that process. Visualise it and work it into all aspects of your production planning.
Then you have the foundation for creating the “wow” factor.
THEIR little eyes grow wide in wonder. Their hands clutch your arm as you turn the page.
Kids love it when you read to them and it is perhaps the one time, in a day filled with selective hearing, that you have their full and undivided attention.
Experts agree reading to kids is a wonderful thing.
Children's author and "literary ambassador" Hazel Edwards says children who have been read to have longer attention spans, more general knowledge, are more tolerant of differences and are better equipped to start school.
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Heart-Shaped Box
~ Joe Hill
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Do you sleep with the light on? Are you in the habit of checking your doors and windows before you go to bed? Maybe even checking under your bed? If you are about to crack open Joe Hill's chilling thriller Heart-Shaped Box, you might want to rethink your nighttime habits--Hill's story about an aging rock star (with a penchant for macabre artifacts) who buys a haunted suit online will scare you silly.
