If you want to have more effective meetings, first you have to learn the basics. Here are some simple, easy-to-follow and proven guidelines that should be followed each and every time your group meets. Print this page. Hang it on your meeting room wall. Write the guidelines on a poster. Memorize them by heart. Do […]
Many people believe that the world is close to a crisis point. Weapons of mass destruction and global warming are capable of destroying life as we know it. Our very existence could be at stake. Every crisis provides opportunities for positive change. If enough people get involved and decide to make a positive difference we […]
Acclaimed Melbourne author, screen writer and journalist Helen Garner has taken out the top prize at this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. Garner won $25,000 for her novel The Spare Room at a ceremony in Brisbane last night. (more...)
Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day - 19th September? Try these resources – List of pirate books for kids – Lesson plans on Pirates – Fiction activities for books about pirates – Pirate DVDs – Make a milk carton pirate ship – Pirate images – Play a pirate game – Take the Pirate Quiz
The New Talkpower: The Mind Body Way to Speak Without Fear(Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development) by Natalie H. Rogers " . . .the ultimate workbook . . .perfect for public speaking novices or for speakers with a tough case of stage fright." -- Continental Magazine, November 28, 2000 "Natalie Rogers. . . she […]
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http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5944.html Money can't buy you love but it can buy happiness—as long as it's money for someone else. New research by HBS professor Michael I. Norton and colleagues Elizabeth W. Dunn and Lara B. Aknin, described in the journal Science, looks into how and why spending money on others promotes happiness. Norton explains more in […]
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.
If you speak for a living, whether you are part time, full time or BIG time, you need to be guided by strategies that get you the bookings. Here is what my 20 plus years booking and coaching speakers has taught me. (... more)
