Every organization across North Dakota needs to be successful through growth and opportunity. Economics aside, every single leader, manager, and employee has to improve at the same rate as the business to keep everything in line with both goals and objectives. Open communication and engagement are necessary, but the quality and the focus of...
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When Charlie Chaplin first started making films, the director of the pictures insisted on Chaplin’s imitating a popular German comedian of that day. But Charlie Chaplin got nowhere until he acted himself. Bob Hope had a similar experience. He spent years in a singing-and-dancing act and got nowhere until he began to wisecrack and...
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Enthusiasm and knowledge are two integral aspects of a successful business presentation; however, a fear of public speaking often plays upon the nerves of many business professionals. What’s interesting, however, is research has shown that most audiences cannot determine whether a speaker is nervous during a business presentation. Use this to your advantage by...
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Dale Carnegie kept a folder in his private filing cabinet marked “FTD”—short for “Fool Things I Have Done.” In that folder he put written records of the foolish things he had been guilty of. Sometimes these memos were so personal and embarrassing that he would refrain from dictating them to his secretary, instead choosing...
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Social Media is still exploding in often unexplainable ways here in North Dakota and across the globe. There were more tweets than beards at the Oscars, and where would professional sports be without all those clever comments from the athletes and players? Every business owner and client alike carry the same tools of the...
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Here in North Dakota we seem to never have enough time. If we are not working, we probably are thinking of work. It indeed pays the bills. And it seems we just never disconnect like in the good old days when all we had was a single line rotary phone and a truly quiet...
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Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes. One of England’s most distinguished psychiatrists in Dale Carnegie’s day, J. A. Hadfield, says in his book The Psychology of Power, “The greater part of the fatigue from which we suffer is of mental origin; in fact exhaustion of purely...
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Dale Carnegie once took a course in short-story writing at New York University, and during that course the editor of a leading magazine talked to his class. The editor said he could pick up any one of the dozens of stories that drifted across his desk every day and after reading a few paragraphs,...
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There are all different types of clients in the business world. Some know exactly what they want and how they want it while others do not. No matter what, your job is to service the needs and wants of your clients and good communication skills are essential. With that in mind, here are five tips...
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Considering the ever-accelerating rate of change in today’s workplace, there may be no more important skill than the ability to adapt successfully to change. Sometimes, adapting to change comes easily. Other times, especially with owning a profitable small business, you will find yourself resisting change, focusing on what you might lose rather than on...
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